Evidence backed opportunities and strategies now, governed execution and verification later.
Agent is the action layer. At launch it is recommendation only: it detects opportunities, investigates the evidence and recommends a strategy, each with a defined measurement. Approval, execution, verification and experiments arrive in V3, with policies that control what can happen.
Agent
What should we do next?
- Opportunities
- Strategies
- Actions and Approvals
- Verification
- Experiments and Impact
- Activity
Quick answer: Agent
Agent is the action layer of BrandWater AI. At launch it is recommendation only: it detects opportunities, investigates the evidence and recommends a strategy, each with a defined measurement. Approvals, execution, verification, experiments and an activity timeline are coming in V3, governed by policies. Nothing is published to your site without approval.
The agent lifecycle
Recommend first. Execute only with approval, later.
- State 1At launch
Detected
The opportunity engine finds a gap or anomaly.
- State 2At launch
Investigating
Prompts, answers, sources and competitors are traced.
- State 3At launch
Recommended
A structured strategy is produced, with evidence.
- State 4V3
Approval
A permitted person approves, edits or rejects.
- State 5V3
Executing
The approved change is applied through a connected system.
- State 6V3
Verifying
The target state is checked and affected prompts re-run.
- State 7V3
Completed
The outcome is stored with its evidence.
- State 8V3
Monitoring
Recurring checks watch for change.
At launch, you act on recommendations yourself. From V3, approved actions are executed, verified and measured.
What Agent gives you
6 capabilities, each answering a specific question and labelled with its release stage.
How Agent measures things
Every metric has a definition, so a number always means the same thing.
| Metric | Definition | Capability |
|---|---|---|
| Impact signal | Why it matters, for example high demand and a high competitive gap. | Opportunities |
| Confidence | How strong the evidence is. | Opportunities |
| Owner and status | Detected, investigating, recommended, and later stages. | Opportunities |
| Action class | The kind of change recommended. | Strategies |
| Affected scope | Pages, topics, intents, engines and markets involved. | Strategies |
| Expected measurement | The rates that will be compared after the change. | Strategies |
| Approval record | Who approved, when, the payload and the scope. | Actions and Approvals |
| Policy level | The permission tier for the workspace or brand. | Actions and Approvals |
| Guardrail events | Blocked actions, logged with the reason. | Actions and Approvals |
| Verification outcome | Verified, failed or unverified. | Verification |
| Affected scope | The topics and prompts re-run. | Verification |
| Delta | Change in mention, recommendation or citation rate with sample size. | Verification |
| Baseline and current | The two windows compared. | Experiments and Impact |
| Decision rule | The rule that decides the result, stored in advance. | Experiments and Impact |
| Outcome | Measured change with sample size and caveats. | Experiments and Impact |
| Event | One state change with actor, time and payload. | Activity |
| State | Detected, investigating, recommended, approval, executing, verifying, completed, monitoring. | Activity |
| Audit trail | The immutable record for privileged actions. | Activity |
How Agent connects
At launch, you act on recommendations yourself. From V3, approved actions are executed, verified and measured.
Questions it answers
- Where are the gaps worth acting on first?
- What is the plan to close each gap?
- How will we know whether it worked?
- What did the agent do, and who approved it? (V3)
What it is not
- Autopilot at launch
- The first release is recommendation only. You make the changes yourself.
- Promised outcomes
- An opportunity is a hypothesis backed by evidence, not a guarantee.
- Working without evidence
- Every opportunity states the problem, evidence, scope and expected measurement.
Agent questions
Does the Agent change my website?
At launch the Agent recommends and you make the change. Execution is coming in V3 and will need explicit approval within a policy you set.
How will results be verified?
From V3, the changed page is checked and only the affected prompts are re-run for a before and after comparison.
Which CMS will be supported?
One will be chosen from early customer demand.
See Agent on your own brand.
Start with a first audit. We show where you appear, who is named instead, and what to fix first.