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The model positions their product as the category standard, endorses their workflow approach, and quietly leaves your company off the short list.",{"type":17,"tag":18,"props":1612,"children":1613},{},[1614,1616,1623],{"type":22,"value":1615},"So when your founder or board presses you for an explanation of shrinking organic inbound, your legacy web analytics stack can’t provide a solid, data-backed answer. If you keep defending marketing performance with session counts and traditional indexing metrics, you’ll stay trapped in a loop of overwork and declining impact. 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They are not clicking through dozens of citations to review original sources; they consume the narrative, trust the model’s primary recommendations, and move directly into procurement evaluation.",{"type":17,"tag":18,"props":1649,"children":1650},{},[1651,1653,1660],{"type":22,"value":1652},"This exact shift is confirmed by macro performance data. 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