# Reading your first results

Source: https://support.seoai.de/docs/reading-your-first-results/

> A tour of the execution result page: answer, citations, mentions and drift.

Every finished execution has a result page that shows exactly what the AI answered. You find it through the topic page or the queue: click any completed execution to open the result viewer.

## The answer

The extracted answer is the text the AI produced for your prompt. This is the ground truth for everything else on the page. An empty answer is a valid result and is shown as such.

## Citations

Citations are the sources the AI linked in its answer. Each citation is a link with its position in the answer. If a citation points to your own domain, it carries an Owned badge. Citations are the strongest form of visibility, because AI platforms hand the user directly to the source.

## Mentions

Mentions are places where the answer names your brand without linking it. Each mention comes with a sentiment value on a scale from minus one to plus one, so you can see whether the AI speaks positively, neutrally or negatively about you.

Mentions and sentiment require an analysis key: your own OpenRouter key on the Free plan, or the platform-provided analysis on any paid plan. If analysis is missing, the page shows a note instead of the data.

## Fan-out queries

AI platforms rarely answer a complex prompt in one step. They internally decompose it into sub-queries. The result page lists these fan-out queries, which tell you which aspects of your market the AI considers relevant.

## Cost line

At the bottom you see how much the execution cost: token counts, the provider cost when you used your own key, or a note that the platform execution was included in your plan.

## Drift comparison

If this prompt ran before, the result page compares the current answer with the previous one and shows a similarity percentage. Stable answers mean the AI consistently tells the same story about your market; volatile answers mean the ground is shifting and worth watching.

**[Citation vs mention](https://support.seoai.de/docs/citation-vs-mention)**

**[Answer drift](https://support.seoai.de/docs/answer-drift)**

**[Query fan-out](https://support.seoai.de/docs/query-fan-out)**