CategoryRank — AI is becoming the new category layer
AI Memory Verdict · Broker lens · 2026-W19
OEMBrokerDistributorAggregator

Everyone agrees + deep supply → healthy

HOLDHOLDAI ≈ OEM language· cos 0.89partial · missing DIST/AGG/SEARCH
▸ Panel signature · what AI saw, what we compared against
AI: 4 textsOEM: 1DIST: 0AGG: 0SEARCH: 0
cohort disagreement: 12.9%
1024-dimensional centroid embeddings · all numbers reproducible from methodology

Broker action: channel intact · no action this week.

multiplexers· level 2· tier C· leaf· 14,180 SKUs measured· 29 observations · 3 vantagesavailable

Where you rank in Multiplexers

4 brands · 2026-W19

For each brand AI associates with this category, we record the rank (by AI-claim count) and which reference frame AI uses when talking about the brand. When the brand ahead of you appears in a different column than your marketing speaks, that's the campaign brief.

Category leaderboard · top 3
#1
ti.com
AI ≈ OEM
n=2
#1
monolithicpower.com
AI ≈ OEM
n=2
#3
semtech.com
AI ≈ OEM
n=1

AI ≈ OEM

4 brands

AI talks about these brands in OEM-side terms.slug cos 0.89

  • #1
    ti.com
    n=2
    2/4 vantages
  • #1
    monolithicpower.com
    n=2
    2/4 vantages
  • #3
    semtech.com
    n=1
    1/4 vantages
  • #3
    mrcy.com
    n=1
    1/4 vantages

AI ≈ DIST

0 brands

AI talks about these brands in distributor-catalog terms.

No brand AI-anchored to this frame for this category.

AI ≈ AGG

0 brands

AI talks about these brands in aggregator-discovery terms.

No brand AI-anchored to this frame for this category.

AI ≈ SEARCH

0 brands

AI talks about these brands in buyer-search terms.

No brand AI-anchored to this frame for this category.
rank = AI-claim count desc within the category · top 6 brands per reference frame · week 2026-W19
What you unlock

Multiplexers — paid-tier surface

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◧25 brands competing here
Per-brand convergence scores, vantage coverage, full sourcing-card drill-down per brand.
◤Live week-over-week trajectory
Fragmentation direction, channel-pull attribution, drift narratives.
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See Multiplexers as a physics field.
Each of the 25 brands competing here becomes a particle, pulled toward the vantages that observed it. The shape of the cloud is the shape of fragmentation.
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substrate · 21 weeks · 26.4M AI observations · 35,746 brands · 2025-W51 → 2026-W20
this page · 2026-W19 · numbers reproducible from our weekly substrate (methodology)
per-(brand × vantage × form) aggregation, top-form share within (brand × vantage) cells; divergence classified at category level using a 1024-dimensional embedding centroid.