AI answer intelligence for public affairs

Know what AI tells the public about your issues.

Every day, people put your policy debates to ChatGPT, Claude, Google and Perplexity — and take the answers as fact. Breakwater watches those answers, scores them against your positions, and tells you when the story shifts, who is shifting it — and what to do about it.

Is lab-grown meat safe? When will it be in supermarkets?
NEWS DRIVER  Federal approval extended to poultry — national coverage cycle
1,240/week
US searches · 5,400/mo
↗ rising
ChatGPT balanced13 answers · 7d 20 sources · 8 adverse · 2 supportive
Claude favorable9 answers · 7d 12 sources · 3 adverse · 5 supportive
Google AI neutral4 answers · 7d 5 sources · 3 adverse · 1 supportive
Searches rising 5,400/mo vs ~1,900/mo over the prior three months — see the evidence

The Answer monitor — one question, every platform, scored weekly against your position.

Asked of AI, answered by AI

Track the questions people actually put to AI assistants — each backed by search-demand evidence, asked in several phrasings, and sampled week after week so you see the distribution, not a coin flip.

Your message, from any source

What counts is your arguments appearing — whoever carries them. Every answer is judged against positions you write and own, on a spectrum from favorable to hostile.

Know what to do next

Every question gets a strategy grounded in who actually supplies its answers — which reporter to brief, what authoritative piece is missing, where accurate voices are thin — each play with a stated purpose.

How it works

Three steps to your first answers.

1

Pick what to monitor

Type an issue or a bill. Breakwater proposes the questions real people ask AI about it — with the search volume to prove each one earns its place.

2

State your positions

Write where you stand, in your words — we map what the opposition argues and surface the key events found in the answers. Every answer is scored against positions you own.

3

Read the week, act on it

A digest that starts with what matters: framing shifts with evidence, new sources entering the answers, demand rising — and an action plan grounded in who supplies the answers today.

The sources

See exactly who is shaping the answer.

Every link an AI answer cites is classified — supportive, neutral or adverse — answer by answer, not by outlet reputation. Roll them up across 30 days and you know which outlets, journalists, and pages actually supply the framing, which articles do the damage, and where supportive ground is thin. Action plans start from that list, not from guesswork.

Sources across 3 variations (14)
1 Lab-grown meat isn't ready for your plate — a skeptic's case plateandpolicy.comadversecited 6×
2 How cultivated protein clears safety review, step by step agrifutures-institute.orgsupportivecited 4×
3 What peer-reviewed studies say about cultivated meat campussciencereview.comneutralcited 3×
4 A chef's honest week of cooking with cultivated chicken thefamilytable.netsupportivecited 2×
Influence, 30 days: plateandpolicy.com supplies the most framing — 71% adverse · see every article →

The playbook

From who's shaping it, to what you do about it.

Strategy for public-affairs professionals, written from the source data — the lever, the person or venue, and the purpose. You know how to execute; Breakwater tells you where it counts.

Media outreach
Deepen the outlet already carrying the story
The reporter behind the most-cited approval explainer
Bring adoption data and independent experts to the journalist whose reporting the answers already trust.
Publish authoritative content
Create the missing definitive source
A research institute or trade press explainer
The answers cite scattered blogs for the safety question — a definitive third-party piece would anchor them.
Official engagement
Put the official record on the page AI reads
The state health committee's public docket
Submit the evidence formally — assistants weight official sources; make sure yours is there to weigh.

Grow supportive voices. Never suppress, never astroturf — Breakwater plans are comms work you'd be glad to explain.

Citations matter. The message landing matters more.

AI assistants compose answers from sources they trust. Breakwater measures what actually matters — whether your side of the story makes it into the answer, from your site or anyone else's — and shows you exactly where to grow the supportive ground when it doesn't.

See what AI is telling the public about your issues.

A 30-minute walkthrough with your questions, not ours.

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