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Four tools, no sign-in, no lead capture. Each tool starts with a realistic scenario. You vary the parameters and watch live what happens. Not only the figure, but also the reasoning anchored in the Compliance-GEO Codex.

The methodology applies sector-invariantly in regulated consumer markets. Tool 03 shows four illustrative sectors (Telco, Financial Services, Energy, Commerce) as anchors for the sector modifiers; further verticals with mandatory-disclosure architecture follow the same logic. Financial Services covers both Finance (banking, consumer credit, securities with MiFID II and PRIIPs) and Insurance (life, health and property insurance with IDD and VVG advisory duty); the transfer to the work-family taxonomy Telco, Finance, Insurance, Commerce is unambiguous.

Application principles

Start without empty state

Each tool ships with three prepared scenarios. Load and modify. Never start with an empty form.

Modify, not just enter

Move sliders, switch pill buttons, select matrix cells. The visualisation reacts immediately, not only after submit.

Reasoning with Codex anchor

Every output points to the Codex section behind it. Values come from the Compliance-GEO Codex.

Tool 01 · Eligibility chain

Eight links: when does the chain snap?

The eight A-criteria of the Procurement Standard are binary. No average, no partial eligibility. A placement is either citation-eligible or not. Click a link to toggle it. Watch how the chain reacts.

Status Scenario loaded
Start scenario
Click toggles Pass and Fail. A single Fail is enough to break the chain.
A 01 · briefingURL pathPass
A 02 · briefingDOM disclosurePass
A 03 · pre-checkDomain reputationPass
A 04 · briefingIndex statusPass
A 05 · pre-checkPaywall statusPass
A 06 · pre-checkBot policyPass
A 07 · briefingURL persistencePass
A 08 · briefingOutbound linksPass
Eight out of eight criteria fulfilled. The eligibility class is complete. All pre-check conditions (A 03, A 05, A 06) are met, all briefing duties (A 01, A 02, A 04, A 07, A 08) run cleanly. Citation-Buy eligibility additionally depends on the B-profile. Tool 02 shows the three-class assignment.
Viability
8 / 8
A-class complete
B-class · lift bridgeCodex chapter 2.4

The A-class decides eligibility binarily. Citation lift emerges only via the ten gradual B-criteria. Four B-criteria carry the largest lift per effort and are quickly assessable as a snippet self-check on your own article.

B 03 · Substance At least 800 words Position-Adjusted Word Count (Aggarwal et al. KDD 2024) as substance threshold.
B 04 · Citation hooks Three statistics plus one direct quote Retrieval-relevant substance anchors. Ahrefs 2025 evidences hook density as a top citation driver.
B 05 · Front-loading Core statement in the first 30 per cent Indig 2026 (n = 18,012 ChatGPT citations): 44.2 per cent of all citations come from the first 30 per cent.
B 06 · Definitive language Aussage statt Hedging Definitions in declarative form, no modal softeners ("possibly", "could", "tends to").
→ The eight A-criteria apply sector-invariantly. The sanction severity of a briefing FAIL is carried by every regulated consumer market, from telco tariff communication through Finance advertising material and Insurance advisory documentation, Energy electricity-price claims, to Commerce platform duties. Sector-specific mandatory information enters Tool 02 as a modifier, one per work-family sector Finance, Insurance, Commerce.
What sits behind itCodex chapter 2 · eligibility model
The binarity is not coincidental. Pre-check criteria (A 03, A 05, A 06) are checked before booking. They sit with the publisher, not with the principal. FAIL here means: the placement is not booked at all, because the publisher selection is unsuitable. Briefing criteria (A 01, A 02, A 04, A 07, A 08) are set in the briefing. They sit in the principal’s control. FAIL here means: invoice reduction to a 0.0 × factor, because the placement was published without citation value.
To Codex chapter 2 →
Operational reading · Tool 01
What it computes Eligibility status Pass-or-Fail status of the eight A-criteria as a chain. A single Fail mark disqualifies the placement. Briefing criteria and pre-check criteria carry different sanctions.
How you use it Pre-check before briefing Clarify A 03, A 05, A 06 with the publisher first, before the briefing is set up. Write A 01, A 02, A 04, A 07, A 08 into the briefing standard. Document Pass-or-Fail for every booking.
Value for you Audit-ready chain per placement Every booking carries an eight-criteria chain with documented Pass-or-Fail. In audit, procurement review or sector supervision, the eligibility position is evidenced in seconds.
Tool 02 · Price-factor calculator

The list price is the fiction. The citation value is the price.

Three-class assignment Citation-Buy, Mixed-Buy, Mention-Buy from the Compliance-GEO Codex chapter 3. Slide the B-control. Watch the factor jump, the bar move, the assignment tip. The model-blended factor and the telco modifier act as a second multiplication stage.

Current assignment Citation-Buy
Start scenario
1.000EUR
List price · factor 1.0×
1,000 EUR × 1.0× (Citation-Buy) = 1,000 EUR invoice price
Citation-value zones Your position: Citation-Buy
Mention
Mixed
Citation
0.0×0.2×0.4×0.5×0.7×1.0×
7
0510
Sector mode Generic: no sectoral mandatory-information modifiers active.
Model-blended factor 0.89 × (working hypothesis) Negotiated price = list price × criteria factor × model-blended factor.
Comparison
Cost of an A-FAIL
Citation-Buy
1,000 EUR
Delta
0 EUR
Your scenario
1,000 EUR
Three-dimensional measurement logic · calibration

The price factor translates the eligibility and lift profile. Actual citation effect is measured in a separate measurement layer. The three dimensions are orthogonal. A single number does not carry the measurement reality.

Axis 1 · frequency Citation Rate Share of answers with citation per engine and prompt cluster, measured weekly per model.
Axis 2 · time Citation Persistence Stability of citation position across multiple measurement points. Volatility documented separately.
Axis 3 · substance Citation Quality Carrying capacity of the cited passage in the answer: substance share, position, attribution.
→ Telco mode is the first elaborated sector modifier (TKG §§ 55, 56, 66). The modifier mechanic applies analogously to Financial Services in the dual reading Finance (banking, consumer credit, MiFID II, PRIIPs) and Insurance (life, health, property insurance, IDD, VVG advisory duty), to Energy (EnWG, Green Claims, EEG currency) and Commerce (DSA, DMA, Omnibus duties): mandatory information in the front-loaded zone, otherwise 0.0 × disqualification. The elaborated modifier catalogues follow sector by sector, one per work-family sector Finance, Insurance, Commerce.
What sits behind itCodex chapter 3 · price-factor model
Citation-Buy at 1.0 ×. All eight A-criteria fulfilled, at least seven B-criteria fulfilled. The publisher carries the citation probability that justifies the full list price. In a telco mandate, a missing mandatory information from TKG §§ 55, 56 in the front-loaded zone additionally lowers the factor to 0.0 ×, regardless of A- and B-profile. This telco modifier is elaborated in Codex DE annex A.3.
To Codex chapter 3 →
Operational reading · Tool 02
What it computes Citation value instead of list price Multiplicative final invoice with A-gate (binary disqualification) and B-gradient (three classes). Sector modifier as second multiplication stage for regulated mandatory information.
How you use it List price as input Enter the publisher’s list-price offer, set A- and B-profile, choose sector mode. The citation value is the maximum defensible invoice price, not the negotiation ceiling.
Value for you Procurement-compliant justification Instead of flat-rate discount negotiation, every invoice carries a criteria-based value justification. Compliance, audit and management see at the factor immediately what was paid.
Tool 03 · Sector explorer

Which idiosyncrasies do which sectors carry?

Four sectoral examples from the regulated-consumer-market spectrum per Compliance-GEO Codex chapter 1.4. Each example carries three structural core risks in the generative answer layer. The sector list is illustrative, not exhaustive. Pick an example and see what a mandate operationally starts with there.

Sector Choose sector
Regulatory frameChoose a sector to see the regulatory map.
What sits behind itCodex chapter 1.4 · regulated consumer markets
Regulated consumer markets carry the universal discipline precondition of the Compliance-GEO methodology. The three core risks per sector are extracted from the four Northbridge sector dossiers. Every risk carries an operational consequence for retrieval strategy. The four-sector selection is an illustrative pick from the regulated-consumer-market spectrum, not an exhaustive vertical list. Transfer to the work-family taxonomy: Telco remains Telco, Financial Services carries Finance (banking, consumer credit, BaFin obligation) and Insurance (PHI, life insurance, VVG advisory duty) jointly, Commerce carries D2C, subscription, streaming. Energy is visible as its own regulated sector with EnWG- and EEG-specifics only on the Tools sub-page; in the rest of the work family it is treated as a sub-vertical of Commerce currency duties.
To Codex chapter 1 →
Operational reading · Tool 03
What it shows Sector idiosyncrasies in four verticals Telco, Financial Services, Energy, Commerce as an illustrative pick from the regulated-consumer-market spectrum. Three structural core risks per sector with operational consequence for retrieval strategy.
How you use it Sector selection before every briefing Before mandate intake: which sector, which mandatory-information architecture, which aggregator pressure. The sector finding shapes publisher selection, briefing duties and measurement priorities.
Value for you No more telco default The methodology stays sector-invariant; modifiers carry the mandate. The sector choice decides which risks to check first, rather than blindly transferring the telco tool state.
Tool 04 · Disclosure matrix

Six variants. Three axes. Target corridor and error cases visible.

V02 and V04 are the target corridor (legally compliant, retrieval-neutral). V01 is the safety-margin alternative for risk-averse constellations with minimal retrieval loss. V05 is the typical error case, V06 is categorically excluded. In telco mode, the TKG mandatory-information axis activates as an orthogonal fourth dimension.

Legally viable V02 · sponsored content
Start scenario
Sector mode
Axis 1 · remuneration
Axis 2 · content control
Axis 3 · disclosure
V02

Sponsored content with pre-disclosure

UWG § 5a (4) · MStV § 22 · DDG § 6 (1) No. 1

Paid placement, editorially autonomously produced, disclosure before contact. Legally viable, retrieval-neutral. BGH I ZR 27/22 carries the pre-disclosure duty.

TKG mandatory-information axis · orthogonal to V01 to V06Codex DE annex A.3

In a telco mandate, the advertiser is bound by five TKG mandatory-information categories regardless of the chosen disclosure variant. Visibility violation in the front-loaded zone disqualifies the advertorial to 0.0 ×, regardless of A- and B-profile.

  • TKG § 55 (1) in conjunction with § 56 (1)Minimum-term presentation in the main copy, not in the footnote.
  • TKG § 56 (1) sentence 2Twelve-month alternative must be offered as a contract of at most twelve months.
  • TKG § 66 in conjunction with § 55 (1)Bundle-component transparency for components offered separately.
  • TKG §§ 109 ff.Premium-rate-number price transparency.
  • TKG § 55 (1)Compensation and provider-switching clause.
→ The mandatory-information axis is not telco-specific. Financial Services carries it doubly: as a Finance component with effective interest rate, risk class and PRIIPs note (MiFID II) and as an Insurance component with advisory documentation and product-information sheet (IDD, VVG). Energy carries it as grid-fee components and Green-Claims substantiation (EnWG, Green Claims Directive), Commerce as platform disclosure and commercial-communication evidence (DSA, DMA, AVMSD). The mechanic stays the same for every work-family-sector reading of Finance, Insurance, Commerce: if the mandatory information is missing in the front-loaded zone, the placement is disqualified.
What sits behind itCodex chapter 4 plus DE annex A.1 to A.3
The six variants are derived from BGH case law on UWG § 5a (4) in conjunction with MStV § 22 and DDG § 6 (1) No. 1. V02 and V04 form the target corridor, legally viable and retrieval-neutral. V01 is the safety-margin alternative without remuneration. V03 is not recommended, because the cease-and-desist risk of footer-only disclosure exceeds the minimal operational advantage. V05 is the typical error case identified by the verification workflow before the final invoice; the price-factor model sanctions V05 as Mention-Buy or Briefing-FAIL. V06 is categorically excluded.
To Codex chapter 4 →
Operational reading · Tool 04
Was es zeigt Six variants in three axes V01 to V06 as categorically separating disclosure classes. V02 and V04 are the target corridor, V01 is the safety margin, V05 is the error case, V06 is excluded. In telco mode the TKG mandatory-information axis activates.
How you use it Variant choice in the briefing In the briefing, fix the axis constellation; before publication, verify the target corridor. With a sector modifier active (telco active, FinServ and Energy in preparation), reconcile the additional mandatory-information axis.
Value for you UWG-compliant variant choice Instead of subsequent cease-and-desist review, every publication carries a documented variant decision with BGH anchor. The trade-off is decided in the briefing, not in damage control.
Substance pages · deepening

If you want to dig deeper, here are the substance pages.

01 · Methodology Compliance-GEO Codex Six chapters and a DE legal-mapping annex. The methodological master source of all four tools. To the Codex → 02 · Empirics DE telco study Empirical master evidence in 24 chapters. Sector application of the Codex methodology in the German telecommunications market. To the study → 03 · Law BGH case law Nine leading decisions from the Codex DE annex A.2 with links into the disclosure variants. To the map → 04 · Procurement Procurement Standard Eighteen criteria as a market asset for procurement, verification workflow, contract modules. To the standard →
Work synthesis · four tools together

Four tools, one mandate path.

The four tools are not four separate calculators. They are the operational stations of a single mandate path from eligibility check through value classification and sector transfer to variant choice. Whoever has played through all four sees: Compliance-GEO is operationally applicable as a discipline, not only theoretically describable.

What the four show together Discipline as workflow Eligibility (T 01) → value (T 02) → sector (T 03) → variant (T 04). Four stations, one path. Each station produces its own documented decision that feeds the next.
How you use them together Sector first, then the path At mandate intake: first Tool 03, then Tools 01 and 02 for every placement candidate, finally Tool 04 for disclosure. The order decides whether the discipline holds.
Value for you Audit-ready mandate path From briefing to final invoice, every decision carries a Codex anchor and a documented reasoning. Procurement, compliance, supervision and audit see the path backwards in minutes, not days.
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Four tools, one mandate path. The methodology is sector-invariant; the modifiers carry the mandate. Whoever has played through the four stations sees the discipline not described, but applied.