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Sporting Kansas City

Sporting Kansas City

MLS franchise

League
MLS
Location
Kansas City, KS
Valuation
$0.6B · Forbes
Forbes Rank
#18
Avg Mentions/Run
1.3
Share
#22D.C. United#24Colorado Rapids
AI insight

Sporting Kansas City is well known to Perplexity but nearly invisible on Claude and GPT-4o and Gemini.

BX Overall trend

Bowstone Index
4.3

BX Overall combines AI visibility and social momentum across all tracked franchises.

MLS (BX 5.1)
Fair
1-week change
-4.2

vs. Aug 15, 2026

Both weeks are reconstructed from the mentions and social snapshots on record now, not captured at the time — so a later correction to either input moves a week already reported.

Driver mix (this week)
AI Visibility
-6.6
Social Presence
+0.3
AI Visibility Rank
#17
of 30 MLS franchises
ranked by AI mention share
AI Visibility Rank (all leagues)
#121
of 230 franchises
ranked by AI mention share
BX Overall Rank
#133
of 230 franchises
combines AI visibility + social momentum
AI Visibility
6.56.6
normalized across all 230 franchises43rd percentile
7.4 within MLS
Social Presence
0.30.3
+0.0% WoW · normalized across all 230 franchises45th percentile
0.8 within MLS
Market Signal
49.6
Mentions (latest run)
1
-1 vs prior run
Dominant platform
Perplexity
1 of 1 mentions
Avg. rank when listed
3.0
1 ranked appearances
Total followers
582.6K
0.0

Why it moved this week

-1 mention

Aug 15, 2026 → Aug 22, 2026 · one or both runs reconstructed from stored mentions

Too little movement to attribute. The week's changes are within the range a single re-run of the same prompts would produce.

Attribution is probabilistic. These are the prompts, models and sources whose measurements changed most alongside this entity — not a claim that any of them caused the movement.

Platform dependence

  • Claude0 (0%)
  • GPT-4o0 (0%)
  • Gemini0 (0%)
  • Perplexity1 (100%)

Recommendation quality

4total mentions across all tracked runs
  • Top Mention0 (0%)
  • Strong Mention2 (50%)
  • Listed2 (50%)
  • Qualified0 (0%)

AI sentiment breakdown

Positive 75%Neutral 25%Negative 0%
Sentiment by platform
  • Claude100% positive
  • GPT-4o—
  • Gemini0% positive
  • Perplexity100% positive

Social followers over time

AI mentions trend

ClaudeGPT-4oGeminiPerplexity

Top cited domains

Perplexity only · cited per question, not per entity

  • artoffootballblog.com1 prompt100%
  • bigsoccer.com1 prompt100%
  • forsoccer.com1 prompt100%
+10 more domainsPaid tier

Share of the 1 cited question this entity was mentioned in.

Recent news mentions

Weekly digests · entity named, not necessarily the lead story

  • Sporting KC sold for reported $700 million enterprise valuation

    Yahoo Sports · Aug 3–9, 2026

  • The biggest MLS business stories this week are the league’s new Manhattan headquarters reveal, continued World…

    MLS news · Jul 27 – Aug 2, 2026

Why it matters

  • Concentrated on Perplexity

    100% of current AI visibility comes from Perplexity — presence on Claude and GPT-4o and Gemini is the biggest growth opportunity.

  • AI visibility slipping

    AI mention share moved -0.1% run-over-run. Rising AI visibility often precedes broader attention — track this entity against social growth on the Correlation view.

  • Latest market value on record

    $620M (forbes, Jun 10, 2025). Market Signal is tracked as a standalone data point alongside the Bowstone Index, not as one of its weighted components — see the Correlation view.