The Curate Competitors button at the top right of the Competition Explorer opens the modal where all competitor curation happens: brands are detected; competitors are chosen. Curation is all-time, independent of the date range on the page. To help you judge each brand at a glance, rows show the title of its most-cited page as a subtitle ("Draftboard vs Homie, Comparison & Alternative" reads as a rival; a bare domain name reads as a directory). Clicking a brand name opens its citing responses in the Response Explorer (all time), so you can read what the Assistants actually say before deciding; the external-link icon beside the name opens the brand's website in a new tab, and the page-title subtitle links to that specific page.
The tabs, left to right: All Brands, a divider, then the two chosen sets, Threats and Tracked (each shown against the same cap, e.g. n/25), another divider, and finally the source piles Shopping Sellers (only on a Space that collects ChatGPT Shopping), New Brands and Removed. Threats sits before Tracked because it is the set that drives these insights. Every tab offers instant search (which searches every brand regardless of the tab you are on, including removed ones), sortable columns (Competitor, Citations all time, Recent last 30 days, First seen), its own short help note, and a CSV download that matches exactly what you are looking at (the button shows the count, and respects the tab, the search box, and any tier or band you have selected).
All Brands: every brand ever cited alongside yours. Each row carries one Track / Threat control: press Track to add it to your monitored set, or Threat to flag it as a Competitive Threat straight from here (no need to track it first). A brand holds one status at a time, so choosing one clears the other. A Remove action removes noise (a video platform or a directory is a detection, not a rival), and is available on every tab except Removed itself.
The citation distribution bar: the fastest way to work through thousands of detected brands. It sorts every brand by how many citations it holds and splits them into four candidate groups: Primary (the brands behind the first half of all citations), Secondary, Tertiary, and the Tail. Each group is broken into citation bands, and each shows how many of its brands you still have to look at, turning to a tick when you have handled them all. Click a group or a band to filter the list below to just those brands. Start at Primary: a handful of brands there usually accounts for more of your category's visibility than the entire tail. You do not have to process everything, leaving most brands uncurated is perfectly normal.
Shopping Sellers: the retailers in your latest ChatGPT Shopping carousel that you do not follow yet. They compete for the same customers at the moment of purchase, often without ever being cited in an AI answer, which is why they can be missing from your other tabs' rankings. A Shopping column shows the share of ChatGPT prompts whose carousel listed each one, and the tab opens sorted by it. Follow a seller with Track or Threat as on any other tab. A seller you follow stays on screen with its button lit, so you can see the change took and undo it; the tab count drops straight away, and the next time you open the tab it lists only the sellers still unfollowed. Only sellers with a website your Space has seen cited are listed, because your lists match competitors by domain.
New Brands: brands cited for the first time ever in the last 30 days with 10 or more citations, your potential new competitive threats. Triage each one with Track, Threat, or Remove.
Removed: everything you removed as noise. Untick a row to restore it at any time; nothing is ever deleted.
Tracked: your monitored radar, the set the Tracked Brands view and the API reflect. Track the brands worth watching but secondary to your real competition: publications, marketplaces, retailers carrying your products, and emerging names. Competitive Threats are for the brands you go head to head with. Switch Track off to remove a brand, or press Threat to promote it to Competitive Threats (which moves it off Tracked, since a brand holds one status at a time). Removing a tracked brand asks you to confirm first, because that clears its Tracked status; restoring it later brings it back uncurated.
Threats: your real rivals (25 by default), driving the Competitive Threats visualizations and Citation Gaps. The Remove action takes a brand off your threats; it does not become tracked automatically.
The basket: on the Threats and Tracked tabs, a basket icon after a brand's name means it sells in your latest ChatGPT Shopping carousel; hover it for how many prompts and on which date. It describes the brand, not how you added it, so it also marks threats you flagged before, and it disappears if the brand stops appearing in the carousel.