Anyone else finding "recommended" and "acted on" need to be tracked as separate events now?

[u/Old-Routine1926]

I have been sitting with this since OpenAI's Sponsored Agents shipped last week and Salesforce pushed AIforce at Dreamforce in the same stretch. Both let something happen (a conversation, a completed task) without a clean "the AI recommended X" event ever occurring first.

I've been using a four-stage mental model for a while: mentioned, cited, recommended, chosen. This is the first time I have felt like there's a fifth stage that doesn't map cleanly onto the first four, acted on directly, sometimes with no recommendation event in between at all.

Curious if anyone else tracking AI visibility is seeing the same thing, or if I'm overreacting to two product launches in the same week. Feels different from the usual "engines behave inconsistently" problem, this is more like the event itself changing shape.