> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Prompt Archetype

> Another name for a prompt's intent type — the six ways Cited classifies how a customer framed their question.

**Prompt archetype** is another name for a prompt's [intent type](/glossary/intent-type) — the way a customer framed their question. Cited classifies prompts into six: problem-first, context-specific, budget-anchored, comparison, recommendation-seeking, and feature-curious.

The term comes from [prompt generation](/methodology/prompt-generation), where the six act as moulds to distribute a library across, so a brand does not end up measured almost entirely on one kind of question. Once prompts exist and are being measured, the dashboard calls the same thing **intent type**.

## Why it matters

Each archetype reflects a genuinely different way customers ask, and produces different visibility patterns. A brand can be well known for the problem it solves and still be absent from head-to-head comparisons — same brand, same category, two different content gaps.

## Related concepts

* [Intent type](/glossary/intent-type) — the same six, with definitions and examples
* [Intent taxonomy](/concepts/foundations/intent-taxonomy) — the full framework
* [How we generate prompts](/methodology/prompt-generation) — where the archetypes are applied