Seam vs Altria

Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities

Altria leads in AI visibility (90 vs 18)

Seam

EmergingConsumer Technology

General

SF unified IoT API connecting 1,000+ smart lock and access device models for property management apps; YC S20 processing 25M monthly operations competing with SmartThings for device-agnostic IoT integration.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
D18
Category Rank
#989 of 1167
AI Consensus
81%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
25
Perplexity
22
Gemini
28

About

Seam is a San Francisco-based unified IoT device API platform enabling developers to connect applications to any smart lock, access control system, thermostat, or connected device through a single normalized API — abstracting the complexity of proprietary device protocols across 1,000+ device models from brands including Schlage, Yale, Kwikset, August, Salto, Avigilon, and Honeywell. Founded in 2020 by Sy Bohy and Dawn Ho and backed by Y Combinator (S20) with undisclosed funding raised, Seam processes 25 million+ monthly operations for 1,000+ companies including property management platforms, vacation rental operators, and smart building applications.

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Altria

LeaderConsumer Goods

Enterprise

Richmond VA tobacco and nicotine (NYSE: MO) ~$9.7B net revenue FY2024; Marlboro 40%+ US cigarette share, on! oral pouch competing with Zyn, 50%+ operating margins, ABI stake, competing with Reynolds/BAT.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
A90
Category Rank
#83 of 290
AI Consensus
58%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
84
Perplexity
97
Gemini
99

About

Altria Group, Inc. is a Richmond, Virginia-based tobacco and nicotine company — publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: MO) as an S&P 500 Consumer Staples component — manufacturing and selling cigarettes (Marlboro — the best-selling cigarette brand in the United States), smokeless tobacco (Copenhagen, Skoal, Red Seal, Husky chewing tobacco/moist snuff brands), oral nicotine pouches (on! brand), and maintaining a 10.7% ownership stake in Anheuser-Busch InBev (SABMiller acquisition consideration shares) and a 35% stake in JUUL Labs (vaping — original $12.8B investment written down to minimal value following JUUL's regulatory and litigation difficulties) through approximately 5,500 employees. In fiscal year 2024, Altria reported revenues of approximately $20.6 billion (net revenues after excise taxes approximately $9.7 billion), with the cigarette segment (Marlboro generating 40%+ US cigarette market share) contributing the majority of operating income at 50%+ adjusted operating margins — the highest margins in the consumer staples sector reflecting cigarettes' inelastic demand and regulated market structure. CEO Billy Gifford has pivoted Altria's strategy from cigarettes toward smoke-free nicotine products: the on! oral nicotine pouch (acquired full ownership of Helix Innovations in 2023, rebranding as on! to compete with Swedish Match Zyn, the dominant US oral nicotine pouch brand) represents Altria's primary nicotine product diversification vehicle as cigarette volume declines 7-8% annually through consumer quit rates and secular health awareness trends.

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AI Visibility Head-to-Head

18
Overall Score
90
#989
Category Rank
#83
81
AI Consensus
58
stable
Trend
stable
25
ChatGPT
84
22
Perplexity
97
28
Gemini
99
21
Claude
86
21
Grok
87

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