Your SEO citationsare moving.Are you in them?
AI search has shifted. Have you?
When your customer asks ChatGPT "what's the best [your category]?" — is your brand in the answer? For eighty-eight percent of companies, the answer is no.
We get you cited. Without touching your website.
Fifty-six percent of AI citations come from sources outside your website — Reddit, review sites, LinkedIn, earned media, YouTube. That's where we work.
Audit
We scan fifty to a hundred queries your customers ask AI. We show you exactly where you're invisible — and where competitors are getting cited instead.
Build
Our AI agents create and distribute citation-optimized content across the platforms AI trusts most: directories, LinkedIn, earned media, community discussions, YouTube.
Dominate
Within sixty to ninety days, your brand starts appearing in AI answers. We track every citation, measure share of voice, and continuously optimize.
The AI citation numbers don't lie.
| metric | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| AI citation share | 0% | 15–40% |
| AI referral traffic | 0/mo | 200–500+/mo |
| Conversion from AI | n/a | 14.2% avg |
| Time to first citation | never | 7–14 days |
"Three-x lead growth in ninety days. Forty-three percent increase in AI-sourced traffic. Eighty-three percent conversion rate improvement."
"Plus eight-thousand-three-hundred-thirty-seven percent increase in ChatGPT referral sessions. Plus two-thousand-five-hundred-twenty-seven percent engagement depth. Forty-eight percent qualified pipeline lift."
How Cited beats ChatGPT tracking tools.
Simple pricing. Massive ROI.
All plans include the AI Visibility Audit — free with annual commitment.
Monitor
Visibility, baseline, and alerts.
- ◉30 queries tracked
- ◉ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews
- ◉Monthly Share of Voice report
- ◉Citation gain/loss alerts
- ◉Email support + monthly call
Growth
Build presence across the sources AI trusts.
- ◉100 queries tracked
- ◉All 5 major AI platforms
- ◉6–10 content pieces per month
- ◉Directory + LinkedIn + PR distribution
- ◉3-competitor citation tracking
- ◉Bi-weekly strategy calls
Dominate
Own the category in AI search.
- ◉200+ queries tracked
- ◉All AI platforms + niche engines
- ◉15–20+ pieces per month
- ◉Full multi-channel distribution
- ◉5+ competitor tracking + real-time alerts
- ◉Weekly strategy + Slack channel
Queries most people ask first.
SEO ranks your website on Google. We get your brand recommended by AI — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews. Only twenty percent of AI citations overlap with Google's top results. Different games, different strategies.
The research behind every number on this page.
Every claim, statistic, and mechanism on this page traces to a peer-reviewed paper, first-party industry dataset, or official platform documentation. Here they are.
Peer-reviewed research
- GEO: Generative Engine Optimization↗Aggarwal et al. · Princeton & Georgia Tech · KDD 2024
Foundational framework. Citation-addition, quotation-addition, and statistics-addition each lift LLM citation probability 24–40%.
- Structural Feature Engineering for Generative Engine Optimization↗arXiv 2603.29979 · March 2026
First peer-reviewed three-level (macro/meso/micro) framework. 17.3% citation-rate lift + 18.5% subjective-quality lift from structure-only edits.
- Diagnosing and Repairing Citation Failures in GEO↗arXiv 2603.09296 · 2026
Taxonomy of retrieval / attribution / verification failures — the framework Cited uses to diagnose why a tenant is invisible.
- ChunkRAG: Chunk-level re-ranking for retrieval-augmented generation↗arXiv 2410.19572 · 2024
Cross-encoder re-ranker score of chunk-against-query is the single strongest per-chunk citation predictor.
Industry primary data
- 38% of AI Overview citations pull from the top 10↗Ahrefs · March 2026
Ranking-first correlation with AI citation collapsed from 76% to 38% in under 18 months. Sub-query targeting now matters more than head rank.
- AI Brand Visibility and Content Recency study↗Seer Interactive · 5,000+ URLs · 2026
Per-engine freshness breakdown behind the 50%-under-13-weeks rule.
- Google AI Overviews Holiday Citation Analysis↗BrightEdge · 2026
YouTube overtook Reddit as the top social citation source in AIO. Citation-share breakdown by source type.
- State of AEO/GEO 2026 — CMO Investment Report↗Conductor · 2026
97% of enterprise CMOs report positive impact from AEO/GEO programs. 94% increasing investment in 2026.
- AI Search Trust Signals audit framework↗ALM Corp · 1,000-brand audit · 2026
62% of enterprise brands are invisible to AI despite heavy SEO spend.
- The 2026 State of AI Search↗AirOps · 2026
Schema-stacking (61% of ChatGPT-cited pages have 3+ schema types), sequential-heading multiplier, and list-density rules.
Official engine documentation
- ChatGPT Search — OpenAI help↗OpenAI
Primary source for ChatGPT's retrieval + citation behavior.
- Anthropic Claude Web Search tool↗Anthropic
Claude's web-search contract, including dynamic filtering via code execution.
- Grounding with Google Search — Gemini API↗Google
Gemini's groundingMetadata — the exact URL set the model fetches per query.
Standards & infrastructure
- Schema.org↗W3C-affiliated collaboration
The structured-data vocabulary every AI engine consults for entity resolution.
- Common Crawl↗Non-profit
The 250-billion-page open web archive that LLM training corpora draw from. Harmonic Centrality predicts LLM citation.
- Wikidata↗Wikimedia Foundation
Machine-readable entity graph AI engines use for ownership/brand resolution. Wikidata-anchored entity = 4.8× AIO lift.
Be the answerAI gives.Or don't exist.
The next twelve months decide who the AI engines learn to cite for your category. After that, the moat is built — and it isn't yours.