How It Works — Cited

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AI Visibility Report

Free — via request

See where you stand. We run your business through the same citation audit we use on paying clients — then show you the gaps.

Industry-specific prompts tested on Perplexity and Gemini
Your citation status vs. top 3 competitors
Your Citation Score (our proprietary composite metric)
Estimated monthly AI prompt volume for your niche
Branded PDF report delivered within 72 hours

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The Citation Audit

$2,500 — credited toward your second month

A full diagnostic of your AI visibility with a 90-day action plan. Continue to a retainer, and the full $2,500 is credited toward your second month of service.

50+ prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini & Grok
Complete competitor citation mapping
Content opportunity analysis — where AI lacks credible sources
Demand estimates per topic in your niche
Prioritized 90-day action plan
Technical audit — schema, AI crawler access, structured data

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Full Service

The Citation Engine

Starting from $2,500/month — cancel anytime

We build, execute, and measure your AI citation strategy. Every month. Compounding. Three tiers based on your ambition — from getting visible to dominating your category.

Everything in the Citation Audit
4-12 citation-engineered articles per month
Citation monitoring across all major AI engines
Off-site distribution (Tier 2+)
Competitive intelligence & displacement (Tier 3)
Month-to-month — no lock-in contracts
Every deliverable guaranteed

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Inside The Citation Engine

What happens every month.

The Citation Engine is a repeating cycle. Each phase builds on the last. Each month compounds on the previous. Here's what we actually do.

Audit

Map the entire AI landscape for your business.

We find the questions your potential customers actually ask AI engines — not keyword guesses, real queries. Then we track who gets cited, who doesn't, and where the opportunities are. This isn't a one-time snapshot. We rerun it monthly to measure movement.

Your citation status across major AI engines
Competitor citation landscape
Citation Score baseline
Opportunity identification
Demand estimates for your niche
Gap analysis report

Strategy

Design the citation strategy, not just a content calendar.

This is where intelligence meets editorial planning. We identify your highest-value opportunities — where demand exists, competition is weak, and the content aligns with your business. Then we build a strategy designed to win those citations.

We're not picking topics from a keyword tool. We're working from proprietary citation data that tells us exactly where the openings are.

Prioritised opportunity roadmap
Competitor citation breakdown — who's winning which prompts, and why
Technical audit & recommendations (schema, entity structure, site architecture)
Off-site authority strategy
Editorial calendar with rationale
Expected citation targets per engine

Publish

Execute across every surface AI engines evaluate.

On-site content is one lever. We also work off-site — building the third-party signals, entity presence, and structured data that AI engines use to decide whether your brand is trustworthy enough to cite. Publishing is one part of the system, not the system itself.

Deeply researched, source-cited editorial
Off-site authority building (third-party mentions, distribution, backlinks)
Technical implementation (schema, entity architecture, structured data)
Competitor citation intelligence — what they're doing, where they're winning
CMS optimisation, indexing & submission across engines
Site-wide technical recommendations for AI discoverability

Track

Measure what matters: actual AI citations.

Not vanity metrics. Not "estimated AI impressions." We track real AI responses across every major engine, every week. You'll see exactly which prompts cite you, which don't yet, and how your position is changing over time.

This data feeds directly back into the next month's strategy. What's working gets reinforced. What isn't gets addressed. The system learns and compounds.

Weekly citation monitoring
Prompt performance dashboard
Competitive movement tracking
Monthly performance report
Strategy adaptation recommendations
Citation Score trend analysis

Why Not Just Use an SEO Agency?

Because the game changed.

	Typical SEO / Content Agency	Cited
Goal	Rank higher on Google search results	Get cited by AI engines as a primary source
Approach	Keyword-optimized blog posts	Full-service citation engineering — editorial, off-site authority, technical implementation, competitor intelligence
Metrics	Rankings, traffic, impressions	Actual citations in AI responses, brand position, prompt coverage
Intelligence	Keyword research tools	Proprietary citation data — real AI responses tracked weekly across every major engine
Monitoring	Google Analytics, rank trackers	AI citation tracking across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini & Grok — weekly
Proof of results	"Your traffic went up"	"ChatGPT now cites you by name when customers ask about [topic]"

Questions we get asked.

How quickly will we see citations?

It depends on your niche and competition. Our proof-of-concept site earned its first ChatGPT citations within the first week. Some niches are faster (less competition for AI attention), some take longer. We'll give you an honest assessment in the Citation Audit — not a promise we can't keep.
Does this replace SEO?

No. Good SEO helps — indexed, technically sound content is easier for AI engines to find. But citation requires a fundamentally different approach on top of SEO. Different content standards, different intelligence, different measurement. Most SEO agencies don't do this. We focus exclusively on it.
Which AI engines do you track?

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Grok, and Microsoft Copilot — the five engines with the largest user bases. Each engine has different citation patterns — what works for ChatGPT doesn't always work for Perplexity, Gemini, or Grok. Our Gemini tracking uses Google's own search grounding infrastructure, giving us the closest possible proxy to how Google AI Overviews selects sources. Grok uses xAI's own web index, surfacing different sources than Bing or Google-backed engines.
What kind of businesses is this for?

Service businesses where customers research before buying. If your potential customers are asking AI "who's the best [your service] in [your area]" or "how do I choose a [provider]" — and AI is answering without mentioning you — this is for you. We specialize in local service businesses and niche verticals.
How is the AI Visibility Report free?

It costs us real time and API credits to produce — this isn't automated. We offer it free because the report sells itself. When you see that your competitors are cited and you're not, the next conversation happens naturally.
What if we already have a content team?

We can work alongside your existing team. The Citation Audit gives your team a data-driven editorial roadmap. Or we handle the citation-focused content while your team handles everything else. The strategy and monitoring layers add value regardless of who produces the content.
Are there long-term contracts?

No. Every retainer is month-to-month. Cancel at the end of any month with 30 days notice. We also guarantee every deliverable — if we miss one, it's provided free the following month. We're confident the results will keep you, not a contract.
What does the Citation Audit credit mean?

The Citation Audit is a one-time $2,500 engagement. If you continue with a monthly retainer within 30 days, the full $2,500 is credited toward your second month of service. You pay the normal retainer for month one, then month two is covered by the audit credit. The audit becomes your onboarding — effectively free for clients who stay.

Three ways to start getting cited.