Be the answer AI gives
Cited tracks which brands ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude recommend to your buyers, which pages they cite, and what to publish next.
Measuring answers in
Brands winning AI answers
Halden
fernwork
ROWAN & PIKE
Ashgrove
VEYRA
Pipewell
Your buyers stopped searching. They ask. ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini now shortlist products before anyone opens a website, and most brands cannot see what those answers say.
Cited shows you the shortlist and how to get on it
It runs your buyers’ prompts, traces the cited sources, and ranks what to fix first.
Grounded in the signals engines rely on
Answer changes, crawler visits, sentiment and competitor share, tracked per prompt and engine.
- Voltway CitydroppedWhy: its spec page went 404 on Sep 10
- Halden Commuter 2added at #1Source: commuterlab.org now cited twice
- commuterlab.orgnow cited twiceWhy: new hill-range test published Sep 9
Answer Diff
See who was added to each answer, who was dropped, and which source moved it.
Crawler Insights
Know when GPTBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended hit your pages, which ones they skip, and what they fail to fetch.
- positiveChatGPT · commuterlab.org · first seen Aug 28
- neutralPerplexity · ebikereview.net · first seen Sep 2
- Gemini · reddit.com/r/ebikes · first seen Mar 14
Sentiment
Track how engines describe you, not just whether they mention you. Flag inaccurate claims before buyers repeat them.
- Halden41%▲ +3 pts vs last week
- Voltway33%▼ −1 pts vs last week
- Brisa19%▲ +1 pts vs last week
- Kestrel12%▼ −2 pts vs last week
Benchmarks
Compare Share of Answer with the competitors engines recommend alongside you, by prompt, engine and market.
2.7×
more citations in 90 days for the median customer
+18 pts
average Share of Answer gain in six months
19 days
median time to a first new citation
6
answer engines tracked
Proven by teams that became the answer
What SaaS, commerce and finance teams changed to earn their place in AI answers.
Fernwork
3.4×
Share of Answer on category prompts in 5 months
Fernwork led review sites for shift scheduling but was missing from AI shortlists. Fixing six cited pages lifted its Share of Answer from 9% to 31%.
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Rowan & Pike
2.6×
growth in AI-referred revenue over two quarters
Rowan & Pike’s jackets won independent gear tests but rarely appeared when shoppers asked AI engines for recommendations. After fixing how crawlers reached its product pages and restructuring its specs, it grew AI-referred revenue 2.6× in two quarters.
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Ashgrove
12 days
to correct fee answers on five of six engines
After a pricing change, AI engines kept quoting Ashgrove’s old account fee to prospects. Cited traced the errors to three stale sources, and five of six engines were quoting the current fees within 12 days.
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Wired into the stack you already run
Answers, citations and briefs flow into your CMS, analytics, warehouse and team chat.
YOUR BUYER PROMPTS RUN DAILY ACROSS SIX ANSWER ENGINES.
EVERY CITATION IS TRACED BACK TO THE PAGE AND SOURCE THAT EARNED IT.
ALERTS, EXPORTS AND CONTENT BRIEFS LAND IN THE TOOLS YOU ALREADY RUN.
Informed by millions of tracked answers
Studies of how AI engines pick sources, and guides for acting on the findings.
Guides
How to measure Share of Answer, and what a good number looks like
Share of Answer is the AEO metric closest to market share, if you measure it carefully. How to build the prompt set, score answers and read the trend.
Product
Introducing Content Briefs: know what to publish to earn the citation
Content Briefs turn the gaps in your Share of Answer into a ranked list of pages to write or fix, built from the sources engines already cite.
Research
What AI engines cite: findings from 1.2M prompts in Q2
We tracked 1.2M prompts across six engines in Q2. Most citations went to third-party pages, and engines agreed on sources far less often than expected.
Questions, answered
How Cited measures AI search, with a one-business-day reply for anything not covered.
The share of tracked prompts where an answer engine cites or recommends your brand. It is the AEO counterpart to share of voice, measured per engine, market and prompt set, so you can see where you win and where you lose.
Be the answer wherever buyers ask
Reach the buyers who ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini what to buy.