CiteAura
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Track brand mentions and citations. Prioritize fixes and verify changes.

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Illustrative example

What does ChatGPT say about your brand?

CiteAura audits the domain and returns a prioritized fix list.

DemoAPI · Web-grounded retrieval

Brand overview · Demo workspace

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CiteAura Brand Overview product interface
Demo · Actual product interface with illustrative workspace data. Not a customer result or endorsement.
Sampling surfaces
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityCopilotDeepSeekGrokAI Overviews

Measure. Make changes. Check the evidence.

CiteAura tracks brand mentions and citations in AI answers, turns audit findings into prioritized fixes, and verifies changes through checks and repeat sampling.

  1. Measure your starting point

    Review answers to your target questions. See brand mentions and citations, with the model, sampling mode, and source attached.

  2. Give your team a clear brief

    Turn site findings into prioritized engineering tickets with page references and acceptance criteria. Your team reviews and implements the changes.

  3. Check the work, then measure again

    Verify deployed changes and repeat your sampling. Export the findings, work completed, and remaining limitations in a delivery pack.

AI answer → citation gap → page change → acceptance check → re-test

From a finding to work you can hand off.

CiteAura turns audit findings into engineering tickets with page references and acceptance criteria. Delivery packs collect findings, assets, and verification status for handoff.

CiteAura Action Tickets product interface
Demo · Action Tickets: prioritize work and keep track of implementation. Illustrative workspace; no performance claim.
CiteAura Delivery Packs product interface
Demo · Delivery Packs: share findings, assets, and verification status. Illustrative workspace; no customer endorsement.

What CiteAura is

CiteAura is a Generative Engine Optimization platform that audits, measures, and improves brand citations, mentions, and visibility in generative AI engines, then closes the loop with engineering tickets and verification.

How we measure, and what the results mean
10 API engines + 12 product surfaces + custom
API · Parametric knowledge
API · Web-grounded retrieval
Manual · Product interface
OpenAIAPI · Web-grounded retrieval
ClaudeAPI · Web-grounded retrieval
GeminiAPI · Web-grounded retrieval
GrokAPI · Web-grounded retrieval
PerplexityAPI · Web-grounded retrieval
DeepSeekAPI · Parametric knowledge
Custom OpenAI-compatibleBring your own endpoint

Mention Rate · Citation Rate

Docs

Effect verification

A deployed ticket enters an observation window with a target and control question set. Verdicts are observational comparisons with intervals; they are not causal proof.

Evidence boundary

Every result keeps the sampling mode, source, prompt cohort, and verification state visible. Unmeasured engines are reported as unmeasured.

CiteAura versus traditional SEO tools and mention dashboards

Use this comparison when choosing alternatives. CiteAura does not guarantee mentions, rankings, or citations.

Dimension CiteAura (Closed-Loop GEO) Mention-Only Dashboards Traditional SEO Suites
Sampling Provenance Explicitly separates API · Parametric knowledge, API · Web-grounded retrieval, and Manual · Product interface Blends prompt scrapes without separating memory from live retrieval Tracks SERP rank and keyword volume; limited prompt cohort provenance
Actionable Output Page-level engineering tickets for robots.txt, JSON-LD, semantic DOM, and /llms.txt Charts and mention share percentages without page-level code remediation Classic crawl health and backlink audits
Effect Verification Automated post-deploy acceptance checks plus target vs. control cohort re-sampling Passive trend lines with no ticket acceptance check URL re-index checks without LLM prompt cohort re-testing
Client Delivery Packs White-label diagnostic packs with raw answer evidence, ticket status, and methodology notes Dashboard exports or screenshots Standard rank and site-audit PDFs

Official facts index: /llms.txt · Rarely published · Compare platforms →

How to run a CiteAura diagnostic
  1. Add the official website URL and create a workspace.
  2. Review extracted brand facts and the target question set.
  3. Connect a built-in model key or a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
  4. Sample labeled engines and read the site audit plus tickets.
  5. Implement changes, verify, and export the diagnostic pack.

What search providers document

Google and OpenAI publish guidance on appearing in their AI search features. These sources explain eligibility and crawler access, not a guarantee of citations.

For Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, foundational SEO still applies.

“There are no additional requirements to appear in AI Overviews or AI Mode, nor other special optimizations necessary.”

Google Search Central · AI features and your website

For ChatGPT search, OAI-SearchBot controls search crawling; GPTBot controls potential training use.

“OAI-SearchBot is used to surface websites in search results in ChatGPT’s search features.”

OpenAI · Overview of OpenAI Crawlers

Sources and definitions: CiteAura measurement documentation

Choose the AI visibility plan that fits your growth

Model usage is separate from your subscription. With your own API keys, model providers bill you directly. Review any platform-funded budget before sampling.

Starter

$79/ month

Ideal for indie makers & single brands

  • 3 active projects
  • About 13 standardized action items per diagnosis (based on results)
  • Full reports & customer delivery packs
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Pro

$199/ month

Continuous multi-model tracking for growth brands

  • 10 active projects
  • Scheduled multi-model monitoring and re-sampling
  • Scheduled re-sampling and email alerts on mention-rate drops
Subscribe Pro

Agency

$499/ month

Parallel client delivery for digital agencies

  • 30 active projects
  • One-click sendable white-label client pack
  • Sendable client links, team roles, and delivery branding
Subscribe Agency

No guarantee of mention or ranking. AI answers are noisy; trends need multiple sampling rounds. Prices in USD.

Frequently asked questions

CiteAura provides direct answers to common questions about AI visibility tracking, BYOK API keys, and client retainers. Review the direct answers below regarding sampling modes, pricing, and trial inclusions.

Do API samples match what users see in the product UI?

Not necessarily. API samples can differ from product UI answers. CiteAura labels each sample as API · Parametric knowledge, API · Web-grounded retrieval, or Manual · Product interface so you can distinguish the evidence.

Must I bring my own model API keys (BYOK)?

Model usage is separate from your subscription. With your own API keys, model providers bill you directly. Review any platform-funded budget before sampling.

Can CiteAura guarantee my brand will be ranked or mentioned by AI?

No. Any vendor promising guaranteed AI recommendations is untruthful. CiteAura provides rigorous diagnosis, standardized engineering tickets, and repeatable verification evidence to help teams improve visibility over time.

What is included in the 14-day free trial?

The 14-day free trial includes 3 projects, 3 sample runs per project (a day-1 baseline plus automatic retests on day 7 and day 14), full reports, action tickets, effect observation, and delivery packages with no credit card required.

Is CiteAura suitable for digital marketing agencies delivering to clients?

Absolutely. The Agency plan is tailored for agencies with 30 active projects, team role permissions, white-label client headers, and downloadable client-ready delivery packs.

Try one check before a full audit.

Check a public page without creating an account. Each tool answers one specific question.

AI crawler access checker

See whether GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot and other crawlers are blocked by robots.txt.

Open checker

llms.txt generator

Generate a reviewable machine-readable draft from your public homepage and download it as llms.txt.

Generate llms.txt

Brand Schema checker

Inspect homepage JSON-LD entity types and download a compact diagnosis for your team.

Check Schema

Guides

Practical notes on measuring mentions, crawl access, llms.txt, and client diagnostic packs.

Measurement

Measure ChatGPT brand mentions: mention_rate, cohort, 3 sampling modes

Fix a question set, log raw answers, and keep API knowledge separate from the product UI.

 Diagnosis

Why is my brand never mentioned in ChatGPT? 4 checks

Separate extractability problems and thin official facts from ordinary answer noise.

 Crawl access

GPTBot robots.txt allow example & Disallow fix

Find the Disallow rule, allow public product pages, and re-check the live file.

 Discovery file

llms.txt best practices: facts, canonical URLs, what to leave out

Publish official facts and canonical links. Skip slogans you cannot source.

 Agency delivery

White-Label GEO Diagnostic Reports for Agencies

Send site findings, labeled samples, and tickets, not a vendor-branded guarantee slide.

 Research

Top 20 Most Cited Domains by LLMs: 325K Benchmark

Analyze citation patterns across Reddit, Wikipedia, and LinkedIn in 325,000 multi-turn AI search queries.

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Know what to work on next.

Start with your website, review the evidence, and give your team a practical plan for AI visibility.

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