CiteForged — AI citation engine

Q: How does CiteForged probe the engines?

We send the real prompts your buyers type to each engine live, every scan — not a cached API guess — and record who gets cited. AI answers vary run to run, so we re-probe on a schedule and judge the trend across scans, not a single snapshot.

The receipt

Here's what the engines actually said.

ChatGPT · the buyer asks "where to buy peptides" · 6-engine scan, June 2026

The answer steered the buyer to independent review sites and a community forum to vet suppliers — and named none of the vendor's own pages.

Named in the answer

✓ An independent review site aggregator

✓ A peptide-vendor roundup aggregator

✓ Community forum threads forum

The vendor's own store

✗ Not mentioned

0 / 40

Cited in zero of 40 commercial answers at baseline (a real research-peptide vendor, name withheld). The buyers were in the room. The store wasn't.

Your buyers are asking the same question about your category — right now.

Most businesses start at zero too. Run the same scan on your domain — all six engines, about a minute, no card — and see your real number instead of guessing at it.

Show me my number — free

Then CiteForged forges the compliance-gated content to close the gap — and re-probes each cycle to track the lift as the engines re-crawl. See how the loop works →

The gap · case study

Cited on its own name. Invisible where buyers decide.

Independent AI-visibility tracking for newbiorx.com, June 2026 — it appears in only a couple of AI answers (ChatGPT 1, Perplexity 1, Google AI search results 2); Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Copilot and Grok show none. — Independent tracking, June 2026: newbiorx.com surfaces in just **1–2** AI answers — and mostly on branded searches like “newbiorx reviews,” not the questions new buyers ask. (An independent third-party tracker — its engine set differs from CiteForged's own six.)

CiteForged client newbiorx.com. Here’s the gap.

A generous third‑party tracker finds a trickle of citations — a branded query here, a long‑tail mention there. But on the prompts that actually decide the sale — “where to buy,” “best peptide for…,” “is it legit” — CiteForged’s live, six‑engine scan tells the real story:

✗ Buy-intent prompts0 of 10 named
✗ Research prompts0 of 10 named
✗ Every enginecompetitors win

A handful of branded citations isn’t visibility — not when buyers are asking AI about the category, not your name. That’s the gap CiteForged surfaces, then closes: forge the compliance‑gated content, and re‑probe each cycle to prove the lift as the engines re‑crawl.

Show me my number — free

What it does

Two questions decide whether AI quotes you — do you appear, and can it trust what it finds?

Most tools count blue-link rankings. CiteForged measures whether you're the source AI answers cite — and forges the compliant content that earns it. It works in two stages: first make your pages machine-readable, then earn the citations with content. Every commercial answer that names a rival instead of you is a buyer handed over at the moment of decision — citation share is buyer share.

01

Answer engine optimization

AEO

The structured answer surfaces — Google's AI Overviews, featured snippets, and "where to buy" boxes — reward clear structure and cited sources. CiteForged measures your citation share-of-voice here across two fronts: the commercial answers buyers act on, and the informational ones they learn from — then ranks the gaps by impact.

02

Generative engine optimization

GEO

The conversational models — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok — answer from the sources they trust. Are you one of them? CiteForged tracks which models name you, on which prompts, and reverse-engineers the competitors winning the answers you're missing.

03

Compliance is the moat

The edge

In regulated niches the compliant version of a page is also the version AI cites — engines down-rank promotional claims and up-rank sourced, properly-disclaimed content. Every article CiteForged generates clears a per-niche compliance and evidence gate, so authority and performance pull the same direction.

Diagnose · Share of voice

See exactly who AI quotes instead of you — engine by engine.

One scan, every engine, side by side. Each cell is how often a brand is named in the answers your buyers actually get. The gap between your row and the leader's is the citation you're leaving on the table.

Brand	ChatGPT	Perplexity	Gemini	Google AIO	Grok	Claude

Lower presence Higher presence

Share of voice = the share of tested answers in a niche that name each brand, per engine. Illustrative, modeled on a real research-peptide audit where the vendor's own store was cited in 0 of 40 commercial answers — run a free scan to see your real row — or see a real six-engine scan below ↓.

The prompts behind the grid

Front	A buyer actually asks…	Engines
Commercial	"best [niche] for [buyer type]"	6
Commercial	"where to buy [product]"	6
Informational	"how to choose [product]"	6
Informational	"what is [product] — does it work?"	6

Visibility isn't one number — you can be cited for "how to choose" and invisible for "where to buy." Testing both fronts shows which buyers find you, and which hand the sale to a competitor.

Diagnose · Cited sources

AI trusts a handful of sources in your niche. Are you one of them?

Every answer is built from sources the engine already trusts. CiteForged maps which domains get cited in your niche, how often, and whether you're among them — so each gap becomes a content brief, not a guess.

Source AI cites in this niche	Cited in answers	You
Primary research libraries"what is it · does it work"	16 / 20	absent
Independent review sites"where to buy"	13 / 20	absent
Community forum threadsvetting a supplier	11 / 20	absent
Medical-authority sites"is it safe"	9 / 20	absent
A competitor's own storecommercial answers	7 / 20	competitor

These are the sources AI already cites in this niche — competitors appear in several, the vendor in zero. Each row is a content brief: get cited where the engines already look. Illustrative, from a real audit; run a free scan for your own source gap.

Proof · a real scan

Not a mockup. An actual six-engine scan.

Everything above marked “illustrative” is a styled demo. This isn’t. In June 2026 we pointed CiteForged at a specialty-coffee retailer on Shopify and asked all six engines the eight buy-intent questions its customers actually ask. Here’s the raw result — no client named, because the point is simply that the measurement is real.

Engine	Buyer questions it was cited in (of 8)
Perplexity	6 / 8
Claude	5 / 8
Grok	5 / 8
Gemini	4 / 8
Google AI Overviews	2 / 8
ChatGPT	1 / 8

Named in 31 of 48 answers · cited (linked) in 23 of 48 · reached 6 of 8 questions. A real, dated scan — not a result we take credit for (this retailer was already well-known). CiteForged measures who AI names today, then re-probes across cycles to track whether your published content moves it.

What’s my row? Grade my site — free

Stage 1 · Get readable

Before you can win a citation, the machines have to be able to read your pages.

Answer engines skip pages they can't parse. CiteForged grades any page free, then generates the exact <head> markup it's missing — schema, Open Graph, breadcrumbs, FAQ — built from your existing content. Nothing rewritten, no site access. Fix one page, your whole site, or keep it fixed as the site changes — then forge the content that earns the citation.

01

Grade & fix a page — free

Score any page's AI-readiness in seconds, then get the paste-ready markup it's missing. No signup, no card.

02

Fix your whole site

Every page's markup in one forwardable packet for your developer — a one-time fix. Add Pro to also generate compliant, page-grounded FAQ content you review before publishing.

03

Keep it fixed

Sites drift — new pages ship without markup, redesigns drop schema. Monitoring re-checks every page monthly and emails a refreshed packet the moment anything slips.

04

Win the citation

Readable pages get you in the running; content wins the spot. CiteForged probes the engines, ranks the gaps by impact, and forges compliant, sourced articles to fill them — each cleared by a per-niche compliance and evidence gate — then hands off a publish-ready packet. Re-probe confirms the lift. See the ongoing content plans →

Stage 2 · Get cited

Connect once. Watch your authority compound.

i

Point us at your domain

No tags to install, no waiting. We crawl your catalog, map your niche and competitors, and begin querying live answer engines within the hour.

ii

Read the citation map

A single, calm dashboard shows where you're cited, where you're absent, and who wins the answers instead of you — every gap ranked by impact against effort.

iii

We write it; you publish

CiteForged forges compliant, sourced content for each gap and hands off a publish-ready packet — no platform access, no lock-in. Publish, then watch the next sweep confirm the lift.

Pricing

Everyone else hands you a dashboard. We forge the content that earns the citation.

The expensive tools measure where you're missing from AI answers — then leave the writing to you. CiteForged closes the loop: it probes six engines, finds the gaps, and forges compliant, sourced articles that get you cited.

Where the category stops — and where we start

Monitoring & analytics tools

✓Tell you which engines name you

✓Rank your gaps and competitors

✗Then hand the work back to you

✗No content — or a hard cap of a few articles

✗Add-on fees per extra engine

CiteForged

✓Measures all six engines on every scan — no add-ons

✓Ranks every gap by impact against effort

✓Forges the articles for you — publish-ready packet

✓Re-probes to confirm the citation lift

✓No lock-in — you publish, you own it

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Why our articles get cited where generic AI content can't. Engines down-rank promotional claims and up-rank sourced, properly-disclaimed content. Every article CiteForged forges clears a per-niche compliance and evidence gate before handoff — so what you publish isn't bulk filler, it's the defensible, citable version of the page. Volume that's actually authority.

The proof, in dollars: the category leader caps content at 3 articles a month for ~$399. · A done-for-you program runs ~$1,597 a month, per brand. · CiteForged Growth is $199 — with 30 compliant articles, across all six engines.

Start free, fix your markup once, then turn on content. The free grader and $49 fix stand alone — add a plan only when you want AI answers to name you.

No content plan needed

Make your pages readable

For sites not on a content plan. Answer engines skip pages they can't parse — fix the markup once (monitoring optional), or grade a page free first. On any content plan, whole-site Fix-It and monitoring are already included (a $169+ value).

Grade a page

Instant AI-readiness score + the markup it's missing.

Free

Grade a page →

Whole-site Fix-It

Every page's markup in one forwardable packet.

$49 one-time

Fix my site →

Monitoring

Monthly re-check so markup never drifts.

$120 / yr

Add monitoring →

The engine

Win the citations

Ongoing compliant content that gets your business named in AI answers — measured across all six engines, every scan, with no add-on surprises.

Most start here

Starter

For a single site earning its first citations.

$79 / mo

1 domain · or $99/mo all-in with Autopilot

≈ $7.90 per compliant article

10 compliant articles / mo
All 6 engines, every scan
AEO + GEO scoring
3 scans / month
Whole-site Fix-It + monitoring included
Citation map

Request early access

Best value

Growth

For teams writing to be cited — hands-off.

$199 / mo

3 domains

≈ $6.60 per compliant article

30 compliant articles / mo
Autopilot — hands-off monthly content
All 6 engines · full AEO · GEO suite
10 scans / month
Citation map & gap queue
Whole-site Fix-It + monitoring included

Request early access

Agency

For agencies and multi-brand work.

$999 / mo

10 domains

≈ $8.30 per article · white-labeled

120 compliant articles / mo
Everything in Growth
45 scans / month
White-label handoff
API & priority support

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Need a different mix? Build your own configuration →

How the math works

What does one cited article actually cost you?

A compliant, sourced article that can earn an AI citation has to be researched, written, fact-checked, and disclaimed for your niche. Here's the same deliverable, three ways — at the Growth tier's 30 articles a month.

Hire a freelance writer

$150–400

per article

$4,500–12,000/mo for 30 pieces — before you've briefed, edited, or checked a single compliance claim yourself.

Buy a monitoring tool + DIY

$0

articles included

The dashboard tells you you're invisible. Writing the fix is still entirely your team's nights and weekends.

CiteForged Growth

≈ $6.60

per article · all-in

30 compliant, sourced, gate-cleared articles plus six-engine measurement — for $199 total, not per piece.

The point isn't that our articles are cheap — it's that the cost of being invisible to AI is the real bill. One buyer who asks ChatGPT "best [your category]" and never sees your name is a lost sale the dashboard-only tools will happily keep measuring. CiteForged is priced so the fix costs less than the briefing meeting you'd hold to start it.

Reference points drawn from public 2026 pricing and independent reviews, framed by category rather than named vendor: monitoring tools generally include no content or cap it at a few articles per month; the leading analytics platform's functional entry is ~$399/mo; managed execution programs run from ~$1,597/mo per brand; freelance long-form rates per industry survey ranges. Figures are for orientation and change frequently — verify current pricing before relying on it.

Build your own

Only pay for what you need.

No plan fits? Pick your engines, scans, and articles and see your price live — pay-as-you-go, with volume discounts as you scale.

Sites Scans / mo Articles / mo Autopilot content + proof emailed monthly · +25%

$— / mo

Request this configuration →

The free grader is instant — no signup, no card. Monthly content plans: self-serve checkout is rolling out now; until it's live we set you up within one business day of your request. Request a spot →

For agencies

A new service line. Your logo on it.

Your clients already want to know if ChatGPT names them. CiteForged is the engine — you keep the relationship, the branding, and the margin. No tool to build, no engineering, no mention of us.

[ Your agency ] AI Visibility Report

Your client You

Competitor A

Competitor B

Your logo, your colors — the deliverable the client sees. Prepared by you, powered by CiteForged.

01

Your brand, start to finish

Every report, heatmap, and content packet carries your logo and colors. The client sees your agency — not a third-party tool.

02

A deliverable that sells itself

The citation heatmap shows a client their pale row beside darker competitors in a single glance. It books the follow-on work before you finish the call.

03

Margin, not overhead

One dashboard for every client. Run audits, ship fixes, re-probe to prove the lift — then bill it as a recurring service line. The build cost is zero because there's nothing to build.

Add AI-visibility audits to your menu this week.

See the agency plan

White-label reports, a multi-client dashboard, unlimited team seats, and one invoice for every client — included on Agency.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?

AEO is the practice of earning citations in AI answer surfaces — Google's AI Overviews, featured snippets, and "where to buy" results — instead of just ranking blue links. CiteForged measures whether those surfaces name your business and shows you the gaps to close.

What is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)?

GEO is optimization for conversational AI models like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok. When a buyer asks one of them a question, GEO is about being the source the model trusts and quotes. CiteForged tracks which models cite you, and on which prompts.

How is CiteForged different from a traditional SEO tool?

SEO tools count keyword rankings on search-result pages. CiteForged measures whether AI engines actually cite you in their answers — across six engines and two intent fronts — then generates the compliant content that earns those citations.

Which AI engines does CiteForged track?

Six, re-checked on every scan: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Grok, and Claude. We track the engines your buyers actually use rather than padding the count — coverage you'll use beats a bigger number you won't.

How does CiteForged probe the engines?

We send the real prompts your buyers type to each engine live, every scan — not a cached API guess — and record who gets cited. AI answers vary run to run, so we re-probe on a schedule and judge the trend across scans, not a single snapshot.

Do I need to install anything or give access to my site?

No. CiteForged is credential-free: point it at your domain and it crawls your public pages and queries live answer engines. No tags, no logins — and the content it generates is delivered as a publish-ready packet you publish yourself.

Does CiteForged write the content, or only measure?

Both. It measures your citation gaps, then forges compliant, sourced articles for each one — every piece clears a per-niche compliance and evidence gate before handoff.

Early access

Get the monthly content plans before everyone else.

Self-serve signup is rolling out now. Leave your domain and we'll set you up — and you can grade any page free in the meantime.