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Citation monitoring
Citation monitoring is a board of questions you choose, checked on ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI, and coloured by a measured appearance — cited and named, named only, cited without the brand named, or absent.
It unlocks with Monitor. The free Layer 1 Audit measures whether an agent can reach, extract, and operate on the site. This product measures whether answer engines cite you for the questions you care about. Those are separate jobs.
You own the board. Branded questions prove the plumbing — can an engine find you by name. Goal questions are the authority signal — do you appear when the buyer does not mention you. The two rates are never blended in one sentence.
A pending slot has no check yet. It is never counted as a miss. Movement inside the noise floor is reported as no detectable change, not as a win. We do not guarantee citations.
Unlocks with Monitor at $149/mo. Site Care is included. Month-to-month, or pay 12 months upfront (2 months free). Dominate includes the same board and adds four content cycles.
Instrument: July AEO-category engine study (96 answers). Mentions and citations are separate series. Live dogfood board on /research.
Concrete artifacts in the client room — not a slogan.
Two lanes — branded and goal — with empty slots shown as capacity. You pick the questions; we suggest candidates from measured demand. Removals deactivate the prompt and keep history.
Each slot is coloured by the same appearance model the scoreboard uses: cited and named, named only, cited without the brand named, or absent. The board and the rates cannot disagree.
Citation rates carry confidence intervals. Same-day re-runs publish a flip rate so platform noise is visible. A monitoring-only month can stay flat on goal questions — the report says so.
Non-green slots can show up to three measured domains that won the answer. Full share of voice and gap battlecards sit on Dominate. Brave search share-of-voice, when shown, is labelled a visibility proxy — not this board.
Measured data
ChatGPT returned source URLs in 25 of 96 July AEO-category answers (26%, Wilson 95% CI 18–36%).
Gemini and Perplexity sourced every recorded check in that sweep. Our own first-party dogfood still reports branded vs generic rates with misses recorded — category-query standing remains thin and is labelled directional. We do not guarantee citations. Full paper and live board on /research.
Growth-stage teams who saw a competitor named in an AI answer and want a board they can show a sceptic — and researchers comparing AEO vendors who need an instrument they can name.
For buyers and researchers. Every step is something you can do without taking our word.
Measured AEO vs rebadged SEO
Ask any AEO vendor these questions — including us. Measured AEO answers with instruments and dates. Rebadged SEO answers with keyword coverage and search rank.
Show me a measured citation rate from real answer-engine checks — not search rank — and the engines you checked.
Show me one verified before/after: a page re-scored against a pinned baseline, with a system-granted verified status.
Which entity signals changed, and where is the live evidence they resolve?
Do you record the checks where the brand was not cited?
Who granted “done” — a person, a model, or a re-probe of the live page?
Show me your run-to-run flip rate. If the tool will not publish variance next to the headline rate, the decimals are decoration.
Framework licensed from our category positioning record. No named competitors — demand instruments and negatives, not slogans.
Example from a live programme — not measured from your site.
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