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Track Every Time AI Cites Your Business

Weekly tracking of where ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini surface your business — across the queries that actually drive your revenue.

OVERVIEW

What is AI Citation Monitoring?

AI citation monitoring is the ongoing measurement of how often, and on what queries, large language models cite your business when answering user questions. We test a fixed set of target queries every week across all the major answer engines, document which sources get cited (you and your competitors), and report the trends. Without monitoring, AEO is invisible — you don’t know if it’s working.

WHY IT MATTERS

Why it matters now

AI citations don\’t show up in Google Analytics.Most of your AI-driven brand exposure is invisible without dedicated tracking.
Without measurement, you can\’t tell which AEO investments are working. Monitoring is what makes the discipline data-driven.
Competitor benchmarkingreveals who else is winning the citations and what they\’re doing differently — practical intelligence you can\’t get anywhere else.

WHAT WE DELIVER

What we deliver

Target query list

We define 50-200 queries that map to your service pages, products, and brand — the questions where citations matter to your business.

Weekly query runs

Every query tested 5x across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini. All citations captured.

Citation dashboard

Live dashboard showing where you appear, your share of voice, and how trends are moving week to week.

Competitor mapping

For every query, the dashboard shows who else is getting cited — your competitive landscape on AEO, made visible.

Monthly written report

Trend analysis, wins, losses, and recommended next moves. Actionable, not just data.

Alert system

You're notified within 24 hours when you start (or stop) appearing on any high-priority query.

HOW IT WORKS

How it works

  1. 1. Query setup (week 1)
    We work with you to build a target query list that matches your real business — not vanity queries.
  2. 2. Baseline + dashboard (week 2)
    First weekly run establishes baseline. Dashboard goes live. You see where you currently stand.
  3. 3. Ongoing tracking (week 3+)
    Weekly runs, monthly reports, alerts on movement. You stay informed without lifting a finger.

FREQUENTLY ASKED

Frequently asked questions

Because manual checks aren’t comparable across runs. ChatGPT gives different answers each time. Real measurement requires running each query multiple times, capturing the structured citation data, and tracking trends over months. That’s a tooling problem worth $400-$800/month, not a manual task.

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini at minimum. We can add others (Bing Copilot, You.com, specific industry-vertical AI tools) on request.

Most clients start with 50-100 queries covering their core services and top products. Larger or multi-location businesses run 200-500 queries. We help define the right set in the kickoff call.

Yes — every query run captures all sources cited, so you automatically see your competitive landscape. We can add named competitors to the dashboard so you track them explicitly.

Most engagements run $400-$1,200/month depending on query volume and number of competitors tracked. Setup is included. Cancel anytime.

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BEFORE WE TALK

Before we talk, find out where you stand.

Run your own free AEO Scorecard. We test 3 of your real customer queries against ChatGPT and Claude, score your visibility, and email you a personalized report — including the businesses getting cited instead of you.

NEXT STEP

Ready to talk?

30-minute discovery call. No pitch deck, no pressure. Tell us what you’re trying to do and we’ll tell you whether we can help.