See where AI cites your brand — and act on what you find.

Cite AI asks every major answer engine the questions your buyers are asking — then shows you who got cited, how you were described, and which competitors took your place. And for every gap, the specific content changes to win the citation back.

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Citation Share of Voice

20 prompts tracked · average SOV

3 gaps found

competitor-a.com38%

competitor-b.com29%

You (yourbrand.com)24%

competitor-c.com9%

Monitored AI Engines

ChatGPT38% SOV

Gemini24% SOV

Claude19% SOV

Perplexity15% SOV

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Overview›Analytics · Beacon Finance

Beacon FinanceActive

beaconfinance.co · 6 prompts · ChatGPT, Gemini · Week-over-week

W21 – W16 · 6 wks ▾

AI Visibilityvisibility

75%weekly average

Share of Voicepie_chart

27%39 of 142 citations

Brand Citationsverified

39vs 32 last week

Prompts Trackedmanage_search

6active prompts

Brand Visibility — Weekly

Weekly share · beaconfinance.co vs competitors · 6 weeks

75%

↑ +6 pts vs W20

beaconfinance.co75%

competitor avg41%

The Search Shift

AI is already deciding which brands get recommended. Are you in the answer?

Traditional search is changing. Buyers increasingly research vendors, compare tools, and make purchase decisions inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google's own AI answers — and those answers name only a handful of brands.

Unlike a results page with ten blue links, an AI engine synthesizes a single answer citing a median of just 8 sources — and nearly two-thirds of those citations point to pages outside Google's top 10. If your domain isn't cited, you're invisible to these high-intent buyers, and your Google ranking won't save you.

Our own research panel

60 commercial prompts × 6 answer engines × 16 weeks, April–July 2026. We analyzed 1,275 AI answers and 11,131 citations to find out what actually gets cited. Read the full methodology →

Domains Cited By All 6 Engines

Not one, across 1,275 answers. 66% of cited domains appeared on a single engine — checking ChatGPT tells you almost nothing about the other five.

64%

Cited Beyond Top 10

64% of AI citations point to pages outside Google's top 10 results. SEO rank alone won't get you cited.

45%

Gone By Next Week

45% of the domains AI cited one week were missing the next in our tracked panel. Weekly monitoring is how you catch it.

Sources Per Answer

Median citations in an AI answer. Only a handful of brands make the cut for every prompt.

Answer Engine Optimization

Citation tracking, gap detection, and site audit — so you always know where you stand in AI answers.

Automated citation tracking

Every week, we ask all six answer engines your tracked prompts and record who got cited. Runs aggregate by period so you compare stable trends, not noisy individual snapshots.

Per-engine attribution

See which engine — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, or AI Mode — is citing your brand, at what rate, and how that changes over time.

Prompt-level drill-down

Inspect every tracked prompt across all six engines. See which domains the AI consistently cites, which are newly rising or receding, where your page sits in an AI answer, and which pages rank on Google but get skipped by AI.

Competitive gap detection

Identify prompts where competitors are cited and you're not. Each gap surfaces the cited source and specific content suggestions to close it.

Site Audit

Crawl your brand domain and score it against the factors that determine whether AI answer engines can find, parse, and cite your content — schema coverage, content structure, entity clarity, and crawler access.

AI-assisted prompt setup

Not sure which prompts to track? Describe your brand and industry — Cite AI suggests the prompts most likely to drive citations for your category, so you spend your prompt budget on prompts that matter.

Unify your AI presence

One view across every major answer engine.

ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode each draw from different source pools and cite at different rates — in our research, not a single domain was cited by all six. Cite AI normalizes tracking across every engine, so you can compare citation performance engine-by-engine and see where a content change made an impact.

ChatGPT

Highest market share of AI-driven searches — the baseline for brand exposure.

Claude

Anthropic now leads enterprise LLM spend — roughly 40% versus OpenAI's 27%. Claude is increasingly where B2B buyers research, and returns full context around every citation for sentiment and framing analysis.

Google Gemini

Draws from Google's index — directly comparable to your SERP ranking.

Perplexity AI

Cites sources inline with rankings — closest proxy to traditional search position.

Google AI Overviews

The AI answer at the top of Google itself — the answer surface your buyers already see on every search.

Google AI Mode

Google's conversational search experience — an early read on where Google search is heading.

Answer engines monitored

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AIO & AI Mode

11k+

Citations analyzed

In our published AI citation research

Prompt-level

Citation attribution

Source, sentiment, position

CSV

Full data export

Every citation, engine, and sentiment

Three-step process

How Cite AI helps you defend your visibility

Defending your share of voice in the AI era doesn't require complex coding or manual testing.

Define your footprint

Add your brand domain, select your primary competitors, and list the key search phrases you want to monitor. Not sure where to start? Our AI assistant will recommend the most impactful prompts for your category.

Automated engine probing

Our pipeline automatically queries all six engines — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and AI Mode — with your tracking configuration on a scheduled cadence. We extract exact citations, sentiment details, and competitor mentions.

Close citation gaps

Inspect your gaps dashboard to see where competitors are recommended instead of you. Get specific recommendations (e.g. structured data tweaks or content restructuring) and run site audits to optimize.

Pricing

Every plan tracks all six engines. Starting at $19/mo.

No per-engine add-ons and no base subscription. Start with a 14-day cardless free trial (20 prompts, 1 project) and upgrade as you grow.

For comparison: $99/mo here tracks 150 prompts across all six engines. Profound's $99 Starter tracks 50 prompts on ChatGPT only, and Semrush's AI toolkit requires a base subscription — a true minimum of $229/mo. See the full comparison →

All-in pricing, tax included. Converted to your local currency at checkout.

Starter

$19/ month

Brand baseline tracking for early stage brands checking core branded reach.

20 tracked prompts
1 active project
All 6 engines, weekly

Start with Starter

Growth

$49/ month

For growing brands that need category visibility, not just branded checks.

60 tracked prompts
2 active projects
All 6 engines, weekly

Start with Growth

Frequently Asked Questions

Have questions about Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) or Cite AI? Here are answers to our most common queries.

What is a citation and why does it matter?

A citation is a reference or link to a website in an AI engine's answer. When a user asks an LLM (like ChatGPT or Gemini) a question about a product category, the LLM retrieves web pages and cites them as sources. If your brand is cited, you get direct visibility, traffic, and trust. If you are not cited, you are invisible in that recommendation.

How often does Cite AI check the answer engines?

We probe the supported answer engines weekly to update your dashboard. This schedule filters out the daily fluctuations and noise, providing you with stable, reliable trends for your optimization efforts.

Is there a credit card required for the 14-day trial?

No, you can sign up for our 14-day trial without entering a credit card. You'll get access to track 20 prompts in 1 project so you can experience the platform before deciding to upgrade.

Which AI answer engines are supported?

We currently support tracking and citation extraction across six engines: ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic), Google Gemini, Perplexity AI, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode.

What is the difference between 'searched' and 'cited' domains?

AI engines often fetch several web pages during their search process ('searched' domains) but only cite a subset of them in their final response ('cited' domains). Cite AI tracks both, letting you see where your pages were read but skipped, highlighting optimization opportunities.

Can I cancel or change my subscription at any time?

Yes, you can cancel or change your plan at any time directly from your billing settings. If you cancel, your subscription will remain active until the end of your current billing cycle.

AI search is already deciding which brands get recommended.

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