Projects

A Project is a dedicated workspace for a specific brand domain. Within each project, you configure domains, competitor targets, and tracked prompts.

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Projects

Manage the domains and prompts you monitor

+ New Project

Project	Status	Brand Citations	Visibility	Prompts
A Acme Roofing acmeroofing.com	active	12 / 80	15.0%+2.5% WoW	4
C Contoso Dental contosodental.com	active	38 / 120	31.6%-1.2% WoW	6
C Contoso Med Spa contosomedspa.com	paused	0 / 40	0.0%	2

Project Management & Prompts

Three Ways to Add Prompts

All added prompts show up in your Project Details → Prompts tab. Once configured, they are submitted to AI search engines to track your brand citations.

1. Custom Prompts & Editing

What it does: Lets you manually type specific search prompts or edit existing queries (updating prompt text, group, or local geographic market (geo)) directly in your project workspace.

Why use it: Best for tracking highly specific search terms, long-tail customer questions, or adjusting settings for exact keywords relevant to your target audience.

2. Catalog Prompts

What it does: Allows you to pick from a pre-loaded library of industry-specific templates categorized by business type. Includes search and filtering by prompt text, group, or category, plus bulk-select options to instantly add query sets.

Why use it: Best for bootstrapping your project quickly with high-value standard industry search terms without typing them manually.

3. Generate AI Prompts

What it does: Uses Gemini to analyze your website domain, geographic market, and business description to formulate custom prompts your target customers ask conversational search engines.

Why use it: Best for identifying conversational search trends, question-based prompts, and unexpected search phrases tailored specifically to your unique business offerings.

Scheduled Runs

Projects execute automatically weekly at the beginning of the week. Aggregated runs keep history charts stable. Projects under expired trials are skipped from scheduled runs until upgraded.

Automatic Initial Run

When you add prompts to a project for the first time, Cite AI automatically triggers an initial onboarding run immediately. This lets you view your first report within 10–15 minutes, without waiting for the weekly scheduled run.

Local & Geographic Market Targeting (Geo)

Configure a primary geographic market (e.g. “Charlotte, NC”, “Toronto, ON”, or “United Kingdom”) for your project. This simulates where the person searching is located— the same way ChatGPT and Perplexity localize answers from a user’s IP. Prompts automatically inherit it. You can also toggle individual prompts to Global (no location attached) or specify custom per-prompt market targets. When executing runs, Cite AI supplies exact location context to LLMs and search tools to capture real local buyer citations. Per-prompt markets change how those prompts are run. In Analytics, the market picker narrows every metric on the page to one market, to all your markets together, or to the shared national baseline — so a business strong in one city and invisible in the next can see which is which.

Business Identity & Grid Tracking

Local projects only. Attach the business’s Google Business Profile by searching its name. This is not optional decoration: AI answers name local businesses without linking to them, so matching on a domain finds nothing — the listing is what the Map tab matches on, and it stays blank without one.

With a profile attached you can switch on grid tracking: a 3×3 (9 points) or 5×5 (25 points) grid at a radius of 3 to 25 miles. Saving resolves each point to a real named place — points on water or open farmland are dropped, and you are told how many. Keep points at least five miles apart; below that neighboring points tend to return the same answer.

The grid is two switches. This one sets its shape; each prompt then opts in individually with “Measure across the grid” when you add or edit it, and gridded prompts carry a point-count badge in the Prompts tab. Points are resolved when you save, not on every run, so changing the market or radius means saving again. Grid tracking is on every paid plan. A gridded prompt costs more than one, because it runs at every point: a 3 × 3 counts as four tracked prompts and a 5 × 5 as twelve. It draws on the same prompt limit as any other. Full guide to the Map tab.

Market Reach

Define whether your business competes Locally or Nationally / Globally. This setting shapes how Cite AI words the prompts it generates for you:

Local: You compete for a smaller, nearby audience. Prompts are written the way local customers actually search — both implicit (“near me”, “open now”) and explicit (“in Charlotte, NC”) — and your primary market is required. Local projects run ChatGPT plus Google’s AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini (Claude and Perplexity can only be placed in a country, not a city, so they are not run), and unlock the Map tab and grid tracking.
National / Global: You want to show up nationally for prompts specific to your industry and brand. Prompts run with no location attached.

Market reach sets the wording; the primary market above simulates where the person searching is located. You can set market reach during onboarding, when creating a new project, or update it anytime from your project’s Brand & Market tab.

Competitor Tracking

Monitor up to 10 competitor domains. Their visibility scores and citations are tracked alongside yours in the Competitors tab and the Prompts tab's competitor-gap filter.

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