See whether AI answers cite you or send trust somewhere else.
When your customers ask an AI engine "what's the best tool for…", does the answer mention your brand and cite your domain — or a competitor's? This tool asks a real AI answer engine and shows you the verdict, with the actual sources the AI cited.
Ask
Customer-style category prompts.
Trace
Returned sources and cited domains.
Act
Verdicts that point to the next fix.
Question
Buyer prompt
Evidence
Cited URLs
Verdict
Mention + cite
Citation intelligence concept: answer snapshots, citation rate, source quality, cited domains, competitor signals, and wins versus losses.
Tool workspace
Run a citation check
Test a brand, domain, and category against source-backed AI answers.
Why AI citations matter more than rankings
AI answer engines don't show ten blue links — they give one answer and cite a handful of sources. If your domain is among those sources, you capture the click and the trust. If it isn't, the AI is actively sending your customers to whoever is cited. Ahrefs found that 28.3% of ChatGPT's most-cited pages have zero organic visibility on Google: AI citation is a different game from classic SEO, with different winners.
What the four verdicts mean
- 🏆 Strong — your domain is cited as a source in most answers. Monitor it: positions degrade silently.
- ✅ Cited — you appear among sources, but not consistently. Strengthen citability to win more answers.
- 🟡 Mentioned only — the AI knows your brand from third parties but never cites your own pages. Make your domain the reference.
- ❌ Invisible — neither mentioned nor cited. Start with a free GEO audit and fix the high-impact items first.
How to improve your AI citations
Citations are earned with technical and content signals that AI retrieval rewards: open access for AI crawlers, structured data, an llms.txt, quotable statistics, and multi-page topical coverage. The GEO guide covers the full playbook, and the free audit scores your site on 100 points across 8 categories. Run the audit, fix the priority items, then come back and re-check your citations.
Frequently asked questions
How does the AI citation checker work?
It sends customer-style questions about your product category to Perplexity Sonar, an AI answer engine grounded in live web search, and analyzes the answers: is your brand mentioned in the text, and does your domain appear among the cited sources? You also see which competitor domains were cited instead of you.
Why Perplexity and not ChatGPT?
Perplexity grounds every answer in a live web search and returns the exact source URLs it cited, which makes citations verifiable. ChatGPT and other parametric models do not expose their sources the same way. Citation patterns correlate across engines: if your content is citable for Perplexity, you are building the same signals other AI engines reward.
What does "mentioned but not cited" mean?
The AI knows your brand — usually from third-party pages like reviews or directories — but never cites your own domain as a source. That means other sites are the reference for your own product. The fix is making your own pages the citable source: structured data, llms.txt, statistics, and quotable content.
How often do AI citations change?
Continuously. AI answers are regenerated for every query and the underlying indexes refresh constantly, so a brand cited today can silently disappear next week. A one-shot check is a snapshot; ongoing monitoring is how you catch losses early.
Is this check really free?
Yes. Each check asks the AI engine two questions at our expense, so there is a fair-use limit per visitor and per day. For scheduled checks, more queries, history, and alerts, GeoReady plans start at $19/month.
One check is a snapshot. Tracking is the moat.
AI answers change every week. GeoReady runs your citation checks on a schedule, alerts you when you lose or win a citation, and shows who replaced you — so you act before the traffic moves.