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AI visibility · Answer Engine Optimization · San Francisco
Being online does not mean AI understands your business.
Direct answer: CITED finds the technical, structural, and trust gaps that keep you out of AI-generated answers — then installs the signals answer engines need to know what you do, who you serve, and why you belong in the citation.
Built for the AI-search era. Designed in San Francisco.
The gap is not “mentions.” It is machine readability.
A business can have a website and still be hard for AI systems to interpret. Unclear service descriptions, missing location and entity data, weak consistency across the web, poorly structured pages, and absent structured data all reduce the chance of being included when a model answers a buyer’s question.
- Unclear category and service language
- Missing or broken structured data
- Inconsistent business information across sources
- Content that ranks but does not answer
- No measurement of citation → traffic
How CITED works
A systematic process to strengthen what answer engines can actually use.
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Audit
We inspect how clearly your business and selected competitors can be understood from public web information — structure, entities, schema, answer surfaces, and trust signals.
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Prioritize
We rank the highest-impact technical, content, and trust gaps. Not a 40-page PDF of noise — a short list ordered by effect on citation likelihood.
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Install
We implement the missing signals: answer-first pages, schema, entity consistency, AI-readable surface files, and the measurement layer that connects citations to real sessions.
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Defend
Models retrain. Competitors move. We keep the surfaces clean and the attribution path intact so wins do not evaporate quietly.
What we strengthen
Structured data
FAQPage, HowTo, Organization, Service, and Article markup that matches the live page.
Answer-first content
Pages that lead with the direct answer, then expand — the shape models prefer to quote.
Trust signals
Consistent identity, authorship, primary sources, and third-party corroboration where it matters.
Entity consistency
Same name, same category language, same facts across the surfaces AI actually reads.
Citation → traffic
Server-side measurement so “we got cited” is not the end of the story. You see sessions.
Not another mention dashboard
Monitoring tools show where your name appears. That is necessary and not sufficient. CITED is built around three gaps the market still underserves:
- Why a source is chosen — semantic and structural reasons, not just frequency counts.
- Competitor passages — what rivals are saying that models are actually lifting.
- Traffic link — whether citations produce measurable visits and leads.
FAQ
What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?
AEO is structuring a business so generative AI systems can understand what you do and cite you when buyers ask category questions. Ranking a link is not the same as being the answer inside the response.
How is CITED different from AI mention tools?
Most tools report visibility. CITED focuses on why sources are chosen, competitor passage-level gaps, and whether citations produce real traffic. Visibility without attribution is incomplete.
What does an audit include?
How clearly you and selected competitors can be understood from public web information: structure, schema, answer-first content, entity consistency, trust signals, and AI-readable surface files — plus a prioritized install path.
Who is this for?
Teams that already sell something real and need to be legible to AI search — local and national services, B2B software, regulated categories, and operators who refuse to treat “mentions” as the finish line.
How do I start?
Email hello@citedglobal.com with your domain and category. Start with an Invisible Competitor Audit.
Start with an Invisible Competitor Audit
See where you stand against the competitors AI already understands — and what has to change.
Get Your Visibility Audit