When buyers ask AI, be the answer.
More buyers now ask ChatGPT before they open Google. CitedOften shows you what it tells them about you, then fixes the pages it reads.
We check what each of these says about you, every day
You rank on Google. AI never mentions you.
Someone types “best invoicing tool for a small agency” into ChatGPT. It names three companies. If yours isn't one of them, you never get the visit, and nothing in your analytics tells you it happened.
See what it says
We put your buyers' questions to the assistants every morning and keep the answers. You see who was named, which page was quoted and what changed since yesterday.
Fix what it reads
When you're left out there is usually a plain reason: prices locked in an image, no comparison page, facts spread over five URLs. The agent drafts the fix and you approve it.
Show what worked
Each edit is linked to the answers it changed. When someone asks what the work achieved, you hand them a list.
This is the audit.
Your buyers' questions down the side, the assistants across the top. Each cell shows who got named. Most companies find more gaps than they expected.
First fix on this one: put the prices in text. Three assistants couldn't read them, and one made a price up.
Get yours, free| Question buyers ask | ChatGPT | Gemini | Perplexity | Claude |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| best invoicing tool for agencies | You | Ledgerline | You | nobody |
| invoice software with retainers | nobody | Billwise | You | Billwise |
| ledgerline alternatives | Billwise | Billwise | Payloop | Billwise |
| how much does northwind cost | wrong price | You | You | can't say |
| invoicing for freelancers under $20 | Payloop | nobody | Payloop | Payloop |
Sample. Northwind, Ledgerline, Billwise and Payloop are made-up companies.
An agent
Put 240 questions to six assistants.In 14 answers a competitor is cited and you are not.
Worked out why “ledgerline alternatives” skips you.The three pages it quotes all list prices in text. Yours are in a screenshot.
Drafted a comparison page with a price table.Waiting for you, with a before-and-after view.
You approved it. Page published.Asked the assistants again to check they can read it.
Perplexity and ChatGPT now quote the new page.That question went from 0 of 6 assistants to 4 of 6.
That does the work
Jobs it already knows.
A playbook is a defined piece of work with a checklist behind it, so you get the same standard every time you run it.
AI readiness check
Can the assistants reach, read and quote each of your key pages? A page-by-page pass or fail.
↗Comparison page
An even-handed “you vs them” page with a fact table. These get quoted more than any other page type we draft.
↗Pricing in plain text
Moves prices out of images, toggles and PDFs into text an assistant can repeat correctly.
↗llms.txt and schema
A machine-readable summary of your site, plus markup for your FAQs and products.
↗Citation gap list
Every source that mentions a competitor and not you, ordered by how often assistants lean on it.
↗Get-listed outreach
Draft pitches to the directories and roundups on that list. You send them from your own inbox.
↗Buyer question pages
One focused page for each question buyers ask most, written to be the source an assistant picks.
↗Monday digest
A short email: mentions gained, mentions lost, and what was done about each.
↗Three
parts
Track
Know every answer that involves you.
- Daily checks on every major assistant
- Your own questions, plus ones we suggest from your category
- Competitors shown beside you, answer by answer
- An alert when an answer about you changes
Fix
Change the pages the answer is built from.
- Drafts written in your voice, from your own facts
- Fact tables, FAQs and structured data
- Publishes to WordPress, Webflow, Framer and Shopify
- Nothing goes live until you approve it
Prove
Tie each result to the edit behind it.
- Share of answers that name you, over time
- Which edit won which citation
- Visits arriving from AI assistants
- A report you can forward as a link
Set up in a week.
You keep your site, your CMS and your design. CitedOften works on what's already there.
Send your URL.
We reply with the questions buyers ask in your category and who the assistants name today. This part is free.
Connect your site.
A read-and-draft connection to your CMS. It can prepare changes but can't publish them.
Choose your questions.
Pick the ones that matter. We rank the gaps by how winnable they look.
Approve the first fixes.
Each draft arrives as a before-and-after view. Approve one at a time or in a batch.
Watch the answers.
We ask the assistants again after every change. Live-web assistants usually respond within one to two weeks.
What we can't do.
Nobody controls what an AI says, and anyone who promises a guaranteed mention is guessing. We improve what it has to work with: readable pages, clear facts, sources it trusts. More in the FAQ
Ranked is not the same as named.
| An SEO tool | CitedOften | |
|---|---|---|
| Measures | Your position on a results page | Whether an assistant names and quotes you |
| Tracks | Keywords | Whole questions, the way buyers type them |
| Gives you | A list of issues to fix yourself | The fix, drafted and waiting for approval |
| Writes for | Crawlers and click-through rate | An assistant that needs facts it can check |
| Reports | Rank movement | Citations gained, linked to each edit |
Why we're building this
For twenty years search worked one way. You fought for a place on a list, and the buyer chose from the list.
Assistants removed the list. They give one answer, and most companies have never read what that answer says about them. When it quotes an old price or recommends a competitor for something you do better, nobody tells you.
We think you should be able to look. So the first thing CitedOften does is free: we run your buyers' questions and send you what comes back.
The CitedOften team
Who uses it
For the “best tool for…” questions that decide a shortlist.
- Own your comparison and alternatives pages
- Keep prices and features quoted correctly
- See which competitor each assistant prefers, and the page it's reading
For products that should be recommended by name.
- Clean product facts and review markup
- Shopify connection in a few minutes
- Track “best … under $100” questions
A new service line you can run across every client.
- One workspace per client
- Reports under your own name
- Approve fixes for several sites at once
Fair things to ask.
Can you make an AI recommend us?
No, and be careful of anyone who says they can. Assistants decide for themselves. What we change is what they have to work with: whether your pages can be read, whether your facts are stated plainly, and whether sources they trust mention you.
How long before anything changes?
Assistants that search the live web, like Perplexity and ChatGPT with browsing on, often pick up a change within one to two weeks. Answers drawn from a model's training data move much more slowly. The dashboard keeps the two apart so you know which you're looking at.
Will it publish to our site without asking?
No. Every change waits for your approval and comes with a before-and-after view. If you later want low-risk changes like schema markup to go out on their own, you can switch that on per change type.
We already do SEO. Is this instead of that?
Alongside it. Clear, well-structured pages help both. CitedOften covers what SEO tools don't measure: what the assistants actually say, and which page they took it from.
Which platforms does it connect to?
WordPress, Webflow, Framer and Shopify directly. For anything else it can open pull requests on GitHub, or hand your team the drafts to paste in.
Do you use our content to train models?
No. Your pages and drafts are used to run your workspace and nothing else. The privacy policy has the detail.
See what AI says about you.
Type your website. We'll send back the questions your buyers ask, the names the assistants give, and the first three things we'd fix.