CiteGraph
Overview
CiteGraph shows whether ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity name your product when buyers ask, and what to change so they do. Give it a domain and it reads the site, writes the questions your buyers actually type into an AI assistant, puts each one to the four engines several times through their
From the official site
ChatGPT names your competitor, not you. CiteGraph shows the answers you're missing from, why they won, and the sentence that takes their place.
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Key points from the official site
- ✓ MCP server, API keys, Claude.ai connector
- CSV export
- ✓ CSV export
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Official FAQ
- What is answer engine optimization (AEO)?
- Answer engine optimization is the practice of getting your product named, and your pages cited, inside the answers AI assistants give — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and the rest — rather than inside a list of blue links. It differs from SEO in what it optimizes for: an answer engine reads a handful of pages and writes one recommendation, so the goal is to be the source that recommendation is built
- Can I see when ChatGPT cites my website?
- Yes, in two separate ways, and they answer different questions. Your own server can report every request an assistant makes to your pages, so you see ChatGPT opening a page to build an answer, verified against the IP ranges OpenAI publishes. That tells you what was read. Separately, asking the engines your buyers' questions on a schedule and recording the sources in each answer tells you what was
- How does ChatGPT decide which websites to mention in its answers?
- It retrieves a handful of pages at answer time and writes a recommendation from what they say. So the pages that get mentioned are the ones that state a usable claim plainly: a price, a limit, who it is for. Most of the pages an assistant cites when recommending a product are not the brand's own, which is why listicles, forums and review sites often carry more weight than a homepage. Getting menti
- How do I get ChatGPT to recommend my product?
- Find the buyer questions where an assistant already answers without you, read the pages it cited to build that answer, and get the missing claim about your product onto one of those pages — or onto a page of your own that answers the question better. CiteGraph measures which questions you lose, shows the verbatim answer and the cited sources, and writes the specific sentence that would have qualif
- Does llms.txt help you get cited by AI?
- No. We tested it and found no measurable effect on citation rates. Assistants cite pages they retrieve and read at answer time; a manifest file at your root is not part of that path. Several tools sell llms.txt generators anyway. We say this publicly because it costs us nothing to be honest about it.
- Is being mentioned by AI the same as being cited?
- No, and the difference matters. A mention means the assistant named your product in its prose. A citation means your own page was used as a source. In our measurements, 44% of the pages cited when recommending a product belong to somebody else — so a product can be recommended constantly while its own words never reach the buyer. Mention rate is the vanity metric; the cited-source map is the actio
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