$99 AI search visibility baseline

In 48 hours, see why AI search recommends competitors instead of you.

CiteRank delivers a first-month baseline: which buyer questions make AI recommend competitors, which sources support those answers, and what you should fix first. Keep the subscription active for weekly rechecks after the first handoff.

First-month baseline
$99
48-72 hour handoff
Growth plan
$199 growth plan
deeper monthly support
Managed execution
$499-$999/mo
application-only execution
Enterprise GEO
$2,999+/mo
agency and multi-site programs

$99 starts the first-month baseline. Cancel after the first month or keep weekly rechecks active. $199 growth plan, $499-$999/mo, and $2,999+/mo options are upgrade paths after the baseline proves the gap.

CITERANK REPORT PREVIEW
AI search visibility workspace
New report ready
Target: yourdomain.com
Status: report started
Plan: $99 first baseline
Delivery: 48-72 hours
Checking buyer questions, cited sources, competitor gaps, and weekly actions...
Company
synced
CR
Your brand
category + competitors

Website facts, ICP, product use cases, pricing, and proof points become the scan context.

Product facts
Competitor map
Answer-source brief
Analytics
GEO
12%
Recommendation rate
tracked
18
Competitor wins
explainable
7
Source gaps
listed
10
Actions
prioritized
Agent feed
Buyer-question test

ChatGPT and Perplexity recommend Meshy before you.

Citation gap

Competitors appear on neutral directories you do not own yet.

Page fix

Your highest-intent page needs a direct answer and schema.

Diagnose the buying problem first

If you do not know what to ask about AI search, start with the state you are in.

The $99 baseline is not a generic GEO explanation. It starts by naming the problem state, then delivers buyer questions, AI-answer evidence, competitor sources, and next actions.

Problem state 1

AI answers recommend competitors, not you.

  • You already have product pages, but broad buyer questions skip your brand.
  • You do not know which prompts, sources, or competitors are causing the gap.
Which buyer questions make AI recommend competitors instead of us?
Problem state 2

AI cites your pages, but users do not convert.

  • You see AI referrals, citations, or bot activity, but signup or purchase stays weak.
  • Your cited pages may answer the query without moving users into the product.
Which cited pages already have AI demand, and where does conversion break?
Problem state 3

You do not know what to ask vendors or advisors.

  • The team keeps asking whether GEO works, but the question is too vague to buy against.
  • You need a concrete scope before paying for content, links, tools, or consulting.
What evidence should we collect before deciding what GEO work to buy?
Not sure how to ask for advice?

Copy this question first. It tests whether CiteRank has a product problem, a traffic problem, or an unvalidated paid-baseline loop.

Do not ask whether the site needs more promotion. Ask whether someone would pay for the specific deliverable, and what blocks the purchase if they would not.

Copy-ready script
I am testing a product called CiteRank. The first paid offer is a $99 AI Search Visibility Baseline, not a generic SEO dashboard.

Within 48-72 hours it would test 20-30 buyer-intent AI prompts, show whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, or Gemini recommend my brand or competitors, list the cited sources behind those answers, identify missing source and page gaps, and give me the first 5-10 fixes to try.

If you were the target customer, would you pay $99 for that first baseline? If not, is the blocker unclear value, weak proof, price, timing, or the wrong buyer?

Measure the gap

We test buyer questions and record whether your brand, your competitors, or nobody relevant appears.

Explain why competitors win

The report separates content gaps, citation gaps, entity clarity, and source coverage instead of dumping raw scans.

Tell you what to do next

The first report becomes a prioritized list of work: owned pages, comparison assets, source targets, evidence, and recheck timing.

AI search improvement loop

The first baseline turns AI-search confusion into a repeatable GEO improvement system.

Serious GEO products do not stop at a score. They organize brand facts, buyer questions, content, cited sources, evidence, and weekly checks into one simple loop. CiteRank starts with the first report, then turns the same data into weekly next steps.

1

Brand knowledge

Lock the product facts, ICP, use cases, pricing, proof, and competitors so AI-facing content stays consistent.

2

Buyer intent map

Group the questions real buyers ask AI by category, use case, comparison, and purchase objection.

3

Optimization units

Turn broad GEO into concrete workstreams: owned pages, comparison pages, citation sources, and content briefs.

4

Content and citation work

Create or improve the assets that AI systems can understand, cite, and use when forming recommendations.

5

Evidence record

Record each shipped URL, submission, source mention, follow-up date, and proof so the work can be audited.

6

Recheck and refine

Run the same question set again on a weekly cycle to see whether recommendation rate, rank, and citations moved.

Recommendation rate

How often AI answers include the brand for target buyer intents.

Average rank

Where the brand appears when AI returns a list of options.

AI evaluation

Whether the model describes the brand positively, neutrally, or with caveats.

Real citation signal

Which owned pages AI systems already cite, and which cited pages fail to convert.

Audit fit preview

Paste your website and check whether AI answers already skip you.

This lightweight preview starts from your URL. The optional category or buyer question only helps us write a better first question; the paid baseline is the product: full buyer-question set, competitor evidence, source gaps, and a next-step list.

Your preview result appears here

We use your URL as the anchor. The $99 baseline expands the preview into 20 buyer questions, 4 platforms, 3 competitors, evidence, and a prioritized next-step list.

Which AI answers mention you?
Which competitors appear instead?
What gaps are probably blocking you?
What would the paid baseline unlock?
Real AI citation evidence

The audit separates buyer-question visibility tests from real citation data.

A brand can have zero mentions in a controlled buyer-question set and still have real AI systems citing specific pages. CiteRank treats those as two different evidence lanes, then uses both to decide what to fix first.

Controlled buyer-question test

Does AI recommend you?

We test fixed buyer questions across major AI platforms and compare your brand against competitors.

Real citation telemetry

Does AI cite your pages?

When available, we use Clarity or analytics evidence to see which real queries and pages are already being cited.

Conversion bridge

Do citations create users?

The audit flags cited pages with weak CTAs, unclear product paths, or missing paid-user attribution.

What we ask customers to provide when available

This can come from Microsoft Clarity AI Visibility, analytics exports, screenshots, or other citation evidence. It is optional for the first report, but it makes the next-step list sharper.

Top cited pages and their citation counts
Grounding queries that triggered those citations
Share of authority or comparable source-share metric
AI referral traffic and conversion gap
Bot activity status when CDN evidence is available
AI answer-source readiness

We check whether your pages are built for AI answers, not just Google rankings.

GEO is not “publish many posts and hope.” The audit identifies the pages AI systems should be able to quote, the missing answer-source pages, and the citation sources competitors already have.

Direct-answer coverage

Do priority pages answer the buyer question in the first screen with a clean, quotable paragraph?

Input and output clarity

Can an AI system quickly extract what the product accepts, what it produces, and which use cases it fits?

Structured facts

Do pages use FAQ, HowTo, SoftwareApplication, Article, comparison tables, and consistent product facts where useful?

Comparison language

Do pages explain when to choose the brand versus common competitors without making unsupported claims?

Internal answer graph

Are category, format, use-case, competitor, pricing, docs, and service pages linked in a way AI crawlers can follow?

External source gaps

Which third-party pages, directories, lists, reviews, or communities mention competitors but not the customer?

How month one works

The output is a living next-step list, not another page of charts to interpret.

Cheap monitoring can tell you that a competitor appeared. CiteRank explains the likely reason, shows the evidence, and keeps telling your team what to fix first.

1
Order

Start with one website

The $99 first month captures the domain, category, competitors, and buyer questions needed for the baseline.

2
48-72 hours

Turn the gap into evidence

We test 20-30 buyer questions across AI platforms and show who appears, who is cited, and why it likely happened.

3
Action queue

Prioritize what to fix first

You get 5-10 owned-page, citation-source, comparison, and recheck actions ranked by impact.

4
Recheck

Check whether the gap changed

The baseline defines the fixed question set, then optional rechecks measure whether execution changed the answers.

What is included

First baseline delivered in 48-72 hours
20-30 buyer questions written for your category
4 AI platforms: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini
3 direct competitors compared side by side
Raw answer evidence and screenshot-ready findings
Real AI citation evidence from Clarity, analytics exports, or customer evidence when available
Competitor win analysis: why they appear and you do not
AI answer-source readiness review for your priority pages
Monitoring freshness: latest scan time, platform coverage, and visible provider errors
Content gaps, citation gaps, and source opportunities
5-10 prioritized next steps with owners and evidence to collect
Weekly recheck plan so progress can be checked after execution

Report structure

The audit reads like a report, not a raw export. Each section connects a buyer question, an AI answer, a competitor/source pattern, and the action we recommend.

01
Executive summary
02
Prompt set and method
03
Visibility scorecard
04
Raw answer evidence
05
Real AI citation evidence
06
Competitor win analysis
07
AI answer-source readiness
08
Monitoring freshness
09
Content and citation gaps
010
Prioritized next steps
011
Execution evidence checklist
012
Recheck recommendation
URL-first workflow

Paste a website first. The category and competitors refine the scan.

The website is the anchor. We use the domain to understand the brand, inspect answer-source readiness, and connect buyer-question evidence to actual pages. Category and competitor inputs help us avoid generic keyword lists.

01

Website URL

We start from your domain, then infer the brand and crawlable answer-source pages.

02

Buyer questions

We turn the category and any supplied buyer question into a fixed question set.

03

AI answers

We test ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini and capture raw answer evidence.

04

Competitor map

We extract competitors, placements, cited URLs, and likely reasons they appear.

05

Next steps

We rank owned-page, source-gap, citation, and recheck actions for the next 30 days.

Why this is more than basic monitoring

You get interpretation and actions, not just scan data.

Your team needs to know why AI answers favor competitors, which pages or sources are missing, and which actions should move this week.

Basic monitoring
Shows whether a brand appeared in a scan.
CiteRank baseline
Explains why competitors appeared and what your team should do next.
Basic monitoring
Usually stops at charts and alerts.
CiteRank recheck loop
Keeps the evidence pack, cited-source list, checks, and next steps current after the first baseline.

What you get in 72 hours

This is intentionally narrow. The deliverable is a decision document your team can read, forward, and act on immediately.

Prompt map

The exact buyer questions tested, grouped by use case and purchase intent.

Visibility matrix

Brand vs. competitors across each platform, with the winners made obvious.

Evidence pack

Screenshots or raw answer excerpts tied to the buyer questions and test date.

30-day plan

5-10 content, citation, and weekly recheck actions ranked by effort and impact.

48-72 hour delivery package

After payment, you receive a baseline pack your team can forward, rerun, and execute.

This is not a standalone dashboard screenshot. The first handoff connects buyer questions, AI answers, competitors, cited sources, and priority actions in one readable report.

Buyer-question pack

20-30 prompts grouped by category, use case, comparison, and purchase objection.

You can rerun the same questions later.
Competitor answer map

Which brands appear in AI answers, where they rank, and which sources support them.

Includes visible competitor wins.
Cited-source list

Owned pages, directories, reviews, docs, and third-party pages AI systems can use.

Separates page gaps from source gaps.
30-day fix queue

5-10 fixes ranked by impact, effort, owner, and evidence needed for recheck.

Built to start execution immediately.
Baseline and upgrade levels

Start with a $99 baseline, then add managed execution when you need hands-on help.

The $99 first month delivers the initial AI visibility baseline. The $199 growth plan adds deeper evidence and weekly action review. Managed and enterprise plans are for customers who want us to help with content, source, and recheck delivery.

Self-serve$99 first month

AI Search Visibility Baseline

The first month delivers a baseline in 48-72 hours. Keep it active only if you want weekly rechecks and cited-source updates.

Order $99 baseline
Self-serve monthly$199/month

AI Search Growth Plan

The stronger monthly plan for teams that want deeper evidence, source strategy, weekly action review, and faster support.

Ask about $199 growth plan
Application only$499-$999/mo

Managed GEO Execution

For customers who want us to prepare page briefs, source targets, outreach drafts, evidence records, and weekly reports.

Apply for managed GEO
Enterprise / Agency$2,999+/mo

Multi-site GEO Program

For agencies, white-label teams, and companies that need multiple websites, buyer-question libraries, and executive reporting.

Discuss enterprise GEO
Order flow

Order the $99 baseline, then get the action report in 48-72 hours.

Checkout starts a first-month baseline with an optional recurring recheck loop. Month one delivers the visibility report, evidence, and next steps; future weeks keep rechecks and the cited-source list moving.

01
Submit scope

Brand, website, category, competitors, and any buyer questions you already care about.

02
Pay securely

Stripe starts the selected package and records the order context.

03
Run evidence

We test buyer questions, inspect competitor patterns, and separate source gaps from page gaps.

04
Receive next steps

You receive the baseline report and prioritized GEO actions by email within 48-72 hours.

After month one

After month one, the subscription can continue as the AI Search Visibility recheck loop: weekly rechecks, cited-source updates, and action progress reporting.

Secure checkout

Order the $99 AI visibility baseline

Fill this in once. Stripe handles payment, and we use these details to prepare the first AI search visibility baseline, competitor review, and next-step queue within 48-72 hours.

Send $99 baseline request by email

Use this if you need invoice review, team procurement, or checkout does not open. Do not include card details by email.

Not ready to pay yet?

Send one real AI search question first, then decide whether the $99 baseline is worth it.

Many teams do not need a vague GEO pitch. They need one buyer question checked. Send your website, the question, and the competitors you keep seeing, and we can judge whether the CiteRank baseline fits.

One question

No full brief required.

One website

Scope from a real domain.

One decision

Buy, wait, or fix first.

Not sure what to ask? Generate buyer questions first
Send your buyer question

This does not deliver a free report. It helps us decide whether your question is a good fit for the $99 baseline.

Choose the baseline or upgrade level that matches your workload

Start with visibility and evidence. Add managed execution when you want us to carry the work.

Most teams can start with the $99 baseline or $199 growth plan to see where AI search skips them and what to fix next. Managed plans are for teams that want CiteRank to help prepare briefs, source targets, outreach drafts, and weekly evidence updates.

$99 baseline$199 growth plan$499-$999/mo managed execution$2,999+/mo enterprise program
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