Citation Readiness Score
Five-dimensional 0-100 audit — SEO Foundation, GEO Readiness, Dual Fit, Entity Coherence, Bot-Crawl Health. Free for any URL.
v0.1 · Free Citation Readiness Score live now
Know the moment ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Gemini cites your site.
CitationDesk polls four LLMs weekly with archetype-specific queries, captures every citation with full provenance, and alerts you when drift hits — drops, decays, or competitor displacement. Built for publishers, content marketers, SEO teams, and AI-native product teams who can't afford to be invisible to AI search.
No credit card. Free tier forever. 3 sites × 5 queries × weekly polls.
Polled weekly
ChatGPT
GPT-4, GPT-5
Polled weekly
Claude
Opus, Sonnet
Polled weekly
Perplexity
Sonar, Pro
Polled weekly
Gemini
Advanced, 2.5
The problem
You can't optimize for AI citation if you don't know whether you're cited.
Google rankings are measurable in Search Console. LLM citations are not. ChatGPT answers a question about your niche — and you have no idea whether it linked to your guide or your competitor's. By the time you find out, you've already lost months of compounding AI-search traffic. CitationDesk closes that gap with weekly, programmatic polling — no manual prompt-testing required.
8–18%
Cited-source CTR
Semrush 2025 — AI search outperforms SERP #3
4×
LLM surfaces tracked
ChatGPT · Claude · Perplexity · Gemini
85
Seed queries
5 archetypes × 17 queries each
What you get
The whole AI-citation observability stack — without the SaaS bloat.
Weekly poll engine
Archetype-aware test queries hit four canonical LLM surfaces every Saturday 04:00 UTC (Free) or every 4h (Team). Full provenance per citation.
Drift detection
Slack, Discord, or email the moment your citation count drops 30% week-over-week — or a competitor displaces you on a tracked query.
Test query library
85 seed queries across 5 archetypes (reference, calculator, programmatic, SaaS, publisher). Add your own or import from CSV.
Competitor displacement view
See which sites the LLMs cite when they stop citing you. Four-week timeline. Per-query, per-model.
Public API + webhooks
Team tier and above. Wire citation events into your existing monitoring stack — Slack, Datadog, Linear, custom.
Pricing
Free for solo operators. €49 for serious teams. €149 for multi-brand control.
All paid plans include alerts, exports, and the full citation graph. No annual lock-in. Cancel from the Stripe portal in two clicks.
Free
See if LLMs already cite you.
€0forever
- 3 sites
- Weekly polls
- 5 queries per site
- Email digest
Most popular
Pro
The standard tier for content + SEO teams.
€49per month
- 25 sites
- Daily polls
- 50 queries per site
- Drift + competitor alerts
- CSV export
- Email + Slack alerts
Team
Multi-brand operators + AI-native product teams.
€149per month
- Unlimited sites
- 4-hour polls
- Unlimited queries
- API access
- Slack + Discord + Telegram webhooks
- Multi-user dashboards
Need more? Talk to us about Enterprise.
Case study
HoldLens went from 0 to 10% of traffic via ChatGPT inbound in 14 days.
When we instrumented HoldLens (a fleet site tracking superinvestor positions) with the same citation-tracking method CitationDesk productizes, we caught the ChatGPT inbound wave the moment it started — plus the Wikipedia + Hacker News citations that triggered it. The site grew 2.1× in two weeks with zero new content shipped.
Read the case study- Unique visitors / 30 days
- 194
- Traffic from chatgpt.com
- 10%
- Growth in 14 days
- 2.1×
- LLMs captured citing
- 4
FAQ
The five questions we get asked first.
Why does LLM citation matter if my pages already rank on Google?
Two reasons. First, AI-mediated search is growing fast (per Semrush 2025: 8-18% CTR on cited sources vs 2-5% on traditional SERP #3) and the same content can be invisible to ChatGPT while #1 on Google. Second, citation is a different optimization surface — extractability, entity coherence, and corroboration matter more than backlinks. CitationDesk surfaces that gap.
How does the poll engine reach Claude / ChatGPT / Gemini without an API?
Perplexity has a paid API (we use it primary). Anthropic Claude has an API. ChatGPT and Gemini we hit via authenticated browser automation for the surfaces that lack public APIs. We pass API costs through transparently — Free tier uses minimal calls; Pro and Team absorb costs.
How is this different from Otterly, Profound, Athena, or RankAware?
See our /vs/ pages. Short version: we lead with Citation Readiness Score (a shareable, free audit) and we polled four LLM surfaces from day one. Most competitors focus on one or two surfaces and charge $200-1,000/mo entry pricing. Our €49 Pro tier is built for the SMB + content-creator segment they leave behind.
Do you store the actual responses?
Yes — full provenance (model, query, response timestamp, paragraph quoted, source URL position). You see every citation as a row, exportable to CSV. Retention: 12 months on Free, 24 months on Pro, indefinite on Team. Deletable on request.
Is the Free tier really useful, or is it a teaser?
Genuinely useful for solo creators + early-stage sites: 3 sites × 5 queries × weekly polls = 60 LLM citation checks per month, surfaced in a dashboard, no credit card. The upgrade to Pro is for operators who want daily granularity, more queries, and alerts.
Start with the free Citation Readiness Score.
90 seconds. One URL. A 0-100 score across five dimensions plus the highest-leverage fix you can ship this week.