CitationDesk

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v0.12026-05-19

Launch — front-end + free Citation Readiness Score live

  • CitationDesk is publicly accessible at citationdesk.com.
  • Free Citation Readiness Score audit (5-dimension, client-side): SEO Foundation, GEO Readiness, Dual Fit, Entity Coherence, Bot-Crawl Health.
  • 9 knowledge-base guides shipped covering the Aleyda 10-characteristic checklist, the scoring rubric, the four-LLM polling architecture, llms.txt setup, AI bot allowlist, Citation Oracle archetypes, the Dual Fit pattern, Entity Coherence + Schema chain, and Answer Engine Optimization.
  • 2 case studies live: HoldLens (0 → 10% ChatGPT inbound in 14 days), SourceScore (480:1 bot-to-human ratio framing).
  • 4 competitive comparisons live: vs Otterly, vs Profound, vs Athena Intelligence, vs RankAware.
  • Pricing transparent: Free (3 sites × 5 queries × weekly), Pro €49/mo (25 sites × daily × 50 queries × alerts), Team €149/mo (unlimited + 4h × API), Enterprise custom.
  • Schema.org saturation: Organization + Person + WebSite + SoftwareApplication + WebPage + Article + FAQPage globally.
  • AI-bot allowlist in /robots.txt (9 crawlers: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Googlebot-Extended, Applebot-Extended, CCBot, Amazonbot, Bytespider, Meta-ExternalAgent).
  • /llms.txt at site root with site summary + priority URLs + license.
  • Cloudflare DNS-proxied + AI Crawl Control set to allow.
  • Plausible analytics wired (privacy-first, no cookies).
v0.1.12026-05-19

Same-day polish — guides 5→9, changelog, RSS, per-page OG, IndexNow

  • Knowledge base expanded from 5 to 9 pillar pages (added Citation Oracle archetypes, Dual Fit pattern, Entity Coherence schema chain, Answer Engine Optimization).
  • This /changelog page — visible freshness signal + transparency.
  • /feed.xml RSS feed for Feedly / Inoreader discovery.
  • Per-page OG images generated programmatically for each route.
  • IndexNow ping submitted for all 28 URLs to api.indexnow.org → Bing + Yandex + Seznam + Naver index acceleration.
  • sitemap.xml + llms.txt updated to reflect new routes.

Coming next

Gated until the operator credential drop finishes. The build spec for v0.2 + v0.3 is already locked.

v0.2 — Phase 1B (gated on operator credential drop)

  • Clerk authentication (magic link + Google OAuth).
  • Supabase / Neon Postgres with 6-table multi-tenant schema (users, sites, test_queries, citation_checks, alerts, api_keys).
  • Stripe Checkout live integration + webhook subscription sync.
  • Polling engine: Perplexity API primary + Anthropic API for Claude + ChatGPT browser automation + Gemini Vertex AI.
  • Dashboard MVP routes: /dashboard, /sites/[id], /sites/[id]/queries, /sites/[id]/alerts, /billing.
  • Server-side Citation Readiness Score with crawler + PageSpeed Insights + multi-page sampling.
  • Slack + Discord + Telegram webhook integrations.
  • Public API v1 for Team tier (rate-limited).

v0.3 — Phase 1C (post-PMF)

  • CSV export of citation events with full provenance.
  • Per-archetype seed-query library (85 queries × 5 archetypes).
  • Competitor displacement view — 4-week timeline of which other sites get cited when you don't.
  • Citation Readiness Score auto-refresh weekly (Pro) / daily (Team).
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