CitationDesk

For publishers

AI-citation tracking for publishers — know which stories ChatGPT cites.

Editorial teams shipped great content for years and measured impact via Search Console. Now ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini are quoting your articles to millions of users who never visit Google. CitationDesk shows which articles are quoted, which competitors got cited instead, and how to close the gap.

What we hear from publishers

Three patterns showing up across your peers.

Your evergreen archives are uncited and you don't know it

A 2023 explainer that still ranks #2 on Google might be invisible to Perplexity because the first paragraph is editorial throat-clearing rather than a quote-ready fact. Search Console can't surface that gap.

Competitors are getting cited for your beat

When ChatGPT explains a topic you've covered for years, it cites a Substack-class operator who shipped a single tightly-formatted post. The Substack writer didn't out-research you — they out-formatted you.

Editorial leadership wants the AI-citation number

Your CEO read three op-eds about AI search and now wants "the citation share-of-voice on our top 50 queries". Nobody on the SEO team has a dashboard for this.

How CitationDesk fits

Built for the way publishers work.

Per-article citation tracking

Add each evergreen article as a separate site (or use one site + 50+ queries). See per-article citation rate across all four LLMs. Identify the 10 articles getting cited most and the 50 that should be but aren't.

Editorial-format gap surfacing

The Citation Readiness Score audit catches the structural format issues that prevent citation — long lead paragraphs, missing DefinedTerm schema, no quote-ready answer in first 100 words. Each article gets a 0-100 score + specific fix.

Drop-detection alerts

When ChatGPT stops citing your article and starts citing a competitor, Slack alert lands the same week. You catch share-of-voice drift before quarterly reports.

Worked example

HoldLens.

HoldLens — a niche reference publisher — went from 0 to 10% ChatGPT inbound in 14 days by closing five structural format gaps the audit surfaced.

Read the case study →

We were chasing Google rankings when AI Overviews ate our SERP-3 traffic. CitationDesk showed us 70% of that traffic was already going to LLM-cited competitors. Three structural fixes per article and we recovered most of it.

— the kind of feedback we built CitationDesk to enable.

Get your free Citation Readiness Score.

Paste any URL. 90 seconds. 0-100 score across five dimensions plus the highest-leverage fix you can ship this week.