Captured answer-engine observations
See brand mentions and owned-URL citations only for configured ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity runs that completed.
AI Citation Tracker
Check brand mentions and owned-URL citations across configured ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity runs.
AI Citation Tracker runs the questions you define against configured answer engines and records brand mentions separately from citations to an owned URL. Unrun engines remain unavailable.
Why it is useful
A clear decision, with the supporting evidence close by
More people ask AI assistants for recommendations instead of scrolling search results, and most brands have no idea whether those answers ever mention them, let alone cite their pages as the source. Ranking in classic search no longer guarantees you appear where the buying question is actually asked, and nothing in Search Console reports it.
Mention and citation separated
A tracked question distinguishes a brand mention from a captured citation to an owned URL; unrun engines remain unavailable.
Real engine responses
We record what the engines actually answered - a visibility signal, never a fabricated citation.
Data and evidence
See the evidence behind each result
This tracker runs the prompts you define against real assistants and logs the exact provider and model for every check. It distinguishes two outcomes that are usually collapsed: your brand being surfaced in an answer, and one of your own URLs being cited as the source. Both are recorded, separately, with the answer they came from.
Primary input
Questions and AI provider checks
Product layer
Mention-versus-citation model
Primary output
Answer-source gap queue
How to read this result
Results apply only to the checked provider, model, question, and timestamp; they are not presented as universal AI visibility.
Core capabilities
What you can do with AI Citation Tracker
You track buyer-intent prompts of your own choosing, read brand-surfaced and owned-URL-cited as two different numbers, follow a strict citation score with its 30-day trend, and work an answer-source gap queue that shows which prompts return an answer citing someone else.
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Question-level visibility tracking
Add the questions your customers ask an AI assistant, and the tool queries a live model for each one and checks whether your brand or domain appears in the answer. It records the exact provider and model behind every check, so a result is always traceable evidence rather than a claim. A daily score and a 30-day trend show whether your visibility is rising or slipping.
- Track your own buyer-intent questions
- A live model is queried per question
- Exact provider and model recorded
- Daily score and 30-day trend
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Mention versus citation truth model
The tool separates a brand mention from a real citation: surfacing means the model named you, while a citation means it produced a working URL on your own domain. The headline score counts only strict citations, so a passing mention can never inflate your numbers. Every result keeps the exact answer excerpt as evidence.
- Surfaced and cited kept separate
- Score credits owned-URL citations only
- Answer excerpt saved as evidence
- No fabricated citations, ever
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Answer-source gap queue
When the model mentions you but links to no page of yours, the tool flags it as an answer-source gap - the questions where you surfaced but earned no citation to a page you own. It keeps the exact answer excerpt as evidence so you can see what was said and which questions to make citable.
- Gaps where you surfaced but were not cited
- Answer excerpt kept as evidence
- Per-question cited / not-cited status
- Ranked so you work the biggest gaps first
How the work moves
From available evidence to a reviewable next action
Add the prompts your buyers actually ask, run the check, read the split between mention and citation, then close the gaps on the pages that should have been the source. Each run is a dated observation, so a trend is built from checks that happened rather than from a model of what probably happened.
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Add your questions
Enter the questions customers actually ask an assistant about your space.
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Run the check
The tool queries the configured model for each question and analyzes every answer.
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Read the split
See which questions surfaced your brand, which produced an owned-URL citation, and which did not cite an owned URL.
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Close the gaps
Make the surfaced-but-not-cited questions citable by strengthening the matching pages on your site.
Built around real work
Useful for teams who need to move from evidence to delivery
Brand marketer
Monitors whether AI assistants recommend the brand for the questions that drive purchases.
AEO specialist
Turns surfaced-but-not-cited gaps into a concrete list of pages to make citable.
Competitive analyst
Reads which competitors an AI answer named alongside or instead of your brand, from the saved answer excerpts.
Connected outcomes
Continue from this product into a complete customer workflow
Measure & Prove
Where Does My Brand Appear in Google and AI Answers?
Measure Google search visibility and AI-answer citations separately so every result keeps its source, query and observation time.
Open workflowCreate & Grow
Why Doesn't My Brand Appear in ChatGPT and Gemini Answers?
Track real question-level mentions and owned-URL citations, then improve the source pages missing from those answers.
Open workflowResources
Read more about AI Citation Tracker
Written by the team that built it, and free to read without an account.
Guides
Step-by-step walkthroughs, five minutes each.
Definitions
What the terms on this page actually mean.
Try it free
Run the idea on a real URL, no account needed.
In the app
How this works once you are inside a workspace.
Connected products
Keep the work moving without losing the source
Frequently asked questions
AI Citation Tracker FAQ
Clear answers about data, availability and how the product fits into the wider workflow.
Which AI engine does it check?
It queries the AI model configured for your workspace and labels every result with that exact provider and model. When no model is connected, it says so and does nothing rather than inventing a result.
What is the difference between surfaced and cited?
Surfaced means the answer mentioned your brand or domain; cited means it included a working link to a page you own. Only citations count toward the headline score.
Does it track competitors too?
This tool focuses on your own surfaced-versus-cited status and keeps the full answer excerpt, so you can read any competitor the answer named. Competitive Analysis covers current search-result competition. Rival AI citation share is not shown without comparable rival citation evidence.
How does it help me improve?
For every question where you were mentioned but not cited, you see the exact question and answer excerpt, so you know which of your pages to make more citable for answer engines.
Measure & Report
Put AI Citation Tracker to work on your own evidence.
Start with a real project, keep unavailable data visible and follow the connected workflow when the result is ready for action.