Millions of buying decisions now start with a question to an AI — and the AI answers with two or three names, not ten blue links. We get your brand into that answer, then track it all the way to revenue. Not impressions. Not rankings. Sales you can count.
Free report across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity & Gemini. No sales call required to get it.
Every engine your customers ask. One strategy.
Our methodology is grounded in published Generative Engine Optimization research and each engine's own crawler & sourcing documentation — not folklore. Engine names are trademarks of their owners; CiteLinked is an independent studio, not affiliated with or endorsed by any AI platform.
Nobody "browses" ChatGPT. They ask, they get told, they buy. The visitor who arrives from an AI answer has already been vouched for — which is why this traffic behaves like a warm referral, not a cold click.
Projected decline in traditional search engine volume as users shift to AI assistants.
Gartner projectionAI-referred visitors convert at multiples of classic search traffic — the AI pre-sells before the click.
Industry conversion benchmarksA typical AI answer recommends only two or three names. There is no page two. You're cited, or you're invisible.
Answer-engine behaviorNo mystique. Three phases, each with a deliverable you can hold us to.
We put 500+ real buyer questions to ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini and log every answer: who gets named, in what order, citing which sources. You see exactly where you stand — and exactly which pages earned your competitors their spot.
Deliverable: your visibility map and gap list.
We build what the engines actually source: answer-shaped pages for the questions that matter, structured data machines can parse, and a consistent footprint across the third-party sites AI trusts more than your homepage.
Deliverable: published assets, listed in your dashboard as they ship.
Citations are the input. The dashboard tracks the whole chain: how often AI names you → humans arriving from AI engines → leads and sales those visits produce. If a number stalls, you'll see it the same week we do.
Deliverable: a weekly scoreboard: citations, referrals, revenue.
Four in-house systems track how answer engines see your brand — what people ask, what the AI replies, which sources it trusts, and what its crawlers do on your site.
Keyword research is dead; prompt research isn't. We map the real questions your buyers ask AI — and build your visibility around actual demand.
We query the major AI engines on a schedule and score how often — and how favorably — you're recommended, by buyer persona.
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Googlebot read your site differently than humans do. We watch them at the server level — activity invisible to normal analytics.
AI bot visits / mo
AI citations tracked
Human referrals from AI
Pages AI-indexed
When an AI recommends you, we trace which exact pages and phrases earned the citation — so we do more of what works instead of guessing.
Free GEO report: your visibility across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini, who the AI recommends instead of you, and the three fixes that matter most.
Three scenarios, three sectors — the shape of the work and the numbers we manage toward.
"We stopped renting attention from the ad platforms. Now the AI brings buyers who already trust us."Founder, supplement brand Run this play for my brand →
"Claude names us first for employment law in our city. That's the referral partner we never had to pay."Managing partner Claim my practice area →
"Travelers ask AI where to stay. Being the answer changed our direct-booking mix entirely."Marketing director Map my category →
Scenarios shown are illustrative of typical engagement structure and targets, not client claims. Your free GEO report shows your actual starting numbers.
They're not rivals — but they behave very differently as investments.
| Paid ads | Classic SEO | GEO | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you win | An impression | A ranking humans still have to scan | The answer itself — a named recommendation |
| Trust at the click | Low — everyone knows it's an ad | Medium — position implies relevance | High — the AI vouched for you first |
| Cost curve | Rises every year, resets to zero when you pause | Compounds slowly | Compounds — every citation trains the next answer |
| When you stop paying | Traffic stops that day | Rankings decay over months | Citations persist — you own the assets that earned them |
| Competition today | Everyone's in the auction | Two decades of incumbents | Early — most categories still unclaimed |
Already running ads? GEO makes them cheaper: buyers increasingly ask AI "is this brand legit?" before checkout. When the AI backs you, the ad you already paid for closes.
"Book a call to find out what it costs" is its own red flag. Here are our numbers, publicly, with guarantees attached — because AI citations are countable, and we're comfortable being counted.
Every day, AI assistants answer questions about your category — and right now those answers are being written without you in the room. A better product doesn't fix that. Better evidence does: the pages, proof and third-party footprint that answer engines treat as truth. That's the work. It's unglamorous, it's measurable, and almost nobody in your market is doing it yet.
— The CiteLinked team
Tell us your domain and sector. Within 48 hours you'll have your AI visibility score, the brands being recommended instead of you, and a prioritized fix list — free, no call required.