Monitoring tells you you're invisible.
Citescout tells you why, and how to fix it.
Citescout runs real buyer prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, many times each, then diagnoses every miss as Retrieval, Relevance, or Authority failure. Evidence included. Fixes ranked.
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Exhibit A
Your visibility score, with a reliability label, not a guess.
Case file · Northbeam
Overview
47
/100
Visibility
Authority gap
▼ 6pts wkMention rate
23%
▲ 2.1% wk
Share of voice
11%
▼ 0.8% wk
Prompts won
14/60
vs 41 last
Engine breakdown
vs. category avg
Why you were ignored
46
misses
The setup
Everyone can see the score. Almost no one can explain the miss.
EXHIBIT 01
Buying research is moving from search bars to AI assistants. If you're not in the answer, you're not in the consideration set.
EXHIBIT 02
Monitoring tools count mentions. They don't tell you if you're blocked from crawlers, irrelevant to the query, or out-trusted on G2 and Reddit.
EXHIBIT 03
Fixing the wrong thing is expensive. Citescout classifies every miss before it prescribes a fix.
The Evidence
We don't just count mentions.
We dust for fingerprints.
Citescout runs your prompts through all five major AI engines, then diagnoses exactly why you were ignored, with the evidence to back it up.
5-engine surveillance
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Tracked on schedule. Compared to your competitors.
Statistical visibility scoring
Each prompt is sampled many times per engine. Scores ship with reliability labels: Reliable, Still forming, or Needs more data.
R/R/A failure diagnosis
Every miss is classified as Retrieval, Relevance, or Authority. Verdicts are grounded in real evidence: robots.txt, cited URLs, competitor mentions. Ranked fixes included.
Citation source intelligence
See exactly which sites AI trusts in your category. G2, Reddit, Wikipedia, competitor blogs. We show you the source map.
Ghost citation detection
Dead URLs AI cites about you. Mismatched G2 listings. Hallucinated pages. We find them and tell you what to fix.
Competitor watchlist
Track up to 5 competitors. See every prompt they win that you lose, and what content AI used to crown them.
The Method
How the investigation works
Four steps. About two minutes of your time to start. The rest happens while you sleep.
- STEP 0101
Brief us on the case
Add your brand, your industry, and a few buyer questions. We auto-generate the rest.
- STEP 0202
We canvas every engine
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews. Same prompts. Real responses. Logged.
- STEP 0303
Collect the evidence
Crawlability from robots.txt. URLs the engine cited. Whether your domain appeared. Who got mentioned instead.
- STEP 0404
Hand you the playbook
Every miss gets an R/R/A verdict, the evidence behind it, and a ranked fix list with expected impact.
Exhibit B
When AI ignores you, we show the evidence, not a hunch.
Every miss gets a verdict, the signal that drove it, and a specific fix. Won prompts show which sources carried you.
Per-prompt diagnosis
"What's the best attribution platform for DTC brands under $5m?"
FIX · Get on G2 (attribution) + Reddit r/ecommerce · impact +9 pts
"Northbeam vs Triple Whale: which is better for Shopify?"
FIX · Submit /vs/triple-whale to IndexNow · ETA: 48h · +4 pts
"Tools that measure podcast attribution for B2C"
FIX · Publish 'Podcast attribution for DTC' brief · +6 pts
"Best Triple Whale alternatives 2026"
Free tools
Start with the cheapest fixes first.
Two free tools. No signup. Built to catch problems that make everything else pointless.
AI Crawler Checker
If GPTBot, ClaudeBot, or PerplexityBot are blocked in your robots.txt, you're invisible by your own hand. Check in 30 seconds.
Try it freeQuery Fan-Out Simulator
See what buyer queries AI engines actually expand your category into, so you write content that matches intent, not generic feature pages.
Try it freeField Notes
Frequently asked questions
Questions we get from new investigators.
When does Citescout launch?
Q3 2026. Founding members get access in batches. You'll get an email with your invitation link when your batch opens.
Do I pay anything to join the waitlist?
No. The waitlist is free. No card required.
How is this different from monitoring tools like AthenaHQ or Profound?
Those tools answer 'where are we?' Citescout answers 'why, and what do we do?' We classify every miss into Retrieval, Relevance, or Authority, ground it in evidence, and recommend specific fixes.
How is this different from SEO tools?
SEO tools measure your rank on Google. We measure whether AI engines mention you when someone asks a buying question, then diagnose why they don't. Different sport, different scoreboard.
Why do you sample prompts many times instead of asking once?
AI responses are non-deterministic. The same question asked 100 times gives different brand lists most of the time. We run multiple samples per prompt and put confidence bounds on the result. A single ask tells you nothing.
Which AI engines do you support?
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. All five at launch.
Do I need to know technical SEO to use this?
If you can paste a URL and follow a checklist, you can use Citescout. The fixes we recommend are written for marketers, not engineers.
What free tools can I use right now?
AI Crawler Checker tells you if GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot can crawl your site. Query Fan-Out Simulator shows what buyer queries AI engines expand your category into. Both free at citescout.io/tools.
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