# TrueCite

> TrueCite is an Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and Generative Engine
> Optimization (GEO) SaaS platform. It tracks how often a business brand
> is mentioned by AI engines, computes a MentionShare score, and provides
> actionable content fixes to improve AI visibility.

## About TrueCite

TrueCite helps businesses track, measure, and improve their visibility
across AI answer engines including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude,
Grok, DeepSeek, Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, and Google AI Overviews.

Unlike traditional SEO tools that focus on search rankings, TrueCite
focuses on Answer Engine Optimization — ensuring your brand gets cited
and recommended when AI systems answer questions in your industry.

TrueCite is built for B2B SaaS companies, agencies, and enterprise brands
who want to be the answer AI gives when someone asks about their category.

## What is AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)

Answer Engine Optimization is the practice of optimizing your brand and
content so that AI systems like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini mention
and recommend your business when users ask relevant questions.

Traditional SEO gets you ranked in Google. AEO gets you cited in AI answers.
TrueCite is the only platform that both tracks your AI mentions AND generates
the content fixes needed to improve them.

## What is GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the broader practice of optimizing
your digital presence for AI-generated responses. This includes structured
data, FAQ content, entity recognition, and citation building — all of which
TrueCite audits and helps you fix.

## Core Features

TrueCite provides a comprehensive suite of AEO and GEO tools:

- AI Scan Engine: Run scans across 9 AI engines simultaneously to measure
  your MentionShare score and brand visibility
- MentionShare Score: A 0–100 score measuring how often your brand appears
  in AI responses across engines and prompts
- Fix Generator: AI-generated FAQ blocks, answer paragraphs, and JSON-LD
  schema markup to improve your AI citations
- Competitor Tracking: Track which competitors AI engines recommend instead
  of or alongside your brand
- Citation Graph: Discover which sources AI engines cite when answering
  questions in your category
- Page-Level AI SEO Audit: Crawl up to 50 pages of your site and score
  each for technical SEO, content quality, and AI citation readiness
- Daily Summary Narrative: AI-written daily brief summarizing your visibility
  trends, top performing engines, and key changes
- Prompt Performance: Track mention rate, average score, and engine breakdown
  per prompt over time
- Prompt Intent Tagging: Classify prompts as commercial, informational,
  navigational, or transactional
- Per-Prompt Country Targeting: Scan from 30 countries to measure regional
  AI visibility
- Google Search Console Integration: Import search queries as AEO prompts
  and measure their AI visibility
- GA4 AI Traffic Analytics: Track real website visitors arriving from AI
  platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude
- LLMs.txt Scanner: Check if your domain has a properly structured llms.txt
  and llms-full.txt file
- Schema Audit: Scan your site for Schema.org structured data and identify
  missing or broken markup
- Entity Health Monitor: Verify your brand entity is correctly recognized
  across AI knowledge bases
- Gap Analysis: Compare your AI visibility against competitors and identify
  content gaps
- Crawler Check: Verify AI bots like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot
  are allowed to crawl your site
- Scheduled Scans: Automate recurring AEO scans daily, weekly, or monthly
- Slack Alerts: Get notified in Slack when your MentionShare drops or a
  new competitor is detected
- Multi-Project Support: Manage multiple brands or client projects from
  one account
- Team Workspaces: Invite team members with role-based access
- PDF Reports: Generate and download branded AEO reports
- Authority Capture: Extract and summarize content from any URL to build
  your brand authority profile

## Pricing

TrueCite offers four paid plans and a free trial:

### Free Trial
- 14-day trial, no credit card required
- 1 scan per day (24-hour cooldown)
- 3 prompts per scan
- 2 AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity)
- 2 competitors
- 1 business

### Lite Plan — $29/month ($23/month billed annually)
- 30 scans per month
- 5 prompts per scan
- 2 AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity)
- 3 competitors
- 1 business
- 1 team seat

### Starter Plan — $89/month ($71/month billed annually)
- 7-day free Stripe trial
- 150 scans per month
- 25 prompts per scan
- 3 AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini)
- 20 competitors
- 3 businesses
- 2 team seats
- Fix Generator, Auto Scan, Slack Alerts, Schema Audit, Gap Analysis
- GA4 Traffic Analytics, Page Audit, Daily Summary Narrative
- Prompt Performance, Prompt Intent Tagging, Country Targeting

### Pro Plan — $199/month ($159/month billed annually)
- 7-day free Stripe trial
- 600 scans per month
- 100 prompts per scan
- 6 AI engines (+ Claude, Grok, DeepSeek)
- 200 competitors
- 10 businesses
- 5 team seats
- All Starter features plus Authority Capture and Whitelabel PDF reports

### Enterprise Plan — Custom pricing
- 2000 scans per month
- 100 prompts per scan
- All 9 AI engines (+ Copilot, Meta AI, Google AI Overviews)
- 500 competitors
- 20 businesses
- 12 team seats
- All Pro features plus SSO and API access

Annual plans save approximately 20% compared to monthly billing.

## Use Cases

### B2B SaaS Companies
Track whether ChatGPT and Perplexity recommend your product when users ask
about your category. Get fix recommendations to increase your citation rate.

### Marketing Agencies
Manage AEO for multiple client brands from one account. Generate white-label
PDF reports. Track competitor mention share across all AI engines.

### Enterprise Brands
Monitor AI visibility at scale across 9 engines, 500 competitors, and 20
business units. Get daily AI-written visibility briefs. Set up Slack alerts
for mention drops.

### E-commerce Brands
Ensure AI engines recommend your products when users ask shopping questions.
Track sentiment (positive, neutral, negative) of AI mentions.

### Professional Services
Build entity recognition for your firm across AI knowledge bases. Monitor
which sources AI engines cite when answering questions in your industry.

## AI Engines Tracked

TrueCite tracks brand mentions across 9 major AI answer engines:

1. ChatGPT (OpenAI) — Available on all plans
2. Perplexity — Available on all plans
3. Gemini (Google) — Available on Starter and above
4. Claude (Anthropic) — Available on Pro and above
5. Grok (xAI) — Available on Pro and above
6. DeepSeek — Available on Pro and above
7. Microsoft Copilot — Available on Enterprise
8. Meta AI — Available on Enterprise
9. Google AI Overviews — Available on Enterprise

## MentionShare Score Explained

The MentionShare score (0–100) measures how prominently your brand appears
in AI responses across all scanned engines and prompts.

- 0–25: Low visibility — AI engines rarely mention your brand
- 26–50: Growing visibility — mentioned in some responses
- 51–75: Good visibility — frequently mentioned across key prompts
- 76–100: Excellent visibility — dominant presence in AI answers

The score is calculated per engine and aggregated across all prompts in a
scan group. Scores above 70 indicate strong AI citation presence.

## Competitor Analysis

TrueCite automatically detects when AI engines mention competitor brands
in the same responses as your queries. The competitor detection system:

- Identifies brands mentioned alongside or instead of yours
- Groups competitors by mention frequency (high, medium, low)
- Tracks competitor mention share over 30 and 90 day windows
- Surfaces competitor trend lines on the visibility chart
- Powers gap analysis to identify content areas where competitors outperform you

## Content Fix Types

The Fix Generator produces three types of content blocks:

### FAQ Blocks
Structured question-and-answer HTML blocks optimized for AI citation.
These directly answer the prompts where your brand is not being mentioned.

### Answer Paragraphs
Dense, entity-rich answer paragraphs that establish your brand as the
authoritative answer to specific queries.

### JSON-LD Schema
Structured data markup in Schema.org format that helps AI engines
understand your brand, products, and services.

## Technical SEO for AI

TrueCite audits technical signals that affect AI citation rates:

- llms.txt and llms-full.txt presence and quality
- Schema.org structured data (Organization, Product, FAQ, HowTo)
- robots.txt AI bot permissions (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot)
- Sitemap availability and structure
- Homepage link tag for llms.txt discovery
- Page-level technical SEO (title, meta description, canonical, H1)
- Internal linking structure and content depth

## Integration Ecosystem

TrueCite integrates with the tools you already use:

- Google Analytics 4: AI traffic source attribution
- Google Search Console: Query import and prompt suggestions
- Slack: Real-time mention drop and competitor alerts
- PDF export: Branded reports for clients and stakeholders
- CSV/JSON export: Raw scan data for custom analysis

## FAQ

Q: What is TrueCite?
A: TrueCite is a B2B AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) platform that helps businesses track and improve their visibility in AI-generated answers across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and other AI engines.

Q: What is MentionShare?
A: MentionShare is TrueCite's core metric — it measures how often your brand appears in AI-generated answers compared to competitors when buyers ask relevant questions.

Q: Which AI engines does TrueCite track?
A: TrueCite tracks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, Grok, Copilot, Meta AI, and Google AI Overviews.

Q: How is TrueCite different from SEO tools?
A: Traditional SEO tools track Google rankings. TrueCite tracks AI engine visibility — the new frontier where buyers research before ever visiting a website.

Q: Do I need technical skills to use TrueCite?
A: No. TrueCite is fully self-serve with no coding required.

Q: Is there a free trial?
A: Yes — a 14-day free trial is available with no credit card required. Starter and Pro plans also include a 7-day free Stripe trial.

## Competitor Comparison

TrueCite vs alternatives:

- vs Profound: TrueCite is self-serve from $29/mo; Profound requires a sales demo and targets enterprise only
- vs RankZero: TrueCite includes Fix Generator to act on insights; RankZero is analytics-only
- vs Otterly AI: TrueCite covers more AI engines and includes schema/llms.txt generation
- vs Peec AI: TrueCite offers prescriptive fixes and content generation, not just monitoring
- vs Semrush/Ahrefs: Those tools track Google; TrueCite tracks AI engines specifically

## Company

TrueCite is built by AI Collective Labs Inc.

Website: https://truecite.ai
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/truecite/
X (Twitter): https://x.com/truecite
Production URL: https://truecite.ai

## Contact

For support, feature requests, or enterprise inquiries:
Email: hello@truecite.ai
Website: https://truecite.ai

## Sitemap

https://truecite.ai/sitemap.xml

## Security and Privacy

TrueCite takes data security seriously. All API keys and credentials are
stored in AWS SSM Parameter Store with SecureString encryption. Data is
transmitted over HTTPS only. User authentication is powered by Clerk with
industry-standard JWT tokens. Supabase row-level security protects all
user data. TrueCite never sells user data or shares it with third parties.

## Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What is the difference between AEO and SEO?
A: SEO optimizes your content to rank in search engine results pages.
AEO optimizes your brand to be cited and recommended by AI answer engines
like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini when users ask conversational questions.

Q: How does TrueCite measure brand mentions?
A: TrueCite sends your target prompts to each AI engine and analyzes the
responses to detect brand mentions, sentiment, position, and competitor
co-mentions. Results are aggregated into a MentionShare score.

Q: How quickly can I improve my AI visibility?
A: Most users see measurable improvement within 2–4 weeks of implementing
TrueCite's Fix Generator content blocks. The fixes target the exact prompts
where your brand is not being mentioned.

Q: Does TrueCite work for non-English markets?
A: Yes. TrueCite supports per-prompt country targeting across 30 countries,
allowing you to measure AI visibility in specific regional markets.

Q: What AI engines does TrueCite support?
A: TrueCite tracks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek,
Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, and Google AI Overviews — 9 engines in total.

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- [Schema Audit](https://truecite.ai/dashboard/schema)
- [Entity Health](https://truecite.ai/dashboard/entity)
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