Your buyers are asking ChatGPT which tool to use. If you are not in that answer, you do not exist. TrueCite shows you what to fix — and writes the content — in one afternoon.
Your category competitors are getting cited by ChatGPT every time a buyer asks a comparison question.
AI engines are replacing Google for B2B research — your buyers ask "what's the best X" and act on the first AI answer.
You cannot outspend incumbents on backlinks or brand authority — but you can outmaneuver them on AI-specific signals.
AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is where SEO was in 2010. Early movers get disproportionate share.
Know your baseline. Run your first scan in 60 seconds — no setup required. See exactly which engines mention you and at what rate.
TrueCite generates the exact FAQ blocks, answer paragraphs, and JSON-LD schema your site needs. Copy and paste into your CMS. Done in an afternoon.
Scores each page on your site for technical completeness, content quality, and AI readiness. Ranked by impact — start with the highest-priority fix.
Paste in a competitor URL. TrueCite identifies the exact AEO signals they have that you don't. Usually 3–7 items you can fix in a sprint.
Most founders can close their biggest AI visibility gaps in under a day. Here is the order.
Add a FAQ block to your homepage
High — FAQ schema is the single biggest AI citation signal
Add Organization JSON-LD with sameAs links
High — tells AI engines your brand is an established entity
Publish llms.txt to your domain root
Medium — guides AI crawlers to your most important pages
Add 5–10 G2 or Capterra reviews
High — review platform citations are a top AI ranking signal
Write a definition paragraph for your category
Medium — AI engines love definitional, answer-first content
Six things you can do yourself — no agency, no developer, no budget.
Run a baseline MentionShare scan to see where you stand today
Run your first scan →Identify your top 10 buyer-intent prompts — the questions your buyers ask AI engines
Add FAQPage schema to your homepage and top feature pages
How to write FAQ blocks →Generate Fix Generator content for your 3 biggest missed prompts
Use Fix Generator →Set up a weekly scheduled scan to track your MentionShare trend over time
Connect Google Search Console to import buyer queries as AEO prompts
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Get started free →Yes. AEO work is mostly technical and content-shaped rather than link-shaped, which is what makes it tractable for a small team. The three things that gate citation — letting AI crawlers reach your site, publishing structured data that states what you do, and writing answer-first content for real buyer questions — are all things a founder or a single marketer can ship. The hard part is knowing which prompts you are invisible for, which is what a scan tells you.
It depends on the engine's retrieval path. Engines that browse live, like Perplexity, can pick up new content within days of publication. Engines answering from a trained model update far more slowly, so early wins usually show up in the live-retrieval engines first. Track it by re-scanning the same prompts on a schedule rather than checking once.
This is the argument for doing it early. AI engines compose an answer from whatever sources cleanly answer the question, so a specific, well-structured page from a small site can be cited alongside far larger competitors. Classic ranking authority matters less here than being the clearest available answer to a narrow question.
Check crawler access before anything else — if GPTBot or PerplexityBot are blocked in robots.txt, nothing else you do can matter. After that, add Organization and FAQPage structured data so engines can state what you do without guessing, then publish answer-first content for the five or ten questions your buyers actually ask.