Vercel-Style Deploys on Your Own Hardware
I moved from Vercel to Hetzner + Coolify after a $10,000 DoS scare — then built a GitHub Action that gives you push-to-deploy on your own hardware.
Read moreWe got to product-market fit in 2 months.
Not because we’re geniuses. Because we stopped playing the SEO game we couldn’t win. Traditional SEO rewards tenure — years of backlinks and domain authority. For a young startup like Rentail, we were always trailing.
Then we noticed something. LLMs don’t think like Google. They don’t care how old your domain is. They’re looking for fresh, differentiated ideas — and they’re surprisingly receptive to new voices.
So we focused on getting cited by AI. Within two months, people were finding Rentail through their chatbots and coming to our site ready to act. 12% conversion rate from AI-referred traffic — that’s 4x better than the ~3% from traditional channels.
That’s exactly why we built cite.me.in — to help others do what we did, without the DIY guesswork.
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Your Website Is Probably Invisible to AI Right Now. Here's the Proof.
I ran our new AI legibility scanner on a dozen sites — including our own. The median score is 7/13. Nobody's scored 13/13 yet. The tool checks whether AI agents can find, parse, and cite your content in 30 seconds. No account required.
Read moreYou Can Build Your Own AI Citation Monitor This Weekend (And That's Exactly Why You Shouldn't)
Generative AI makes building a first version cheaper than ever. But building is the cover charge — owning is the recurring subscription. The cheaper it is to start, the more likely you are to accidentally sign up for a problem portfolio you never intended to own.
Read moreWhy AI Traffic Converts 7x Better Than Search (And What That Means for Your Strategy)
HubSpot lost 140 million visits in a year to AI search. But AI visitors convert at dramatically higher rates — 7.3x higher in our own data. The traffic shift isn't a loss. It's a change in what traffic is worth.
Read moreHow to Maximize Your Brand's AI Citations (And Track What's Working)
Seven strategies to systematically increase how often AI tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude mention your brand — from FAQ schema to third-party mentions — and how to measure whether any of it is working.
Read moreWhat is AEO Monitoring?
AEO monitoring tracks whether your brand or website is mentioned in AI-generated answers from tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude. This post explains what AEO monitoring is, how it differs from traditional SEO, why it matters for brand visibility, and how tools like cite.me.in can help you measure and improve your presence in AI-driven responses.
Read moreWe Built an AEO Monitoring Tool. Then We Turned It on Our Own Product.
We built cite.me.in to measure AI citations because we couldn't find a tool that did it. Then we turned it on Rentail, our property management SaaS — and found zero citations. Here's what we changed, what actually moved the needle, and where we landed.
Read moreEveryone's talking about how to get cited by AI. Nobody's built the speedometer.
GEO and AEO advice is everywhere. Add schema, update your llms.txt, write better FAQs. But nobody's telling you if any of it is working. That's the gap we built cite.me.in to fill.
Read moreHow Cite.me.in Was Born: From Rentail to LLM Citation Monitoring
Cite.me.in started as a side question while building Rentail: are AI platforms actually citing us? That question exposed a gap nobody had filled—real-time monitoring of LLM citation visibility.
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