Cite.me.in We 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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