Everyone's talking about how to get cited by AI. Nobody's built the speedometer.
TL;DR
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.
When I started taking AI citation seriously for Rentail, the first thing I did was look for a way to measure it. Not advice on how to improve it — I’d already found plenty of that. I wanted to know where I stood.
I couldn’t find anything. So I built it. And then I realized the measurement gap was the actual problem worth solving.
The stakes are real
AI-referred sessions grew 527% year-over-year in early 2025. AI visitors convert at 4.4x the rate of organic search traffic. ChatGPT alone drove more than 80% of the 1.13 billion AI referral visits recorded in June 2025.
But here’s what makes it different from Google: each AI platform cites only 2–7 domains per response, compared to Google’s 10 blue links. Placement isn’t a gradient. It’s winner-take-most.
If AI citation is where high-intent traffic is going, and only a handful of domains get cited per query, then knowing whether you’re one of them — and whether that’s changing — matters.
The measurement gap
Here’s the situation most founders are in right now: you’ve read the playbooks. You’ve maybe updated some content, added some schema, done some things. And you have no idea if your citation rate changed.
Which platform? Which queries? Compared to last month? You don’t know.
The tools that exist are mostly built for enterprise marketing teams — share-of-voice reporting across thousands of keywords, priced accordingly. They’re not built to track whether your domain is getting cited more on the queries your customers are actually asking.
Without measurement, GEO is just guessing with extra steps. You’re optimizing into a black box and hoping something changed.
We built the speedometer
Everyone’s talking about how to drive faster. We built the speedometer.
Cite.me.in runs your queries across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity on a schedule. It records every citation — every time an AI platform links to or mentions your site in a response. Over time, you see your citation rate by platform, by query, week over week.
Not a playbook. Not advice. A measurement instrument.
Here’s what tracking your AI citation footprint actually looks like — start your free trial at cite.me.in.
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Co-Founder at cite.me.in
Co-Founder of cite.me.in and software engineer with deep expertise in AI, search, and open source. Previously defined industry standards in BPM and authored books on Ruby and Apache Buildr. He builds the product and leads the technical vision behind cite.me.in's AI citation monitoring platform.