CiteRank
The agentic platform AI search was waiting for
Most AI search tools give you a score. Maybe a report. Then they stop.
That's not a product. That's a starting point someone forgot to finish.
I run an SEO agency. When clients started asking why they weren't showing up in ChatGPT and Perplexity, I dug in. What I found was that the problem isn't one thing - it's a stack. Crawlers blocked. No training data footprint. No Knowledge Graph presence. AI engines have nothing to pull from, so they cite someone else.
I started building the tool I actually needed. Not a report generator. A platform that audits the full picture, surfaces what's broken, and lets you implement the fix without leaving.
CiteRank has 80+ tools now. Citation monitoring. Perception scoring - what AI engines actually say about your brand when someone asks. Training data audits. Entity coverage. Agentic readiness checks. Schema deployment. You run the audit and close the gap from the same place.
It's built for agency owners and technical founders who want to fix things, not just read about them.
Still a lot to build. Shipping every day.
If you're watching AI answers eat into your search traffic I'd genuinely love to know what you'd want from a tool like this.
In 2024 my SEO clients started asking why they weren't showing up in ChatGPT.
I knew enough to dig in but the tools didn't exist to actually help them fix it. Everything out there gave you a score and stopped. No path forward. Just a number and a PDF.
So I started pulling apart how AI engines decide what to cite. What makes a brand show up in Perplexity but disappear in ChatGPT. What signals actually separate the brands that get cited from the ones that don't.
Turns out most sites, even well-optimized ones, are basically invisible to AI engines. Crawlers blocked. No entity and semantic map. No training data footprint. AI has nothing to pull from.
I started building on nights and weekends. First a citation checker. Then a schema auditor. Then a tool that actually asks AI engines what they think of your brand and scores the response.
It grew into a full platform. CiteRank has 12+ tools now. You can audit your AI search presence, implement fixes, and deploy from one place.
It's not perfect and there's a lot still to build. But it works, real people are using it, and I'm shipping every day.
Brutal feedback welcome. What's broken, what's confusing, what's missing.
6 Comments
The jump from 12+ tools to 80+ tools in a day is quite a change. Curious what drove that expansion most: users asking for more, or things you discovered while building it.
The initial 12 was incorrect. We have 80+ tools built into CiteRank. Brand perception, Accessibility tree auditor, WebMCP, agentic readiness auditors and deploy tools.
Many of these are industry first tools. This addresses a major gap in the industry that SEO tools currently are not doing a good job at.
The channels are outgrowing the current tools. CiteRank is closing the gap.
Got it. The broader toolset makes the positioning more interesting, especially with AI search moving beyond traditional SEO. I’d be interested in continuing the conversation — what’s the best email to reach you at?
michael@webfor . com - Looking forward to talking more. Thanks!
Thanks! I’ve just sent it over.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts whenever you have a chance.