The CITED Framework scores your site across 5 pillars of AI citation readiness — Crawl, Inform, Trust, Evaluate, Develop — and gives you a prioritized action plan to fix it.
What You Get
Not just a score — a ranked list of fixes with effort estimates and affected pages.
Composite score with drill-down into Crawl, Inform, Trust, Evaluate, Develop. Know exactly where you stand.
Prioritized by severity with effort estimates and affected pages. Fix what matters most, first.
Track your progression from Invisible → Emerging → Competitive → Dominant. Clear milestones.
Computed from Site Intelligence and AI Visibility data you already have. No additional API calls.
The Framework
Each pillar answers a specific question about your AI citation readiness.
"Can AI find you?"
Checks robots.txt, llms.txt, schema, sitemaps, page speed, and JS accessibility.
"Is content structured for citation?"
Content quality, answer-first formatting, data density, and extractable passages.
"Are you seen as authoritative?"
Domain rank, backlinks, internal linking, content freshness, and entity recognition.
"Are you tracking citations?"
AI visibility score, citation rate, content tracking, and opportunity pipeline.
"Are you improving?"
Optimization activity, opportunity conversion, citation patterns, and action completion.
The Stakes
The shift is happening now. Most businesses don't even know they're invisible.
If AI isn't citing you, you're losing visibility you can't even measure. The CITED Hub turns that blind spot into a scorecard with specific fixes. Zero guesswork.
Who This Is For
Small Marketing Team
Run the CITED audit monthly. Focus on the top 3 actions. Watch your Emerging score climb to Competitive.
"We went from Invisible to Emerging in 6 weeks just by fixing the schema and robots.txt issues CITED flagged."
— Marketing Manager
Marketing Manager
Use the pillar breakdown to brief your team — schema fixes go to dev, content structure to writers, authority building to PR.
"Finally, a way to assign GEO tasks to the right people with clear priorities."
— Head of Marketing
Founder
Know in 30 seconds whether AI chatbots can find your business. If you're Invisible, the CITED Hub tells you the fastest path to Emerging.
"I check our CITED score every Monday morning. Takes 30 seconds. If it's trending up, we're good."
— Founder, DTC Brand
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Five pillars. One score. Zero guesswork.
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