The CITED Framework scores your site across 5 pillars of AI citation readiness — Crawl, Inform, Trust, Evaluate, Distribute — 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, Distribute. 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.
"Can AI quote you?"
Content quality, answer-first formatting, data density, and extractable passages.
"Why cite you over competitors?"
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 where AI looks?"
Citation breadth across AI platforms, third-party presence (G2, Reddit, YouTube), earned media, and entity recognition.
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.
Marketing Manager
Use the pillar breakdown to brief your team — schema fixes go to dev, content structure to writers, authority building to PR.
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.
See It In Action
Every CITED audit ships with a per-tenant playbook ranking the highest-leverage plays for your category. The GEO Playbook below is the curated version ILLIXIS publishes for its own brand — the same five techniques we apply to our own content.
The four Academic Citation Infrastructure plays, dogfooded by ILLIXIS.
Crawl, Inform, Trust, Evaluate, Distribute — the 5 stages of AI citation readiness. Each pillar scores a specific aspect of how well your content is positioned to be discovered, cited, and trusted by AI systems.
No. The CITED score is computed from your existing Site Intelligence and AI Visibility data. If you've run those scans, your CITED score is ready.
Most businesses start as Invisible or Emerging. Getting to Competitive (51+) means AI platforms are citing you consistently. Dominant (76+) is category authority — AI systems treat you as a primary source.
Monthly. Run Site Intelligence and AI Visibility scans regularly — the CITED score updates automatically from that data.
GEO Audit is available on Professional ($2,497/mo) and Enterprise ($4,997/mo) plans. Start with a 7-day trial for $7 to see your score.
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Five pillars. One score. Zero guesswork.