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SEO & AI SEARCH AGENCY · TECHNICAL B2B SAAS

Earn visibility across Google and AI search Measure what changes.

See where your brand is absent or misrepresented across Google and AI search. Citable turns that evidence into prioritised decisions, bounded implementation and a measurable operating roadmap.

FREE DIRECTIONAL CHECK · EXPERT DIAGNOSE · BOUNDED IMPLEMENTATION

FREE · NO EMAIL · SCORE IN ~10 SECONDS · SHAREABLE PERMALINK

See how Diagnose, Build and Operate work

Monitoring across

ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini Claude Brave Search AI Overviews Copilot +5 more

Citation ≠ recognition

AI can use your page and leave your brand out.

A citation shows which source supported an answer. A mention puts the brand in the answer itself. Citable measures both—then traces the technical, entity, topical and third-party evidence gaps behind the difference.

Illustrative answer anatomy Category query

“Which providers are a strong fit for this use case?”

AI answer

Teams often shortlist Provider North and Provider Field for their specialist workflows, integration depth and documented support model.[3]

Source 03

yourbrand.com

A practical guide to choosing a provider

Citation Source used

Your page supports the answer.

Mention Brand absent

Your name never reaches the answer text.

Citable's operating response

We diagnose the gap, trace the cause and implement the bounded fix.

  1. 01

    Measure both

    Track citations, mentions and narrative accuracy across a defined query panel.

  2. 02

    Trace the cause

    Inspect crawl, identity, extractability, third-party trust and the delivery layer.

  3. 03

    Ship the fix

    Implement the approved technical or content change, then rerun the same panel.

A dashboard can show the gap. Citable can trace a technical cause through the delivery layer—and ship the bounded fix.

See how Diagnose measures both

Method

Ten structural signals. One directional check.

The free checker turns ten observable structural signals into a 0–100 orientation score. It shows where machine readability may be weak; it does not claim to measure cross-surface visibility or prove why an external system cites a brand.

THE CITE FRAMEWORK

Four conditions shape technical readiness.

CITE organises Crawl, Identity, Trust and Extractability. Diagnose adds the query, competitor, source and narrative evidence the structural check cannot observe.

C

Crawl access

Optimised directives and clean visibility for the leading AI crawlers, so models can reach your content.

robots · llms.txt · render

I

Identity

Verifiable structured data and entity grounding across knowledge graphs — so a model knows which brand you are.

schema · entity graph

T

Trust signals

The third-party citations, mentions and authority signals that make a model confident to name you.

Mentions 0.664 · backlinks 0.218 — Ahrefs, 75k brands

E

Extractability

Content structured so a model can lift a clean, quotable, accurate answer about your brand.

On-page structure

See the full framework

How an engagement runs — Diagnose → Build → Operate

Full methodology
[1]

Diagnose

Define the commercial query panel and relevant surfaces, interpret visibility, narrative, competitor and source gaps, and prioritise the decision.

→ Artifact · Evidence base and roadmap

[2]

Build

Turn approved priorities into bounded technical, editorial, entity, authority or measurement workstreams with owners and acceptance criteria.

→ Artifact · Implemented foundations

[3]

Operate

Maintain the roadmap and evidence panel, prioritise experiments, issue tickets, coordinate dependencies, apply QA and report decisions.

→ Artifact · Operating cadence and decision record

See all ten signals we check — and the sourced data behind them

CHECK 01

Schema markup

Organization JSON-LD with sameAs pointers AI engines parse to resolve your brand as an entity.

CHECK 02

AI crawler access

robots.txt allows GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, OAI-SearchBot.

CHECK 03

Author entity

Person schema with sameAs pointers — authors recognised as Knowledge Graph entities lift the whole domain.

CHECK 04

Wikipedia presence

Encyclopedic article — corpus signal AI engines weight heavily on entity trust.

CHECK 05

Wikidata sameAs

Linked-data entity with verified sameAs pointers across the open web.

CHECK 06

Google Knowledge Graph

Recognised as a distinct entity in Google's brand-knowledge layer.

CHECK 07

Content freshness

dateModified within 60 days — half of Perplexity's citations point to content published this year.

Source: Seer Interactive, 2025

CHECK 08

Factual density

Stat-bearing patterns per page — Princeton GEO research: adding statistics lifts citation visibility 30–40%.

Source: Aggarwal et al., KDD 2024

CHECK 09

Trust-seed profiles

Trustpilot, LinkedIn, GitHub — branded mentions correlate 0.664 with AI Overviews visibility; backlinks just 0.218.

Source: Ahrefs · 75k brands, 2025

CHECK 10

llms.txt manifest

Root manifest for AI agents — tracked as a hedge; not a confirmed ranking signal today.

The 0–100 ladder

0–39

Invisible

AI engines cannot reliably surface your brand. Foundational structural work needed before targeted GEO investment makes sense.

40–59

Citation gaps

AI engines find you sometimes. Critical signals are missing or noisy. Targeted fixes can lift you into reliable citation range fast.

60–74

Patchy presence

You appear in some answers but lose to competitors on key prompts. The structural foundation is there — sharpen it.

75–89

Solid baseline

You are reliably citable across the major AI engines. Remaining work is fine-tuning entity disambiguation and content depth.

90–100

Citation-ready

Strong AI readiness across all ten structural signals. You are in the top tier of citation candidates for your category.

Score updates each time a domain is rechecked. We treat the band as the strategic signal — the number is just where you sit inside it.

Diagnose · Build · Operate

Start with the decision you need to make.

The checker gives you a directional technical signal. The AI Search Opportunity Audit adds expert research, interpretation and a prioritised 90-day roadmap.

Choose a Baseline Review for orientation, Opportunity Audit for a decision-ready roadmap, or Program Audit for operating design. Implementation is scoped separately.

Start Opportunity · €3,800 See full pricing
€3,800 fixed

AI Search Opportunity Audit · diagnosis + prioritised roadmap

  • Defined commercial query panel
  • Competitor, citation and source analysis
  • Technical, content and entity diagnosis
  • Prioritised 90-day roadmap with owners

Other audit levels

AI Search Baseline Review
€1,800
AI Search Program Audit
€5,400

Three ways to work with us

Diagnose the gaps. Build the foundations. Operate the roadmap.

AI Search is a product-and-operations function built on SEO—not a standalone content tactic.

01

Diagnose

Define the evidence panel, map visibility and narrative gaps, and prioritise what matters.

A decision-ready roadmap

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02

Build

Turn approved priorities into bounded technical, editorial, entity, authority or measurement workstreams.

Shipped foundations

See the engagement model

03

Operate

Own the roadmap, backlog, tickets, dependencies, governance, QA and executive reporting cadence.

A managed operating loop

Discuss operating fit

Measurement, implementation and operations — connected by one roadmap.

From the journal

GEO Playbook How to appear in Google AI Overviews Agentic Web We built an agents.json manifest for our agency site Measurement How to measure Share of Answer without hiding the method
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Frequently asked

What teams ask before they engage

What does Citable do?

Citable is an SEO and AI Search agency for technical B2B SaaS teams. We diagnose visibility and narrative gaps, build approved SEO and GEO foundations, and operate the roadmap, backlog, tickets, governance and reporting cadence.

Is Citable Agency the same as getcitable.com or the CITABLE framework?

No. Citable Agency (citable.agency) is an independent SEO and AI Search services agency founded in Tarragona, Spain, in 2026 by Elizabeth S. The Boston software company at getcitable.com and the CITABLE content framework by Discovered Labs are separate entities. Citable Agency sells human research, implementation and operations—not their software or framework.

Does AI Search replace SEO?

No. SEO remains the technical, content and authority foundation. AI Search adds new surfaces, query panels, citation and source analysis, narrative accuracy, experimentation and governance.

What is GEO?

Generative Engine Optimization is a specialist discipline within the wider SEO and AI Search category. It focuses on how information is retrieved, cited and represented in generative answers.

Can you guarantee citations or recommendations?

No. Models, retrieval systems and answers change. Citable controls the rigor of the diagnosis, implementation, experiments and reporting—not the output of an external AI system.

Which audit should we choose?

Choose Baseline Review (€1,800) for orientation, Opportunity Audit (€3,800) for a prioritised 90-day roadmap, and Program Audit (€5,400) when you also need governance and operating design. Opportunity is the recommended starting point for most qualified teams.

What happens after the audit?

Approved priorities can move into a bounded Foundations Sprint or an ongoing operating program. Build and Operate are scoped separately around workstreams, owners, dependencies and acceptance criteria.

What does Operate include?

Operate can maintain the evidence panel and roadmap, prioritise an experiment backlog, produce editorial and technical tickets, coordinate agreed dependencies, apply governance and QA, and report decisions and uncertainty to stakeholders.

What is Agent readiness?

It is an emerging, use-case-dependent capability covering structured product and service data, feeds and APIs for agent-mediated discovery and action. Citable assesses it during Diagnose; it is not a standalone launch service or implementation promise.

What is the free checker for?

The checker provides a limited automated view of structural readiness. Use it for orientation. It is not a cross-surface visibility baseline, expert audit, implementation roadmap or proof of business impact.

Your SEO report can look healthy while AI answers omit your brand, confuse the facts or rely on stronger third-party sources.[1]

SEO IS THE FOUNDATION. AI SEARCH ADDS A NEW EVIDENCE LAYER.

[1] Measure before you optimize.

› What evidence should we use to compare providers?

"The available sources describe your brand [1] with consistent facts, clear differentiation and verifiable evidence."

[1] Source · yourbrand.com — structured facts, clear ownership, dated evidence

Make the evidence easier to find and verify.

Use the free check for a directional signal. Start Diagnose when you need expert interpretation and a bounded decision.

Already done it? Compare audit levels

Already have a validated roadmap? Discuss Build or Operate