of B2B software buyers now start research in an AI chatbot more often than in Google.
G2, March 2026 ↗ChatGPT recommends your competitor.
Citepoint finds the buyer questions where AI names a competitor, publishes the pages that get you recommended instead, and tracks whether they worked.
See who AI recommends. No signup.
A demo: the question “What’s the best invoicing app for freelance designers?” asked on six AI engines. Before Citepoint the answers name competitors. After, they recommend Tallybook first and cite its page.
An example with made-up brands: one buyer question on six engines, before and after Tallybook’s page is live.
Half of software buyers now start with AI. It shapes who makes the shortlist.
picked a different vendor than they planned, based on an AI chatbot’s guidance.
G2, March 2026 ↗think more highly of a vendor when an AI chatbot mentions it in a recommendation.
G2, March 2026 ↗of Google visits end in a click on a result when an AI summary appears, versus 15% without one.
Pew, 900 U.S. adults, 2025 ↗G2 sells reviews, so read its survey of 1,076 buyers as a vendor’s. Sources and caveats: AI search statistics.
Citepoint does the whole job. It finds the questions you’re losing, writes the pages that win them and checks that AI changed its answer.
An opportunity in Citepoint: “Best invoicing app for freelance designers”, where AI engines name Tallybook’s competitors. After Citepoint publishes a page, four of six engines name Tallybook, up from one.
1Find
Find the questions you’re losing
Every buyer question where AI names a competitor, scored by demand. Create the page in one click, or let autopilot ship it.
Run a free scan
How Citepoint researches a page before writing it: it reads Tallybook's site and notes, what six AI engines answer, and the nine pages they cite, researches with live web search from 23 sources, drafts from that research, and checks every claim, cutting two it couldn't support.
2Write
Researched before it’s written
Built from your site, your notes and what six AI engines say today. Agents research the live web, draft, edit and verify, checking every claim against your facts and sources.
Every page passes eight checks before it ships, and none is a doorway page, spun text, an invented review or a paid link. Google’s spam policies ↗
Explore the live demo3Publish
yourcompany.com/compare
Every page lives on your domain.
Publish to a subfolder, a subdomain, your CMS or a pull request to your repo. Unlike ads, they don’t stop when you stop paying: the pages are yours, and stay on your site after you cancel.
The sources AI cites for “best invoicing app for freelance designers”: Tallybook listed on G2, a pitch won with an article, a reply to draft for a Reddit thread and one drafted for a Quora question.
4Get mentioned
Get mentioned where AI looks
AI engines lean on review sites, directories, articles and forums like Reddit and Quora. Citepoint finds the ones they cite, writes your listings, pitches and replies, and finds each editor’s address.
Scan to see your sources5Track
Then see what changed. Every question, page, mention and visit, in one place.
From real sites, not the demo.
Around the loop, the parts that make it compound.
Autopilot or approval
Autopilot ships the top pages each day, paced to your plan. Or approve each one first.
Learns every round
What worked picks the next page. What slips gets refreshed.
Free tools for your buyers
Calculators and generators on your site that buyers search for and other sites link to.
Your market, your language
Every question is asked from your country and in your language, the way your buyers ask it.
Visits from AI
Clicks from AI answers to your hosted pages and tools. No script, no cookies.
Client reports
A read-only report link per brand, to share with clients or your team. White-label on Agency.
Run it from your coding agent
Use the MCP server or the API from Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and more.
The same pages rank on Google
Connect Search Console and the searches you nearly rank for become your next pages.
A report in your inbox
Every Monday: how often AI recommended you, what Citepoint shipped and what’s waiting on you.
The AI Recommendation Index
Every month we ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI Overviews the same 20 buyer questions in 16 software categories, and publish the brands they name. Free to read and cite.
See the Index →See who AI recommends before you read the prices.
We ask AI engines a few of your buyers’ questions and show who they name. No signup.
Why I built Citepoint
Buying software used to start with a search and a page of links. More and more, it starts with a question to an AI assistant, and buyers read its shortlist before they visit a single site. The brands left off that list rarely find out.
The fix is plain work: find the questions your buyers ask, answer each one honestly on your own site, get mentioned where AI looks, and check what moved. Big companies staff a team for that. Citepoint runs the whole loop so a small team can compete, and our methodology is public.
If you have a question before you start, email me at jude@citepoint.ai.
Jude RosenFounder · Read the vision
More than a report, for less than an agency.
| What you get | Report-only tools | An agency | Citepoint |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shows who AI recommends | Yes | Usually monthly | On six engines |
| Writes the pages | No | Yes | Researched and fact-checked |
| Publishes them on your domain | No | Yes | Subfolder, CMS or pull request |
| Gets you mentioned where AI looks | No | Often extra | Listings, pitches and replies |
| Who does the work | You, or someone you hire | The agency | Citepoint, on autopilot or with your approval |
| What it costs | A subscription, plus the work | Usually thousands a month | From $99 a month |
Scan free. Then win buyers back for less than one lost deal.
Footnote
One brand, finding its first wins.
$99/ month
Billed monthly
Start with Footnote7-day refund · Cancel anytime
- 30 pages a month
- 50 tracked questions
- 20 listings and pitches
- 3 free tools for your site
- 1 brand
Citation Recommended
Growing teams owning a category.
$199/ month
Billed monthly
Start with Citation7-day refund · Cancel anytime
- 60 pages a month
- 150 tracked questions
- 50 listings and pitches
- 8 free tools for your site
- 2 brands
Authority
Several brands or product lines.
$299/ month
Billed monthly
Start with Authority7-day refund · Cancel anytime
- 100 pages a month
- 300 tracked questions
- 100 listings and pitches
- 15 free tools for your site
- 5 brands
- Revenue from AI visits
Agency
Agencies running AI visibility for clients.
$649/ month
Billed monthly
Start with Agency7-day refund · Cancel anytime
- 250 pages a month
- 600 tracked questions
- 300 listings and pitches
- 50 free tools for your site
- 25 brands
- Revenue from AI visits
- White-label client reports
All Citepoint needs to start is your website, added right after checkout. Every other connection is optional.
Every plan includes six AI engines, publishing anywhere, unlimited seats, the in-app agent, the API and MCP server.
What do the numbers mean?
- Page
- One researched, fact-checked page that answers one buyer question, published on your domain.
- Tracked question
- A buyer question Citepoint asks all six engines on a schedule to see who they recommend: daily for most, weekly for Claude and Perplexity.
- Listing or pitch
- A submission to a review site or directory, or a pitch to the editor of an article AI cites. The two count together.
- Free tool
- A calculator or generator published on your site for your buyers to use.
- Brand
- A company or product line you track, with its own questions, pages and reports.
- Which plan?
- One brand finding its first wins: Footnote. A category to own against several rivals, or two brands: Citation. Several brands or product lines: Authority. Agencies running it for clients: Agency.
Good to know.
What is GEO?
Generative engine optimization: getting AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini to recommend and cite you. It rewards what good SEO rewards: clear answers, real sources and links from sites people trust.
Which AI engines do you track?
ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, asked in your market the way buyers see them. ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s answers are checked daily, Claude and Perplexity weekly.
How soon will AI recommend us?
There’s no fixed timeline, and anyone who promises one is guessing. Most engines Citepoint tracks search the web when they answer (Claude decides question by question), so a new page can start counting once it’s indexed and cited, and some questions move sooner than others. Citepoint checks every question daily (Claude and Perplexity weekly), so you see each answer change as it happens.
Where do the pages live?
On your domain. Serve them from a subfolder like /compare with one rewrite, from a subdomain with one DNS record, push them into Webflow, Framer, WordPress, Shopify or Ghost, or get a pull request to your repo. Nothing to set up to start: pages can go live right away on a Citepoint-hosted address and move to your domain when you connect it, where they carry more weight.
Do I have to review every page?
Your choice. Approval first puts every page in front of you before it ships. Autopilot picks the top opportunities each day, writes the pages and publishes them, paced to your plan. Every page stays editable after it’s live.
Will the pages sound like us?
They’re written from your facts: what you do, who it’s for, why buyers choose you, and anything you add for the writer. The style is plain and specific, with no filler or hype. With approval first, you can edit every page before it ships, and after.
Will AI-written pages hurt my rankings?
Google judges pages on whether they help people, not on how they were written. What its spam policies penalize is content made to game rankings: scaled low-value pages, doorway pages and invented claims. Citepoint writes none of those. Every page answers one real buyer question, says only what your site or a cited source supports, and passes eight checks before it ships.
How do you get me mentioned?
Citepoint ranks the review sites and directories AI cites in your category and writes the listing copy. It also finds the articles AI quotes for your questions, drafts a short pitch to each editor and finds their address. Open each pitch in your own mail app and send it in one click: Citepoint never emails anyone for you. Forum replies are drafts that say who you are.
What are free tools?
Small calculators and generators, like a late fee calculator for an invoicing app, published on your site for your buyers to use free. Buyers search for them, other sites link to them, and each one sits a step before your product. Describe one or pick a suggestion, and Citepoint builds the formulas and the page.
Does it connect to Google Search Console?
Yes, with read-only access. Clicks, impressions and top searches sit next to your AI visibility, and they feed the loop: searches you nearly rank for become opportunities, and each page’s results show when it needs a refresh.
Is there an API?
Yes, on every plan: a REST API and an MCP server. Add the MCP server to Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Grok Build or OpenCode with one command, sign in when your agent asks, then ask where you’re losing and have your agent create the page and publish it to your site, CMS or repo. The docs cover all three.
What access does Citepoint need?
Only your website to start. Every connection is optional, encrypted at rest and can be removed anytime. Search Console and Google Analytics are read-only. On GitHub, every page arrives as a pull request for you to merge.
Is there a free trial?
No trial. Run the free scan to see who AI recommends in your market, no signup needed, or explore the live demo. Plans are paid from day one, and your first payment is refundable for 7 days, in one click from Billing.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes, in Billing. Your plan runs to the end of the period you’ve paid for and isn’t billed again, and the pages stay yours. Pages in your CMS or repo are in your own systems. Pages Citepoint serves on your folder or subdomain keep being served after you cancel, while your account stays open, and you can export any of them at any time.
See who AI recommends instead of you.
We ask AI engines a few of your buyers’ questions and show who they name. No signup.