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Read the AI answer, not just the count

Citations keeps the answers your monitoring runs actually collected: the exact question, the engine that answered, the page it cited and the date. Open a row and the receipt is there — what the AI said, whether your brand was named in it and how confident that reading is. Brand Gaps lists the questions where your brand was absent and a competitor you track was named instead, and the Timeline tab charts citations per day. Paid monitoring covers 8 engines (ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok, Claude and Microsoft Copilot).

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Citation history for the last 30 days: 29,538 citations in total, 1,866 brand mentions, 7,645 new cited sources and 1,554.6 citations per active day, above a per-day bar chart from 29 September with the busiest day flagged at 4,509 on 15 October; below it a per-engine line chart — Perplexity 9,646, ChatGPT 8,556, Gemini 5,356, Google AI Overviews 2,210, Grok 1,774, Microsoft Copilot 1,259, Claude 713, Brave AI 24 — and a per-platform bar list.
The whole window counted per day, then split by engine: the trend you read before you trust any single number.

What you get

The answer, with the question that produced it

Each row carries the query, the engine, the page that was cited and the date. Open the evidence and you read the AI answer itself, the source URL and title, and whether that source was matched straight from the answer or found in the query window — never a bare number with no receipt.

Named and cited, kept apart

Being mentioned and being linked are different facts, so they are reported as different facts. An answer can name your brand, cite a page of yours, do both, or do neither — and a page of yours cited without your brand in the answer is not counted as a mention.

Who was named instead

Brand Gaps is the other side of the same data: the prompts where your brand was not found and a competitor you track was cited in its place. Other names the answer mentioned are listed separately, with a one-click add, so the gap list only counts rivals you actually chose.

The trend, run by run

The Timeline tab opens with a citation history: how many citations landed on each day of the last 30 days, split between cited publications, AI-answer mentions and Google organic results, with a per-engine view underneath. The counts stay apart and are never added into one score.

From a gap to a brief

Every gap has a create-content action that opens it in Content Studio with the question, the rivals named and the cited sources attached as the brief. Once a piece is published, the same gap carries a coverage state — not started, draft, awaiting verification, cited or stale — so the list and the workspace agree.

See it in the product

Brand Mentions rows, each pairing the question with the engine, the cited page and the date: "best CRM for agencies" on Perplexity with a HubSpot page marked Your site, Grounded 97% and Listed Among Others, then "cheapest CRM for startups" on Google AI Overviews and on ChatGPT with HubSpot pages marked Your site, all dated Oct 18, 2026.
One row per answer: the question that was asked, the engine that answered, the page it cited and the verdict on whether your brand appeared.
Citation Evidence dialog for HubSpot on Perplexity, dated Oct 18, 2026: the question "best CRM for small business", the note that the brand was found in this answer at 97% confidence, the answer text naming HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho, Pipedrive, Freshsales and monday.com, the cited page https://www.hubspot.com titled "HubSpot mentioned on Perplexity" marked From the exact answer, and a footer reading Link: saved with the answer · Result ID: 4708.
The receipt behind one row — the question as asked, the answer as written, the page that was cited and how sure the brand match is.
Brand Gaps reporting 7 gaps found: "AEO Spotlight not detected on Perplexity" dated Sep 26, 2026 with Semrush and Jasper named instead; "AEO Spotlight not detected on ChatGPT" for the prompt "Best AI visibility tracking and answer engine optimization tools" dated Sep 19, 2026 with Tenso AI, Profound, UltraScout and Semrush named; and a Microsoft Copilot gap dated Sep 4, 2026 — each card listing untracked names separately and ending with Close This Gap — Create Content and View Details.
The losing side of the same data: the prompt, the engine, the rivals named in your place, and the names you do not track yet.

Why you can trust the data

  • Gaps are classified in four tiers — no mention, weak mention, competitor-dominated and low visibility — so "AI has never heard of us" is separated from "AI names a rival first".
  • Every figure is a count of answers that were stored. The timeline marks the days on which a citation was observed; a day with no marker is not evidence that AI stopped citing you, and the page says so rather than drawing a flat line.

Questions

Where is the evidence for a citation?

Open any row in Brand Mentions, or the Evidence action on a timeline card. The dialog shows the exact question, the AI answer in full, the source URL and title, and how the link was matched — straight from the answer, or found inside the query window. It also prints the result ID, so the receipt points back to the run that produced it.

Does a citation mean AI recommended me?

No. A citation means the answer used your page as a source. The brand verdict is separate and says whether your name appeared in that answer and how confident the detection is. Cited and named are reported independently, so a source page that never names you is visible as exactly that.

How are Brand Gaps chosen?

They come from prompts where your brand was not found in the answer but a competitor you confirmed was cited instead. Names the answer mentioned that you do not track yet are listed separately, with a one-click add, so the gap count reflects the rivals you chose.

Can I send this to a client?

Yes. The Citations view exports as CSV for a spreadsheet, PDF for a client-ready document or JSON for your own pipeline, following the filters you have applied.

Do I need Google Search Console connected?

No. Citations and Brand Gaps are built from the answers your monitoring runs collected. Search Console demand is a separate, optional signal, read on the Search demand page.