Overview
ThriveStack citedby is an AI visibility and citation tracking platform designed for brands and agencies aiming to understand and optimize their presence in AI-generated search results. It monitors mentions across leading AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini, providing metrics such as AI Citation Share and channel-specific revenue attribution. The tool positions itself as a revenue intelligence layer for the AI era, bridging traditional SEO with generative engine optimization (GEO) and answer engine optimization (AEO). A free audit is available to get started.
Key Features
- Multi-Engine Citation Tracking: Monitors AI citations across nine major AI engines, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Grok, with per-engine visibility scores.
- AI Citation Share Metric: Provides a proprietary score showing the percentage of AI responses that mention the brand, alongside trends (e.g., +42% trend up) to gauge growth.
- Instant Free Audit: Users submit a domain and receive a full website and brand audit report within approximately 10 minutes, covering visibility gaps and actionable recommendations.
- Revenue Impact Analysis: Breaks down AI-driven revenue into direct channel visits, branded search, and organic search, showing percentage lifts and linking AI answers to business outcomes.
- Competitive Benchmarking: Includes benchmark matrices and share-of-voice comparisons, allowing brands to see how they stack against competitors in AI-generated responses.
- Signal Fixing Workflows: Provides prioritized fixes based on crawler scans, helping teams address content, authority, and technical signals that impact AI visibility.
- Agency-Friendly Dashboard: Live metrics and trend visualizations support both internal teams and agencies managing multiple client accounts.
Use Cases
Brands use citedby to track whether their products are recommended by AI assistants, identify content gaps, and improve share of voice. Agencies leverage it to audit client sites, report on AI visibility, and justify SEO/AEO strategies. Marketing teams can measure the revenue impact of AI-driven traffic and optimize campaigns across channels. Startups and SaaS companies benefit from understanding how AI search influences their funnel, while enterprise organizations can monitor brand mentions across dozens of AI platforms.
