CitedSpy
Summary
You open GA4 on a Monday and organic traffic is down again — except nobody searched less, they just asked ChatGPT instead and your brand wasn't in the answer. CitedSpy runs your brand against six AI engines daily and tells you exactly why you're being skipped.
The tool pastes your domain, auto-suggests 25 prompts, then queries ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, and Grok seven times per week per engine — because AI answers shift, and a single Friday spot-check tells you nothing. You get share-of-voice scores against up to 15 competitors, citation source breakdowns showing which Wikipedia pages or Reddit threads are actually driving recommendations, and a prioritized action list with estimated time and expected impact for each fix. The dashboard is read-only monitoring, not an agent that executes anything — every recommendation still requires you to act. White-label PDF exports and a Looker Studio connector are paid-only features.
Bottom line: Pick this if you need to explain to a founder why AI search isn't sending traffic and what to do about it — skip it if your workflow requires automated remediation or more than six engines covered.
Pricing Plans
Subscription- Price
- $16/mo
Solo
Solo founders tracking one brand
- 1 brand
- 20 prompts
- Twice weekly tracking
- 5 competitors
- 1 seat
Growth
Daily tracking for growing teams
- 3 brands
- 75 prompts
- Daily tracking
- 25 competitors
- 3 seats
- Slack alerts
Pro
Agencies and large teams
- 5 brands
- 200 prompts
- Daily tracking
- 100 competitors
- 5 seats
- White-label PDFs
- API access
- Looker Studio
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Pros
Sign in to edit- Runs each prompt seven times per week per engine, so you see frequency of mention rather than a single snapshot — which means you're not making content decisions based on one result that AI would answer differently an hour later.
- Citation source tracking shows exactly which external URLs are driving AI recommendations, so instead of producing generic content you know whether to fix a Wikipedia gap, seed a Reddit thread, or claim a G2 profile.
- Competitor tracking against up to 15 rivals with sentiment and source attribution, so when share-of-voice drops you can see which competitor gained ground and trace it to a specific source they earned.
- Action items come with expected impact scores and time estimates, so you can prioritize a 20-minute FAQ addition over a multi-hour Wikipedia edit based on what will move the share-of-voice number.
- API and Looker Studio connector (paid-only) means agencies can pipe the data into existing client dashboards rather than asking clients to log into another tool.
Cons
Sign in to edit- CitedSpy covers six AI engines. Profound covers eight. Teams whose clients specifically need Bing AI or additional emerging engines will find the coverage ceiling immediately and migrate — the vendor's own comparison table makes this explicit.
- Every action item the platform generates — Reddit replies, Wikipedia edits, schema additions — requires manual execution. There is no integration that closes the loop. A team running 15 client brands will generate a backlog of recommendations with no workflow to assign, track, or verify completion inside the tool.
- The platform offers no self-hosted option and no open-source layer, so teams with strict data residency requirements or those who need to audit exactly which prompts are being sent to which engines have no path to compliance inside the product.
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About
- Platforms
- Web dashboard
- API Available
- Yes
- Self-Hosted
- No
- Last Updated
- 2026-07-20T03:28:42.851Z
Best For
Who it's for
- Marketing teams tracking brand visibility
- Agencies managing client brands
- Solo founders monitoring one brand
- Teams needing competitor intelligence in AI search
What it does well
- Track daily brand mentions across AI engines
- Compare share of voice with competitors
- Identify websites driving AI recommendations
- Receive actionable recommendations for GEO improvements
- Generate reports for stakeholders
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is CitedSpy free?
- CitedSpy is a paid tool ($16/mo). A 14-day free trial is available.
- Is CitedSpy open source?
- No — CitedSpy is a closed-source tool. Source code is not publicly available.
- Does CitedSpy have an API?
- Yes. CitedSpy exposes a developer API. See the official documentation at https://citedspy.com for details.
- What platforms does CitedSpy support?
- CitedSpy is available on: Web dashboard.
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Most teams discover their AI search problem the same way: a founder pastes a ChatGPT screenshot showing a competitor’s name where theirs should be, and nobody has data to respond with. CitedSpy closes that gap. You add a domain, the tool auto-detects competitors and generates starter prompts, then runs those prompts daily across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, and Grok. The output is a share-of-voice score, sentiment tracking, citation sources, and a ranked list of specific actions — not generic advice, but things like “reply in this Reddit thread” or “update this Wikipedia paragraph that drives 7.8% of AI recommendations for your category.”
The citation source layer is the feature that separates CitedSpy from a spreadsheet. Knowing your brand gets mentioned 30% of the time matters less than knowing that a single G2 page or Wikipedia paragraph is the reason a competitor gets mentioned 60% of the time. The tool surfaces exactly which URLs AI engines are pulling from when they recommend — or skip — your brand, so you know where to focus rather than guessing.
The tool fits marketing teams and agencies who need to report on AI visibility without building their own prompt-running infrastructure. It does not fit teams who want more than six engines covered — the vendor’s own comparison table acknowledges Profound covers eight. It also does not automate any of the recommended fixes; every action item still requires a human to execute. Teams with a developer who can maintain a custom monitoring setup will hit the tool’s ceiling when they need engine coverage or prompt volumes the platform doesn’t expose.