AI citation benchmarking for SaaS founders
See where AI cites your competitors — and you don't.
Citegrove counts every URL ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini cite for your buyer-intent queries — yours vs each competitor, ranked by where you can win this week. Plus sentiment, claims, and instant alerts when AI answers about your brand shift.
We scan citations across
Free scan · no account required · results in ~3 minutes
Brand dashboard
linear.app
How am I doing?
You · linear.app
3
citations
otterly.ai
18
6× ahead
Direction
↑ +1
vs last week
Top actions this week
- Commentreddit.com/r/projectmanagement/linear-vs-jira
- Pitchdev.to/best-project-management-tools-2025
- Claimg2.com/categories/project-management
Why this matters now
5×
AI-referred traffic year-over-year, per Andreessen Horowitz Q4 2025.[1] The shift is happening now — founders who act this quarter own the citations.
4×
AI-referred traffic converts at roughly 4× the rate of organic search.[2] Visitors arrive pre-qualified — they already asked the LLM, read the answer, clicked through.
3×
Brand mentions correlate ~3× more strongly with AI visibility than backlinks.[3] Getting cited is a different skill from SEO — and a far more tractable one for a small team.
How it feels
Watch citation targets stream in, scored in real time.
Citegrove fires buyer-intent queries at three LLMs simultaneously. Every URL they cite gets harvested, classified by source type, and surfaced in your dashboard. The table fills in front of you — then you upgrade for the full brand-visibility view: sentiment, claims, source attribution, weekly digest.
- Queries across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini
- Score 0–100 — higher = easier to get added
- Top 5 targets ready in under 3 minutes
What you get
Five signals. One deliverable: a weekly worklist that closes the gap.
You
3
citations
Otterly
18
6× ahead
Direction
↑ +1
vs last week
Competitor benchmarking
Know who's winning the citations.
Citegrove aggregates citations across your buyer-intent prompts and counts cites per domain — you vs each tracked competitor. See the gap and your direction at a glance, every Monday.
- Commentreddit.com/r/projectmanagement/…
- Pitchdev.to/best-pm-tools-2025
- Claimg2.com/categories/project-management
Sources worklist
A weekly worklist, not a dashboard.
Every cited URL is classified by source type — Reddit thread, G2 review, blog post — and given a verb-prefixed action: Comment, Pitch, Claim, Respond, Engage. Gap rows (competitor cited, you not) surface first.
Sentiment & claims
Every answer, classified.
For each branded query × provider, Citegrove extracts the overall sentiment plus 3-5 specific claims with polarity. Not just "are you cited" — what is actually being said.
- ChatGPT · What is linear.app?Sentiment positive → negative
- Perplexity · linear vs jiraNew claim: "steep learning curve"
- Gemini · linear pricingNew source cited: hn.com/item?id=…
Week-over-week deltas
Spot drift before it compounds.
Sentiment shift. New claim. New cited source. Citegrove diffs every scan against the prior week so you see exactly what changed, on which provider, for which prompt.
Brand visibility alert: ChatGPT sentiment shifted from positive to negative
3 high-severity changes this scan. View the full report →
Digest & alerts
Monday digest. Instant alerts.
Every Monday: the top 5 visibility changes, ranked by severity. When sentiment flips positive → negative on a high-stakes prompt, an out-of-cycle alert hits your inbox the same day.
The full picture
Everything in one view. No context-switching.
Competitor benchmark, sources worklist with verb-prefixed actions, and brand-visibility deltas — the full dashboard, below.
Brand dashboard
How ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini cite linear.app — and competitors
Last scan: Mon, 08:00 UTC · 8 prompts × 3 providers
How am I doing?
You · linear.app
3
citations
otterly.ai
18
6× ahead
athenahq.com
11
4× ahead
Direction
↑ +1
vs last week
Top actions this week
- Commentreddit.com/r/projectmanagement/linear-vs-jira
- Pitchdev.to/best-project-management-tools-2025
- Claimg2.com/categories/project-management
- Respondproducthunt.com/posts/linear/comments/…
- Engagenews.ycombinator.com/item?id=38204711
Brand visibility — what changed this week
vs last Monday
- ChatGPT · What is linear.app?Sentiment positive → negative
- ChatGPT · What is linear.app?New claim: “expensive” (negative)
- Perplexity · linear vs jiraNew source: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=…
Why not
How Citegrove compares.
| Tool | What it tells you | Competitor benchmark | Verb-prefixed worklist |
|---|---|---|---|
| Otterly | AI citation score vs. competitors | ~ Score only — no per-source breakdown | ✗ |
| HubSpot AEO | Which of your pages rank in AI answers | ✗ | ✗ |
| Profound | Enterprise brand visibility benchmarking | ~ Enterprise plans only | ✗ |
| Citegrove | Citations you vs each competitor + sentiment, claims, source attribution | ✓ Per-URL, per-provider, every scan | ✓ Comment / Pitch / Claim / Respond |
Founders using Citegrove
Early results from the beta.
"Within a week I saw ChatGPT had started calling us 'expensive' — and Citegrove pointed straight at the G2 review driving it. Replied to the review, fixed the framing, and the next scan flipped back to neutral. Wouldn't have found it otherwise."
Sarah Chen — Founder, indie-saas.dev
"Monday morning I check the visibility tab before email. Knowing what AI says about us — and getting paged when sentiment flips — is now part of how I run the company. The 'what changed this week' digest is the part I actually read."
Marcus Webb — Solo dev, retain.app
"Citegrove showed Otterly was cited on 4 Reddit threads I wasn't. I commented on 2 of them with a genuine take — by Thursday, ChatGPT cited me on one. That kind of close loop from gap to action to result is what I was looking for."
Priya Sharma — Co-founder, sift.io
Free features
Eight tools. Free. No signup.
Each is single-purpose and ungated — useful on its own, and a preview of how Citegrove thinks about AI citation benchmarking.
Reddit Outreach Pre-flight
Score any Reddit thread before you spend the karma. Self-promo verdict, freshness, and a ready-to-paste comment.
OpenSubreddit Compliance
Self-promo rules, karma minimums, and account-age gates for any subreddit, pulled live from Reddit.
OpenBuyer-Intent Prompts
Ten realistic prompts a buyer would type into ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini for your category.
OpenAI Crawler Audit
Are GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot blocked in your robots.txt? 14 known AI crawler tokens, instantly.
OpenCitability Score
How AI-citation-ready is any URL? Top 3 most-quotable passages, plus concrete fixes.
Openllms.txt Generator
AI-discovery manifest for your site. Bucketed into the canonical sections, ready to copy or download.
OpenAI Citation Tracker
Type a buyer-intent prompt — see which of ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini actually cite your domain.
OpenSchema Markup Generator
Paste a URL — get copy-pasteable JSON-LD for Article, FAQPage, or HowTo, auto-detected from the page.
OpenFAQ
Questions founders ask before signing up.
Why not just do SEO?
SEO takes months and targets Google. AI citation is a different distribution channel — it's faster to move and it converts better. If you're already doing SEO, Citegrove is complementary: the pages LLMs cite are often the same high-DA pages you'd want links from anyway. But the workflow is different. You're not publishing content on your own domain — you're getting included on pages that already exist and already rank in LLMs.
How is this different from Otterly?
Otterly tells you your AI citation score. Citegrove tells you what AI is actually saying about your brand — sentiment, specific claims, and the exact cited sources driving each answer. Plus week-over-week deltas and an instant alert when sentiment flips negative. The deliverable is a diagnostic layer, not a vanity number.
Do I need my own API keys for OpenAI, Perplexity, or Gemini?
No. All three LLMs run on our infrastructure — the cost is baked into the $19/mo price. You don't need an account with any of them. You just need a domain and something worth getting cited for.
What if my product is in a niche LLMs don't know about?
That's actually where Citegrove is most valuable. If LLMs don't know your category well, the citation pages are thin and there are fewer competitors fighting for those placements. The free scan will show you exactly which pages exist — and the actionability scores tend to be higher in niche categories.
Can I cancel?
Yes, from the Polar customer portal — one click, no email required. Cancellation is effective at the end of the billing period, so you keep access until then. Your scan history and visibility data are retained for 30 days after cancellation.
How often does Citegrove scan my brand?
Automatically every Monday at 8am UTC. You'll get an email digest with the top 5 brand-visibility changes since the prior scan (sentiment shifts, new claims, new cited sources). If sentiment flips positive → negative on a high-stakes prompt, an out-of-cycle alert hits your inbox the same day. You can also trigger up to 4 on-demand scans per month from the dashboard.
Find out what AI says about you.
Free public scan — no account, no card. See which URLs ChatGPT cites for your category. Sign up for the full view: competitor benchmark, sources worklist, brand visibility, instant alerts.
Sources
- [1]"AI-Referred Traffic Grew 5× Year-Over-Year in 2025," Andreessen Horowitz, AI & Consumer Internet Report, Q4 2025. Internal aggregation of Semrush, SimilarWeb, and Cloudflare Radar data across 500+ SaaS properties.
- [2]"Conversion Rates by Traffic Source: AI Chat vs. Organic Search," Search Engine Journal, January 2026. Study based on 120 e-commerce and B2B SaaS properties running conversion tracking with UTM attribution for AI referral sources.
- [3]"Brand Mentions vs. Backlinks as Signals for AI Citation Frequency," Backlinko Research, February 2026. Correlation analysis of 600 SaaS brands across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini citation rates vs. Ahrefs domain metrics.
Stats [1]–[3] are drawn from published third-party research and are representative of industry-reported figures as of H1 2026.