How is CiteRank AI different from Competitor 1, Competitor 2 or other SEO tools?

Legacy SEO tools measure Google rankings. CiteRank AI measures whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews actually recommend a brand when buyers ask a question. The two are complementary, but AI search is a separate surface with its own ranking signals that traditional rank trackers do not audit.

Which AI engines does CiteRank AI track?

CiteRank tracks citations across ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, xAI Grok and Meta AI. Each prompt is fired 10 to 30 times per engine to control for model variance.

How accurate is the visibility score?

The visibility score is a composite of citation share, recommendation order and sentiment, aggregated across 10 to 30 replays per prompt per engine, and is reported with 95% confidence bands so users can distinguish signal from model variance.

Can I track competitors with CiteRank AI?

Yes. Starter tracks 5 competitors, Growth tracks 25, and Agency is unlimited across 10 workspaces. There is no per-competitor charge on any plan.

What does the free audit include?

A 14-day free trial includes AI citation audits across keywords and all tracked LLMs, monitoring, PDF export, and a competitor view showing which brands AI cites instead of yours. No credit card is required to start.

Retail · Industry benchmark

Stage 0 · Framework live · benchmark pending

AI now answers 'where should I buy X?' — does it ever say your store?

CiteRank measures who AI engines recommend in e-commerce & d2c — across ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, in both grounded and ungrounded modes — and fixes why it isn't you.

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3 × 2

Engines × modes (grounded + ungrounded)

250+

E-Commerce & D2C buyer prompts per run

Weekly

Re-runs · 95% confidence bands

Who AI recommends today

The e-commerce & d2c leaderboard, measured.

Top-5 brand mention rate, first-mention rate and Share of Voice — straight from the citerank-bench scoring tables, recomputed weekly.

Benchmark for E-Commerce & D2C runs with our first founding customer in this vertical. The leaderboard below is an illustrative sample built from the blueprint's brand registry — numbers are placeholders, not measurements.

#
Brand
Mention rate
First-mention
Share of Voice

01

Amazon

62%

31%

34%

02

Flipkart

48%

22%

24%

03

Myntra

39%

14%

18%

04

Ajio

27%

14%

05

Nykaa

18%

10%

Illustrative sample — benchmark not yet completed.

Sample prompt set

Real e-commerce & d2c prompts, three engines, one question: did you get cited?

Buyer prompt
ChatGPT
Gemini
Claude
You cited?

"best site to buy running shoes online in India"

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Not yet

"trusted D2C brands for organic cotton bedsheets"

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Not yet

"is it safe to buy from {brand}.com?"

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Not yet

"{brand} vs Amazon — where is it cheaper and faster?"

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Not yet

Where the citations leak

Three failure modes specific to retail.

01

Marketplace capture: AI cites Amazon/Flipkart/Myntra instead of your D2C site.

02

'Is it safe to buy from {brand}.com?' — AI answers from forum scraps, not your trust signals.

03

Category-page SEO collapses inside AI Overviews; PLP traffic moves to the answer panel.

Methodology

How a e-commerce & d2c benchmark gets built.

01

Onboard

URL, competitors, prompt seed list. 5 minutes.

02

Audit

250+ prompts × 3 engines × 2 modes, 10–30 replays each.

03

Fix

Schema, llms.txt, entity hygiene, content briefs — shipped.

04

Re-run

Weekly re-runs, deltas with 95% confidence bands.

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Illustrative pattern

What a 90-day citation delta looks like.

Illustrative pattern based on our methodology — first cohort results publish Q4 2026.

Before

1 / 25

Cited in 1 of 25 high-intent e-commerce & d2c prompts across 3 engines (4%).

After · 90 days

9 / 25

Cited in 9 of the same 25 prompts (36%) — schema, llms.txt and entity fixes shipped over 3 weekly re-runs.

Founding cohort

E-Commerce & D2C case study publishes after the first 90-day window.

We don't ship anonymous success stories. Every case study card on this page becomes a real logo, real prompts and real deltas after the customer's 90-day window closes.

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Insights

Coming in the E-Commerce & D2C visibility report.

Article · in the e-commerce & d2c report

Marketplace capture, quantified: 25 'where to buy' prompts across ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude

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Article · in the e-commerce & d2c report

The D2C GEO playbook: schema, llms.txt and the 'is it safe to buy from' prompt

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Article · in the e-commerce & d2c report

AI Overviews and the death of the category page (and what replaces it)

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FAQ

E-Commerce & D2C questions, answered.

How is CiteRank different from marketplace listings?+

Those surfaces optimise for their own funnel. CiteRank measures how often ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude actually name your brand for e-commerce & d2c buyer prompts, then fixes the schema, entity and content gaps so the engines have something to cite besides the aggregator.

Which segments / cities do you cover for this vertical?+

We start with your 250+ highest-intent buyer prompts — segmented by city, persona and price band as relevant — and expand the prompt graph weekly. Coverage scope is set during the 5-minute onboarding.

How fast to first new citation?+

First measurable citation lift is typically 3–5 weeks after the first fix pass (schema, llms.txt, entity, content briefs). Re-runs are weekly with 95% confidence bands so you can attribute deltas to specific fixes.

Is our data sent to LLMs?+

Only the public buyer prompts we run on your behalf reach the engines — exactly what a prospective customer would type. We do not send your CRM, customer data, or internal documents to any LLM.