For US companies — AI Search Optimization (AEO/GEO)

Working with us from the US is effortless

Clear Cited runs AI Search Optimization (AEO/GEO) for US B2B SaaS and dev-tools companies from Markham, Ontario — cross-border is a non-event. US-market measurement by default, USD billing, W-8BEN paperwork handled. Here's exactly how it works.

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Why Clear Cited

The five levers behind share of model

We get you recommended across the 5 AI engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Grok — plus Google's AI surfaces (AI Overviews & AI Mode), measured separately — and here is the honest system beneath it: what you are actually paying for, and the real limit on each.

Every engine and surface your buyers actually use

the AI engines your buyers use, plus Google's AI surfaces and Bing's Copilot answers — each measured separately, never summed into one score

The roster is five AI engines plus two answer surfaces — AI Overviews and Microsoft Copilot — reported separately and never summed into an engine count. The five engines are measured today. Both surfaces are positioned, not measured: an engine is one foundation-model family we query directly, a surface is a product that renders an answer, and a surface never becomes an engine by being added up. Outside the labelled separate-surface panel we name the Google surface plainly as AI Overviews, because naming it beside the engines would read as an engine claim.

A method you can reproduce

pre-registered prompt sets with published hashes, run counts and a confidence interval on every figure, and null results published on the same terms as positive ones - as standing practice, not a one-off study

Confidence intervals are reported honestly wide and named per product: presence uses a Wilson interval in both products; share-of-model uses a percentile bootstrap in the paid audit and a Wilson interval in the public Index, whose pooled denominator is clustered - so those Index intervals are narrower than a cluster-corrected estimate would give, and we say so. We never narrow a CI to look more certain than the data is.

All four tiers AI cites from

we work all four tiers AI cites from — not just the fraction of your presence you directly own

This is SCOPE — the tiers we work, not an outcome we promise. The per-tier percentages are illustrative (Yext-sourced) and the earned tier (news & forums) is best-effort, never guaranteed.

Almost none of your time

your time required is almost none — sign-off graduates to become yours by default once we've earned a track record, with continued sampling

A human approves every client deliverable until a clean track record is earned; graduation is opt-in, default-off, and reversible — client-facing and published content never reaches unattended auto (AI speed, human-approved).

A system that compounds

the system learns which of your pages get cited and compounds that signal every cycle

Honest-empty until measured — attribution shows the real citations a piece earns, with the engine, prompt and date, only once they are actually earned; no projected compounding curve.

The system compounds — see how it learns which of your pages get cited → · the four tiers of citations we work →

Why working with us from the US is effortless

US-market measurement by default

Our AI Visibility Index runs are measured in the US/English region — the answers we measure are the ones your US buyers see. Your audit's money-prompt measurement uses the same setup, so the data reflects your actual market, not ours.

No tax withholding — W-8BEN provided

We give you a completed W-8BEN certifying foreign status. Under the Canada–US treaty (no US presence), there's nothing to withhold and no extra forms on your side.

Billed in USD

Pay by card (Stripe) or bank transfer (Wise). Invoices and prices are in US dollars — no FX math.

No US sales tax

We provide a professional service with no US nexus, so US sales tax doesn't apply.

Fully async, on your clock

Email + shared docs. We work on Eastern Time (Markham, ON) — the same business day as New York. No standing calls, no time-zone juggling. Sign a one-page agreement and we start in days.

Ready when you are.

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Informational, not tax advice; your own advisor governs your filings. We keep documentation of non-resident status as required.

Most AEO optimizes only the slice of citations you own. Here's the whole map — all four tiers AI cites from, and how much of it we actually work.

Clear Cited works all four tiers

Coverage 100% · Control ~86% · Influence ~94% · Earned (best-effort)

Most AEO optimizes the ~44% you own. Clear Cited works all four tiers.

Control ~86% · influence ~94% · the last ~6% earned — worked, not guaranteed.

Source: Yext (6.8M citations), 2025-10 — a third-party citation-tier mix, not measured by our AI Visibility Index (which tracks share-of-model); illustrative of the tier split until we publish our own measured citation-source mix

Coverage is the scope of what we work — never a control or ranking guarantee. · See the full Citation Control Map →

The transparency wedge

A method you can reproduce

pre-registered prompt sets with published hashes, run counts and a confidence interval on every figure, and null results published on the same terms as positive ones - as standing practice, not a one-off study

at least 10 runs per engine (12 by default), spent adaptively — more on high-variance engines, fewer on stable ones, never below a 5-run floor Every presence figure carries a Wilson 95% confidence interval. Share of model carries a percentile bootstrap 95% confidence interval in the paid audit, and a Wilson 95% confidence interval in the public AI Visibility Index — the method matched to the metric and named per product, both computed from the actual runs.

Confidence intervals are reported honestly wide and named per product: presence uses a Wilson interval in both products; share-of-model uses a percentile bootstrap in the paid audit and a Wilson interval in the public Index, whose pooled denominator is clustered - so those Index intervals are narrower than a cluster-corrected estimate would give, and we say so. We never narrow a CI to look more certain than the data is.

We publish our run counts, our uncertainty and our pre-registered prompt sets. Across the 8 providers we checked on 2026-08-02: run counts 4 of 8 verified; 4 not verified; uncertainty on published figures 2 of 8 verified; 6 not verified; the prompt set published with the results 0 of 8 verified; 8 not verified. The full comparison, with each vendor’s own wording →

That is the wedge: a number you can re-run and get back. See the full method →

Hold us to it, and hold the others to it too — the 12 questions to ask anyone selling AI visibility, each one answered here with a link.