The process
How Clear Cited works
By Logan Adams, Founder Reviewed & updated Measurement-first: figures are median share-of-model with 95% confidence intervals. How we measure.
A clear, reproducible process — not a black box. We measure where AI puts you, then run the full-stack engine for you: SEO foundation, content, and authority. Here's exactly what we do, what you get, and where your time is needed (almost nowhere).
The four steps
1. Money prompts
We build the exact questions your buyers ask AI ("best observability tool for Kubernetes," "Datadog alternatives") from your category language and sales context. Garbage prompts = useless data, so this is where judgment matters most.
2. Measure every engine
Each prompt runs 10+ times across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Grok. We report the median with a 95% confidence interval — because a single AI answer is noise. How we measure →
3. Diagnose
Three layers: technical (can AI bots reach + parse you), entity (does AI know who you are), and off-page (where competitors get cited and you don't — ~95% of citations are third-party).
4. Fix, build & monitor
A prioritized 30/60/90 roadmap we execute done-for-you: SEO foundation, answer-first content, and off-site authority — AI-accelerated then you-approved before anything ships — then weekly tracking so your share of model climbs and stays as the engines shift (roughly 40–60% of AI-cited sources change month over month (Profound)).
Watch
The process, as a film
The same steps as a 60-second silent film — captions included, illustrative data labelled in-film.
What you get
A branded report with your AI-visibility score, share-of-model vs. named competitors (with confidence intervals), your SEO foundation (technical, on-page, SERP, backlink/domain), the exact prompts where you're invisible, the third-party sources the AI pulled from, and a prioritized 30/60/90 roadmap. For retainers: a monthly report tracking movement, plus the work done for you — content production, on-page, and off-site authority. See the full-stack service →
What's included
The outcome is share of model. Here's the engine beneath it.
AI-answer optimization
The wedge — we get you named and cited in AI answers
SEO foundation
The ground AEO stands on
Included
Done-for-you content
We write & publish — not just brief
Published across 30+ channels — your accounts, tuned per platform
On your domain
Off-site authority
Listing & review sites the models cite
Curated entity work — Boost 30+ · Growth 60+ · Authority 100+
Digital PR — earned coverage (best-effort)
Timelines — what to expect
We begin within 1 business day of onboarding + payment. AI-speed, you-approved: we move fast, and you review and approve every number and recommendation before it publishes.
- Free AI-Visibility Teardown — within 2 business days of submission
- Starter Audit — within ~3 business days of inputs + deposit
- Full Audit (AEO + SEO) — within ~5 business days of inputs + deposit
- Comprehensive Audit — within 5-7 business days (includes page rewrites)
- Retainer onboarding — tracking begins within 2 business days; first monthly report within 7 calendar days of onboarding
- Each content piece — ~3 business days from approval
Timelines start once we have your required inputs and payment; late or incomplete inputs extend delivery by one business day per business day delayed. See our full delivery terms.
Want the whole picture in one doc? Download services & pricing (PDF) — every service, price, timeline and platform, single-sourced.
Prefer to see the actual work? See our work — the full handoff (audit, data, content and rationale) as designed panels, or the single-page showcase (a fictional sample client; numbers are illustrative).
Reviewing content before it goes live
Every piece we create for you is reviewed and approved by a human before it's published — nothing we make for you ever goes live unapproved. Opt into content sign-off and we send each draft about 3 weeks ahead of its publish date, giving you roughly a week to review and request changes before it goes live; as we build a track record on a content type, that sign-off becomes yours by default. (Approve early and it publishes sooner — we don't make you wait the full window.) See pricing & packages →
Common question
Do I get to review content before it’s published?
Yes. Nothing we create for you is ever published without a recorded human approval — yours, or ours on your behalf while we’re first earning your trust. Opt into content sign-off at onboarding and we send each piece about three weeks before its publish date, with around a week for you to review and request changes; once we’ve built a track record on a content type, that sign-off is yours by default. You can change this preference at any time.
Your time required: almost none
Send your domain + competitors, approve the money prompts, and review the work as it ships. No standing calls. Async and email-first. US clients: W-8BEN + USD billing. Audits from $500, done-for-you retainers from $1,500/mo. See pricing & packages →
The system behind the service
Real numbers from the systems that run the work - measured, not marketing.
AI engines measured
runs/prompt (adaptive; 5-run floor)
categories in our Index
QA gates before publish
source-request platforms watched (best-effort)
listening signals on the radar (best-effort)
Best-effort services (PR, forums, earned placements) are worked, not guaranteed — placements never guaranteed. Every figure here is computed live from the system, never invented.
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 →