Generative Engine Optimization

Make your brandthe answer.

We get you cited inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews. That's where search is going. Search is becoming a conversation. Make sure you're in it.

5
engines monitored
90d
median time to lift
×3.4
avg. citation share
AI search · SaaS · live simulation
monitoring
You
monitoring 5 engines · updated live
live · 5 enginesvertical  SaaS
Queries resolved in AI answerClicks to blue linksProjection
HISTORICALPROJECTION0%25%50%75%100%ChatGPT launchGoogle AI Overviews launchPROJECTED CROSSOVER~2028 · forecastQ1 2020Q1 2023MAY 2024NOV 202520262028
The Shift · 2024 → 2028

Search has been rewritten.
Most brands haven't noticed.

Every month, more decisions start and end inside an AI answer. The ten blue links are becoming ten sentences, and your brand is either in them, or it isn't.

~0%
zero-click rate on AI-answered queries. Users get their answer without visiting a single site.
Semrush · 2025
0%
of all Google queries now trigger an AI Overview, up from 6.5% in January 2025.
Semrush · Nov 2025
0M+
weekly active users on ChatGPT alone. The largest shift in how people find information since Google.
OpenAI · Feb 2026
0%
of B2B buyers used AI during a recent purchase decision.
Gartner · 2025
“Rank one” means nothing when no one scrolls. The new ground truth is whether the model says your name, unprompted.
What we do

Four disciplines.
One outcome.

Outcomes, not mechanics. We talk about where your brand shows up, and we own everything it takes to get you there.

01

Citability engineering

Structure your content so models retrieve and quote it verbatim.

❝ cited passage

We rebuild your semantic surface (entities, passages, schema, source hygiene) so AI engines can lift clean, self-contained answers from your pages instead of paraphrasing a competitor's.

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02

Multi-engine monitoring

Track your presence across all five AI engines, daily.

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Every day we run your critical queries against ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot. You see who's cited, what's quoted, and where your share is moving, with deltas that survive model refreshes.

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03

Technical & semantic foundations

Make AI trust you as a source.

Schema / JSON-LD94
llms.txt100
Crawler access88
INP / LCP / CLS92
Authorship76

Schema coverage, llms.txt, crawler access, Core Web Vitals, authorship signals, first-party data markup. The unsexy layer that determines whether a model lets you into the answer at all.

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04

Brand mention expansion

Seed the sources AI trusts.

RedditWikipediaBrandYouTubeG2PubPodcast

AI engines weight Reddit, Wikipedia, YouTube transcripts, industry pubs, G2, and expert roundups heavily. We expand your mention graph through those surfaces. Editorially, never spam.

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Selected work

Brands that became the answer.

B2B SaaSCase · 01
Nomad Stack
project management for design teams
3%at audit
3%in 90 days
citation share across 5 engines
By week 12 ChatGPT was naming us in half of its answers for our category. Sales pipeline reflected it.VP Growth, Nomad Stack
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Clean beauty · DTCCase · 02
Ultra Violette
mineral sunscreen
11%at audit
11%in 120 days
unprompted mentions · 'best sunscreen' queries
The AI engines started agreeing with our reviewers. You can see it in conversion.Founder, Ultra Violette
Read the case study
FintechCase · 03
Ledgerline
freelancer banking
0%at audit
0%in 100 days
inclusion rate in 'best neobank EU' answers
We went from invisible to inevitable inside the answer. CiteSurge moved a KPI we didn't know was moveable.Head of Brand, Ledgerline
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The product

Measure what was
unmeasurable.

Every answer, every engine, every day. One surface for the only question that matters: are you in it?

Nomad Stack · Overview
Citation report
syncing · 5 engines
GEO ScoreQ1 · week 12
0
out of 100
+0 this month
Citability88
Semantic84
Technical91
Mention graph66
AI citation map live
YOUR BRAND
ChatGPT
1,847+12
Claude
1,402+12
Perplexity
963+12
Gemini
1,218+12
Copilot
740+12
Citations · last 30d
6,170
citations · 30d
+28%
vs. prior 30d
0.41
share of voice
Monthly deltaMar 2026 · +142%
This monthLast month
schema · shipped
+142%
citation volume
4.2×
pages indexed by AI
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Pricing

Plans that scale
with your presence.

Starter
Solo founders, small sites
39/mo
billed annually · 468/yr
Monthly audit + one optimization sprint. Core citability work.
  • Monthly citation audit
  • 1 optimization sprint
  • Schema + llms.txt baseline
  • 2 engines deep-tracked
  • Email support
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14-day trial · no card required
Most teams choose this
Pro
Growing brands & B2B SaaS
399/mo
billed annually · 4788/yr
Continuous monitoring, monthly deltas, schema + llms.txt + citability engineering, brand mention tracking.
  • All 5 engines tracked daily
  • Continuous citability engineering
  • Brand mention graph expansion
  • Monthly delta reports
  • Cmd-K dashboard access
  • Slack support
Start trial
14-day trial · no card required
Agency
Networks, agencies, multi-brand
Custom
Advanced multi-property dashboards, white-label reports, API + data access, priority ops.
  • Unlimited properties
  • White-label reporting
  • API + data export
  • Priority ops pod
  • Custom integrations
Talk to sales
Enterprise
Global brands scaling GEO
Custom
Dedicated strategist, multi-market campaigns, executive reporting, SLAs, security review.
  • Dedicated GEO strategist
  • Multi-market campaigns
  • Executive reporting cadence
  • SLA + security review
  • SSO + audit log
Talk to sales
Manifesto · CiteSurge

Search is becoming
a conversation.
Make sure you're in it.

The web grew up around ten blue links. An entire economy (SEO, content mills, affiliate networks) depends on the assumption that people will scroll. They won't. Not for much longer.

The models are the new surface. They decide which names enter the answer, and which ones don't exist. That decision is the next decade of search, compressed into a sentence.

We built CiteSurge because that sentence deserves a serious discipline behind it. Not tips. Not hacks. An agency that engineers outcomes across every engine, every day.

— the CiteSurge team