Trademarks
ChatGPT is a registered trademark of OpenAI, OpCo, LLC. Claude is a trademark of Anthropic PBC. Perplexity is a trademark of Perplexity AI, Inc. Google, Google Search Console, and Google AI Overviews are trademarks of Google LLC. Stripe is a registered trademark of Stripe, Inc. Cloudflare is a trademark of Cloudflare, Inc.
BCited is an independent platform unaffiliated with any of these companies. Use of these names is descriptive and does not imply endorsement, sponsorship, or partnership.
Data we collect and how we use it
When you sign in with Google, you grant BCited read-only access to your Google Search Console properties via the webmasters.readonly OAuth scope. We use this access to pull the queries your site ranks for, your impressions, your clicks, and your average positions over the last 90 days. The full list of data we read is documented in our privacy policy.
Pro users who opt into the Google Sheets export feature additionally grant the drive.file scope. This is the most restrictive Drive scope Google offers — BCited can only read or modify files it itself creates via the export button. We never read your other Drive files.
We don't train AI models on your data. We don't sell your data. We don't share your data with third parties except as required to render the product — specifically:
- Your queries are embedded by OpenAI's
text-embedding-3-smallmodel via Cloudflare AI Gateway to power topical clustering. The embedding text is the query string itself. - Your tracked AEO prompts are sent to OpenAI (
gpt-4.1-mini), Anthropic (claude-sonnet-4-6), and Perplexity (sonar) when you click Run Now or when the daily cron runs them. We do not include your account email, project name, or any PII in the prompt payload. - Your brief-generation requests are sent to OpenAI's
gpt-4.1-minivia AI Gateway, including the cluster's query list and (if available) the URLs already ranking for those queries.
All AI provider calls go through Cloudflare AI Gateway, which adds caching, retries, and per-prompt analytics. Cached responses are stored on Cloudflare's infrastructure for 24 hours by default.
Performance limitations
BCited's AEO citation tracker reports what AI engines returned at the time of each run. Results vary day to day, prompt to prompt, and engine to engine. We don't guarantee that any tactic, page change, or schedule will produce a specific increase in citations, mentions, or organic search performance. The product surfaces signal; the editorial work to act on that signal is yours.
Authority scores, ownership statuses, and quick-win recommendations are derived from Google Search Console data and our own scoring heuristics. They are estimates, not predictions. Google's own ranking algorithm is the source of truth; our scoring is a useful lens, not a replacement.
Third-party services
BCited depends on the following third parties to operate. Outages or policy changes by any of them can affect product functionality:
- Cloudflare — Workers, D1, Vectorize, KV, R2, AI Gateway, Email Sending. Our entire data plane.
- Google — OAuth provider, Search Console data source, Sheets export target.
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity — AI providers for embeddings, brief generation, and AEO citation tracking.
- Stripe — payment processing for Pro subscriptions. We never see or store your card number.
Affiliate disclosure
BCited does not currently participate in any affiliate programs. We don't earn commissions when you sign up for any of the third-party services mentioned in our content. If this ever changes, we'll update this page and disclose affiliate links inline.
No legal advice
Nothing in BCited, including AI-generated content briefs and analyses, constitutes legal, financial, or compliance advice. Consult appropriate professionals for those domains.
Contact
Questions about this disclosure or anything else: hi@bcited.ai.