How it works,
end to end.

Sign in with Google. The OAuth flow requests a single sensitive scope: webmasters.readonly — read-only access to Search Console data on the properties you've verified. Nothing else. No write access, no other APIs, no analytics.

Pick a verified property. b/cited pulls the last 90 days of query + page impression data, the most recent calendar month's URL-level metrics, and the property's verification status. Total time from sign-in to first dashboard view is usually under five minutes.

The encrypted refresh token lives in Cloudflare D1, encrypted with AES-GCM using a key in Cloudflare's secret store. It's used to refresh access on subsequent syncs and for nothing else. Full detail in the privacy policy.

Each query the property pulled gets embedded via OpenAI's text-embedding-3-small (1536 dimensions) and stored in Cloudflare Vectorize. A centroid-greedy clustering pass groups semantically related queries — "schema markup setup" and "structured data implementation" end up in the same cluster even though they share no exact words.

For each cluster, the dashboard surfaces:

• Cluster label (LLM-generated from the top queries)
• Member count + sample queries
• Total impressions, clicks, average position, CTR
• Ownership status — which page on your site (if any) currently ranks; ranking depth across the cluster
• Authority score — composite metric weighting impressions × position × CTR × ownership coherence

This is the structural map. Every other surface — briefs, quick wins, internal-link suggestions — draws from it.

Define a set of tracked prompts — questions a prospective customer might type into ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity. The cron fan-out runs each prompt against all three providers daily; manual runs are available on every tier.

For each run, the citation extractor parses the model response and detects:

• Whether your domain appears in the citation list (the "cite" signal)
• Whether your brand is mentioned in the body without linking (the "mention" signal)
• Citation position when present
• Which competitor domains were cited instead
• The raw answer text, stored for audit

All three signals roll into a per-engine Visibility Score (0–100) and an overall score weighted across providers. Competitor leaderboards show which other brands consistently beat you to citation on the same prompts — the AEO-shaped answer to "who's eating my lunch in this conversation?"

Briefs are the editorial output the dashboard exists to produce. Each brief targets one underserved cluster or content gap and includes:

• The target query set (3-8 queries with shared intent)
• Suggested page structure (H1, H2 sequence, FAQ block, examples)
• Schema types to embed (Article, FAQPage, HowTo, BreadcrumbList depending on intent)
• Internal-link targets — which existing pages on your site should link in, which should link out
• Competitor pages currently ranking, with notes on what's missing from each
• EEAT signals to lean into (author byline, primary-source citations, structured author credentials)

Briefs aren't AI-written copy. They're an editorial outline — the planning layer between data and a real writer (you, your team, a contractor). The pattern is: ingest the data once, generate briefs against it, ship pages, re-ingest in 4–6 weeks to measure.

Eight-category audit producing an A-F letter grade and a full finding list per check:

• Indexing — robots.txt, sitemap, canonical, X-Robots-Tag
• Metadata — title, description, lang, viewport, H1
• Social — Open Graph, Twitter Card completeness
• Schema — JSON-LD presence, Article / FAQPage / Organization / Author coverage
• AEO — llms.txt, ai.txt, AI crawler stance, AI-targeted schema (the AEO-specific category competitors don't have)
• Security — HSTS, X-Frame-Options, CSP, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy
• International — hreflang, lang variants
• Mobile + Performance — viewport, PSI integration for Core Web Vitals

Available as an anonymous public scan (no sign-in, IP-rate-limited) and as a per-project audit inside the dashboard. Pro and Agency tiers get on-demand runs; Agency adds scheduled monthly audits via cron.

Two Agency-only surfaces beyond the higher project cap:

• White-label public Visibility Cards — every project gets a shareable public URL. Pro tier renders it in b/cited's branding. Agency tier lets you override agency name, logo (R2-stored, ≤200KB), accent color. The URL stays the same, the chrome becomes yours.
• Monthly PDF reports — scheduled cron renders a per-project PDF on the 1st of each month covering cluster movement, authority deltas, AEO visibility trends, brief counts, and the latest audit grade. PDFs land in R2 and email-send to the project owner with a 24-hr signed download URL. Recipients list supports additional addresses for client delivery.

Both surfaces are configurable from the Settings page on Agency-tier accounts.