# b/cited

> b/cited is an Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and SEO platform for the AI-search era.
> It tracks how ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity cite your site, surfaces the queries you
> already rank for in Google Search Console, and generates citation-friendly content briefs
> that close the gap between "indexed" and "actually cited by AI."

Where SEO asks "do I rank?", AEO asks "do AI assistants mention me when someone asks?".
b/cited measures both — visibility across AI answer engines and topical authority
across Google Search Console — and turns the gap into a concrete weekly editorial loop.

The product is Cloudflare-native end to end (Workers + D1 + Vectorize + Queues + Workflows +
AI Gateway in front of OpenAI/Anthropic/Perplexity). It is independent of and unaffiliated
with OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Google, or Stripe.

## Marketing

- [Homepage](https://bcited.ai/): What b/cited does, the AEO + SEO surfaces it ships, and the Cloudflare-native stack underneath.
- [Pricing](https://bcited.ai/pricing): Free ($0, 1 property), Solo ($39/mo, 1 property + daily AEO), Pro ($99/mo, 5 properties + article writer), Agency ($299/mo, 10 properties + white-label + monthly readiness reports).
- [Site Readiness Scanner](https://bcited.ai/scan): Anonymous public scanner that audits any URL for AEO, SEO, security, and performance signals. Returns a letter grade plus per-check actionable findings.

## AEO Leaderboard

Public, SEO-indexed rankings of which SaaS tools and platforms score highest for AEO readiness. Scanned weekly using the same 30+ signal scanner that powers /scan.

- [Leaderboard index](https://bcited.ai/leaderboard): All 12 industry categories with top-5 previews.
- Categories include: Project Management, CRM, SEO Tools, Email Marketing, E-commerce, Website Builders, Analytics, Customer Support, Design Tools, AI Writing, Hosting & Cloud, HR & Recruiting.
- Each category page shows every domain ranked by overall readiness score with letter grade, overall score, and AEO score.
- Each category page also carries a citation panel: which sites OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity cited when asked a fixed set of five buyer prompts for that category, re-run weekly. That block is engine output (attributed to engine, model and run date), a sample rather than a census, and not a b/cited rating.

## Concepts

The glossary defines the AEO/SEO vocabulary b/cited uses throughout the product.

- [Glossary index](https://bcited.ai/glossary): All concept entries.
- [AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)](https://bcited.ai/glossary/aeo): The practice of getting cited by ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity.
- [Authority Score](https://bcited.ai/glossary/authority-score): The 0–100 weighted measure of topical ownership per cluster.
- [Brand Rank](https://bcited.ai/glossary/brand-rank): Where in an AI answer your domain shows up when it's cited.
- [Citation](https://bcited.ai/glossary/citation): An AI engine's link or domain attribution back to a source.
- [Content Brief](https://bcited.ai/glossary/content-brief): A structured outline b/cited generates from cluster data.
- [Coverage Diff](https://bcited.ai/glossary/coverage-diff): Whether your existing pages already handle a topic, or you need a new one.
- [Topical Cluster](https://bcited.ai/glossary/topical-cluster): A group of related queries that share search intent.
- [Visibility Score](https://bcited.ai/glossary/visibility-score): A composite measure of how often AI engines cite a domain.

## Blog

Long-form analysis of the AEO/SEO landscape — what's changing and what to do about it.

- [Blog index](https://bcited.ai/blog): All posts.
- [What is AEO, and why is it suddenly the conversation?](https://bcited.ai/blog/what-is-aeo-and-why-now): The landscape shift from blue links to synthesized answers.
- [How LLMs decide what to cite](https://bcited.ai/blog/how-llms-decide-what-to-cite): The signals that move a domain from indexed to cited.

## Legal

- [Privacy](https://bcited.ai/privacy): What we collect (Google Search Console read-only via OAuth), how we use it (analysis + briefs only), and what we don't do (no model training on your data).
- [Terms](https://bcited.ai/terms): Standard SaaS terms.
- [Disclosure](https://bcited.ai/disclosure): Trademarks, data-use, and AI-citation performance disclaimers.

## Tools

- [b/cited ChatGPT GPT](https://chatgpt.com/g/g-6a17723505588191911450fc368f6497-b-cited-aeo-auditor): Run a site readiness audit directly inside ChatGPT. Free, no sign-in required.
- [b/cited Claude Code plugin](https://bcited.ai/claude-skill): `claude plugin marketplace add cmunkres/bcited-web && claude plugin install bcited@bcited` adds twelve skills to Claude Code: `/bcited:scan`, `/bcited:explain`, `/bcited:fix`, `/bcited:leaderboard`, `/bcited:citations`, `/bcited:readiness`, `/bcited:glossary`, and with a free account `/bcited:score`, `/bcited:runs`, `/bcited:competitors`, `/bcited:run`, `/bcited:brief`. Free, no API key; source at https://github.com/cmunkres/bcited-web/tree/main/plugin/bcited.
- [b/cited MCP server](https://mcp.bcited.ai/public): Streamable-HTTP MCP endpoint, no account: `scan_site` (rule-based readiness scan of any public URL), `get_leaderboard` / `get_domain_readiness` (the weekly public leaderboard), `get_prompt_citations` (the weekly citation panel per category), `lookup_glossary`. Add with `claude mcp add --transport http bcited https://mcp.bcited.ai/public`; listed in the MCP registry as ai.bcited/bcited.

## Optional

- [Boringhaus](https://boringhaus.com): The portfolio that b/cited is built and operated under.