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Can ChatGPT cite your product? A 10-point AI-visibility checklist

AI assistants are becoming the first place buyers ask. If ChatGPT, Perplexity or Grok can't find your product — or find it but can't cite it — you don't exist in that answer.

We built CiteScope to check exactly that: whether AI assistants can find and cite your product, with a 24-hour audit report and a fix checklist (audit $49 one-time, monitoring $19/month): https://race-muse-citescope.vercel.app

Here is the checklist our audit works through — you can self-check most of it today:

  1. Your homepage says what the product is, who it's for, and what it costs — in plain text an LLM can read.
  2. Your product name is consistent everywhere (site, listings, socials). Conflicting names split the citations.
  3. Pricing is on a public page, not locked behind a demo form.
  4. Docs and help pages are public and crawlable.
  5. You have structured data (schema.org) for the product and organization.
  6. You're listed where models look: directories, review sites, "best X tools" roundups.
  7. Third-party pages describe you in their own words — models cite sources, not just your homepage.
  8. Your FAQ answers the exact questions buyers ask an AI ("best tool for…", "X vs Y").
  9. Key pages aren't rendered only in JavaScript that crawlers skip.
  10. You re-check after changes — AI answers drift as models and sources update.

Most products fail at least three of these, usually #2, #3 and #7.

If you want the full check done for you — three AI assistants, evidence for every point, fixes ranked by impact — that's the CiteScope audit. Results in 24 hours.

Questions about AI visibility? Ask in the comments and I'll answer with what we've seen.

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