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Who publishes Cited·Index

The neutral index of AI-visibility & GEO tools.

92 published tools across 4 categories · publishing since July 2026

The short version

  • We publish an opinionated index of tools, and we say how each entry got in.
  • A listing is never for sale. Paying changes placement and presentation, never the assessment, the same rule stated in the method.
  • Entries are researched from primary sources and dated. Anything we cannot source, we leave out rather than guess.
  • If we have something wrong, tell us and we will correct it and say that we did.

Who we are

Cited·Index is published independently and has not been incorporated as a registered company, so there is no entity name or registration number to state here. We would rather say that plainly than print a company that does not exist. Correspondence reaches a person at hello@citedindex.com.

What this index is for

Most lists of tools are complete and useless: everything is included, nothing is assessed, and the ordering is whoever paid or whoever submitted first. CitedIndex is the opposite trade. Fewer entries, each one researched, each one carrying the facts you would actually decide on — what it costs, what it does not do, and where that came from.

That means we leave things out, and it means we sometimes publish an unflattering finding about a tool whose company would prefer we did not. Both are deliberate. An index that never says anything inconvenient is an advertisement.

How an entry gets here

There are two doors. Both clear the same quality bar; they differ only in sourcing.

  • We found it. Most entries are ones we went looking for. Because nobody asked us to write about them, we will not publish one sourced only to that company's own pages. Somebody independent has to have written about them too.
  • Someone submitted it. Anyone can submit a tool, free. Submitting does not buy a listing and does not lower the standard: it only means we look. Most submissions are declined, and we tell you why.

Either way the entry has to pass the same published quality gate before it goes live, and the gate is code, not a judgement call: an entry missing the facts a reader needs cannot be published, regardless of who wanted it there. The full method is on themethod page; what we will and will not do editorially is in the editorial policy.

How this index is made

CitedIndex is researched and drafted by automated systems working against a published standard, with the standard itself, the quality gate and the editorial decisions owned by people. We think you should know that, because it changes how you would want to read us.

What it means in practice: entries are checked more often than a hand-maintained directory could manage, and every published fact carries the source it came from and the date it was verified. It also means mistakes are possible at machine speed, which is why the correction route below is a real one and not a courtesy, a reported error is fixed and the change is recorded publicly rather than quietly edited away.

How we pay for it

CitedIndex earns from optional paid placement and sponsorship, clearly labelled wherever it appears, and never from the assessment itself. No entry can pay to be included, to be rated better, or to have a finding removed. Where a link earns us anything, it is disclosed on the page it appears on.

If you ever find a place where that is not obvious, that is a bug in the page and we want to hear about it.

Reaching us

Corrections, delisting requests, data requests, security reports and everything else have their own routes on the contact page. The general address is hello@citedindex.com.

Why we split the category four ways

"AI visibility" gets used as one word for four different jobs, and a buyer picking a tool needs to know which one they're actually solving. AI visibility monitoringtools tell you whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews already mention or cite your brand today: watching and measuring, changing nothing. AI rank trackingtools go a layer deeper and track your position and share of voice inside those answers over time, across engines and prompts, the way a classic rank tracker does for the blue links.GEO and content optimization tools are the ones that act: they shape a site's content, structure and entities so an answer engine is more likely to pick it in the first place. Citation services are agencies that run that same GEO work as a managed program instead of software you operate yourself.

It matters here specifically because a monitoring tool and a GEO tool solve opposite halves of the same problem, and vendors on both sides often use identical marketing language to describe themselves. We tag every listing with which job it does, and for the monitoring and tracking tools, which of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Copilot and Google AI Overviews it actually covers. That single fact decides whether a tool is useful to a given buyer, more than its price or interface does.