# CiteLadder

> CiteLadder connects observed AI answers and citations with website findings, first-party search data, optional external research and reviewable Agent workflows. Available engines and capabilities depend on account access and configuration. Nothing publishes automatically.

CiteLadder is a Cube27 product.
Parent: Cube27 IT Private Limited (https://www.cube27.com/)
Registered office: Plot No. 12, Mulberry Gardens 1, Magarpatta City, Hadapsar, Pune, Maharashtra 411013, India
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/citeladder
X: https://x.com/CiteLadderAI
Product: Abhineet Jain, Product Head (https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhineet-jain/)
Company: Arpan Jain, Founder & CEO (https://www.linkedin.com/in/arpan-jain-17938b43/)
Contact: contact@citeladder.com

## What CiteLadder is

- AI visibility software for observed mentions, citations, and share under comparable audit conditions, with answer sentiment, themes and recommended rate, and ChatGPT Search ads recorded apart from citations.
- AI Traffic: GA4 referrals from recognized AI assistants and, on paid plans, AI crawler requests from the site’s own logs.
- Site Health: crawl, page-kind classification, deterministic checks, issues, recrawl verification.
- Content Intelligence: Agent-supported briefs, proposed page edits and internal-link plans for human review.
- Demand Intelligence: Google Search Console and GA4 beside owned-page evidence.
- Agent: chats and reviewable outputs over the same read tools as the MCP server. It keeps no second knowledge store and never publishes autonomously.

## What CiteLadder is not

- Not a claim that a content change caused rankings, traffic, or revenue.
- The public trial is limited AI visibility access for seven days, not access to the whole platform. Agent access is not included.
- AI crawler analytics need the site's own logs, sent from a Cloudflare Worker, Cloudflare Logpush, an Amazon CloudFront log stream, Google Cloud load balancer and Cloud Run logs, a webhook or a file upload; CiteLadder does not observe crawlers on its own. Commerce requires eligible projects. Optional external research requires scope-and-cost review and separate confirmation.
- Not closed: the source is public under AGPL-3.0 at https://github.com/abhij1306/CiteLadder. The self-hosted build is single-workspace with no login and binds to localhost, so it must sit behind an authenticating proxy before anyone else can reach it; the hosted version runs at citeladder.com with accounts and workspace authorization.

## When to use CiteLadder

Use CiteLadder when a user with a CiteLadder account wants to:

- Check whether ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Google AI Overviews mention, cite or recommend their brand for buyer prompts, and which sources those answers cite.
- Compare their observed citation share with named competitors under the same prompts, engine and audit window.
- Find the Site Health issues on their own site that affect visibility or performance, and confirm fixes after a recrawl.
- Read Google Search Console and GA4 demand, AI referral traffic or saved Search Intelligence datasets beside the pages they concern.
- Turn those findings into a report or a prioritised list of content and page improvements for a human to review.

Do not use CiteLadder to publish or edit a website, start crawls, buy data, or answer questions about sites the user has no CiteLadder project for. Run those workflows in the CiteLadder app. Make a CiteLadder change, such as adding prompts or launching an audit, only after the user agrees to it and, for a prepared change, to its preview.

## How agents connect (MCP)

- Endpoint: https://api.citeladder.com/mcp (remote Streamable HTTP MCP).
- Authorization: browser OAuth authorization code flow with PKCE (S256) and dynamic client registration. Scopes are `citeladder:read` and, if the user ticks Allow changes, `citeladder:write`; never ask the user for a session cookie or API key.
- Protected-resource metadata (RFC 9728): https://api.citeladder.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp
- Authorization-server metadata (RFC 8414): https://api.citeladder.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
- Access follows the workspaces the user approved and their current role there. Start by listing projects, pick one explicitly, then list its saved datasets before reading results. Changes need the user’s explicit yes: say what you will change and wait for it before any change tool. Small edits (topics, competitors, prompt wording, Action status, cancelling an audit) run when called; larger ones use a prepare tool, whose preview you show before calling confirm_change.
- Setup and tool reference: https://docs.citeladder.com/mcp/connect/ and https://docs.citeladder.com/mcp/tools/

## REST API (paid plans)

- Base URL: https://api.citeladder.com/v1. Authenticate with `Authorization: Bearer <API key>`; Owners and Admins create scoped keys in Settings → API keys.
- OpenAPI document: https://api.citeladder.com/v1/openapi.json
- Guide and reference: https://docs.citeladder.com/api/ and https://docs.citeladder.com/api/reference/

## Engines measured

- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Gemini
- Google AI Overviews

Engine access follows the supported collection configuration and account setup. The current public trial is ChatGPT-only. Answers are collected from the consumer apps and from provider APIs; a collected answer can differ from what a signed-in user sees.

## Public pages

- [CiteLadder](https://citeladder.com/)
- [Platform overview](https://citeladder.com/platform)
- [AI Visibility](https://citeladder.com/platform/ai-visibility)
- [Citation Intelligence](https://citeladder.com/platform/citation-intelligence)
- [AI Referral Analytics](https://citeladder.com/platform/ai-referral-analytics)
- [Commerce Intelligence](https://citeladder.com/platform/commerce-intelligence)
- [Site Health](https://citeladder.com/platform/site-health)
- [Demand Intelligence](https://citeladder.com/platform/demand-intelligence)
- [Search Intelligence](https://citeladder.com/platform/search-intelligence)
- [Content Intelligence](https://citeladder.com/platform/content-intelligence)
- [AI Agent](https://citeladder.com/platform/agents)
- [MCP](https://citeladder.com/platform/mcp)
- [Integrations](https://citeladder.com/platform/integrations)
- [Pricing](https://citeladder.com/pricing)
- [Enterprise](https://citeladder.com/enterprise)
- [Solutions](https://citeladder.com/solutions)
- [AI search share of voice](https://citeladder.com/ai-search-share-of-voice)
- [FAQ](https://citeladder.com/faq)
- [AI Instructions](https://citeladder.com/ai-instructions)
- [Entity Map](https://citeladder.com/entity-map)
- [Blog](https://citeladder.com/blog)
- [What Is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)? The Complete Guide](https://citeladder.com/generative-engine-optimization)
- [How to Check Your Brand's AI Visibility](https://citeladder.com/blog/verify-improve-ai-search-visibility)
- [AI Citation Tracking: How to Track Citations in ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Search](https://citeladder.com/ai-citation-tracking)
- [How to Improve Your Brand's AI Visibility in ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Search](https://citeladder.com/blog/how-to-improve-ai-visibility)
- [Best AI Visibility Platforms and AEO Tools in 2026: Compared](https://citeladder.com/best-ai-visibility-platforms)
- [GEO vs SEO: Is Generative Engine Optimization Better Than SEO?](https://citeladder.com/blog/geo-vs-seo)
- [How Accurate Are AI Citations? ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Search Explained](https://citeladder.com/blog/how-accurate-are-ai-citations)
- [Will AI Replace SEO? What AI Search Actually Changes](https://citeladder.com/blog/will-ai-replace-seo)
- [Can ChatGPT Find Citations? How AI Citation Discovery Actually Works](https://citeladder.com/blog/can-chatgpt-find-citations)
- [Open Source AI Visibility Tool: Self-Hosted LLM Tracking with CiteLadder](https://citeladder.com/open-source)
- [Profound Alternatives in 2026: Ten AI Visibility Tools Compared](https://citeladder.com/compare/profound-alternatives)
- [LLM Rank Tracker: Track Brand Position in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and AI Overviews](https://citeladder.com/llm-rank-tracker)
- [How to Track Brand Mentions in ChatGPT: A Step-by-Step Method](https://citeladder.com/track-brand-mentions-chatgpt)
- [AI Search Market Share in 2026: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Google AI Overviews](https://citeladder.com/blog/ai-search-market-share-2026)
- [AI Referral Traffic Statistics 2026: What the Public Datasets Actually Show](https://citeladder.com/blog/ai-referral-traffic-statistics-2026)
- [How Often Do Google AI Overviews Appear? AI Overviews Statistics for 2026](https://citeladder.com/blog/google-ai-overviews-statistics-2026)
- [Ads in AI Answers: What ChatGPT Ads and Google AI Mode Ads Mean for Brand Visibility](https://citeladder.com/blog/ads-in-ai-answers)
- [Agentic Commerce Statistics 2026: What the Data Says About AI Shopping](https://citeladder.com/blog/agentic-commerce-statistics-2026)
- [Building an owned evidence system for AI search](https://citeladder.com/blog/connecting-owned-evidence-ai-search)
- [How to audit a website for AI search readiness.](https://citeladder.com/blog/auditing-content-for-llms-ai-search)
- [How to turn AI citation findings into useful website improvements.](https://citeladder.com/blog/action-playbook-winning-ai-citations)
- [From keywords to buyer questions: how CiteLadder builds AI search prompt portfolios](https://citeladder.com/blog/ai-search-buyer-prompt-generation)
- [Internal linking with Jev: how CiteLadder finds contextual link opportunities](https://citeladder.com/blog/jev-internal-linking-citeladder)
- [Compare AI visibility tools](https://citeladder.com/compare)
- [CiteLadder vs Profound](https://citeladder.com/compare/profound)
- [CiteLadder vs Otterly AI](https://citeladder.com/compare/otterly-ai)
- [CiteLadder vs Scrunch](https://citeladder.com/compare/scrunch-ai)
- [CiteLadder vs Peec AI](https://citeladder.com/compare/peec-ai)
- [Free tools](https://citeladder.com/tools)
- [AI crawler rules tester](https://citeladder.com/tools/ai-crawler-checker)
- [Robots.txt generator](https://citeladder.com/tools/robots-txt-generator)
- [Meta and indexing directive checker](https://citeladder.com/tools/meta-directive-checker)
- [Structured data builder](https://citeladder.com/tools/structured-data-builder)
- [Sitemap comparison](https://citeladder.com/tools/sitemap-comparison)
- [Social preview tool](https://citeladder.com/tools/social-preview)
- [Contact](https://citeladder.com/contact)
- [Documentation](https://docs.citeladder.com/)
- [MCP](https://docs.citeladder.com/mcp/)
- [Agent](https://docs.citeladder.com/agent/)

## Policies

CiteLadder's policies are published here and bind Cube27 IT Private Limited.
- [Terms of Service](https://citeladder.com/terms)
- [Privacy Policy](https://citeladder.com/privacy)
- [Refund Policy](https://citeladder.com/refund-policy)
- [Cancellation Policy](https://citeladder.com/cancellation-policy)
- [Cookies](https://citeladder.com/cookies)
- [AI Policy](https://citeladder.com/ai-policy)
- [Data Processing Agreement](https://citeladder.com/dpa)
- [Subprocessors](https://citeladder.com/subprocessors)