Citations and Sources

See the pages AI reads before it answers

An assistant does not invent its view of your brand. It reads pages. Citations shows which ones, how old they are, and the searches the assistant ran first, so the list becomes a work plan: sources to correct, and sources that should cite you and do not.

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ExampleInvented brand and numbers, drawn from the real screen. Not a customer result.
Northwind Gear/AI Visibility/Citations

Cited domains

64

across 126 answers

Cite you

11

17% of domains

Older than 1 year

29%

of citations

Domain

Cited

  • outdoorgearlab.comNot you38
  • reddit.comNames you31
  • northwindgear.comNames you22
  • switchbacktravel.comNot you19
  • rei.comNot you14

Hidden sub-queries behind "best ultralight tent"

  • ultralight tent rain test 2026You are absent
  • lightest two person tentYou appear
Decisions it settles

The calls it helps you make, and the move after

Where the effort goes when the answer depends on someone else's page.

  1. 01

    Which sources does AI trust in our category?

    Every cited page and domain, counted across the answers, per AI platform.

    In SKYA: Citations

    Open the sources
  2. 02

    Is a stale page outranking us?

    Cited pages dated by when they were published, so an old source that still wins is visible, not guessed.

    In SKYA: Citation freshness

    Update and re-date
  3. 03

    What did the assistant search for before it wrote?

    The hidden sub-queries it ran, and whether you appear in what they returned.

    In SKYA: Hidden Sub-queries

    Win the sub-query
  4. 04

    Where should we earn a mention?

    Sites that cite a rival and never you: the list for outreach and PR, ranked by how often AI reaches for them.

    In SKYA: AI Competitors

    Pitch the source
How it works

Three steps, start to finish

  1. Step 1: Every answer keeps its sources

    Each stored answer carries the pages it cited, so nothing has to be collected twice.

  2. Step 2: SKYA counts and dates them

    Sources are grouped by domain and page, counted across answers and platforms, and dated by publication.

  3. Step 3: Work the list

    Correct the sources that are wrong, refresh the stale ones, and pitch the ones that cite rivals and not you.

What it does

Everything in it, shipping today

The part of AI visibility you win off your own site.

  • Domains and pages

    The domains and the exact pages each answer relies on, per AI platform.

  • Citation freshness

    Publish dates for the pages cited, grouped from the last three months to older than two years.

  • Hidden sub-queries

    The searches an assistant runs before it writes, and whether you appear in them.

  • The source gap

    Third-party sites that cite a rival and not you, and the rival pages AI quotes.

  • Reddit threads AI cites

    Every cited Reddit thread and who it names, with Reddit Visibility on Brand Pro, Agency and Agency Pro.

  • Cited, not just named

    Whether your own pages are quoted as a source, or your brand is only mentioned.

Measured, not modelled

Figures you can check

A source is listed only when an answer actually cited it. Nothing is inferred from a page that merely ranks.

How every number is calculated
AI platforms read for sources
9As many as your plan reads.
of cited sources kept
2 yearsEvery answer is stored with what it cited.
every cited page
DatedBy when it was published, so a stale source that still wins is visible.
Plans

Which plans include it

Citations, freshness and hidden sub-queries are on every plan.

  • Starter

    $59/mo

    4 AI platforms

    Starts here
  • Brand Pro

    $199/mo

    9 AI platforms, Reddit Visibility

  • Agency

    $239/mo

    7 AI platforms, Reddit Visibility

  • Agency Pro

    $649/mo

    9 AI platforms, Reddit Visibility

Questions

What people ask first

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