Find content gaps worth working on
Assess your pages across 13 factors, including answer clarity, business identity, and supporting evidence. See which content characteristics need attention instead of rewriting everything.
AI visibility for your AEO and SEO strategy
You’ve worked hard to build a business people trust. When your next customer asks AI for help, will they find you? Proven Cite helps your team understand where you stand and what to improve, so you can focus on serving people, not guessing what AI wants.
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AI Readability Index
Illustrative example, not a live site score
The problem behind the metrics
Search rankings tell only part of the story. When a buyer uses an AI answer to compare providers, you need to know whether your business appears and what to do next.

A search ranking cannot show what a model said about your business. Test relevant buyer questions and inspect the saved answers, mentions, and source links.
Explore AI visibility monitoringGuessing can send your team toward the wrong content. Compare relevant competitor pages against the same content rubric to identify specific gaps to work on.
Explore AI search optimizationYour team needs to know what to change, on which page, and why. Use page specific recommendations, track the work, and repeat your tests to review what changed.
See problems Proven Cite helps solveFrom uncertainty to action
Proven Cite is an AI visibility platform for marketers, business owners, and agencies. It combines customer question research, recorded AI tests, content assessments, and practical recommendations in one workspace.
Assess your pages across 13 factors, including answer clarity, business identity, and supporting evidence. See which content characteristics need attention instead of rewriting everything.
Import customer questions or review labeled public research suggestions. Prioritize service, comparison, and provider selection questions rather than testing only your brand name.
Use the same rubric to compare pages side by side. Identify differences in coverage and clarity that can inform your content plan.
Run questions through supported ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok API models. Review saved answers and distinguish a brand mention from a link to your domain.
Turn page specific findings into prioritized work. Each recommendation identifies the content factor and page so you can explain what needs changing.
Review score trends, reports, and dated model responses. Compare repeated tests after content changes and keep those observations separate from leads and sales.
How It Works
Choose important buying questions. Establish a baseline. Improve and retest.
Add your website and import customer questions or review labeled research suggestions. Start with questions about services, comparisons, pricing, and provider selection.
Test selected questions with supported AI models and save the responses. Assess your pages across 13 content factors and compare relevant competitor content.
Use page specific recommendations to plan changes. Repeat the same questions and compare the recorded answers. Track leads and sales separately in your analytics and CRM.
The AI Readability Index
The 13 factor AI Readability Index turns content quality into a practical checklist: answer the question clearly, explain your business, and support what you say.
Answers the reader's question upfront
Organizes information into clear, useful sections
Enough context for accurate AI summarization
Specific, verifiable information vs. filler
Compressible into clean, accurate answers
Brand and services unambiguously defined
Key info easily pulled into AI responses
Coverage of relevant customer questions
Topically focused without drift
Credibility through evidence and expertise
Original and specific enough to cite
Appears maintained, current, and relevant
Concrete steps, comparisons, or frameworks
Every month, hundreds of millions of people ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok for answers that used to come from Google. When AI responds, it doesn't show ten blue links. It selects, summarizes, and cites a handful of sources.
The question is no longer "where do I rank?" It's "does AI even know I exist, and does it trust me enough to cite?"
Use recorded model tests to observe answers and content analysis to plan improvements.
Pricing
Every plan includes the full 13 factor AI Readability Index engine.
For individuals getting started with AI visibility
For scaling teams that need deeper insights
For organizations with complex content operations
All paid plans include a 7-day free trial. Cancel anytime.
| Feature | Starter | Growth | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pages | 25 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Domains | 1 | 3 | Unlimited |
| Competitors | 3 | 10 | Unlimited |
| Monthly scans | 30 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| 13 factor scoring | |||
| Recommendations | |||
| Score trend analysis | - | ||
| Email reports | Monthly | Weekly | Daily |
| Team members | 3 | 10 | Unlimited |
| Priority support | - | ||
| Dedicated strategist | - | - |

FAQ
How to measure where you appear, improve your content, and evaluate results.
Test questions a potential customer would ask when comparing providers. Proven Cite saves responses from supported AI models so you can inspect brand mentions, citations, and competitors in each answer. Record the model and test date, then repeat the same questions after content changes.
An answer can vary with the question, model, available sources, and test date. Compare the saved response with your content and competitor pages to identify gaps in clarity, coverage, and supporting evidence. Proven Cite helps you investigate those gaps; a content score does not reveal a model's internal decision process.
Answer engine optimization (AEO) means making content easier for answer engines to understand and use when answering a question. Useful steps include direct answers, descriptive headings, clear business information, relevant structured data, and supporting sources. Proven Cite helps assess content and test selected questions.
SEO helps search engines discover, index, and rank pages. AEO focuses on clear answers to questions. Generative engine optimization (GEO) focuses on how content may be used in generated AI answers. They overlap: accessible pages, useful information, and credible evidence support all three. None guarantees a ranking or citation.
Proven Cite supports question testing through configured ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok API providers. Availability varies by provider. Saved API responses are dated observations and may differ from answers in consumer apps. A brand mention and a link to your website are tracked as different evidence.
You can import questions your customers actually ask or use suggestions from public research and content analysis. Those sources remain labeled separately. Proven Cite does not provide access to private AI conversations or claim that suggested questions have measured global demand.
Start with a page that answers an important buying question. Review its 13 factor content assessment, compare relevant competitor pages, and prioritize specific recommendations. Clarify the answer, explain your services, and support claims with evidence. Retest the same questions to see whether the recorded responses changed.
No. A readiness score assesses content; a saved model response shows one observed result. Neither proves revenue impact. Track qualified visits, inquiries, and sales separately in your analytics and CRM, alongside dated AI tests, before drawing conclusions about business outcomes.
Proven Cite offers Starter at $29 per month, Growth at $79 per month, and Enterprise at $199 per month. All paid plans include a 7 day trial. You can also use the free content assessment tools before choosing a plan. See the pricing section for plan limits.
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