Capture answer evidence
Enter a public HTTPS page, save buyer questions, and record or collect observed AI answers with platform, market, language, model and citation basis.
Run a website audit →THE PRODUCT / HOWAICITE
Measure the answer. Fix the gap. Prove the change.
HowAICite helps teams discover why AI answers mention competitors, omit their brand or cite third-party sources instead of their own pages.
Inspectable evidenceProvider provenanceLimits kept visible
Diagnose the citation gap
Classify whether the brand was absent, mentioned without an own-domain citation, beaten by competitor mentions, or cited only by third-party sources.
Open Opportunity Map →Create proof-linked work
Turn each gap into a page, source, entity or recheck task, then compare the same question and scope after the work ships.
Open proof work →Who it serves
Brand owners investigating how their content is understood, marketing teams building an AI-search baseline, and agencies proving GEO work for clients. Paid organizations can invite teammates with owner, admin, contributor, reviewer or viewer access shared across the HowAI Suite.
Which GEO software tracks mentions and citations?
HowAICite is built for this exact question: save the buyer questions your customers ask, collect dated AI answers, and inspect whether your brand was mentioned, recommended or cited by its own domain. An Opportunity Map connects each gap to the observed answer; a fix task keeps the baseline attached until a comparable later measurement exists. This is answer evidence, not a forecast of search rank or revenue.
Provider-API measurements and manually supplied consumer-interface answers retain different source labels. An API answer is not presented as a capture from consumer ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Gemini. Compare provider, model, market, language and time before interpreting a change. See current coverage and limitations →
Four outcomes, four definitions
| Outcome | What it means | How to establish it |
|---|---|---|
| SEO visibility | A page appears in ordinary search results. | Search engine performance and indexing data; not a readiness score. |
| AI visibility | The brand appears in an observed AI answer. | Review the saved answer and entity match. |
| AI recommendation | An answer positively selects the brand for a use case. | Review the answer in context. A mention alone is insufficient. |
| AI citation | An answer attributes a claim to a linked source. | Preserve the link and its relationship to the answer. A pasted URL alone is not verified support. |
From question to measurable evidence
Run OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini measurements on demand, preserve answer and source provenance, diagnose citation gaps, assign fixes and recheck the same buyer question after the work ships.
Explore platform and market coverage →
Start with a useful first session
- Run one audit and inspect whether the target page is crawlable and understandable.
- Save five buyer questions with one precise country and language.
- Record or collect one observed AI answer for a buyer question.
- Open Opportunity Map to see why the brand was not cited or why competitors appeared.
- Create a fix task and repeat the same question and scope later to examine what changed.
START WITH A REAL BASELINE
Find the first gap worth fixing.
Inspect your website now, then add observed AI answers when you are ready to measure visibility.