Engineer the corpora LLMs trust.
Every LLM has a citation hierarchy — a ranked set of sources it reaches for when synthesizing answers. AI Citation Optimization is the program that puts your brand inside those sources, defensibly.
LLMs cite a narrow set of sources.
Models don't sample the open web evenly. They preferentially cite a few hundred high-trust publications, datasets and graphs per category. The brands that show up inside those sources show up inside the answers.
Six capabilities of an authority program.
Corpus Intelligence
Identify which third-party publications, datasets and graphs each LLM weighs most heavily for your category.
Citation Strategy
A prioritized program of placements, partnerships and authority signals — measured by downstream LLM citation lift.
Authority Building
Original research, industry benchmarks and dataset publication that earn citations in the corpora LLMs reach for.
Knowledge Graph Submission
Aligned entity records across Wikidata, Wikipedia, Crunchbase, GitHub and category-specific graphs LLMs ingest.
Visibility Metrics
Citation share, citation velocity, source-mix quality and competitive citation delta — tracked weekly.
Original Research Pipeline
Quarterly proprietary studies designed to become category-canonical and earn durable citations.
From corpus audit to compounding citation share.
Map
Identify the citation sources each LLM most often reaches for in your category.
Audit
Score your current presence across each high-value source and competitive citation share.
Build
Earn placements, publish datasets, submit graph entries, run original research.
Validate
Measure LLM citation lift — by source, by engine, by prompt family.
Compound
Quarterly source-mix refresh, ongoing authority pipeline.
A citation feed, not a quarterly report.
See every brand citation across engines, in near real-time — query, rank, delta.
Where citation engineering compounds.
Brand defense in regulated categories
Ensure the sources LLMs cite about you are accurate, current and brand-aligned — not stale reviews or competitor blog posts.
Category-defining startups
Become the canonical source for a category you're inventing — before competitors crowd in.
Public companies with research footprints
Convert existing R&D, datasets and economic research into durable citation assets.
M&A and rebrand defense
Reconcile entity records and citation sources across acquired brands and renamed products.
Frequently asked
Run a citation audit.
We'll map the top citation sources for your category, score your current presence in each, and identify the three highest-leverage authority plays to run first.