Runs the real pipeline
Same engine, same citation collection, same domain roll-up as the paid product. Three questions instead of fifteen, one engine instead of the full fan-out.
Free
Three questions, one engine, no account
3
buying questions per scan, enough corpus for a leaderboard to mean something
publicScanMaxQuestions in httpapi/public_citation_scan.go. Five cited pages and five domains are shown in full.
The landing page used to run a Reddit search and hand back threads ranked by buying intent. That was the pre-pivot product answering a question the headline above it no longer asked. Now it answers the headline: which pages are your category's AI answers built from, and are you in any of them.
It is a real scan, not a canned demo. Every press spends model money on live search-grounded calls, which is why it asks for an email and why the result is cached for a day.
Where it lives: The scan box on the homepage, and the Citation Source Radar on /tools.
What it does
Shows the corpus and the leaderboard
Five cited pages in full and five hosts with their share of citations. The rest are counted rather than listed, which is where the wall sits and we would rather that be visible than pretended away.
Includes threads as sources, never as targets
Community threads show up as one slice of the cited corpus, which is what they honestly are. Nothing on the result resembles "go reply to this".
How it works
- Rate limited per minute, bounded in concurrency, and capped daily, on top of the email gate.
- Results are cached for 24 hours keyed on brand, domain and questions, so a domain doing the rounds on social costs one scan rather than one per visitor.
- Nothing is stored beyond a telemetry row recording that a scan happened.
What it does not do
- Three questions is a thin corpus. It is enough to see concentration, not enough to plan against.
- One engine, and it is the one that retrieves most heavily, so a scan that finds you absent from Perplexity is not proof you are absent everywhere.
- Sites that block automated reads may produce a weaker category description and therefore weaker questions.
Which plans have it
Free. Email required, because each press spends real money on live AI calls.
Read the full plan comparison.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need an account?
No. An email address, because the scan costs us money per run and anonymous AI spend is a bill with no upside.
Can I scan a competitor?
Yes. It takes any domain plus a category description.
Why do I get the same result twice in one day?
The 24-hour cache. Two people scanning the same domain on the same day get one scan between them.
Related features
Citation corpus
Every feature we publish Citation Sources
Every URL the engines cited in your category, classified, checked for whether you appear in it, and sorted by what you can actually win.
Citation corpusDomain leaderboard
Citation share per host, so you can see the five domains producing half your category's answers instead of scrolling forty URLs.
FreeFree tools
The hub: what each free tool answers, and where the free version stops being enough.
Run it on your own product
Start with the free visibility check to see whether the engines name you today, then run the scan that shows which pages they used instead.