Other services optimize your site for AI search and stop there. We show you the exact AI answers naming you, and the ones still naming your competitors, every month.

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Most AI search optimization services give you a readiness score and a list of recommendations. They implement schema, tidy your structure, and tell you you're now "AI-ready." Then they bill you every month, and you have no way to tell whether any of it moved the needle, because a readiness score isn't a result.

CitedFirst is built around the only thing that counts: whether the AI engines name your business when your customers ask. We track that directly. You see the real questions buyers type into ChatGPT and Perplexity, whether the answer cites you or a competitor, and how that shifts month over month as we work.

A readiness score tells you that you might get found. A citation report tells you that you did.

The Problem

"AI-ready" is not the same as getting cited.

The AISO industry has settled on a comfortable promise: optimize your site, raise your readiness score, and trust that visibility follows. The problem is that a score measures whether your site is structured correctly, never whether the engines quote you. You can do everything right on paper and still go unnamed in every answer that matters. Here's where that leaves business owners:

• You pay monthly for an unmeasurable outcome. Schema gets added, structure gets cleaned, and the deliverable is a higher internal score rather than a position in a real answer.
• The engines each answer differently. A question that names you in Perplexity might name a competitor in ChatGPT, and a single readiness grade hides that completely.
• You can't see your competitors. When a buyer asks for the best option in your category and the AI names someone else, you never find out, so you can't respond.
• Nobody closes the loop. The work gets done, the invoice arrives, and the question of whether it worked goes unanswered.

The result is a service that's easy to sell and impossible to verify, which is exactly how most of the AISO market operates today.

Introducing CitedFirst

CitedFirst is a done-for-you AI search optimization service for WordPress, built around proof. We optimize your site to be cited by the major AI engines using the same disciplines the field relies on, schema, semantic structure, entity clarity, and citation-worthy content. The difference is what we hand back: a monthly citation report that tracks the real questions in your category, shows whether each engine names you or a competitor, and ties every optimization we make to a movement you can see.

What You Get

• The Citation Tracker. We monitor the buyer questions that matter in your category across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, and show you which ones name your business.
• Competitor Visibility. When an engine cites a competitor instead of you, you see it, so we can target the questions you're losing rather than guessing.
• Done-For-You WordPress Optimization. We implement the schema, semantic structure, entity markup, and content improvements that earn citations, directly on your WordPress site.
• Monthly Movement Reports. Every report ties the work we did to the citations you gained, so you see the return instead of a static score.
• Citation-Worthy Content. We build and refine the answer-first pages and structured content the engines prefer to quote, aimed at the questions you most want to win.
• Freshness Maintenance. We keep your key pages current, because recency is one of the strongest signals for whether a page gets cited.
• Quarterly Strategy Review. A working session on which questions to pursue next, based on what's moving and what your competitors are winning.

Why It's Priced as a Monthly Service

AI search optimization is ongoing work. The engines change, competitors publish, and freshness decays, so a one-time optimization fades. CitedFirst is a monthly service for that reason, and we price it in line with serious AISO providers.

The difference you're paying for is the proof. Most services in this space bill the same monthly fee and hand you a score you can't verify. We bill for the same expert work and hand you a citation report you can check yourself against any AI engine, any time. You're paying for an outcome you can see rather than a promise you have to take on faith.

Who This Is For

CitedFirst fits you if:
- You run an information-rich business (professional services, healthcare, local services, e-commerce, publishing) where buyers research before they buy.
- You're investing in AI search and want to see whether it's working rather than simply be told that it is.
- You'd rather know which questions you're losing to competitors than receive a tidy score.

Look elsewhere if:
- You want a one-time fix and no ongoing relationship. AI search visibility decays without maintenance, so a single pass won't hold.
- You only want a website built with no interest in tracking citations. A standard WordPress shop will cost you less.

The Named-In-90 Guarantee

Within 90 days of starting, your business will be cited by name in at least one AI engine for a target question in your category, tracked and shown to you in your citation report. If it isn't, your next month is free and we keep working until it is. The proof sits in the report, where you can check it yourself.

In Your First 90 Days, You'll Have:

• A baseline showing exactly which AI answers name you today
• A clear view of the questions where competitors are cited instead
• Your WordPress site optimized for citation across five engines
• Citation-worthy pages targeting the questions you most want to win
• A monthly report tying our work to the citations you gained
• At least one new AI answer naming your business by name
• A plan for the next set of questions to capture

What it is: A done-for-you AI search optimization service for WordPress that proves its work with a monthly citation report, showing which AI answers name you, which name competitors, and what's improving.

What you get: Citation tracking across five engines, competitor visibility, done-for-you WordPress optimization, citation-worthy content, freshness maintenance, and monthly movement reports.

Price: A monthly service priced in line with serious AISO providers. Quoted after your free citation report.

Catch: AI visibility needs ongoing maintenance, so this is a monthly relationship rather than a one-time fix.

Guarantee: Cited by name in an AI engine for a target question within 90 days, shown in your report, or the next month is free until you are.

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The reason most AISO services lean on a readiness score is that a score is easy to produce and impossible for you to dispute. A citation report works the other way. You can open ChatGPT right now and check whether it names you, which is exactly why we built the service around that number instead of an internal one.

Curious where you stand before you spend anything? The free citation report shows you how the AI engines answer the top questions in your category today, including who they name instead of you. Most business owners have never seen this, and it tends to be the moment AI search stops feeling abstract.