Citation Sources: find the sources AI trusts and get cited there

Take two or three with the highest gap score. The Citations / Retrieved / You numbers on the card show that AI cites it often while you are barely in it. You can also expand a row in Cited source domains and work on one specific page.

The top shows which engines cite this source and that you are not listed in it. "This ONE article covers all n prompts" lists the related prompts (up to 8; expand to see more). The list is read-only here; you add or remove prompts in step 5. At first the brief is a generic template ("Generic template · click 'Generate brief' for a tailored one").

AI builds a tailored brief from those prompts, your business info and the target market: Suggested title, Article structure (H2 / points), Competitors to mention, Evidence to include, Where to publish and Publish sequence, plus the Re-test after publishing note. Not happy? Regenerate. Copy brief copies the whole brief for your content team or another writing tool. A generated brief is kept, so reopening the same source shows it immediately.

Available only after the brief is generated. You land on Answer Assets with everything filled in: the brief goes into Outline as context, the related prompts go into the prompts box one per line, competitor names come along, Content type is chosen from the source type (comparison → Comparison, best-of list → Listicle, FAQ → FAQ-heavy article, guide → How-to guide, otherwise Standard article), and AI agent · deep research is switched on.

The prompts box takes one prompt per line: delete a line or type a new one, or use Pick from tracked prompts (N), which adds or removes a line as you tick, showing how many articles each prompt already has and its coverage. Comparison and list articles work best with 3 to 15 prompts. You can also change Content type and Article language here.

Generation takes about 3 to 5 minutes. The panel shows progress through researcher → strategist → writer → SEO → headline → review, and you can close it to keep it running in the background. When it is done you are taken to Content, where the article carries the Counter tag; back on Citation Sources, the source shows how many times it has been generated.

Open the article in Content, check it and click Publish Now. Seven days after publishing, the same prompts are re-scanned automatically. Then check those prompts’ coverage in Prompt Tracking, or see whether the article shows up as Article worked under Achievements.

A thread finder opens in a new tab, already loaded with the first prompt, your main competitors and the source link, and starts searching for live discussions on the topic.

Draft reply writes a natural reply using the source title and link. Draft post writes a new post with all the source’s prompts (up to 12), competitor names and your brand name, in the language of the source page.

Community content doesn’t go through Content. After you post it, watch the related prompts in Prompt Tracking.

An outreach email is drafted automatically while the system looks for the article’s author and contact details ("Finding the article author & contact…"). Once an author name is found, the email is redrafted to address them by name.

Angle: Suggest inclusion (politely suggest adding your brand to the article), Offer data (trade your exclusive data for a citation) or Expert take (offer a quotable expert comment). Tone: Friendly, Concise or Formal. Language follows the project by default. Changing any of them redrafts the email.

Real contacts (read from the article) lists the Article author and Editorial desk addresses. If there is only a profile and no email, click Open author profile. If nothing was found, use Find author on LinkedIn, Search author’s email on Google or Open the article.

Both are editable and each has Copy. Copy email copies the whole email; Open in mail client opens your mail app and moves Stage from To contact to Contacted. Later, update Stage by hand: Replied, Placed or Declined.

Suggested attachments lists a feature comparison against competitors, citation-share data and product screenshots you can quote.

Start with Open ground (competitors absent, you’re not there yet) and Stronghold (you already appear; write more like it).

"This article will cover {n} prompts" is a checklist: untick a prompt to leave it out. Type in Add a related prompt to cover… and click Add to add a new one; it is also added to your tracked prompts, and the system checks whether it fits the topic (a prompt that doesn’t is marked ⚠). Not sure which to pick? Switch to AI auto-pick chooses by topic cluster.

Angles: Comparison / Roundup, How-to, In-depth guide and Explainer. With the AI agent turned on, it writes one article from 3 to 15 prompts; turned off, it can write one article per angle. Comparison / Roundup always uses the AI agent with web research.

If the prompts span too many topics, a warning offers Let me adjust, Auto-remove outliers or Generate anyway. The finished article goes to Content; click Go to Content management / publish →.

Each group shows how many items are already in place.

This opens the same brief dialog, pre-filled with what that page needs (for example, "write a brand definition page") and without a prompt list. Then continue as in Route 1: Generate brief → Send to writer → add prompts on Answer Assets → ✨ Generate Content. Add Organization / FAQ schema skips the brief and gives you JSON-LD to copy. When done, use Mark done.

The platform’s claim or listing page opens in a new tab. When you’re done, come back and click I'm already on it →; the status becomes Registered · awaiting re-check.

The system checks the web; confirmed items change to Already in place.