Citehound - Citehound analyzes your website for GEO & AI readiness, help
Citehound analyzes your website for GEO & AI readiness, helping your brand get cited and recommended by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude instead of losing buyers to legacy competitors.
Built by Andaç Üzel · Artificial Intelligence · AI Agent · MCP · Freemium
In category: #1869 of 2883 · Artificial IntelligenceWeekly rank: #3
Citehound is a Community listing on Launch Llama with 15 total upvotes, +14 in the week of Oct 13–Oct 19, 2026, founded by Andaç Üzel who joined in Oct 2026, compared against 6 alternatives.
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15upvotes
+14 · Oct 13–Oct 19, 2026
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Andaç Üzel (Joined Oct 2026)
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About
As users shift from traditional Google search to AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini, traditional SEO is no longer enough. If your site isn't optimized for AI crawlers, answer engines either skip your brand or hallucinate your capabilities. Citehound is an AI Readiness and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) platform that analyzes how machine-readable and citation-worthy your website is. Key Features: • AI Readiness Score: Get an instant 0–100 score evaluating how easily AI systems discover, read, and understand your product. • Technical Layer Audit: Verify bot accessibility (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot), robots.txt directives, and validate or generate your llms.txt file. • Content & Citation Analysis: Identify semantic gaps and ensure your value proposition, pricing, and features are structured for direct citation in AI answers. • Competitor Benchmarking: Compare your website side-by-side with industry rivals to see who AI models recommend first and why. • Industry-Specific Playbooks: Tailored GEO optimization playbooks for B2B SaaS, DTC e-commerce, DevTools, and Cybersecurity. • Agentic Commerce Readiness: Ensure autonomous AI shopping agents can parse your pricing, product catalog, and availability. Who It's For: • B2B SaaS Founders & Growth Teams looking to capture high-intent buyers searching on AI platforms. • Marketing & SEO Agencies transitioning their clients to Generative Engine Optimization (GEO). • E-commerce & DTC brands preparing for autonomous AI shopping agents. Stop losing inbound traffic to outdated legacy players. Scan your website with Citehound and make sure AI recommends your brand first.
Key Features
- Surfaces Instant automated audit evaluating how easily ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity
- Surfaces Technical diagnostic checking bot permissions for major AI crawlers (GPTBot
- Delivers competitor GEO Benchmarking
- Delivers robots.txt policy and sitemap access for 10 AI crawlers, plus llms.txt
- Delivers citation-Worthy Content Analysis
- Delivers agentic Commerce Readiness
Pricing
Citehound offers a free plan plus paid tiers. See the website for current pricing.
FAQ
What does the Citehound scanner check?
It reads your site's public robots.txt, sitemap and homepage, then evaluates AI crawler access for 10 crawlers (including GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot), technical signals like canonical and structured data, and trust signals like heading structure and Organization schema.
How is the AI visibility score weighted?
The score out of 100 is weighted across three pillars: Discoverability (40 points), Technical foundation (20 points), and Content & trust (40 points). Every check and its point value is shown in the report.
Is the scan free and does it require signup?
Yes, the scan is free and requires no email or signup. It runs in your browser using publicly visible site data and nothing is stored.
Alternatives
GEO AI MENTIONFor marketers: GEO AI Mention reveals every LLM prompt citing your brand, tracks AI traffic, and identifies citation gaps versus competitors.
answerFORGE™For SEO professionals: answerFORGE audits your AI search visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude so you capture citations you're missing.
CiteroFor marketers: Citero tracks how AI models describe your brand across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini so you optimize visibility in AI search.
AI Visibility LabFor content creators: AI Visibility Lab audits if ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude can cite your website so you optimize for AI search visibility.Ask AI about Citehound
Supporters
2 founders
2 founders supported Citehound on Launch Llama.
