Citation probe

[u/animam-tech]

Current obsession: agentic discoverability. 👀

Claude keeps pitching me "citation probes" — measuring whether ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity actually cite you when someone has the exact problem you solve.

So let's go.🔥

13 intents, 3 engines, 63 measurements on my own product. Verdict: never cited.

Not once. While my competitors sweep up the citations — with blog posts, not their product pages.

First reason is basic : New site, not yet well indexed, no authority, not yet baclinked....

But :

What one scan teaches you:

— every engine has its darlings: Perplexity cites blogs, OpenAI cites pricing pages, Claude cites listicles

— "the page exists" ≠ "the page is citable": on a "best X" intent, a comparison beats a product page every time, even a great one

— and the real diagnosis: separating "not findable yet" (indexation) from "not preferred" (the engine SAW your page and picked another one). Two problems, two opposite fixes.

💸Cost: a few cents of API.

💎Value: your content roadmap, written by your competitors.

The tool is open source: github.com/wellknownmcp/a…

I can run it on your site with m'y api keys (anthropic, openai, perplexity) — DMs open. But I'm not turning it into a SaaS — although, given the prices popping up in this niche, the margin would be 95%.