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Laxman Shah
Founder
Founder of Citegrade. Writes about AI citation optimization, GEO, and editorial patterns that make content extractable by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude.
About Citegrade
Other tools show charts.
We fix the page.
Citegrade shows you why AI skips your pages — and fixes them so it doesn't.
The problem
Your website can rank on Google and still be invisible to AI.
Ranking is not citing
A page can sit at position one in traditional search and still never appear in an AI-generated answer. LLMs don't rank pages — they extract claims. If your page lacks verifiable, structured assertions, it gets skipped entirely.
Dashboards don't fix pages
Most AI SEO tools show you charts, scores, and trend lines. They tell you that something is wrong. They don't tell you what to change in the actual copy — and they certainly don't rewrite it for you.
Vague language is a citation blocker
Phrases like “many enterprise customers” or “industry-leading platform” carry zero extractable signal. LLMs assign low confidence to unfalsifiable claims and move on to content that provides evidence.
Teams need editing, not reporting
SaaS founders and website owners already have too many dashboards. What they don't have is a tool that operates at the paragraph level — diagnosing why AI skips their pages and offering concrete fixes they can apply in seconds.
How it works
Built for the way AI reads your website.
Editor, not dashboard
Opens directly into the content. You see your text, the issues, and the fixes — side by side.
Page-level diagnosis
Every paragraph scanned for structure, evidence, extractability, and freshness — the six dimensions that matter.
Prioritized by impact
Critical citation blockers surface first. Your effort goes exactly where it matters most.
One-click rewrites
For every issue, a one-click fix you can apply instantly — vague claims become specific, evidence-backed language.
Before & after proof
Every suggestion comes with a visual diff showing what changed and why — you stay in control of your voice.
Export cleanly
Export reports as Markdown or HTML, then publish through the CMS or review workflow you already use.
Built for
The people who own the pages AI isn't citing.
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Indie SaaS founders
You wrote the blog post, the landing page, and the docs. Citegrade tells you which paragraphs are blocking citations and gives you the rewrite — so you can fix the page and move on.
“Paste a URL, see what's broken, apply the fix, ship.”
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SEO consultants
Your clients ask why their content isn't showing up in Perplexity or Gemini. Citegrade gives you a shareable audit report with prioritized fixes you can hand off or implement together.
“Run the audit, export the report, present the plan.”
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Marketing teams
Your team publishes dozens of pages a month. Citegrade fits into your workflow — scanning pages before publish, flagging weak sections, and generating fixes at scale.
“Audit, review, export, and publish through your existing workflow.”
Product principles
What we believe about building tools for content.
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Actionable over abstract
Every insight should come with a concrete next step. If a tool can't tell you what to change, it's a report — not a solution.
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Credible over flashy
We don't wrap AI in glowing gradients. Citegrade is a precision optimization tool — quiet, reliable, and built to earn trust through outcomes, not theatrics.
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Clear over complex
One screen. Your page, the diagnosis, and the fix. No multi-tab workflows, no 47-metric dashboards, no onboarding friction.
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Product-first, not AI theater
AI is an implementation detail, not a marketing headline. The product works because the analysis is useful and the rewrites are good — not because we put “AI” in the name.
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Calm software for serious work
Fixing a page for AI citation requires focus. Citegrade is intentionally minimal — generous whitespace, restrained color, and an interface that gets out of the way so you can think about the fix, not the tool.
Editorial accountability
Who writes and reviews our research
Citegrade articles name their author, link primary sources where possible, and separate product examples from measured results. If a source, product detail, or claim needs correction, contact support@citegrade.com so we can review and update it.
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Sagar Shahi
Content Strategist
Content strategist at Citegrade. Researches how large language models select and attribute sources, with a focus on Google AI Overviews and structured content formats.
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Sam G
Research Lead
Research lead at Citegrade. Analyzes citation patterns across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini to identify what editorial signals drive AI citation.
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Mahesh Panta
Editor
Editor at Citegrade. Translates LLM retrieval research into practical editorial workflows for SaaS and B2B content teams.
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A note from the team
Citegrade
We built Citegrade because we kept running into the same problem. Our content ranked well in traditional search, but when we asked Perplexity or ChatGPT about topics we'd written extensively on, our pages were never cited.
The tools we tried showed us dashboards — graphs of AI visibility, lists of queries, trend lines going in the wrong direction. What none of them did was open the actual page and tell us: this paragraph is the problem, here's how to fix it.
So we built the tool we wanted. An editor that diagnoses citation blockers at the paragraph level and generates one-click fixes you can apply instantly. No noise, no theater — just the fix.
That's Citegrade.
See what AI sees when it reads your page.
Run your first audit in under 30 seconds. No credit card, no onboarding call, no 14-step setup.