Features
One score per product.
Not one score for your store.
Most AI-visibility tools tell you how your brand is doing. CITAQ tells you how every productis doing — each SKU gets its own full diagnostic — and then fixes the ones AI won't cite.
- Watermelon Glow AHA Toner91
- Niacinamide 10% Serum83
- Rice Water Bright Cleanser67
- Plum Plump Refill Pouch58
- Avocado Melt Sleeping Mask44
- Banana Soufflé Moisture Cream39
The store average hid three products AI won't cite. Per-product scoring is the only place they show up.
Scoring & Category Engine
Each product page is crawled through a 5-tier fetch ladder, classified into one of 155 category archetypes, then run through seven independent scoring modules. The output is a single 0–100 citation-readiness score with a full module breakdown — and an evidence drawer behind every flag showing the exact text that triggered it.
Product-level, not brand-level. We score the exact page an AI agent lands on — and grade it against the fields its category actually needs.
- Attributes78
- Entity82
- Ambiguity64
- Clarity71
- Consistency80
- Intent58
- Archetype76
Once a product's archetype is detected, we measure structured-field completeness against the fields that archetype actually requires — not a generic checklist.
AI Bot Access & Crawlability
For each product page we check whether 13 named AI crawlers are actually allowed to fetch it — reading the site's robots.txt and llms.txt, detecting WAF blocks that silently turn crawlers away, and grading how accessible the product's images are on an A–F scale.
Invisible to crawlers = uncitable by AI. We check 13 AI crawlers against every product page — not just your homepage.
- GPTBotOK
- OAI-SearchBotOK
- ClaudeBotOK
- PerplexityBotOK
- Google-ExtendedOK
- BingbotOK
- Applebot-ExtendedBlk
- AmazonbotOK
- Meta-ExternalAgentBlk
- BytespiderBlk
- CCBotOK
- DiffbotOK
- TimpibotBlk
Alt text present; two images exceed the size budget crawlers fetch.
Marketplace Readiness
If a product sells on Amazon or Walmart, we score how ready its listing is for the marketplace's own AI shopping assistant — Amazon's Rufus and Walmart's equivalent — with checks tuned to what those assistants actually read.
Sell on a marketplace, and each listing gets a Rufus-readiness score. DTC-only? We tell you it doesn't apply — we don't invent a number.
DTC-only stores see this section marked Not applicable — not a misleading zero.
- Structured bullet factsPass
Five attribute bullets Rufus can lift directly into an answer.
- A+ / enhanced contentPass
Rich module content present and parsed.
- Q&A coveragePartial
Only 3 of the 9 questions Rufus commonly asks about this category are answered.
- Review-signal densityFail
Below the citation threshold Rufus applies for this subcategory.
Live Verification & Identity Defense
We query real AI platforms with buyer-intent questions in a product's category, then check whether the AI cites that product, misattributes its facts, or omits it entirely — across five identity slots and four platforms. This runs today and is verified by our test suite.
Verification, not prediction. We ask the AI directly what it thinks your product is — per product, per platform.
Today's scope is identity verification. Citation ranking, trigger maps and platform-coverage radar are shipping next — see the roadmap below.
Competitive Diff
Put one of your products next to one competitor's listing and see exactly what they carry that you don't — field by field and module by module. A quick inline compare, or a full diff against a named rival.
Compare one product to one competitor's listing — not your brand to their brand.
- Active concentration15% stated15% stated
- Patch-test guidanceMissingPresent
- Structured ingredient listPresentPresent
- Third-party claim evidenceMissing2 citations
- Usage / routine stepPresentMissing
Filled bar = your product · ghost bar = competitor
History & Trend Tracking
Every product carries its own score history — the last 20 scans plotted as a trend, and a rescan log recording what changed and how it moved the score.
Every product carries its own 20-scan history. You see which fix moved which score.
- Jul 09+4Added structured ingredient attributes
- Jun 27+3Fixed availability schema conflict
- Jun 14−2Description edit dropped active %
Reports & Sharing
Generate a sanitized 9-page PDF for any product — score pillars, prioritized recommendations and competitor gaps — shareable through a token link. An IP-protection contract strips engine internals before anything leaves the platform. White-label on Scale and above.
Share a product's report with a client without exposing how the engine works.
What's shipping next
The roadmap keeps the same rule: per product, or not at all.
These are architected and in build — not live yet. We'd rather show you the honest status than dress a roadmap up as a shipped feature.
AI Citation Leaderboard
Rank isn't a brand-level fact. Each product wins or loses its category on its own.
Where a single product ranks against the top competitors in its category across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews — with the CRS score behind each rival and why it's cited.
Citation Integrity Proof
A citation check is only useful if you can prove it wasn't edited after the fact.
A per-product SHA-256 hash-chain audit trail: every verification and score change recorded as a tamper-evident link, so a product's citation history can be independently checked.
Audience Intelligence
AI recommends the same product differently to different buyers.
A per-product view of who the AI surfaces a listing to — demographic, geographic and funnel-stage slices of the queries that cite it.
Optimization & Brand Voice
The gaps a score exposes are the rewrites it should hand you next.
AI-assisted listing rewrites that close a product's specific missing-field gaps, plus a brand-voice consistency score across a catalog. The scoring engine is built and tested; it activates per dashboard as the data layer rolls out.
Local & Contextual Citation
Citation rates aren't the same in every market or for every use-case — and neither is your product.
Per-product citation rates sliced by geography and by buyer use-case, so a listing that wins in one market and loses in another is visible as two different results.
Indexability Verification
Being crawlable isn't the same as being indexable — grade both, per product.
A 26-point A–F crawlability grade for each product page, extending today's access audit into a full indexability report.
Programmatic API Access
A score is only as useful as the systems you can pull it into.
Score data and webhooks via API — planned for Scale and Agency tier, shipping after the current sprint sequence. No key management yet; nothing to fabricate a reference for until it does.
Every SKU in your catalog gets its own diagnostic, its own history, and its own fix list. Start with your first ten, free.