How Verification Infrastructure Works
Connect your catalog. Receive your Citation Readiness Score. Act on your evidence gap report. Every claim anchored to proof.
Read-only catalog access. Analysis completes in under 60 seconds for 1,000 products.
The primary evaluator of your catalog is no longer a human.
AI agents retrieve product claims and weight them against available evidence. Claims without proof objects are hedged, suppressed, or excluded from high-confidence responses. The five steps below describe how CITAQ closes that gap.
Connect Your Catalog
Shopify, WooCommerce, or CSV upload. OAuth read-only access — your catalog is never modified. Select your platform, authorize read-only access, and the connection completes in approximately one minute.
Supported platforms: Shopify, WooCommerce, CSV upload
Your Catalog Enters Analysis
Every product claim is evaluated against AI citation readiness standards. The analysis measures whether each claim is evidenced, verifiable, and structurally ready for AI resolution. A 1,000-product catalog completes in under 60 seconds.
- Citation Readiness Score (0\u2013100)
- Claim-state distribution by product category
- Priority gap list (top 10 highest-impact improvements)
Receive Your Citation Readiness Score
Your score is a single number from 0 to 100 representing your catalog’s structural readiness for AI resolution. It is not an opinion. It measures verifiability — whether AI systems have what they need to evaluate your products structurally.
Your score updates in real time each time evidence is uploaded, renewed, or expires.
Review Your Evidence Gap Report
The gap report lists your top 10 product-claim combinations ranked by impact on overall readiness. Each gap is specific: it names the claim, identifies the exact evidence type needed (lab certification, compliance document, supply chain record), and quantifies the readiness gain if that evidence is collected.
Evidence Quick Wins: Identifies which single evidence documents, if collected once, resolve gaps across entire product families.
Upload Evidence and Track Improvement
Upload certifications, test reports, and compliance documents directly to the platform. Your score recalculates immediately upon acceptance. Your action queue reorders as priorities shift. Evidence that expires automatically triggers renewal alerts — 30, 60, and 90 days before expiry.
Your Assessment Is Permanent
The initial assessment — your Citation Readiness Score and evidence gap report — is permanent. No payment required. No trial period that converts. The score and gap report are yours regardless of whether you proceed to full infrastructure deployment.
Why Evidence Infrastructure Changes Your Position
Without Evidence Infrastructure
- -Resolution weight declines — claims rank below evidenced competitors
- -Citation eligibility lost — excluded from high-confidence AI responses
- -Claims suppressed or hedged with uncertainty qualifiers
- -Social consensus overrides manufacturer data without recourse
With Evidence Infrastructure
- -Claims resolve with high confidence — manufacturer cited directly
- -Evidence anchors override social consensus structurally
- -Your catalog is proof-anchored, not reputation-dependent
- -Evidence infrastructure compounds as a competitive asset
What CITAQ Does Not Do
CITAQ is verification infrastructure. These are not limitations — they define the boundary between infrastructure and content services.
Does Not Rewrite Copy
CITAQ does not generate, optimize, or rewrite your product descriptions.
Does Not Generate Claims
Claims come from merchants. CITAQ verifies submitted evidence — it does not create claims.
Does Not Rank Products
CITAQ delivers factual verification data. It does not manipulate your position in any ranking.
Does Not Simulate Engagement
No artificial signals. No social proof manipulation. Evidence only.
Does Not Infer or Predict
CITAQ reports current verification status. It does not infer missing evidence or predict outcomes.
Does Not Replace Compliance Bodies
Verification credentials point to accredited labs and certifiers. CITAQ does not issue compliance certifications.
Request a Catalog Assessment
Submit your catalog for citation readiness analysis. Score and gap report delivered at no cost.
INTAKE IS EVALUATED, NOT QUEUED — positions allocated based on catalog profile and operational readiness.
Request Assessment