How we calculate the AI Citation Checker
What it measures
Whether a live AI model cites or mentions your domain in response to a real query about your space.
How it works
- 1The tool sends a real, live completion request to a model about the query or subject you provide.
- 2The response is checked for a mention of your domain or brand — a real, ungrounded model response, not a simulated or cached result.
Real limitations
- A single query is one sample, not a comprehensive audit — different phrasings of the same underlying question can produce different results.
- AI model outputs are non-deterministic; the same query run twice can return different results.