# Cited Documentation

> Documentation for Cited, the Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) platform. Every page is available as markdown by adding `.md` to its URL.

Source: https://youcited.com/docs
Site overview for LLMs: https://youcited.com/llms.txt

## Getting Started

What Cited does, the free audit, your first paid audit, scores and credits.

- [What is Cited?](https://youcited.com/docs/getting-started/what-is-cited.md): What Cited checks, what it gives you, and what it doesn't do.
- [Free audit with your AI assistant](https://youcited.com/docs/getting-started/free-audit.md): Paste one prompt into Claude or ChatGPT to audit your site for free. No account needed.
- [Your first paid audit](https://youcited.com/docs/getting-started/quick-start-guide.md): Create an account, add your website, pick your questions and run a full audit.
- [Understanding your scores](https://youcited.com/docs/getting-started/understanding-your-scores.md): How each AI model is scored 0-100 and how scores roll up per engine and overall.
- [Credits and pricing](https://youcited.com/docs/getting-started/credits-and-pricing.md): Pay-as-you-go credits, packs, refunds and auto-refill. No subscription.

## Using Cited

Businesses and questions, audits, reports, the site check, recommendations and fixes.

- [Businesses and questions](https://youcited.com/docs/feature-guides/businesses-and-questions.md): Add your business and write the questions buyers ask AI.
- [Running an audit](https://youcited.com/docs/feature-guides/running-an-audit.md): Engines, models, repeats and the options you choose when you run an audit.
- [Reading your report](https://youcited.com/docs/feature-guides/reading-your-report.md): Scores, answers, who's cited instead, comparing with your last audit, sharing and downloads.
- [Site check](https://youcited.com/docs/feature-guides/site-check.md): Whether AI bots can reach your site, and the on-site basics AI looks for.
- [Recommendations](https://youcited.com/docs/feature-guides/recommendations.md): Changes for your own site, labelled proven or best practice.
- [Fixes](https://youcited.com/docs/feature-guides/fixes.md): Ready-made files and one install guide per recommendation, verified on your live site.

## Agents and Integrations

Connect Claude, ChatGPT and coding agents, use the CLI, and let an agent sign up and buy.

- [Connect your AI assistant](https://youcited.com/docs/integration-guides/connect-your-ai-assistant.md): Add Cited's hosted MCP connector to Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor or Codex.
- [Cited CLI](https://youcited.com/docs/integration-guides/cited-cli.md): Install the cited command-line tool and run audits from your terminal.
- [Agent signup and buying](https://youcited.com/docs/integration-guides/agent-signup-and-buying.md): How an agent creates an account, pays for an audit and hands it to you to claim.
- [Agent tools](https://youcited.com/docs/integration-guides/agent-tools.md): The 19 tools agents use, the same in the hosted MCP server, cited-mcp and the CLI.

## GEO Concepts

How AI assistants pick sources, and what you can do about it.

- [What is GEO?](https://youcited.com/docs/geo-concepts/what-is-geo.md): Generative Engine Optimization explained, and how it differs from SEO.
- [AI search landscape](https://youcited.com/docs/geo-concepts/ai-search-landscape.md): How ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Google's AI answers pick what to cite, and the bots behind them.
- [Metric definitions](https://youcited.com/docs/geo-concepts/metric-definitions.md): Every score and label in a Cited report, in one place.
- [Best practices](https://youcited.com/docs/geo-concepts/best-practices.md): Schema markup, content structure, trust signals and technical basics that help AI cite you.