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 "id": "citeroute",
 "name": "CiteRoute",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "citeroute.com",
 "category": "Marketing",
 "task": "SEO, content & landing pages",
 "summary": "Generative engine optimisation tool that scores how ready a site is to be cited by AI answer engines, generates agent.json and llms.txt files, and logs AI crawler visits on verified sites; free plan plus paid tracking plans.",
 "best_for": "founders and marketers who want to see whether AI crawlers visit their site and how ready their pages look for AI answers, and agencies that want white-label GEO reports for a handful of client sites",
 "skip_if": "you want proof of citations rather than a readiness score, you need more than one tracked site without paying agency prices, or you want a vendor with a long track record",
 "honest_knock": "The GEO score is CiteRoute's own algorithm, and its terms say outright that it cannot guarantee citations or rankings. The revenue calculator on the home page runs on assumed rates that its footnote calls illustrative. It is a young product with a small public footprint: the home page counts 967+ domains evaluated and 2,043+ scans, and still lists Claude 3.5 among the engines it covers. Real AI-traffic data starts at $79 a month and covers one site. The company operates from Kigali under Rwandan law. We have not used CiteRoute ourselves.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$79",
  "entry_price_terms": "Pro · per month, billed monthly in advance through Lemon Squeezy as merchant of record",
  "from_price_usd_month": 79.0,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-10-13 in a live browser on citeroute.com/pricing, the home page and the terms of service dated 10 September 2026) Four plans, billed monthly. Free costs nothing and includes 10 GEO scans a month, one monitored buyer prompt in GEO Radar, a two-domain competitor comparison, 3 watchlist domains, the agent.json studio, a basic score report and community support. Pro is $79 a month with a 14-day trial: unlimited scans, 10 monitored prompts, a five-way competitor benchmark, one verified site with the tracking tag and a dashboard of real AI bot and crawler visits, 20 watchlist domains, an API key for 500 requests a day, history charts and priority support. Agency is $249 a month with a 14-day trial: 50 monitored prompts, 10 verified client sites, unlimited watchlist, white-label PDF reports, an embeddable badge and 10,000 API requests a day. Enterprise is custom. API calls beyond the daily plan limit are charged per call: $0.02 for a GEO score, $0.01 for a verification and $0.05 for AI-traffic data. The terms say Lemon Squeezy is the merchant of record and handles VAT and sales tax, subscriptions renew monthly until cancelled, you keep access to the end of the paid month after cancelling, and a full refund can be requested within 14 days of the initial purchase. CiteRoute operates from Kigali, Rwanda, under Rwandan law.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-13",
  "source_url": "https://www.citeroute.com/pricing"
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "API calls beyond the daily plan limit are charged per call: $0.02 for a GEO score, $0.01 for a verification and $0.05 for AI-traffic data.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-13",
   "source_url": "https://www.citeroute.com/pricing"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Omniseo",
  "why": "Omniseo is in our dossiers too, re-verified on 28 September 2026: Essentials $89 a month for 4 AI channels, 50 prompts and 5 seats, Professional $349, with a 7-day free trial and a half-price first month. CiteRoute, read on 13 October 2026, is $79 a month on Pro for 10 monitored prompts, one verified site with AI-crawler analytics and unlimited scans, with a free plan and a 14-day trial. Omniseo watches many more prompts per dollar; CiteRoute adds crawler logs from your own site and a free tier to start on."
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/citeroute.json",
  "review": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/citeroute-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/citeroute/",
  "vendor_site": "https://citeroute.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://www.citeroute.com?aff=6NyDVn",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "citeroute:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "citeroute:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "citeroute:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "citeroute:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}