Citation Index · first edition
Founders paid $348k to rank on leaderboards. Did AI notice?
I measured whether AI answer engines cite the companies that paid.
Does AI cite your site?
I ask an answer engine your category’s question and tell you whether it cites you, or who it recommends instead. Free with an account, 3 checks a day.
Result so far: 4 citations in 1285 probes for the companies on the boards. The control group, which paid for nothing, was cited 366 times in 3630 probes by the same questions.
Measured between 2026-08-31 and 2026-09-03, engine: gemini · full methodology
The companies that paid
SEE
see.io · found on outbid.lol · bid $17,000
0 of 30 citations
Tutti
tutti.so · found on outbid.lol · bid $16,000
0 of 30 citations
Joni
joni.ai · found on outbid.lol · bid $14,028
0 of 30 citations
Outrank
outrank.so · found on outbid.lol · bid $13,005
0 of 30 citations
Orynth
orynth.dev · found on outbid.lol · bid $12,716
0 of 5 citations
CrowdReply
crowdreply.io · found on outbid.lol · bid $12,711
0 of 30 citations
Comp AI
trycomp.ai · found on outbid.lol · bid $10,000
0 of 10 citations
ZeroRank
zerorank.ai · found on outbid.lol · bid $4,004
0 of 30 citations
FloPay
flopay.com · found on outbid.lol · bid $3,760
0 of 30 citations
Pecan AI
pecan.ai · found on outbid.lol · bid $3,750
0 of 30 citations
LATAMHire
lathire.com · found on outbid.lol · bid $3,562
4 of 10 citations
Modulate
modulate.ai · found on outbid.lol · bid $3,560
0 of 30 citations
Context.dev
context.dev · found on outbid.lol · bid $3,555
0 of 30 citations
fatjoe
fatjoe.com · found on outbid.lol · bid $3,500
0 of 30 citations
Fuel Log
fuellog.ai · found on outbid.lol · bid $3,500
0 of 10 citations
Linkie
linkie.bio · found on outbid.lol · bid $3,141
0 of 30 citations
Publer
publer.com · found on outbid.lol · bid $3,135
0 of 30 citations
ContentStudio
contentstudio.io · found on outbid.lol · bid $3,130
0 of 30 citations
Unify
unify.ai · found on outbid.lol · bid $3,125
0 of 30 citations
Otio
otio.ai · found on outbid.lol · bid $3,000
0 of 30 citations
myTB.ai
mytb.ai · found on outbid.lol · bid $2,999
0 of 10 citations
Name Rockstar
namerockstar.com · found on outbid.lol · bid $2,001
0 of 10 citations
AI Agent Flow
aiagentflow.dev · found on productsbid.lol
0 of 30 citations
aivisibility.cloud
aivisibility.cloud · found on productsbid.lol
0 of 30 citations
AllImageAI
allimageai.com · found on premierdelaclasse.lol
0 of 30 citations
B2B SEO Company
b2b-seo-company.com · found on topseos.lol
0 of 30 citations
BreedClubs
breedclubs.com · found on premierdelaclasse.lol
0 of 30 citations
BuildBoost
buildboost.app · found on productsbid.lol
0 of 30 citations
Dyudo
dyudo.com · found on premierdelaclasse.lol
0 of 30 citations
Flockbeam
flockbeam.com · found on premierdelaclasse.lol
0 of 30 citations
iDemo
idemo.video · found on productsbid.lol
0 of 30 citations
Klapers
klapers.com · found on premierdelaclasse.lol
0 of 30 citations
LocusPilot
locuspilot.com · found on topseos.lol
0 of 30 citations
Loquory
loquory.com · found on premierdelaclasse.lol
0 of 30 citations
MGFame
mgfame.com · found on premierdelaclasse.lol
0 of 30 citations
Minuscule en Majuscule Convertisseur
minuscule-en-majuscule.com · found on premierdelaclasse.lol
0 of 30 citations
Notors
notors.com.my · found on productsbid.lol
0 of 30 citations
PDM Lynx
pdmlynx.com · found on premierdelaclasse.lol
0 of 30 citations
PrettyInsights
prettyinsights.com · found on topseos.lol
0 of 30 citations
Punctual
punctual.software · found on productsbid.lol
0 of 30 citations
QuickMemorial
quickmemorial.com · found on productsbid.lol
0 of 30 citations
RUUA
ruua.it · found on premierdelaclasse.lol
0 of 30 citations
seorankslab.com
seorankslab.com · found on productsbid.lol
0 of 30 citations
Shuttle SEO
shuttleseo.com · found on premierdelaclasse.lol
0 of 30 citations
taap.bio
taap.bio · found on premierdelaclasse.lol
0 of 30 citations
TwineGrid
twinegrid.com · found on premierdelaclasse.lol
0 of 30 citations
Wovenic
wovenic.com · found on premierdelaclasse.lol
0 of 30 citations
How I know the zero is real
The same questions, in the same probes, do find citations for established companies that never touched a board. The instrument works; for the boards there was nothing to find.
web analyticscontrol group
- Plausible23 of 30
- Fathom Analytics17 of 30
- Matomo17 of 30
- PostHog14 of 30
- Simple Analytics5 of 30
customer supportcontrol group
payments billingcontrol group
ai writingcontrol group
- Writesonic13 of 30
- Jasper1 of 30
- Sudowrite1 of 30
- Frase1 of 30
- Rytr1 of 30
social schedulingcontrol group
- Hootsuite7 of 30
- Buffer4 of 30
- Sprout Social4 of 30
- Loomly1 of 30
seo toolscontrol group
- SE Ranking15 of 30
- Semrush6 of 30
- Mangools3 of 30
- Moz2 of 30
project managementcontrol group
- Wrike9 of 30
- Asana8 of 30
- Teamwork6 of 30
- Monday.com3 of 30
email marketingcontrol group
- Drip13 of 30
- ActiveCampaign10 of 30
- MailerLite1 of 30
- Brevo1 of 30
website builderscontrol group
- Squarespace14 of 30
- Wix8 of 30
- Webflow1 of 30
Squarespaceform builderscontrol group
- Tally14 of 30
- Formbricks5 of 30
- Fillout2 of 30
ai image generationcontrol group
- Canva3 of 30
- Leonardo AI2 of 30
link in biocontrol group
- Stan Store13 of 30
review managementcontrol group
- Birdeye11 of 30
63 of the famous names were never cited either
The control group exposed something on the side: most household names were not cited once for their own category. Being the biggest brand is not the same as being the answer.
Read this before quoting it
- This is sampling: no engine exposes “was I cited” as an API. I ask the questions myself and record what comes back.
- Correlation is not causation. The boards did not make anyone less citable; the money simply bought a different thing (clicks for a day) than the thing that matters (being the answer).
- A company at zero is not doomed. It means this engine, these questions, this week. The index re-runs weekly; the series is the signal.
- Every question, the matching rules, and the raw probes are public: methodology. Repeat it and disagree with me.