Make your site cite-worthy.
NiceCite audits a website for answer-engine visibility and generates the assets needed to improve AI citation readiness — FAQs, schema, on-page rewrites, and content briefs scoped to the exact page that needs them.
NiceCite is an AI citation audit and fix-plan platform. It crawls your live website, scores how ready each page is to be quoted by AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews, then generates the FAQs, schema, and on-page rewrites needed to close the gaps it finds. Learn more on the about page.
AEO is the practice of structuring a website so AI answer engines can parse it, trust it, and quote it inside generated answers. Where SEO targets blue-link rankings, AEO targets being the source the AI cites. It depends on answer-ready copy, clear entity identity, structured data, trust signals, and crawlable evidence — not keywords and backlinks alone.
Every audit runs a deterministic page set through six weighted signals: Answer Readiness, Entity Clarity, Schema & Structured Data, Trust & Citation Signals, Content Coverage, and Technical Accessibility. The result is the NiceCite Score (0–100) plus per-signal breakdowns. The Score Integrity panel shows the exact pages scored, a page-set signature, and the score version (NiceCite Score v2 today) so the number is repeatable and auditable.
From the same audit, NiceCite drafts the assets your team needs to ship: FAQ blocks targeted at the page that scored low on answer readiness, JSON-LD schema (Organization, FAQPage, Article, Product, LocalBusiness), on-page rewrites that strengthen entity clarity, and content briefs scoped to the specific gap. Generation is credit-based so you only pay for what you actually use.
Two reasons. First, your site changed — you shipped fixes, added a page, or removed schema. Second, the audited page set changed (for example after a plan upgrade that crawls more pages). The Score Integrity panel exposes the page list, signature, and score version so changes are explainable, not mysterious. NiceCite never silently re-weights or special-cases a domain.
Founders auditing their own marketing site before a launch. SEO and AEO consultants who need defensible, evidence-based reports for client pitches. In-house content and growth teams that want a concrete fix backlog instead of vibes. Agencies that hand off branded PDFs and shareable report links to clients.
An AI answer engine quotes a page when it can quickly identify what the page is about, who it is from, and where the answer is. Cite-worthy pages lead with a clear H1 that names the topic, answer the obvious questions directly (often with a FAQ block), declare entity identity through Organization and About schema, link back to trustworthy sources, and stay crawlable — clean HTML, a sitemap, no blocking robots rules. NiceCite measures each of these and shows you which pages are pulling their weight.
Discover what AI sees, score what it can cite, fix the gaps, and track progress over time — without bouncing between tools.
Crawl the live site, sitemap, and robots. Identify the key pages an AI engine will actually read.
Six-signal NiceCite Score with a Score Integrity panel that locks the audited page set.
Turn gaps into FAQs, schema, briefs, and on-page rewrites using generation credits.
Audit history and report comparisons. Continuous monitoring on the roadmap.
Every audit shows the audited page list, the page signature, the score version (NiceCite Score v2 today), and exactly which signals moved. Re-run the same site on the same plan and the page selection and score are repeatable.
From the same audit, draft FAQ blocks, JSON-LD schema, and on-page rewrites that target the specific gaps the crawl found. Credits-based so you only pay for what you ship.
Hand off branded PDFs, share read-only report links, and keep a clean audit history per domain. White-label options are on the premium roadmap.
Six categories, six specialists, one composite score.
How directly the site answers questions AI engines ask.
How clearly the site identifies the business as an entity.
Machine-readable signals AI uses to understand pages.
Reasons an AI would cite this site as a trusted source.
Breadth of topical coverage across the site.
Crawlability, sitemap, meta, and indexing basics.
NiceCite is not a vibes meter. Each signal is computed from real signals pulled from your site — and surfaced so you can audit the audit.
Real HTTP fetches of your URLs, parsed HTML, headings, and link graph — not cached estimates.
We show the audited page set plus the wider discovered URL set from sitemap, internal links, and common-path probes.
JSON-LD blocks (Organization, FAQPage, Article, Product, LocalBusiness, etc.) are parsed per page and counted toward Schema Coverage.
H1/H2 structure, FAQ presence, direct-answer paragraphs, and quotable copy are evaluated per page.
About, contact, authors, testimonials, case studies, and outbound source links contribute to Trust scoring.
Real screenshots and a visual site scan let you verify pages render as expected for an AI engine and human reviewer.
Each report carries a page-set signature and the score version (NiceCite Score v2) so two audits of the same site are explainable.
Sitemap, robots.txt, canonical and meta-robots are inspected to ensure your pages are reachable and indexable.
Every signal links to the exact pages and findings behind it — no black-box scoring.
Illustrative weighting based on public guidance — not a live query of these engines. NiceCite scores your site against all six signals.
| Signal | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Gemini | AI Overviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quotable Answers | ||||
| Entity Clarity | ||||
| Schema (JSON-LD) | ||||
| Trust & Proof | ||||
| Freshness | ||||
| Crawlability |
Every NiceCite audit is run by a small crew of specialized agents — each owns one signal, each leaves evidence in the report.
Curious, quick, energetic.
Precise, slightly nerdy, helpful.
Conversational, punchy, copy-aware.
Skeptical, protective, practical.
Upbeat, momentum-focused, strategic.
Calm, direct, no fluff.
Customer scores today (NiceCite Score v2) are a transparent product-defined heuristic. In parallel we're building the NiceCite Seed Benchmark — a small attributed library of public AEO/citation research datasets (e.g. CiteTrace, GEO-Bench) and feature priors from GEO Citation Lab and SourceBench rubrics. Once first-party citation observations grow, that benchmark will calibrate NiceCite Score v3.
We do not claim those public datasets are ours. We do not claim our score is calibrated yet.
Whether you're pitching new clients or proving impact internally, NiceCite gives you a defensible answer.
Drop a URL, get a deterministic NiceCite Score in about 30 seconds. Walk into the pitch with evidence, not vibes.
Per-signal scoring with the audited page list and source evidence — so clients see exactly what you're fixing and why.
Generate FAQs, schema, and content briefs from the same audit. Scope is concrete: what to ship, on which page.
A live crawl of your site scored against six signals AI answer engines use to decide what to quote: answer readiness, entity clarity, schema, trust, content coverage, and crawlability. You get an overall NiceCite Score plus the exact evidence behind every number.
SEO optimizes for blue-link rankings. AEO — Answer Engine Optimization — optimizes for being cited inside AI-generated answers. That requires answer-ready structure, schema, entity clarity, and trust signals, not just keywords and backlinks.
It pinpoints the specific gaps that stop AI engines from quoting your pages — missing FAQs, weak entity signals, thin schema, vague headings — and generates the assets to close them, scoped to the page that needs them.
FAQ blocks, JSON-LD schema (Organization, FAQPage, Article, Product, LocalBusiness), on-page rewrites for hero and entity copy, and content briefs your team can ship.
Either your live site changed, or the audited page set changed (e.g. a plan upgrade crawls more pages). The Score Integrity panel shows the exact page list, page signature, and score version so you can verify what was scored.
Yes. Every audit hits your live URLs, parses HTML, reads schema and headings, and inspects sitemap/robots. No mocked data — every signal links back to evidence pulled from your site.
Yes. Per-domain history, shareable read-only report links, and PDF exports are built for client work. White-label is on the premium roadmap.
No tool can. NiceCite gives you an evidence-based score and a prioritized fix list built from what your site contains today — so the work you ship has a real reason to improve citation readiness.
Free audit · evidence-based report · no signup required.