Before you start
Have the following ready:- Your brand name and primary website URL. Use the brand name as it appears in the market, not the legal entity name.
- A short description of what your brand does. One or two sentences that describe your product or service category.
- Your primary market. India, UAE, US, UK, Europe, SEA, or Global. This matters because AI platforms behave differently by region — the same prompt can surface different brands depending on where the question is asked.
- 3–5 competitor brand names and their websites. Optional but strongly recommended. Competitors unlock share of voice and gap analysis, which are the most actionable parts of your dashboard.
- Your category or product type. A few words describing your space (e.g., “D2C skincare,” “B2B CRM,” “premium luggage”).
Step 1 — Sign up
Go to getcited.in/early-access and submit the signup form. You will receive a response within 24 hours with next steps.Step 2 — Brand setup
The Cited team provisions your brand in the platform. During setup, Cited runs brand intelligence — an automated process that crawls your website and competitor sites to understand your positioning, key use cases, and the language your category uses. Based on this research, Cited generates a custom prompt library: 25–125 questions that represent how real customers would ask about your category across AI platforms. On the Starter plan this is 25 prompts, Pro gives you 75, and Scale goes up to 125. The prompts cover different intent types — informational, commercial, navigational, and transactional — so you see visibility across the full customer journey.Step 3 — First pipeline run
Your prompt library is run across the AI platforms on your plan. Starter covers 3 platforms; Pro and Scale cover all 5 (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Grok). Each response is parsed for brand mentions, citations, sentiment, and position using Cited’s extraction pipeline. Results are aggregated into daily metrics so you can track changes over time.Step 4 — Your first report
Within 24 hours of the first pipeline run, your Cited dashboard will have initial visibility data. You will see your mention rate across platforms, which competitors are showing up where you are not, and which prompts are your biggest gaps. See Understanding your first report for a walkthrough of what each section means.Timing expectations
| Milestone | Typical timeline |
|---|---|
| Signup to provisioning | ~24 hours |
| Provisioning to first data | ~24 hours after pipeline runs |
| First meaningful trends | ~1 week of daily data |
| First actionable recommendations | ~2 weeks |