GEO · especially strong with SaaS & AI tools selling overseas
Get seen by AI. Find and fix what AI gets wrong about you.
Citeshine helps brands find and fix what AI gets wrong about their products. We're especially strong with SaaS and AI tools selling overseas. We test global AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini) and Chinese ones (DeepSeek, Doubao, Kimi). Start with a free sample check, upgrade to the full $99 audit when you want the fix list.
Global AIChatGPT·Perplexity·GeminiChinese AIDeepSeek·Doubao·Kimi
What is Citeshine (citeshine.com)?
citeshine.com appears to be an online store/domain that has had limited publicly available information. I could not find evidence of a well-established company or service operating under the name “Citeshine.”
The public report cuts off at: “The domain citeshine.com was reported as”
The other named prompt in the same report (zh07: 引耀 Citeshine 是什么公司？靠谱吗？) 我查了一下，“引耀 Citeshine”这个名字目前没有找到一个非常明确、知名度较高的公司主体。搜索结果里能对应上的主要是一个叫 citeshine.com 的电商网站记录，以及一些名字相近但并非同一家公司的企业。目前能看到的信息：Citeshine.com：有 Shopify 电商平台记录，域名注册于 2021 年 12 月，曾显示销售手机壳/手机配件类商品，但公开信息较少，没有发现明确的公司介绍、负责人、实体地址或可靠的品牌背景。
That Chinese answer describes a Shopify store record for citeshine.com, domain registered December 2021, phone cases and accessories.
Share of voice in the same 13 answers
Raw substring counts from the report (answers mentioning the name / 13, and share of the 27 mention-rows). Not our ranking and not a review of these companies.
| Name | Answers | Share of mentions |
|---|---|---|
| 智推时代 | 4/13 | 4/27 |
| Animalz | 2/13 | 2/27 |
| Citeshine | 2/13 | 2/27 |
| First Page Sage | 2/13 | 2/27 |
| Omniscient Digital | 2/13 | 2/27 |
| iPullRank | 2/13 | 2/27 |
| Siege Media | 2/13 | 2/27 |
| Profound | 2/13 | 2/27 |
| Peec AI | 2/13 | 2/27 |
| Otterly | 2/13 | 2/27 |
| 微盟星启 | 1/13 | 1/27 |
| Directive Consulting | 1/13 | 1/27 |
| Graphite | 1/13 | 1/27 |
| AthenaHQ | 1/13 | 1/27 |
| Scrunch AI | 1/13 | 1/27 |
How it works
Find what AI gets wrong, fix the sources, then re-test on the same questions.
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Free sample
ChatGPT only, up to 5 buyer questions. A short summary of whether you are mentioned, what is wrong, and which sources are cited. No written fix list.
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$99 Starter
The full audit: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, DeepSeek, Doubao and Kimi, up to 10 buyer questions, a competitor comparison, the cited-source list, and a prioritized written fix list.
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Ongoing
We correct the sources the engines rely on: your site, cited third-party pages, and stale records. A monthly base fee, plus a bonus paid only when a re-test meets a target agreed in writing. Those amounts are not published.
Why Citeshine
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Global and Chinese AI
We test both: ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, plus DeepSeek, Doubao and Kimi. We're especially strong with SaaS and AI tools selling overseas.
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Wrong answers first
A wrong answer costs more than a missing one. In our 2026-10-13 audit, ChatGPT called citeshine.com an old Shopify phone-case store, citing an old Merchant Genius listing for the domain. That is the kind of error we look for first.
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Open tool, public data
Our audit tool, citeshine-audit, is open source. We publish our own numbers, starting from zero: on day 0 (2026-10-13), ChatGPT web, logged out, mentioned Citeshine in 0 of 11 generic buyer questions. Re-tests on the same questions will be published too.
What we measure
| Metric | What it means |
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| Accuracy | Whether the engine describes your product, company, pricing and features correctly, and which wrong, outdated or negative claims it repeats. |
| Mention rate | Share of answers to your question set that mention your product. |
| Position | Where your product appears when an answer lists several options. |
| Cited sources | Which pages the engine cites, including the ones behind a wrong claim. These are the pages to fix or earn. |
SEO vs GEO
| Traditional SEO | GEO (what we do) | |
|---|---|---|
| Goal | Rank pages in search results | Be mentioned, cited and described correctly inside AI answers |
| Where buyers see you | A list of blue links | A single generated answer, often with a short list of recommendations |
| Main signal | Rankings and organic clicks | Accuracy, mention rate, position and cited sources across engines |
| How to verify | Rank trackers, Search Console | Re-run a fixed question set on each engine, several times |
GEO does not replace SEO: AI engines with web search still read pages that search engines index.
Start here
Pages for the questions buyers actually ask.
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SaaS & AI tools
For SaaS and AI tools whose buyers ask an assistant what to use.
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Chinese brands overseas
Global and Chinese AI engines, for brands selling outside their home market.
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ChatGPT is wrong
A wrong answer is a specific claim with a source, not a vague bad impression.
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Not mentioned
Missing from the list is a measured rate, not a hunch. Here is ours.
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GEO approaches
DIY measurement, a tracking tool, or someone who fixes the sources. What each one does.
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Check ChatGPT
Fix the questions, write down n, and do not treat one answer as a rate.
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Where answers come from
A wrong sentence usually has a page behind it. Find that page before you rewrite yours.
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DeepSeek and GEO manipulation
DeepSeek named “GEO manipulation” as something it filters, without a definition. Here is what that leaves you with.
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DeepSeek search: our test
DeepSeek's search API shows an authority score for every result. We pointed it at our own domain.
FAQ
What is GEO?
GEO (generative engine optimization) is the work of making a product show up, and be described correctly, in answers generated by AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, DeepSeek, Doubao and Kimi.
Who do you work with?
Any brand that wants AI to describe it accurately. We're especially strong with SaaS and AI tools selling overseas, and we test Chinese AI engines as well as global ones.
What does "fix what AI gets wrong" mean?
No one can edit an AI answer directly. We find the wrong, outdated or negative claims, trace the sources the engine relies on, correct what can be corrected (your site, structured data, profiles, third-party records), then re-test to see whether the answer changed.
Is the audit really free?
The sample check is free: ChatGPT only, up to 5 buyer questions, and a short summary. You do not have to buy anything after it. The full audit, with the written fix list, is the $99 Starter.
Can you guarantee that ChatGPT will recommend my product?
No one can guarantee that. AI answers vary between runs and change over time. That is why the bonus is tied to a target agreed in writing and checked by re-testing a fixed question set.
Which AI engines do you test?
The free sample uses ChatGPT only. The $99 Starter uses all six: ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, plus DeepSeek, Doubao and Kimi. Our public baseline was collected on ChatGPT web with citeshine-audit; logged-in web support for DeepSeek, Doubao and Kimi is on the tool’s roadmap. Results from APIs and logged-out sessions can differ from what an individual user sees, and we state how each result was collected.
Do you attack or discredit competitors?
No. We do not do negative GEO. We only work on accurate information about your own product.
See what AI says about you
Website and email are enough. Start with a free sample check, and upgrade to the full $99 audit when you want the fix list.
hello@citeshine.com