AI powered search is no longer a future trend. It is how millions of people discover products, services, and answers every day. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and DeepSeek are shaping purchase decisions in real time. If your brand is not showing up in these answers, you are invisible to a growing audience.
LeafPad now gives you visibility into exactly that. The new AI Citations feature tracks every time an AI engine mentions your website or brand name in its responses. You see the data. You see the context. You see the rank.
What AI Citations Does
AI Citations runs scheduled checks across six major AI engines. Each check sends targeted prompts to the engines and analyzes the responses for brand mentions. Here is what you get:
Citation Tracking Across Six Engines
Monitor your brand presence across OpenAI (ChatGPT), Perplexity, Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), xAI (Grok), and DeepSeek. Choose the engines that matter most to your audience. Run checks on your schedule.
Brand Name Detection
Tell LeafPad your brand name and it will scan every AI response for mentions. The system detects exact matches and ensures complete word matching. No false positives from partial string matches. If the engine says your brand name, you know about it.
Position and Rank Tracking
See where your brand appears in AI answers. Is it the first recommendation? The third? The last? AI Citations captures the exact position of every mention so you can track whether your visibility is improving over time.
Context Around Every Mention
A brand mention without context is just a data point. AI Citations captures the full sentence and surrounding paragraphs where your brand appears. You see exactly what the AI said about you, how it described your product, and what it compared you to.
Prompt Level Analytics
Create custom prompts tailored to your industry. Track which prompts trigger brand mentions and which do not. See citation rates per prompt, average rank positions, and which AI engines are most likely to mention your brand for each topic.
Competitor Comparison
Run the same prompts for competitor brand names. See how your citation rate stacks up against others in your space. Identify gaps where competitors are getting mentioned but you are not.
Weekly Reports and Trends
Track citation trends over time. Are more AI engines mentioning your brand this week than last week? Is your average rank improving? The trend dashboard gives you a clear view of progress with charts and historical data.
Engine Breakdown
Not all AI engines behave the same way. Some may mention your brand more often, others less. The engine breakdown shows citation counts, mention rates, and average positions for each engine so you know where to focus your efforts.
Citation History
Every check is logged. Browse your run history to see past results, expand individual checks, and review the brand context snippets from any previous scan. The last ten checks are always available for quick reference.
How to Get Started
Setting up AI Citations takes less than a minute.
Step 1: Navigate to the Citations tab in your LeafPad analytics dashboard. Click Connect.
Step 2: Select the AI engines you want to monitor. Four are selected by default. You can add or remove engines at any time.
Step 3: Enter your brand name and an optional topic to categorize your prompts. Add the search prompts you want to track.
That is it. LeafPad runs the checks on a weekly schedule and populates your dashboard with results as they come in.
Why This Matters
Traditional SEO tells you how you rank on Google. AI Citations tells you how you rank in the answers people get from AI. These are two different visibility channels and both matter.
As AI powered search grows, brands that appear in AI recommendations will capture more traffic, more leads, and more revenue. Brands that do not will fall behind. AI Citations gives you the data you need to stay ahead.
Available Now
AI Citations is live in LeafPad for all organizations. Navigate to your analytics dashboard, click the Citations tab, and start tracking your AI visibility today.
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