Inspect the answer
Open the exact buyer question and raw response. See whether your brand and competitors were named, shortlisted or recommended.
Measure
AI citation tracking
See which sources appear in answers where competitors make the shortlist. Connect each citation to the buyer question and investigate gaps in your own evidence.
Get a snapshotIllustrative example · not customer measurements
Keep the answer and its evidence together.
Buyer question
Which CRM fits a 50-person SaaS team?
“Acme and Northstar are viable options for a team of this size.”
Your brand · absentAcme · shortlisted
Fictional API/search answer · one sampleSources cited in this answer
- Product documentationacme.example/docs/team-plans
- Independent comparisonguide.example/crm-comparison
Cited sources are evidence to investigate. They do not prove what caused the recommendation.
Turn a citation into a question to investigate.
Compare cited evidence
Inspect the URLs and domains explicitly cited in that sample. Look for recurring documentation and third-party source patterns.
Investigate a gap
Check whether your public sources clearly support a buyer requirement you genuinely meet. Record a specific improvement to test.
Keep every finding traceable.
- Save the response
Keep the question version, raw answer, cited URLs and brand states together.
- Record the context
Name the engine, API/search surface, model, market, language and collection time.
- Look across samples
Use repeated runs to identify recurring evidence patterns. Re-measure after a change.
What can’t citations prove?
A citation does not prove that it caused the recommendation, nor does an uncited page prove it played no role. Mentionloom therefore uses language such as “evidence associated with this recommendation” instead of inventing hidden causal explanations.
Questions people ask
Is citation count the same as recommendation share?
No. A page can be cited without its brand being recommended, and a brand can be recommended in an answer with different citation behavior.
Should teams optimize only for cited domains?
No. First verify the buyer requirement, source quality and product truth; citation patterns are evidence for investigation, not a shortcut to causality.
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