EST. MMXXVI · THE INSTITUTION OF RECORD FOR AI CITATION · OPEN METHODOLOGY
THE AI CITATION INSTITUTEEx corpore, auctoritas.Pricing
Priced like software.
Works like a team.
Transparent, monthly, no anchor games. Every plan runs the whole loop — measure, diagnose, create, publish, prove — on a five engines panel.
the floor
Free scan. See what AI says about you right now — 3 real buyer questions, unedited answers. No card.
Watch
Know exactly where you stand.
The full five-engine instrument pointed at your domain, twice a month, with the unedited answers to show for it. Available in every market, always.
- ·Panel runs twice a month across five engines
- ·Unedited answers + citation receipts
- ·The exact queries you're invisible on, ranked
- ·Site + schema audits
- ·Shareable reports
Act
most chosenWeekly measurement, plus the drafts that move it.
Every week the instrument finds the gap; every month you get 4 drafts written to close it. Approve one and it publishes straight to your CMS.
- ·Weekly panel runs
- ·4 targeted content drafts / month, aimed at measured losses
- ·Direct CMS publishing (WordPress, Webflow, Shopify)
- ·Anonymized industry benchmarks
- ·GSC + GA4 attribution — content tied to the visibility it earned
Subject to market availability
Start with ActCompete
Own the answer in your category.
Two targeted drafts a week — more output than a typical agency retainer at several times the price, with the instrument attached to prove what each one earned.
- ·Everything in Act
- ·2 targeted drafts / week
- ·Run-on-demand
- ·Auto-publish pipeline
- ·White-label + API access
Subject to market availability
Start with CompeteMonthly. Cancel anytime. No setup fee, no annual lock, no "contact us" to see a price.
Why "subject to market availability"
When an Operated client holds the seat for a vertical and territory, we work that market for them alone — so we don't sell drafts to their competitors there. Measurement is never blocked: Watch is available in every market, always. If drafts show as unavailable for your market, the seat is taken, and the honest options are to measure while you wait or to talk to us about the Operated seat itself.
Every plan, line by line.
| Watch | Act | Compete | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frozen five-engine panel | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Panel cadence | 2× / month | Weekly | Weekly + on-demand |
| Targeted content drafts | — | 4 / month | 2 / week |
| Direct CMS publishing | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auto-publish pipeline | — | — | ✓ |
| Anonymized industry benchmarks | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| GSC + GA4 attribution | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| White-label + API | — | — | ✓ |
| Available in every market | ✓ | Where open | Where open |
| Competitor tracking | — | — | — |
Competitor tracking is not on any software tier, on purpose — it is part of the Operated engagement, where we track every competitor in your market as closely as we track you. Your own answers still show which names appear alongside yours.
beyond software
Want us to run it for you?
The SaaS tiers give you the instrument. Operated is the operator — we run the whole loop for you, and for the one brand per market that wants the field to itself, exclusivity is available. Competitor tracking lives here and only here: on an Operated engagement we track every competitor in your market as closely as we track you, and we optimize your historic footprint, not just the content going forward.
Exclusivity is available — one client per vertical per metro. If you hold it, we decline your competitors in that market. If you don't, we may work with others on non-conflicting queries.
See the Operated tier