The score for AI visibility

The honest number for whether AI names your business.

CitedIQ is three plain scores out of 100 that measure how findable and recommendable you are to the AI engines your customers now ask.

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CitedIQ score · example
72
Website Quality
Developing
48
SEO
Emerging
30
AI Searchability
Invisible
Three honest numbers. We score what is actually there, and we never inflate a problem to sell a fix.

What it is

One score for a question every business now has to answer.

When someone asks an AI engine for the best business like yours, it names a short list. CitedIQ measures whether you are on it. It breaks the answer into three honest scores, so you see exactly where you stand and exactly what is holding you back.

Website Quality
Score 1 of 3

How well your site is built, structured, and written for both people and machines. Speed, clarity, depth, and whether the pages give an engine something clean to read.

SEO
Score 2 of 3

How findable you are in traditional search. Keyword relevance, technical health, local signals, and the fundamentals that still drive most of your traffic today.

AI Searchability
Score 3 of 3

How visible you are to AI engines specifically. Entity consistency, structured data, direct-answer content, and the earned citations that lead an engine to name you.

How to read it

Four tiers, in plain language.

Every CitedIQ score maps to one of four tiers. They give an honest reading, in both directions. A strong site scores strong. A thin one scores thin. No manufactured alarm.

35 to 54
Emerging
The foundation is starting. Some signals are in place, but the earned visibility is still pending.
55 to 74
Developing
Real presence is building. Directories, citations, and structure are working, with room to grow.
75 to 100
Authority
You are a name the engines trust and recommend, confirmed across multiple surfaces and sources.

The honest part

AI Searchability is earned, not claimed.

This is the score most tools inflate, and the one CitedIQ is most careful with. On-page schema and clean content are the foundation, necessary, but not sufficient. Being named by an AI engine is earned over time, through consistency, citations, and real presence across the web. So a business with a perfect foundation but no earned footprint scores in the Emerging range, honestly, with the foundation built and the earned signals still pending. A score should tell you the truth, not sell you a fix.

ChatGPT Claude Perplexity Google AI Overviews Gemini Grok Copilot, also covered

Where it comes from

Built by Verocited, on real businesses.

CitedIQ is the scoring framework created by Verocited, a done-for-you AI visibility firm based in Scottsdale, Arizona. It was not designed in theory. It came from measuring and improving the AI visibility of real businesses, and watching which signals actually moved whether an engine named them.

The score is only the diagnosis. Verocited also does the work to improve it, through the Deticia Engine methodology, so the number is a starting point, not a report you are left to act on alone. A CitedIQ score answers a simple question: when your next customer asks AI for a business like yours, are you the answer?

Why three scores, not one

A single blended number hides where the problem is. A business can have a beautiful website, decent traditional SEO, and still be nearly invisible to AI, because those are different problems with different fixes. Splitting the score into Website Quality, SEO, and AI Searchability shows exactly which one is costing you customers, so the work goes where it matters.

Common questions

What people ask about CitedIQ.

What is a CitedIQ score?

A CitedIQ score is three honest numbers out of 100, Website Quality, SEO, and AI Searchability, that measure how findable and recommendable a business is to AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Grok. Each maps to one of four tiers: Invisible, Emerging, Developing, or Authority.

What does the AI Searchability score measure?

It measures earned visibility to AI engines, not on-page potential. It reflects whether you have built the entity consistency, structured data, direct-answer content, and citations across the web that actually lead engines to name you. A strong foundation with no earned footprint scores in the Emerging range, because being cited is earned over time.

How is CitedIQ different from a normal SEO audit?

A traditional SEO audit measures how you rank on a page of links. CitedIQ adds the part that now decides discovery: whether AI engines that return one answer, and name only a few businesses, will name you. It measures both, separately and honestly, because they are not the same problem.

Who created CitedIQ?

CitedIQ is the framework created by Verocited, a done-for-you AI visibility firm in Scottsdale, Arizona. Verocited measures your CitedIQ score and does the work to improve it.

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