Get cited by the pages AI already trusts
When ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity or Copilot answer a question in your category, they pull from a small set of third-party pages. Targetlytics finds those pages, tells you which ones never mention you, and runs the outreach to fix it.
AI answers are assembled, not written
They are built from sources. Targetlytics already tracks every page cited in answers about your category. Citation Outreach turns that list into action: it ranks the pages by how much leverage a mention there would give you, flags the ones that name your competitors but not you, finds the editor or author behind each page, and drafts a pitch built around the exact passage that won the citation. You approve the contact, you approve the email, and Targetlytics measures whether the placement actually moved your visibility.
Target discovery
Every third-party page cited in AI answers for your prompts, ranked by leverage. Four signals decide the order.
| Citation volume | How often the page is cited across your tracked prompts |
| Prompt coverage | How many distinct prompts it influences, not just how loudly it appears in one |
| Share of voice | How much of the answer the page shapes when it is cited |
| Site authority | How much weight the source carries beyond your own category |
Gap detection
See at a glance which cited pages mention your competitors and skip you. Those are the pages where AI engines already have a source for the question you sell into — and your name is not in it.
The gap list is the shortlist. It is where a single mention changes the answer, not the ranking.
Contact discovery
Structured data, page metadata, and a polite, robots-aware crawl find the real editor or author behind the page. Enrichment providers are a fallback, used only when scraping comes up empty.
Every address is MX-validated before it is shown to you. Contacts need your approval before anything is drafted against them.
The pitch is built from the winning snippet
The draft is written around the specific passage on that page that AI engines actually quote — the one that earned the citation. It references what the page already says and what your brand adds to it. Not a template with a merge field for the site name.
Nothing sends by accident
Contacts need approval. Drafts need approval. You see the address, the page, the snippet and the email before anything leaves.
Send as your brand from your own Microsoft mailbox, so replies land in your inbox — or send through Targetlytics' native sender. Every email carries a working unsubscribe link.
Follow-ups are polite, spaced and rate-limited, and stop the moment someone replies. Targetlytics watches for the reply and for the mention going live.
Teams running outreach at volume can turn on auto-send, which removes the approval click on the first email. Follow-ups in a running sequence already send on schedule.
Proof of lift
A baseline is frozen before the first email goes out. About two weeks after a placement goes live, a dedicated re-run measures what changed: mention rate, average position, and whether that URL now cites you.
Before-and-after visibility on the prompts that page influences — not an open rate.
How it works
We find the targets
From the answers your prompts already generate.
We find the person
Editor, author, or the desk that owns the page.
You approve the pitch
Written from the passage that earned the citation.
We prove it worked
Before-and-after visibility on the prompts that page influences.
Most AEO tools tell you where you're invisible. Citation Outreach does something about it — and shows you the lift.
Stop reading the citation list. Start appearing in it.
Targetlytics already knows which pages decide the answers in your category. Citation Outreach is what you do about them.
Available on Professional and Agency plans.
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