Your category awareness signal is invisible
AI startups especially need to know when LLMs recommend them. The recommendation graph IS the top of your funnel — and you have no telemetry on it.
For AI startups
AI-citation tracking for AI-native startups — wire citation events into your stack.
You're building in the AI category. Your users discover you through AI search. You need citation events as a first-class signal in your monitoring stack — not a quarterly marketing report. CitationDesk has the four-LLM polling engine, the webhook firehose, and a public API.
What we hear from ai-native startups
Three patterns showing up across your peers.
You need real-time citation events, not weekly reports
A monthly dashboard misses the daily volatility of LLM-citation behavior. You want webhook events fired into Slack the moment ChatGPT starts citing you on a new query — or stops.
You want the data in your own warehouse
Marketing dashboards don't serve your engineering instincts. You want the raw citation events in your Datadog or your data warehouse, queryable like any other event stream.
How CitationDesk fits
Built for the way ai-native startups work.
Public API + webhooks (Team tier)
GET /api/v1/sites/{id}/citations?window=7d returns every citation event with full provenance. Webhook subscriptions fire citation.gained / citation.lost / citation.decay / score.dropped events as they happen. Wire them into Slack, Datadog, Linear, or your custom stack.
4-LLM coverage from day one
ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini — all four, polled per cadence. Add custom LLMs on Enterprise. No competitor polls all four at our price point.
Citation Readiness Score as a service
Audit your /docs, /api, /pricing, /vs/* pages. Score each 0-100 + the structural gaps. For AI startups specifically, your docs site is your top-of-funnel — and most docs sites score 0.3-0.5 because they were built for human reading, not LLM extraction.
Worked example
SourceScore.
SourceScore is an AI-rating reference site with 480:1 bot-to-human ratio. The same archetype applies to AI startup docs sites — most of your "traffic" is LLM crawlers ingesting your content for citation.
Read the case study →“We had a Datadog dashboard for everything except our actual top-of-funnel signal: which AI tools recommend us. CitationDesk's webhooks landed citation events in Slack the same week — and the API let our team wire it into our dashboards.”
Get your free Citation Readiness Score.
Paste any URL. 90 seconds. 0-100 score across five dimensions plus the highest-leverage fix you can ship this week.