# CitiQ > CitiQ is a Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) platform that measures, improves, and monitors how brands are represented inside AI-generated answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Copilot. CitiQ resolves a brand into structured entities, maps them onto a knowledge graph, runs real customer prompts against each monitored large language model on a recurring schedule, and reports citation rate, mention rate, recommendation frequency, and competitive share of voice inside those generated answers. This is distinct from traditional SEO: instead of optimizing for ranking in a list of links, GEO optimizes for being accurately cited and recommended inside a single AI-generated answer. ## CitiQ Entity - [Home](https://citiq.ai/): Who CitiQ is, the GEO problem it solves, and how AI answer engines evaluate and cite brands. - [Contact](https://citiq.ai/contact): Request a full GEO audit of a brand's current AI visibility. ## Product - [Platform overview](https://citiq.ai/platform): The CitiQ product itself — entity resolution, knowledge graph modeling, prompt simulation, citation tracking, competitive benchmarking, real-time alerts, reporting, and integrations. - [Entity Intelligence](https://citiq.ai/platform#entity-intelligence): Resolves a brand, its products, and its people into structured entities AI models can recognize and trust. - [Citation Intelligence](https://citiq.ai/platform#citation-intelligence): Tracks every citation, reference, and source AI models pull from when answering — including the ones a brand is missing. - [Competitive Benchmarking](https://citiq.ai/platform#competitive-benchmarking): Compares a brand's AI Visibility Score against named competitors, model by model. ## AI Visibility - [AI Visibility Score](https://citiq.ai/ai-visibility-score): How the score is calculated across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity — entity coverage, citation authority, recommendation rate — and what a full audit includes. - [How It Works](https://citiq.ai/how-it-works): The CitiQ method — Measure, Improve, Verify — and the underlying crawl/model/simulate/monitor loop. - [Solutions](https://citiq.ai/solutions): How CitiQ applies to specific industries — e-commerce & retail, SaaS & technology, travel & hospitality, financial services, healthcare & wellness, and home & local services. ## Insights - [What Generative Engine Optimization means for modern brands](https://citiq.ai/insights/what-is-generative-engine-optimization): Introduction to GEO — what it is, how it differs from SEO, and its core levers (entity clarity, structured data, citation-worthy content, authority signals). - [How AI platforms choose which sources to cite](https://citiq.ai/insights/how-ai-platforms-choose-citations): How retrieval-augmented answer engines select citations, what makes a page citation-worthy, and why some pages never get cited. - [Measuring brand visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity](https://citiq.ai/insights/measuring-ai-visibility-framework): A framework for tracking mention rate, citation rate, recommendation rate, and share of voice across AI platforms. ## Glossary - [GEO & AI Visibility Glossary](https://citiq.ai/glossary): Plain-language definitions for the terms used throughout this site — entity resolution, citation rate, mention rate, recommendation rate, share of voice, structured data, and more. ## Optional - [Insights index](https://citiq.ai/insights): Full list of CitiQ's published articles on Generative Engine Optimization. - [Full text](https://citiq.ai/llms-full.txt): This same content plus the complete text of every Insights article in one file, for agents that prefer a single request over crawling each page.