Do the answer engines use it when they answer?
Search stopped being a list of links. For more and more questions, the answer gets written above the results, by Google’s AI Overviews and by the AI assistants your buyers already use. Be Cited measures your AIO ranking and your GEO ranking side by side: whether each answer uses you, and who it uses instead.
Being mentioned isn’t being cited.
You can rank first and still be absent from the answer. The page is there; the reader never scrolls to it, because the question was answered before they had to.
When an answer does include you, it can happen in two quite different ways. It can link to your page as a source. That’s cited. Or it can mention your brand in the text with no link. That’s named. A citation can bring a visitor. A mention builds awareness. Most reports lump both together as “mentions”.
Here they stay separate (cited, named, or both) for every question and every engine, and the engine’s exact answer is saved so you can go back and read it. When an answer leaves you out, you get the list of domains it used instead. That’s a competitor list built from evidence, not from opinion.
- 3verdicts kept apart: cited, named, both
- 4AI assistants tracked for GEO ranking (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity), plus Google’s AI Overviews
- Verbatimevery answer kept, so any verdict can be read back
Directories, forums, video and review round-ups fill answer slots without being anyone’s competitor. They are left out of the “who took it” list, because counting them would flatter the numbers.
What Be Cited holds.
AI Answer Radar
Your AIO and GEO ranking at a glance: how often the answer engines use you when they answer, how much of your demand now sits under an AI answer, and how many visitors actually arrive from AI assistants.
“Are the answer engines using us, or someone else?”AI Answer Explorer
One row per question, one verdict per engine, and the engine’s exact answer saved. Plus the domains that took the answers you lost.
“Question by question, who does each engine name?”Read more →Social Radar
In buildYour presence beyond search, tracked next to it, so social and organic stop being reported in separate rooms.
“Where else is the brand showing up?”Being used only matters if it produces something.