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Sources and citations

The domains and community threads engines cite when answering your prompts, classified and ranked, with "you appear" and "opportunity" flags and per-domain drill-down.

Sources is the citation layer: the domains and community threads AI engines cite when answering your tracked prompts, classified and ranked, and flagged for where you appear and where there's an opportunity.

What it does

Every cited link across your answers is collected, classified, and ranked here, so you can see which sites and which conversations shape the answers about you — and which ones you're missing from.

The Sources domains view in demo mode: owned, reference, editorial, UGC and competitor class-share tiles above a top-domains-over-time chart and the ranked cited-domain table.

How to use it

  • Domains view. Class-share tiles sit above a top-20 table with expandable YouTube / Reddit / Quora rows.
  • Community view. The threads engines cited, your presence in each thread, and related discoveries worth joining.
  • Drill down. Open any domain at /sources/[domain] for its detail.

How it's computed

Classification — owned, competitor, editorial, ugc, reference, social, other — comes from curated root-domain lists, not a language model. The owned and competitor classes are re-derived at read time from your current brand config, so changing your brand's domains re-labels the sources immediately.

Aggregation and honesty rules:

  • The class-share tiles cover all cited domains, not just the visible 20 — the tiles describe the whole picture even though the table shows a slice.
  • The share delta is expressed in percentage points of citation share (volume-invariant), and is null → "new" when there is no baseline.
  • URL variants collapse to one canonical key, so www, trailing slashes, and query noise don't split a domain into duplicates.

In the Community view:

  • Threads are distinct canonical keys.
  • "Brand in thread" is tri-state — Yes, "No — join this conversation", or "not checked yet" — so a null never fakes a No.
  • Related threads show "—" citations, never a fabricated zero. See data honesty.

Limits

  • Display caps: 20 domains, 12 row-expansions, 50 threads, 25 related.
  • There is no plan gate.
  • CSV export is available.

Related

  • Citation share — the metric behind the class-share tiles.
  • Actions — turn an "opportunity" flag into a task.
  • Google Search Console — connect your own search data.
  • API / MCP: GET /api/v1/sources (capped at 20; fields domain / classification / citations / brand_present) and the list_sources MCP tool.