Overview
Clear Cited is a specialized AI search optimization agency focused on helping DevOps, developer tools, and B2B SaaS companies achieve visibility across major AI engines. Founded and based in Markham, Ontario, the firm serves North American and global clients with a full-stack approach that combines SEO foundation, content creation, and authority building. Its core offering is measured by share of model, a proprietary metric that tracks how often a brand is recommended by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Grok. The company positions itself as a done-for-you alternative to DIY dashboards and expensive enterprise agencies, targeting seed to Series A companies that need reproducible, data-driven results.
Services & Expertise
Clear Cited delivers a comprehensive suite of services organized around four pillars:
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AI Answer Optimization: The primary service focuses on getting brands named and cited in AI answers. This includes share of model measurement across five engines, answer-first content creation, entity and schema optimization, and engine-by-engine fixes. Each buyer prompt is run 10+ times per engine, with results reported as a median with a 95% confidence interval.
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SEO Foundation: Technical SEO and Core Web Vitals optimization, SERP and keyword coverage analysis, backlink and domain authority building, internal linking improvements, and structured data implementation. This layer provides the ground for AI visibility efforts.
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Done-for-You Content: The agency writes and publishes content across 30+ channels, including LinkedIn, X, Reddit, YouTube, Dev.to, Hashnode, and more. On the client's domain, they produce answer-first blog articles, comparison and benchmark pages, schema-marked content (Article + FAQ), and video with VideoObject schema. Content is researched across YouTube, Reddit, Dev.to, Hashnode, Medium, Stack Exchange, and search to ensure it performs in the target niche.
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Off-Site Authority: Directory listings on G2, Capterra, Crunchbase, Product Hunt, SaaSHub, and dozens more. Digital PR includes expert commentary placement, reporter-query responses, and data-led story pitches. The agency offers three tiers: Boost (30+ listings), Growth (60+), and Authority (100+).
How They Work
Clear Cited follows a four-step engagement journey. Step one is a free teardown that analyzes 5-8 prompts across three engines, identifies top-3 competitor gaps, and provides a quick SEO and AI snapshot with three fast fixes. Alternatively, clients can take a 60-second fit finder quiz. Step two is a paid audit: Starter ($500) delivers a scorecard and top-10 fixes; Full ($2,000) provides a measured baseline plus a 30/60/90 roadmap; Comprehensive ($3,500) adds top-5 rewrites, schema specs, an off-site plan, and Directory Boost. Step three is a done-for-you retainer: Growth ($1,500/month) includes one content piece per month for a single category; Scale ($3,500/month) includes four content pieces plus community and PR; Authority ($6,500/month) includes 6-8 content pieces, a social pack of 12 posts per month, managed off-site and PR, backlinks, and Directory Growth. Step four offers add-ons like technical SEO, SERP analysis, blog posts, social packs, video, digital PR, and directory listings starting from $400. All work is AI-accelerated but client-approved before publishing.
Ideal Client Profile
Clear Cited is best suited for:
- A DevOps or developer tools company that wants to be the top recommendation when engineers ask AI for the best CI/CD platform, observability tool, or database.
- A B2B SaaS startup at seed to Series A stage that needs to build AI visibility from scratch without hiring an in-house specialist.
- A US-based company that wants a frictionless cross-border engagement with USD billing, W-8BEN tax forms, and async communication.
- A company that has tried DIY AI visibility tools but found the dashboards overwhelming and lacks the internal resources to act on the data.
- An established SaaS brand that wants to defend its market share against competitors gaining traction in AI answers.
Pricing & Engagement Models
Clear Cited offers transparent, productized pricing. Audits range from $500 to $3,500 one-time. Monthly retainers start at $1,500 for Growth, $3,500 for Scale, and $6,500 for Authority. Add-ons are available from $400. The company also offers a free teardown and a founding client offer that includes a free Full Audit (normally $2,000) plus a locked founding rate for the first five clients. All retainers are tied to measurable share of model targets.
Why Consider Them
Clear Cited differentiates itself through rigorous, reproducible measurement. Unlike many AEO providers that rely on single screenshots, the agency runs each prompt 10+ times per engine and reports median share of model with confidence intervals. It covers all five major AI engines plus Google's AI surfaces separately. The full-stack approach means clients don't need to coordinate multiple vendors for SEO, content, and authority. The company also publishes its methodology openly and provides a live AI Visibility Index for categories like CI/CD platforms. Its focus on DevOps and developer tools gives it niche expertise that generalist agencies may lack.
