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What Cited monitors

Cited monitors the prompts, AI surfaces, schedules, locations, and verified domains you configure. Learn what is in scope and what is not.

Updated 2026-07-094 min read

Cited monitors the prompts, AI surfaces, schedules, locations, and verified domains you configure. It stores evidence from those monitored results.

In scope

  • Monitored prompts you add
  • AI surfaces enabled for your plan and selected in a monitor
  • Location and language settings when a surface supports them
  • Verified domains and approved brand aliases
  • Configured competitors where your plan includes competitor watch
  • The monitoring schedule included with your plan

Monitor checks

One scheduled or manual run of a configured prompt against a selected AI surface.

Each check produces a stored result. Meaningful appearances become citation events in the Inbox.

What Cited does not monitor

  • Private AI conversations
  • Every possible prompt
  • Every model output on the internet
  • Unverified domains
  • Unconfigured competitors
  • Unselected AI surfaces
  • Unselected locations
  • General web mentions outside monitored AI results

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