// positioning · detailed

Dashboards tell you if. We tell you why.

Monitoring tools charge $29–425/month to show you a score. CiteDo charges $49 once to tell you why the score is low and what to do first.

monitoring panels

✕ $29–425/month, forever — you pay for the dashboard, not the fix
✕ A score and a chart — no raw AI answers shown
✕ No explanation of why you're invisible (is it robots.txt? JS wall? sources?)
✕ No fix list — you become the fix list, googling “how to allow GPTBot”
✕ 1000 URLs/mo auto-queue — none human-read, none traceable to robots.txt:14

citedo — front-door diagnosis

✓ $49 once — cancel nothing, no subscription
✓ Raw AI answers, not a black-box score (ChatGPT/Perplexity/Gemini, N=3)
✓ Root-cause per engine — 12 bots, 28-point GEO, live byte ratio
✓ ≤7 ranked verdicts, each “do this → expect that” + copy-paste artifact
✓ One page · 72h · human-read · traceable to a line or a live citation

Dimension	Monitoring panels	CiteDo
Price	$29–425 / month, forever	$49 once · no subscription
Engines	3–7, daily auto, single sample	3 live (Pro: 5) · N=3 majority vote · search-enabled only
Bots / crawlability	19 bots × 1000 URL (Otterly) but no human verdict	12 bots vs robots.txt + live GPTBot byte ratio + WAF flag
Content audit	15+13 auto score (black box)	28-point checklist, shared live at /tools/geo-score
Sources	Top domains, auto	Top10 + type (listicle/review/directory/media/community) + who cites competitor not you
Fixes	10 categories auto queue — you triage	≤7 ranked verdicts + copy-paste artifact (llms.txt / schema / FAQ)
Delivery	Dashboard login, needs interpretation	One page · 72h · human-read · traceable to a line or a live answer
Method	Simulated or single-sample	Search-enabled endpoints only · N=3 · 95% CI

CiteDo is the front-door diagnosis. Use it before you pay for a dashboard. When you need daily trends, add a dashboard after the door is open.

When to use which?

Use CiteDo first — if you don't know whether AI can even read you, or who gets cited instead of you.
Add a dashboard later — once the front door is open and you want daily share-of-voice.
Use both — many teams do: CiteDo for the verdict, Otterly/Peec for the trend.

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