Citation Engine. The scoreboard for your AI visibility.

Weekly screenshots of your business in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Five prompts. Four engines. 20 checks every week, compiled into a monthly PDF you can read, forward, or drop in front of a prospect. Every other Sonoma County AEO agency claims this. Tyler Digital Co operationalized it.

Why nobody else actually delivers this

Every AEO agency in Sonoma County says they monitor your AI citations. Go look at their sites. None of them ship a real report. They write about “LLM citation rate” and “AI visibility tracking” in marketing copy, but when you ask for the actual deliverable, you get a PDF of generic tips. The work is supposed to produce screenshots; they don’t take screenshots.

Citation Engine exists because Tyler Digital Co got tired of hearing that claim from competitors and being unable to prove or disprove it. Every Monday morning, 20 queries run across 4 engines. Every first-of-the-month, your PDF lands in your inbox. The scoreboard is real.

What the monthly PDF looks like

Mockup — illustrative of the monthly Citation Engine report layout.

The actual PDF includes all 20 screenshots (the full AI answer for every prompt on every engine), a simple citation rate, a delta vs. last month, the list of competitors that ranked where you didn’t, and the single biggest gap to close. It’s designed to be readable in 3 minutes and forwardable in 1 click.

How the scoreboard works

1. We pick your 5 target prompts together. These are the exact things your customers ask ChatGPT when they need your trade. Examples: “best plumber in Santa Rosa,” “tankless water heater install Sonoma County,” “emergency electrician Petaluma.”
2. Every Monday, 20 queries run. 5 prompts × 4 engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews). Fresh anonymous sessions each time — no personalization bias.
3. Every screenshot is stored. Date-stamped, engine-tagged, searchable. If ChatGPT started citing you in week 3, you can see exactly when and why.
4. First of every month, the PDF ships. Monthly delta, biggest gap, competitor list, and every screenshot bundled.

Three ways to get the engine

The cold outreach play

Here’s the move every Tyler Digital client ends up making within their first 60 days:

1. Pick a local competitor you’d like to take work from.
2. Ask Tyler Digital to run your Citation Engine queries against their business name too.
3. When a prompt shows you cited and them not, screenshot it.
4. Send the screenshot to their prospect list with one line: “Notice who’s missing from ChatGPT’s answer? We can fix that.”

This is only possible because the screenshots are real. You can’t do this with a fluff report.

FAQs

What is Citation Engine by Tyler Digital Co?

Citation Engine is a weekly AI citation monitoring product from Tyler Digital Co. It tracks whether your business appears in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews for five target prompts every week — 20 checks per week — and delivers a monthly PDF report with before/after screenshots. It is the only operationalized AI citation monitoring product in the North Bay. $149/month standalone.

How is Citation Engine different from regular AEO services?

Most Sonoma County AEO agencies claim to monitor AI citations but deliver marketing fluff instead of actual weekly screenshots. Citation Engine is the operationalized version: real weekly captures from four AI engines, tracked over time, delivered in a monthly PDF. It turns AI citation status into a measurable, forwardable artifact you can use in cold outreach.

Does Citation Engine include the work to improve citations, or just monitoring?

Standalone Citation Engine at $149/month is monitoring only — you see the scoreboard but Tyler Digital is not making changes to improve your citations. To get the actual AEO work (schema, FAQ blocks, citation cleanup), bundle Citation Engine into AI Search Visibility at $250/month or into Full Contractor OS at $797/month, which both include the engine plus the optimization work.

Can I use my Citation Engine report for cold outreach?

Yes. The report shows your business’s AI citation status across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews — the single most effective piece of cold outreach a contractor can send. Tyler Digital explicitly designed Citation Engine to be forwardable: screenshot a prospect’s missing citation, send it to them, and the conversation sells itself.

How long before I see citation changes?

Citation Engine reports appear weekly the moment you subscribe. Actual citation improvements — your business appearing in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Google AI Overviews — take 2–8 weeks depending on how much foundation work your site needs. AI engines re-crawl and re-index on their own schedules. Citation Engine is the scoreboard; AI Search Visibility or Full Contractor OS is the work.