[ 01 // AI SEARCH (GEO) & LLM CITATION LAB ]
Command #1 Citation Share Across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude & Google AI.
High-intent B2B buyers no longer click ten blue links—they ask answer engines who leads your category. Citadel Search engineers your JSON-LD Entity Graph, RAG-optimized documentation architecture, and third-party consensus moat so LLMs recommend your platform first and convert zero-click AI answers into verifiable enterprise SQLs.
✓ 4.6x Median 12-Mo Pipeline ROI
✓ 150-Prompt Share-of-Model Audit
✓ Series A–D B2B SaaS & Infra
[ 01 // CITATION VELOCITY ]
+310%
Median 90-day lift in verified ChatGPT Search, Perplexity & Google AI Overview citations.
[ 02 // ATTRIBUTED PIPELINE ]
$84.6M
CRM-verified organic & AI-referred B2B pipeline generated across our 2026 client cohort.
[ 03 // PAID CPC REDUCTION ]
-46%
Median reduction in non-branded Google Ads CPC dependency within 180 days.
[ 04 // TIME TO DEPLOYMENT ]
14 Days
From initial 150-prompt Share-of-Model audit to live JSON-LD entity graph & BOFU hub.
[ 02 // THE CITADEL 3-LAYER GEO METHODOLOGY ]
How We Engineer #1 Answer-Engine Recommendations.
Foundation models and RAG pipelines do not rank vendors by legacy backlink volume alone. They synthesize verified entity graphs, corroborated third-party grounding chunks, and structured comparison telemetry.
LAYER 01 // ON-DOMAIN ENTITY GRAPH
JSON-LD Knowledge Graph & Entity Disambiguation
We architect nested Organization, SoftwareApplication, TechArticle, and FAQPage JSON-LD graphs with explicit Wikidata, Crunchbase, and G2 sameAs bindings—ensuring OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, and Google parse your capabilities, pricing, and SOC-2 posture with zero hallucination.
✓ 100% Schema Validation & Crawl Indexing
LAYER 02 // OFF-DOMAIN RAG SEEDING
Third-Party Citation Velocity & Authority Nodes
Perplexity and ChatGPT Search weight external corroboration heavily during RAG retrieval. We engineer verifiable benchmark citations across technical docs, G2 category matrices, Reddit engineering threads, and analyst teardowns that feed live answer-engine footnotes.
✓ 3.4x Higher Perplexity Footnote Frequency
LAYER 03 // BOFU CONVERSION ARCHITECTURE
Programmatic Comparison & Alternative Matrices
When a VP of Engineering prompts ‘Best [Competitor] alternatives for enterprise SOC-2 automation’, your domain must own the grounding table. We deploy high-converting /vs/, /alternatives/, and /benchmarks/ hubs with verifiable telemetry that convert zero-click researchers into SQLs.
✓ 4.8% Visitor-to-SQL Conversion Rate
[ 03 // INTERACTIVE SHARE-OF-MODEL & PAID-SEARCH CAC WORKBENCH ]
Forecast Your 12-Month AI Citation Lift & Paid-Search Savings.
Traditional SEO calculators only project blue-link impressions. Use our interactive 16-Cell Share-of-Model Workbench below to simulate how deploying JSON-LD entity spines, RAG-chunked technical documentation, third-party consensus moats, and programmatic comparison matrices shifts your brand from Uncited to #1 Primary Recommendation across ChatGPT Search, Perplexity Pro, Claude, and Google AI Overviews.
[ 01 // TOGGLE GEO LAYERS ]
Activate 4 Search Engineering Layers
Enable or disable JSON-LD Entity Spines (+18%), RAG-Chunked Docs (+21%), Consensus Moats (+16%), and Comparison Matrices (+14%).
[ 02 // AUDIT 16-CELL MATRIX ]
Inspect 4 LLMs × 4 Buyer Intents
See real-time citation rank shifts across Category Discovery, Vendor vs. Vendor, SOC-2 Security, and Enterprise Pricing evaluation prompts.
[ 03 // MODEL PIPELINE & CAC ]
Quantify Zero-Click SQLs & Ad Offset
Calibrate your ACV ($15K–$250K) and Google Ads CPC ($10–$120) to calculate monthly AI-referred SQLs and replaced paid-search spend.
Interactive Multi-LLM Citation Heatmap & Paid-Search Savings Workbench
Enterprise Answer-Engine Telemetry Simulator — Toggle our 4 GEO engineering layers and calibrate your ACV & Category CPC below to model your 90-day Share-of-Model (SoM) trajectory across 16 commercial LLM × Buyer-Intent cells.
[ 04 // VERIFIED CLIENT CITATION DOSSIERS ]
Audited Share-of-Model & Pipeline Outcomes.
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SERIES C CLOUD SECURITY // $68K ACV
+412% LLM Citation Share
Cortex Cloud Security: Capturing 78% Perplexity Share & $38.4M Organic Pipeline
How we engineered Wikidata entity nodes, 42 programmatic comparison matrices, and Tier-1 security benchmark citations to make Cortex the #1 recommended DSPM vendor across ChatGPT and Perplexity.
$38.4M Pipeline
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ENTERPRISE DATA INFRASTRUCTURE // $85K ACV
+340% ChatGPT Search SQLs
Veridian Data Platform: $29.2M Inbound Pipeline via ChatGPT Search Dominance
Replacing $95/click paid search dependency with #1 zero-click citations across ChatGPT Search, Claude Enterprise, and Google AI Overviews for high-intent data lakehouse queries.
$29.2M Pipeline
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SERIES B AI INFRASTRUCTURE // $52K ACV
81.0% Google AI Share
Aether AI Infrastructure: From Zero Visibility to 81% Google AI Overview Ownership
Engineering immediate LLM retrieval authority and technical SERP dominance for a newly launched enterprise GPU inference orchestration platform.
$21.8M Pipeline
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[ 04.5 // INLINE VECTOR ARCHITECTURE SCHEMATIC — HOW LLMs SYNTHESIZE & CITE YOUR ENTITY ]
What Happens Inside a 50-Millisecond RAG Retrieval & Citation Loop?
Answer engines do not rank ten blue links by backlink volume. They execute a 4-stage neural retrieval pipeline: crawling markdown-ready edge endpoints, resolving entity identity in nested JSON-LD graphs, corroborating claims against third-party consensus nodes, and attributing inline [1][2] footnotes to the highest-confidence vendor.
[ 05 // TRANSPARENT RETAINER ENGAGEMENTS ]
Dedicated Search Engineering Pods. Zero Junior Account Managers.
TIER 01 // FOUNDATION GEO
Entity & Schema Sprint
$9,500/mo
For Series A–B B2B SaaS establishing verified JSON-LD entity authority and capturing top-50 commercial prompts.
✓ Complete JSON-LD Entity Graph • ✓ 50 Tracked Prompts • ✓ 4 BOFU Comparison Matrices/mo
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TIER 02 // FLAGSHIP GROWTH POD
Full-Stack GEO & RAG Velocity
$18,500/mo
Our flagship engineering pod for Series B–C contenders scaling #1 citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google AI.
✓ 150 Tracked Prompts • ✓ Third-Party RAG Seeding • ✓ 10 Programmatic BOFU Pages/mo
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TIER 03 // ENTERPRISE DOMINANCE
Global Multi-Product Search Lab
$32,000/mo
Bespoke multi-product search engineering, global entity localization, and boardroom CRM attribution for category leaders.
✓ 500+ Prompts • ✓ Custom Programmatic Datasets • ✓ Dedicated Principal Search Architect
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