Sources

The pages engines lean on when they recommend someone else. That's where to show up.

See which sites sit behind the answers you lose, and whether you are listed on them. Community pages appear only when an engine cited them and we confirmed they mention your brand.

The sources AI cites

The sites behind the answers you lose.

The most-cited pages in the answers where a competitor was recommended, and whether you are listed on each one.

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Where engines get their answers

Each row is a site engines used. Shares are out of the 40 buyer answers that named no brand in the question and returned sources.

  • vantagely.io
    You
    80%32 of 40 answers
    Your site
    —
  • dashparrot.com
    Dashparrot
    Competitor
    32.5%13 of 40 answers
    —
    Dashparrot, Metricnest
  • metricnest.co
    Metricnest
    Competitor
    30%12 of 40 answers
    —
    Dashparrot, Metricnest
  • growthstack-digest.com
    Editorial
    25%10 of 40 answers
    Mentioned
    Metricnest, Clientorbit, Dashparrot

“Mentioned” means at least one answer that used the site named your brand. “Names” lists the brands those answers named. Sites we could not tell the kind of are left out.

Cited by more than one engine

These sites turn up in the answers of several engines at once, so they shape what the most buyers hear.

11 citations
  1. ChatGPTClaudeGeminiGoogle AI OverviewsPerplexity
    In 5 of 5 engines · 18 answers
  2. ChatGPTClaudeGeminiGoogle AI OverviewsPerplexity
    In 5 of 5 engines · 17 answers
  3. ChatGPTClaudeGeminiGoogle AI OverviewsPerplexity
    In 5 of 5 engines · 15 answers
  4. ChatGPTClaudeGeminiGoogle AI OverviewsPerplexity
    In 5 of 5 engines · 14 answers
  5. ChatGPTClaudeGeminiGoogle AI OverviewsPerplexity
    In 5 of 5 engines · 13 answers
  6. ChatGPTClaudeGeminiGoogle AI OverviewsPerplexity
    In 5 of 5 engines · 9 answers
  7. ChatGPTClaudeGeminiGoogle AI OverviewsPerplexity
    In 5 of 5 engines · 9 answers
  8. ChatGPTClaudeGeminiGoogle AI OverviewsPerplexity
    In 5 of 5 engines · 8 answers
  9. ChatGPTGeminiGoogle AI OverviewsPerplexity
    In 4 of 5 engines · 14 answers
  10. ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexity
    In 4 of 5 engines · 9 answers
  11. ClaudeGeminiPerplexity
    In 3 of 5 engines · 6 answers
Community citations

See the community pages AI engines actually cite.

We show Reddit and LinkedIn pages only when an engine cited them and we confirmed they mention your brand. Each card gives the page, the citing engine and the source excerpt. No general search results or inferred objections.

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CommunityReddit and LinkedIn threadsBuyers and engines read these threads. They show what people say about you.
LinkedIn
What we learned replacing spreadsheets with client dashboards
Opening the page✓ Mentions Vantagely
“After comparing three tools we moved our monthly reports to Vantagely. Clients open a link instead of a PDF.”
Reddit
White-label reporting tools worth paying for?
Opening the page✓ Mentions Vantagely
“Vantagely is the one we kept: reports go out on our own domain and the client link just works.”

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