Tarek Reslan

Google’s AI Overviews don’t just summarize the top result. They cite whoever answers the query best, regardless of whether that page ranks first, fifth, or not at all. 

Your brand could be invisible in AI answers while your domain authority sits at 60. That’s the new reality, and most SEO dashboards won’t tell you it’s happening.

Most marketers probably don’t even know if they’re being cited or not. There’s no standard report for this. No toggle in Search Console. No widget in Semrush that shows you, clearly, how often your brand appears in AI-generated answers versus your competitors.

So we built one.

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LLM hallucinations are a known issue. But as frustrating as they may be, hallucinated AI citations are just a symptom.

Every time an AI assistant invents a URL to your site—confidently, wrongly—it’s doing so because a real person asked a real question. The model expects your site to have an answer, and when it can’t find one, it fills in the blank.

That’s the gap worth paying attention to.

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Google AI Overviews are rapidly becoming the first thing users see for informational queries. That citation layer is increasingly shaping perception before a user even looks at the organic results.

But most teams have no idea whether they’re showing up in these citations or not.

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SEO used to reward depth. If your article was an exhaustive piece on a topic that covered every angle and included a few keywords, clicks would usually follow.

Today, search rewards precision over sheer depth.

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For the past two years, tracking AI visibility and citations has largely been a black box.

Third-party tools like Semrush and Ahrefs introduced ways to estimate AI visibility by monitoring search results and citations. But until recently, we didn’t have first-party data directly from the search engines themselves confirming when and how often content was used inside AI-generated answers.

That changed a few weeks ago.

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The problem with competitor content analysis isn’t that it doesn’t work. It’s that doing it manually at any meaningful scale is unsustainable. 

You either do it rarely enough that it’s useless, or you burn your team’s time on a process that collapses under its own weight the moment you try to run it across more than a handful of keywords.

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Most educational content shows you the polished end result. The best practices, the final framework, the “what works.”

But what often gets left out are the setbacks, the failed experiments, and the messy process that actually leads to those results.

That’s the gap we’re closing with this new series.

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Nobody disputes that SEO fundamentals still work. Valuable content. Quality backlinks. Domain authority. These aren’t going anywhere.

It’s how people find information, and the infrastructure determining what gets surfaced that has fundamentally shifted.

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