AI-Citation Ready™ for the answer engine era

AI is deciding which businesses get recommended.

ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Perplexity are replacing traditional search. Actual Magic helps your business become AI-Citation Ready so your brand shows up in the answers instead of disappearing from them.

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Where buyers are asking now:
ChatGPT Google AI Overviews Perplexity Gemini Claude
Used by agencies, local businesses, ecommerce brands, and growth teams preparing for the future of search.
The shift

Search is changing faster than most businesses realize.

Customers aren't just searching Google anymore. They're asking the answer engines first, and accepting the recommendation without clicking through.

GPT
ChatGPT
800M+ weekly
G
Gemini
Google native
P
Perplexity
Cites sources
C
Claude
Anthropic
AIO
AI Overviews
Above the fold

And AI engines don't rank websites the same way Google used to. They cite the brands they trust. If your business isn't structured for AI discovery, you slowly disappear from the conversation.

No clicks. No calls. No conversation.
The stakes

Your competitors may already be training AI to recommend them.

Traditional SEO was about rankings. The next era is about being the brand AI trusts enough to quote.

Old playbook

  • Rankings
  • Backlinks
  • Keyword density
  • Metadata
  • Page 1 of Google

What AI rewards

  • Citations
  • Mentions
  • Authority
  • Structure
  • AI readability
The businesses that adapt early will dominate visibility. Everyone else becomes invisible.
✦ Introducing

AI-Citation Ready™

Actual Magic checks whether AI engines can do five things with your business, then shows you exactly how to fix the gaps.

01
Understand your business
02
Trust your content
03
Cite your pages
04
Recommend your services
05
Compare you to competitors
Fluff. Generic SEO reports. Outdated agency playbooks.
Just clear visibility into how AI sees your business.
What's inside

Everything you need to become AI-visible.

One workflow from "where am I losing citations" to "publish the fix and watch it move."

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AI Visibility Audit

See how every AI engine currently interprets your website. Spot the silent failures Google never warned you about.

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Citation Readiness Score

Page-level scoring of how likely your brand is to appear in AI-generated answers. Fix the lowest scores first.

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Competitor Intelligence

See why competitors are being recommended instead of you. Engine by engine, prompt by prompt.

✎

AI-Optimized Content Engine

Generate structured content built for AI retrieval. FAQs, key-answer blocks, comparison tables, citable structure.

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Local AI Discovery

Help AI engines understand your location, services, and authority so you surface in local and "near me" recommendations.

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Technical AI Crawlability

Find and fix the hidden issues stopping AI systems from trusting your pages in the first place.

Why it matters

This isn't just SEO anymore.

If AI answers replace clicks, then being recommended becomes the new first page.

The businesses AI trusts will win disproportionate attention. The ones it doesn't will fade out of the conversation entirely.

Recommendation is the new ranking. Citation is the new click.
It affects Leads
It affects Calls
It affects Bookings
It affects Local discovery
It affects Organic traffic
It affects Revenue
See it working

See what AI says about your business.

Citation tracking, competitor comparisons, AI mention visibility, before-and-after on every page you ship.

AI Visibility dashboard showing engine-by-engine citation tracking
Citation tracking
Which URLs of yours AI engines pulled from this week
AI mention visibility

Watch your brand share of voice move.

Daily monitoring across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews. See exactly when, where, and why citations move.

Competitor comparisons

Who AI is recommending instead.

Prompt by prompt, see exactly which competitor domains are being cited when yours isn't. Then refresh the page that closes the gap.

Audit report showing citability scores and prioritized fixes
Audit report
Prioritized fixes ranked by citation lift
Why us

Built for the next generation of search.

Most SEO tools were built for a Google-only world. We weren't.

Most SEO tools were built for

  • Backlinks
  • Rankings
  • Metadata
  • Page 1 of Google

Actual Magic was built for

  • AI retrieval
  • AI citations
  • Structured trust
  • Answer engines and zero-click discovery
Pricing

One workflow. Three sizes.

Every plan ships the Citability Loop end-to-end: AI visibility audits, citation tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini, content generation, CMS publishing. Pick the size that fits how much you ship.

Starter
For solo brands
$99 /mo
Get cited by AI for your category before competitors do.
  • 1 property
  • 50 tracked prompts
  • 6 AI-citation-ready articles / mo
  • 4 AI engines tracked (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini)
  • Citation tracking + missed-citation alerts
  • CMS publishing (Shopify, WordPress, Ghost)
  • 1 team seat
Start with a free audit
Pro · most popular
For growing brands
$179 /mo
Scale citation share across your full content roadmap.
  • 3 properties
  • 150 tracked prompts
  • 20 articles / mo
  • 4 AI engines tracked
  • Competitor intelligence + missed-citation refresh flow
  • Article performance attribution (clicks + citation lift)
  • 3 team seats
Start with a free audit
Agency
For multi-client teams
$349 /mo
Run citation strategy across every client from one workspace.
  • 10 properties
  • 350 tracked prompts
  • 40 articles / mo
  • 4 AI engines tracked
  • Agency Audit + client reporting
  • 10 team seats
Start with a free audit
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If AI can't find your business, customers won't either.

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What is Actual Magic?

Actual Magic is a web application that helps businesses understand and improve how they appear in search results and AI-generated answers (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity). It analyzes your website's search performance, finds keyword and content opportunities, drafts publish-ready articles for your review, and tracks whether AI engines mention or cite your brand over time.

How Actual Magic uses Google user data: with your consent, Actual Magic connects to your Google Search Console account and reads your site's search performance data — the queries, pages, clicks, and impressions Google already reports for your own website. This data is used solely to generate your keyword reports, content recommendations, and performance tracking inside your Actual Magic workspace. We never sell your data, never share it with third parties for advertising, and you can disconnect Google Search Console at any time from your account settings or your Google account permissions. See our Privacy Policy for details.