$ ./citebeam --help

## a bbd.sh service

Get cited by the AI
that answers
your customer

Citebeam is bbd.sh's Answer Engine Optimization methodology. We help brands and portcos show up in answers from ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Doubao, Kimi, and Tongyi.

run citebeam on your brand → see how it works ↓

## why_now.md

AI is becoming the answer layer.
If it doesn't know you, you're invisible.

// the shift

More buyer queries get answered directly inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Doubao, Kimi, Tongyi — without the user clicking through to your site.

// the risk

If the AI's answer doesn't mention you — or worse, recommends a competitor — you've lost the lead before SEO ever fires.

// the opportunity

AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is at the same stage SEO was in 2003. The brands that move first compound the lead.

## ./citebeam --steps

How Citebeam works

  1. phase 01

    ~1 week

    Discovery

    Your brand and 3-5 named competitors run through 6+ major AI assistants across the queries your customers actually ask. Output: a 5-dimension scorecard — mention rate, citation rate, answer position, share-of-voice, sentiment.

  2. phase 02

    ~1 week

    Diagnosis

    We trace exactly why a competitor wins each answer slot — missing schema, weak brand entity, citation gaps, content holes, or the AI simply not knowing you exist. Out: a prioritized fix list.

  3. phase 03

    ~4-8 weeks

    Build & Fix

    Schema.org markup, llms.txt, technical SEO, brand-entity work (Wikidata, Crunchbase, social consistency), AEO-shaped content, authoritative citations — built into the site directly by the same full-stack team that ships everything else at bbd.sh.

  4. phase 04

    ongoing

    Monitor

    Weekly visibility tracking + competitive alerts. When a competitor starts winning answer slots you used to own, you hear about it before the lead leaks.

## fit.md

Who Citebeam is for

// brand founders

You've launched. Customers are searching. AI is answering with someone else's name. Citebeam closes the gap.

// VCs & portcos

Run Citebeam across your portfolio. Spot which portcos are AI-visible, which need work, and benchmark the category.

// operators in hot categories

If you're in a category where buyers ask the AI before Google (dev tools, AI products, fintech, vertical SaaS), AEO is the new oxygen.

# ready_to_audit

See how AI talks about you
before your competitors do.

$ ./citebeam --start →

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