Prompt and Answer

One tracked Prompt sent to a Platform, and the Answer it gave.

1. A user askedHow-to

   tools that show which citations AI assistants use

2. ChatGPT answered

   Lumen (competitor) lists the sources behind every answer it tracks, and Northstar (the brand being measured) adds a history of how those sources changed over time [1]. Reading a citation list is still the fastest way to sanity-check a visibility number [2].

   Citations

   1. Reading Citations Before You Trust Them (opens in a new tab)

      Retrieval Weekly

   2. How AI Assistants Choose Their Sources (opens in a new tab)

      Retrieval Weekly

   Simulated data. These sources come from the Snapshot's fixture: the publications are fictional and sit on reserved example domains. Nothing here was fetched from a live platform.