AI Citation Tracker for SaaS Discovery

SaaS founders struggle with AI search becoming the new traffic source (Perplexity, ChatGPT, Gemini). A tool monitors when your product is cited by AI search engines, tracks citation trends, and provides actionable insights on how to get featured—helping indie devs adapt to post-SEO distribution.

AI-generated answers are already displacing traditional search traffic for product discovery, and founders are starting to notice referral sources they can't explain in GA4 — the timing is real. No clear incumbent owns this space yet, though broader SEO platforms like Ahrefs or SEMrush could theoretically extend into it, which is the ceiling risk. The $1k–5k/mo band makes sense for an early niche tool with a small but highly motivated buyer (founders who've already felt the traffic shift), though it implies staying small unless the scope expands significantly. The biggest failure mode is that AI citation patterns are opaque and inconsistent enough that the data ends up noisy and unactionable, turning the product into a vanity dashboard rather than something that changes behavior.