What you can do with Cited

4 use cases

• Try AI citation monitoring with safe mock data

  Self-host Cited and run a first scan on fictional data before connecting any live provider.

  • Cited
  • Sales and marketing
  • Intermediate
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  In the cited-cc/cited repo, follow the Quickstart and first monitor tutorial to self-host Cited in mock mode and add the fictional domain cited-test.example with one prompt. Report the local URL and the scan result, and confirm each mock result is labeled [MOCK].

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• Monitor live brand citations with your DataForSEO account

  Connect your own DataForSEO credentials so Cited scans supported AI surfaces for real answers.

  • Cited
  • Sales and marketing
  • Advanced
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  In the cited-cc/cited repo, configure DataForSEO credentials in .cited/config.env using docs/providers/dataforseo.md, restart with the self-host commands, and run self-host:doctor. Report which surfaces are available for the configured provider and whether the doctor check passed. Verify that no credential values are printed in the output.

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• Find competitor appearances and missed citation opportunities

  Track competitor domains in AI answers and surface prompts where your brand is absent.

  • Cited
  • Sales and marketing
  • Intermediate
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  In the cited-cc/cited repo, after self-hosting, add <your-brand-domain> as the brand, add <competitor-domain> as a competitor, and add the prompts listed in <prompt-file>. Report the competitor events and missed-opportunity items found in the inbox. Verify that each item links to a stored response snapshot.

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• Self-host a citation evidence workspace for your team

  Run Cited on your own Docker host to keep AI citation evidence and notes in one workspace.

  • Cited
  • Sales and marketing
  • Intermediate
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  In the cited-cc/cited repo, self-host Cited with Docker Compose, run the doctor command, and report the health output and the default URL. Verify that the secrets directory .cited/secrets/ exists and that no secret values were printed to the output.

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How to use Cited

1. Check you have what it needs: Docker Compose v2; Node.js 22 or newer; About 4 GB RAM recommended.
2. Open cited-cc/cited on GitHub and read the README and license.
3. Run npm ci
4. Run npm run self-host:up
5. Run npm run self-host:token and copy the bootstrap token
6. Open http://localhost:3000/setup, create the first owner, then sign in at /sign-in

These steps come from our top use case, Try AI citation monitoring with safe mock data, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

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About this repo

• Who it is forMarketing and SEO teams, and the developers who run them, who need dated evidence of how AI assistants talk about their brand and competitors.
• Why it is hot
• LanguageTypeScript
• Sourcegithub.com/cited-cc/cited · Back to Hot repos

Requirements

• Docker Compose v2
• Node.js 22 or newer
• About 4 GB RAM recommended
• A domain and brand you want to monitor
• DataForSEO API credentials, only if you want live monitoring instead of mock mode

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