Changelog

What's new

Every update to CiteFlow — new features, improvements, and fixes, newest first.

  1. v1.6improvednewfixed

    CiteFlow is now mobile-first#

    CiteFlow is now fully responsive. The entire app is built for your phone — not just your desktop — so you can scan sites, read reports, and manage your account comfortably on iPhone and Android.

    What's new

    • Redesigned for mobile. Every screen — dashboard, reports, billing, settings, Partner API, and admin — now adapts to small screens.
    • One-handed navigation. A slide-out menu replaces the desktop sidebar, with your brand and a quick Run scan button always within reach at the top.
    • A scannable dashboard. Your URLs appear as a clean, swipeable list on mobile instead of the desktop canvas.
    • Readable tables. Wide tables (Partner API, scan history) now scroll sideways instead of squishing.
    • Notch & home-indicator aware. Content stays clear of the iPhone notch / Dynamic Island and the home bar.
  2. new

    Developer Fix Plan — copy-paste fixes for every issue#

    Every paid scan now includes a Developer Fix Plan: a technical, per-issue plan your dev team can act on — with ready-to-paste JSON-LD, HTTP headers, and exact heading rewrites, all generated from your scan.

    • Personalized — it names your real headings, the schema you already ship, and the exact gaps.
    • Complete — every issue found, grouped by priority, nothing dropped.
    • Saved to your scan — generated once, always there when you come back.
  3. new

    New: "What this site is about" on every result#

    Results now open with a "What this site is about" card — a snapshot of how AI sees your site: the title and description you declare, your language, the schema types and brand profiles detected, and your content depth. If AI can't yet identify your brand, we tell you exactly what to add.

  4. new

    Free AI-visibility scans — AEO, GEO & LLMs, no credit card#

    Free scans, no credit card — three public tools that check how AI sees your site, each leading with a different lens:

    • Free AEO Scan — will answer engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity cite you? Checks answer-ready structure, schema, citability, and AI crawler access.
    • Free GEO Scan — can generative AI engines find, understand, and cite your brand?
    • Free LLMs Scan — how language models read, remember, and cite your site.

    Viewing is open to everyone; running a scan signs you in first, then the free plan gives you a scan for your URL.

  5. improvedfixed

    A sharper, more accurate scan engine#

    We audited the scoring engine end to end:

    • Fixed false positives — correct setups are no longer penalised (valid JSON-LD author, decorative alt="", OG-only social cards, http→https redirects, GET-only robots.txt).
    • New GEO signals — statistics & fact density, question-style headings, readability, lists/tables, and content freshness now shape your score.
    • More accurate AI-crawler classification.
  6. new

    The CiteFlow blog — guides to get your site cited by AI#

    A growing library of guides — everything you need to understand AI search, citation engineering, and GEO, now live at /blog.

    • Find what you need — browse a featured guide plus the latest grid, filter across five categories (Foundations, Tactics, Technical, Schema, Research), and page through the archive.
    • Built to read — every article gives you a sticky table of contents that tracks your scroll, clean rendered markdown, reading-time estimate, author byline, and related guides to read next.
    • Made to be cited — articles ship Article and BreadcrumbList structured data, canonical URLs, OpenGraph/Twitter cards, and a place in your sitemap, so both traditional and AI search can find them.
  7. API v1new

    The CiteFlow Partner API — run AI-visibility audits programmatically#

    The Partner API — run CiteFlow's SEO, AEO, and GEO audits straight from your own code, no dashboard required. Enable it once, mint an API key, and authenticate every call with Authorization: Bearer ckf_... against https://www.citeflow.io/api/v1.

    • Run audits programmaticallyPOST /audit with a URL and type (all, seo, aeo, or geo). Audits run asynchronously: you get back 202 queued with an audit_id, then poll GET /audit/{auditId} for status and per-dimension scores. Cancel anything still in flight.
    • Prepaid credits, metered per audit — a full all audit costs 150 credits; single-dimension seo/aeo/geo audits cost 80 each. Check GET /balance for free before you call, so you never hit an out-of-credits surprise.
    • Top up via Stripe, self-servePOST /billing/topup returns a Stripe Checkout link. Pick a tier: Starter ($49 / 4,900 credits), Growth ($199 / 19,900 + 1,000 bonus), or Scale ($499 / 49,900 + 5,000 bonus).
    • Manage keys in-app — turn the API on at /dashboard/api and generate, rotate, or revoke keys at /dashboard/api/keys. Keys are shown in plaintext only once at creation; rotate every 90 days.