citelayer — AI-visibility agency
citelayer-ai.com3.64/ 5
M1 · Own AI-visibility 2 · 9%
Absent from category recall on both engines. Brand recall thin/self-sourced on both: ChatGPT — 'appears to be a new AI-visibility product; no substantial third-party analysis or media beyond its own content'; Claude — 'evidence is own site + a self-published WordPress plugin; appears to be TWO operations under the name (an EU/German one run by ''Saskia'' and a Florida one run by ''Austin'') — clarify before engaging; no independent reviews either way' (name-collision flag).
M2 · Method transparency 4 · 16%
Concrete deliverables published per tier — "5 AI platforms scanned", "Competitive benchmark (you vs. top 3 competitors)", "Structured data analysis", "Entity consistency check", "Scored report with prioritized fix roadmap", plus "Schema markup (JSON-LD)", "FAQ architecture optimized for AI", "Before & after platform testing" and "llms.txt generation and deployment". Method is clear; no worked sample report shown. source ↗
M3 · Evidence verifiability 2 · 23%
No named client, case study with a URL, or testimonial with a real profile on the reviewed pages — only internal service descriptions. Checkable third-party proof not surfaced. source ↗
M4 · Pricing openness 5 · 12%
Full published price list with online order buttons — AI Visibility Audit €129, Report Review €299, Essentials €2,500, Professional €5,000, Quarterly Monitoring €750/quarter, plus a custom Enterprise tier ("typical range $10,000 to $50,000+"). All plus VAT. source ↗
M5 · AI reachability 5 · 10%
robots.txt does not block the key AI crawlers and the homepage is server-rendered (1688 words to a non-JS reader); it also publishes an llms.txt. source ↗
E1 · Segment fit 3 · 12%
editorial — Mixed segment fit: a €129 entry tier and SMB industries point down-market, but "Multi-location, international structured data" plus a $10k–$50k+ Enterprise tier pull up-market. SMB present but not the sole focus. source ↗
E2 · Promise cleanliness 5 · 18%
editorial — Unusually clean — "We don't do 'results or money back' because no one in this industry honestly can." The only guarantee is delivery timeliness ("if we don't deliver within 48 hours, you get a full refund"). No ranking guarantee or manipulation language. source ↗
◧ M1 cross-engine — ChatGPT: self-sourced-thin — new AI-visibility product; no substantial third-party analysis/media · Claude: self-sourced-thin — own site + self-published plugin; two operations share the name (EU vs Florida); no reviews · recorded, not averaged
A transparent, well-documented ladder from a €129 audit to full-site restructuring, with the cleanest promise language in this batch (it explicitly refuses a results-or-money-back guarantee). Two things temper it: no named, checkable client proof on the public pages (M3), and an enterprise tier plus multi-location framing that blur the SMB focus (E1). Own-visibility (M1) is provisional pending the Phase-2 probe.
Focus: focused specialist · no penalty
SMB-primary: pass
Self-serve offer: pass
GEO substance: pass
Live business: pass
What this ruler does NOT measure Track-record depth and the volume of named cases favour older incumbents we cannot fully see; NDA-bound outcomes are unscored. We weight reproducible, buyer-checkable signal on purpose — and we list ourselves on the same ruler.
Data as of 2026-06-30