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Citably runs the entire AI visibility operation for investment firms. From scanning which managers the engines name by strategy and mandate, to deploying the criteria and track record evidence that earns citations, to tracking every movement across all four engines.

Total Citations

4.1K

Avg. Cited Pages

7

Citations Cited Pages

150 120 90 60 30 0 20 16 12 8 4 0 31 May 14 Jun 28 Jun 12 Jul 26 Jul 09 Aug

Citations Cited Pages

Grounding QueryIntentTopicCitationsCitation Share
Wealth managers for founders after an exitResearchWealth Management9915.85%
Most active mid market private equity buyersResearchPrivate Equity9322.30%
Top global macro hedge funds by strategyComparisonHedge Funds8612.65%
Which VC funds lead seed rounds in climate techResearchVenture Capital8018.90%
Family offices that co-invest alongside sponsorsInformationalFamily Offices7327.50%
Investment platforms with the lowest management feesComparisonAsset Management6513.20%

Total citations, average cited pages, and the daily citation trend (31 May to 09 Aug 2026) are constant across every segment page. The grounding-query table below reflects the Investments segment, showing the query types tracked for investment firms. Source: Bing Webmaster Tools, 2026.

The shift

Allocators and founders ask an assistant which firm to approach, and it names three.

68%

Of Google searches now end without a click

4.4x

AI referral traffic converts vs organic

+7.6pts

Rise in zero-click search since 2024

4

AI engines tracked: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude

What We Deliver

Your Complete AI Visibility Operation

Full Site AEO Audit

We crawl your entire web presence. Every page, every schema gap, every missed citation opportunity. Your crawler access, schema markup, content structure, data density, freshness signals, and llms.txt configuration are all diagnosed. The result is a prioritized action plan that tells us exactly where to focus first.

Citation Health Index

91 HEALTHY

Pages crawled1,284
Schema gaps37
Citation opportunities112
Priority fixes identified24

AI Infrastructure and llms.txt

Your site needs to speak the language AI engines understand. We deploy and maintain your llms.txt file so AI crawlers can read your brand data cleanly. We build dynamic schema markup and Knowledge Graph entries so engines recognize your company as an entity, not just a collection of pages.

llms.txt Deployed
# Citably, AI access policy User-Agent: * Allow: / Sitemap: /sitemap.xml Entity: Organization Contact: /contact/

High-Intent AEO Content

AI engines cite content that answers specific questions with original data, clear structure, and real depth. We produce high-intent AEO assets every month optimized for the exact prompts your buyers are asking. New content and legacy content updated for citation freshness. Every piece is built to answer a question AI is actively looking for, tied directly to your product.

Content Engine

Mandate criteria compared for institutional allocators

Published Jun 12 · 8 citations

Indexed

What founders ask before a first institutional round

Published Jun 12 · 8 citations

Indexed

Strategy definitions allocators expect to see published

Published Jun 12 · 8 citations

Indexed

Legacy Content Restructuring

Most institutional firms already publish years of content, and some of it is actively working against AI visibility rather than for it. We audit your existing pages for citation performance, restructure or refresh what is underperforming, and flag anything actively harming your visibility for retirement or consolidation. Your published history becomes an asset instead of dead weight.

Legacy Content Audit

Investor Onboarding Guide

Published 2021 · 0 citations

Restructure

Due Diligence FAQ

Published 2022 · 2 citations

Refresh

Portfolio Construction Whitepaper

Published 2019 · 0 citations

Retire

Custom Interactive Tools

The differentiator most companies miss. AI engines summarize text content and move on. But they cannot summarize an interactive tool. Calculators, comparison widgets, data finders: these are resources AI has to point users to rather than replicate. Each tool targets the specific prompts where your competitors get recommended instead of you.

AI Visibility ROI Calculator

Projected citation lift

+41%

Digital PR and Authority Building

AI engines decide who to recommend by looking for consensus across independent, authoritative sources. Our PR program places your brand on Tier-1 and Tier-2 publications in your industry. Not mass distribution. Targeted placements on the publications AI engines already trust and cite. The backlinks come naturally. The real value is the authority signal.

Citation Sources

AW

Allocation Weekly

Tier-1 · Investments

Cited 6x

CM

Capital Monitor

Tier-2 · Investments

Cited 4x

MR

Mandate Review

Tier-2 · Investments

Cited 3x

Tracking and Rapid Indexing

Every deployed asset submitted through rapid indexing protocols for accelerated crawling and discovery. Daily scans across all engines catch shifts before they become trends. You always know where you stand relative to your competitors and whether the gap is opening or closing.

Visibility Trend

34%

Share of Voice

▲ 9% vs last month

Your brand Top competitor

Compliance

Built for enterprise compliance

Every asset we produce is submitted to your team for review a minimum of 2 weeks before publication. Nothing goes live without your explicit approval. Our workflow is built for enterprise compliance, legal review, and stakeholder sign-off.

Running this yourself instead? The self-serve product is covered on AEO for investment firms. Venture funds are covered in more depth on Managed AEO for venture capital. Private client firms are covered on Managed AEO for wealth managers.

The mechanism

Why each element matters.

Every deliverable in the Citably managed AEO program exists because of how answer engines select and attribute sources. The mechanism, element by element.

Settlement window

T+1 ✓ Cited

Structured content gets cited, prose gets absorbed

An investment firm describing its philosophy in prose gets absorbed into a general statement about the strategy. The same firm publishing sector, stage, cheque size, and mandate criteria as structured data survives intact, which is why allocators and founders searching by strategy get pointed at the firms that spelled it out.

Settlement Cost Calculator

Volume: $2.4M
Computed output $186

→ Linked, not reproduced

Interactive tools force attribution

An engine cannot reproduce a fit checker or a structured portfolio map, so it sends the founder or allocator to it. For an investment firm this filters the approaches that arrive, which raises the quality of what reaches the team rather than the volume.

Crawlable✓
Schema valid✓
Sitemap indexed✓
llms.txt deployed✓

Technical AEO is the precondition for everything else

If an engine cannot crawl your site, render your portfolio, or parse your entity markup, no amount of investment content matters. A logo wall and a prose thesis give an engine nothing to match a mandate against, and that is the most common finding in the audit.

Draft asset

Pending review

Same asset

Approved, published

Draft-first publishing is a feature in regulated environments

Investment firms publish under marketing and solicitation rules where a careless performance claim is a regulatory problem. Every asset ships as a draft for your compliance team at least two weeks before publication, and the templates are built around criteria and operational facts rather than performance claims.

Reporting

How we prove ROI.

Four views ship with every managed AEO engagement. Each one answers a question a finance committee will actually ask, and each is drawn from recorded answers rather than estimates.

ChatGPT74
Gemini52
Perplexity38
Claude27

Citations by engine over time

Citably records how often each engine names your brand, engine by engine, month by month. Engines move independently, so a gain in one and a loss in another is a different problem from a flat month everywhere, and it calls for a different fix.

Prompt-level visibility with competitor comparison

Citably tracks the individual buyer prompts, not just a total. Aggregate scores hide the specific questions where a rival owns the answer, and those questions are where deals are lost. An open prompt with no firm named is the cheapest one to win.

“Best growth equity firm for founders” · Rival A namedNot cited
“Institutional mandate criteria” · You namedCited
“Investment firms compared by mandate fit” · No firm namedOpen

PERPLEXITY · JUN 14, 2026

“For institutional mandates in private markets, firms most often cited include …, which publishes its allocation criteria openly.”

Sources cited: 3 mandate filings, 1 registry

The prompt-by-prompt answer feed

Citably stores the answer text itself, with the engine and the date. This is the receipt. A committee that does not trust a score will read the verbatim answer and the sources behind it, and that is usually what settles the question.

Traffic and conversions attributed by AI source

Citably joins engine referrals to GA4 so the program is measured against pipeline rather than citation counts. Sessions tell you the answer was seen; conversions tell you which engine sends buyers, and that is where next month’s work goes.

SOURCESESSIONSCONV
ChatGPT1,28438
Perplexity41211
Gemini3069

Reporting runs monthly, with a written readout and a walkthrough call. Dashboard access is live from day one, so you are never waiting on a report to see where a managed AEO program stands.

Programs

Three programs, one proven methodology

Every program runs on our proprietary deployment framework. The difference is scale.

AEO Starter

Build your AI visibility foundation

  • Full site AEO audit
  • llms.txt deployment
  • 10 AEO assets per month
  • 2 interactive tools per month
  • Citation Health optimization
  • Rapid indexing protocols
  • AI Share of Voice tracking
  • Monthly executive summary
  • Dedicated account manager
Recommended

AEO Authority

Dominate your category in AI search

Everything in Starter, plus:

  • Competitor gap analysis
  • Legacy content restructuring
  • Schema and Knowledge Graph
  • 20 AEO assets per month
  • 5 interactive tools per month
  • Targeted digital PR (Tier-1 placements)
  • Daily AI visibility scans
  • Weekly strategy calls

AEO Global

Own AI visibility at global scale

Everything in Authority, plus:

  • AI search modeling
  • API/RAG readiness consulting
  • 40 AEO assets (multi-domain)
  • 10 interactive tools per month
  • Enterprise PR and syndication
  • Real-time competitor tracking
  • Dedicated Slack/Teams channel
  • Exec Dashboard and bi-weekly calls
  • Multi-lingual add-on available

Common Questions

What to expect

How quickly will we see results?

Most investment firms see measurable citation movement inside the first 60 days. The registers, rankings, filings, and community threads that AI engines read for manager and adviser questions are re-crawled frequently, so newly published mandate and strategy evidence surfaces quickly. Your Exec Dashboard tracks the movement from day one.

What does onboarding look like?

Onboarding for an investment firm starts with a full site AEO audit and a strategy call covering your mandate, strategies, and marketing restrictions. Inside the first week your llms.txt is deployed, your entity schema is corrected, and the first batch of assets is in production. Your team approves everything before it goes live.

Do we need to provide content or subject matter expertise?

Citably produces the content. We ask for access to your investment and compliance leads for an initial briefing, because mandate criteria, strategy definitions, and operational facts have to be exact. Every asset is submitted for your review before publication.

Can we change tiers later?

Yes. Most investment firms start on AEO Starter or AEO Authority and move up as citations compound, and a tier change can happen at any point inside an agreement. Programs run on six or twelve month agreements, which is also what determines how much of the one-time setup is waived.

Which AI engines do you track?

All four engines: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude. For an investment firm the dashboard shows which managers and advisers each engine names by strategy and mandate, plus the source behind every answer.

What industries do you currently serve?

Citably runs managed AEO programs for blockchain, banking, fintech, commodities, and investments. Each has its own prompt set, its own citation sources, and its own compliance posture, and the investments program is built around the manager research and adviser selection questions allocators and founders ask.

Every engagement begins with a conversation

We scan your brand, show you where you stand, and walk through exactly what it would take to close the gap. No commitment. No pressure. Just the data.

Audits are run by the team who would run your program. Nothing is published without your approval.

To request a free AEO audit, contact the team, or book a strategy call.