Be the Fund Every AI Engine
Recommends
Citably runs the entire AI visibility operation for venture capital funds. From scanning which funds the engines name when founders ask who leads at their stage, to deploying the thesis, stage, and portfolio support evidence that earns citations, to tracking every movement across all four engines.
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The shift
A founder asks an assistant which fund leads at their stage, 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
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.
# 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
Which funds actually lead at seed, by sector
Published Jun 12 · 8 citations
Indexed
What founders should ask before signing a term sheet
Published Jun 12 · 8 citations
Indexed
Board involvement compared across early stage funds
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
Founder Onboarding Guide
Published 2021 · 0 citations
Restructure
Term Sheet FAQ
Published 2022 · 2 citations
Refresh
Early Stage Fundraising 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
Seed Rounds Weekly
Tier-1 · Venture Capital
Cited 6x
Founder Brief
Tier-2 · Venture Capital
Cited 4x
Term Sheet Review
Tier-2 · Venture Capital
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
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 venture capital. For the wider segment, see Managed AEO for investments.
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.
Term sheet turnaround
Structured content gets cited, prose gets absorbed
A fund that describes itself as “founder friendly” in prose gets compressed into a phrase every fund on the register also uses. The same position published as a dated record naming the stage, the lead rate, and the standard terms survives that compression, which is why founders asking who actually leads at seed get pointed at the funds that published the numbers.
Stage Fit Estimator
→ Linked, not reproduced
Interactive tools force attribution
An engine cannot reproduce a stage fit estimator or a term comparison from memory, so it sends the founder to the tool instead. For a venture fund that turns a passive mention into a first conversation on your own domain, before the founder has spoken to anyone on your list of competitors.
Technical AEO is the precondition for everything else
If an engine cannot crawl your portfolio pages, render your thesis posts, or parse your entity markup, nothing else in a venture program matters. Funds routinely discover in the audit that their entire portfolio was rendered client side, so no engine could ever connect the fund to the companies it backed, which is why the technical layer is fixed first.
Draft asset
Pending review
→
Same asset
Approved, published
Draft-first publishing is a feature in regulated environments
Funds publish into a market where a careless claim about performance or an unannounced portfolio company carries marketing rule and confidentiality consequence. Every asset ships as a draft for your compliance and IR leads at least two weeks before publication, which is what makes a continuous publishing program adoptable rather than a disclosure risk.
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.
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.
PERPLEXITY · JUN 14, 2026
“For funds that lead at seed, names most often cited include …, which publishes its stage focus and standard terms openly.”
Sources cited: 3 round announcements, 1 founder survey
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.
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
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 venture funds see measurable citation movement inside the first 60 days. The startup databases, founder community threads, and portfolio announcements that AI engines read for venture questions are re-crawled frequently, so newly published thesis and stage evidence surfaces faster than it would in traditional search. Your Exec Dashboard tracks the movement from day one.
What does onboarding look like?
Onboarding for a venture fund starts with a full site AEO audit and a strategy call covering your thesis, stage, cheque range, and portfolio disclosure rules. Inside the first week your llms.txt is deployed, your entity and portfolio schema is corrected, and the first batch of venture 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 platform leads for an initial briefing, because thesis boundaries, stage focus, and what may be said about portfolio companies have to be right. Every asset is submitted for your review before publication.
Can we change tiers later?
Yes. Most venture funds 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 a venture fund the dashboard shows which funds each engine names when founders ask about stage, sector, and terms, plus the source behind every answer.
What industries do you currently serve?
Citably runs managed AEO programs across regulated finance, and venture capital is run as its own program rather than folded into a general investments brief. The prompt set is built around stage, lead behaviour, and founder facing terms, which turn on backing a company at its earliest and least evidenced point.
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.