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Outreach

Outreach is an implementation tool reached from an Action when it is relevant. It turns citation data into a target list. The domains the AI engines already cite when answering your market’s questions are where a mention is worth earning — an unlinked mention on a trusted source beats a backlink for AI visibility. The whole screen reads from your latest completed check, and a Download CSV button at the top exports the target list for your PR workflow.

The Outreach page: the target table, source intelligence with Used %, movers, and the gap table.

The first table lists the third-party domains cited on your panel: citations, how many of your questions they appear in, which engines cite them, and a sample cited URL as evidence. Typically 10–20 domains carry the bulk of citations — pitch the specific bylines behind those sample URLs rather than the domain generically. Your own domains and competitor domains are pulled out into a separate Context line below the table; they are informative, not pitchable.

If the table says “No citation data yet,” the brand simply has no completed check with citations — run one first. An empty list is the tool waiting for data, not hiding it.

The next section profiles your top cited domains. Each row shows:

  • Source type — editorial, forum, social, review, reference, vendor, government. A row marked unclassified has not been classified yet; the tool never guesses a type.
  • Flags — whether the domain is your own or a competitor’s.
  • Used % and avg cites/answer — two deliberately different numbers. Used % is the share of all answers that cite the domain at least once; avg cites/answer is how many citations it collects per answer. High-Used/low-avg is background presence everywhere; low-Used/high-avg is a page the engines lean on hard when it appears — a different kind of target.

Click any row to expand its top cited URLs: per-URL citation counts, the split across engines, and the brands co-mentioned in answers citing that URL (yours highlighted). This is the drill-down that tells you which page — and therefore which byline — to pitch. A link at the bottom opens the Answers log for the raw responses behind the numbers.

Movers compares your two most recent completed checks and shows four lists: Top (most cited now), Trending (biggest gain), Losing (biggest drop, with a “gone” tag for sources that vanished entirely), and New (absent last run). An expandable URL movers panel shows the same four lists at page level — the specific URLs gaining and losing citations.

A source the engines just started citing is a door that opened; pitch it while it is warm. With only one completed check, the section says so and waits — deltas need two runs, and the tool will not invent a comparison.

The gap table is the highest-leverage list on the page: domains that supply the engines with evidence in answers where a competitor is named and you are absent. Each row shows how many answers cite the domain, in how many you are present, in how many only a competitor appears, and the resulting gap share.

Each gap row has a Draft pitch button. It drafts a pitch angle and outreach email grounded in that domain’s stored citation evidence — what the engines actually quoted from it — and the draft lands in Studio for review. A pitch is never sent automatically. One honest exception: a competitor’s own site appears in the gap table (it is real evidence) but is not pitchable — the button is replaced by a note, because you win those answers with content, not outreach.

Once drafts exist, a Drafted pitches table at the bottom tracks each one’s status and whether its quality checks passed, with review and approval in Studio.

  • Who is winning citations overall: Scorecard rankings.
  • The raw citing answers: Answers.
  • Reviewing and approving drafted pitches: Studio.
  • Citation vs mention: Glossary.