A connected site in, grounded articles that rank and get cited out.
Here is the whole pipeline, stage by stage: connect your site, generate grounded drafts, clear a hard quality gate, publish in one click, then let real performance steer what comes next.
Connect your site
Citevine plugs into the site you already run. Connect your CMS and analytics once, and the pipeline has everything it needs to research, draft, publish, and measure.
Native connectors cover WordPress, Pressable, and Shopify. Anything else connects through a lightweight embed or the publishing API, so a custom stack is a first-class citizen, not an afterthought.
- A one-time connection with permission to publish approved drafts straight to your CMS.
- Analytics linked up front, so performance can flow back from the very first post.
- Your existing content is read for brand voice, so drafts sound like your team.
The evidence pack, then drafting
Before it writes a word, Citevine assembles an evidence pack from your business: the facts and figures a strong article can actually stand on.
The draft is written from that evidence, answer first. Every claim it makes is tied back to something in the pack, so the article states what it can prove and quietly leaves out what it cannot.
- Answer-first structure: the direct answer leads, the supporting detail follows.
- Each citable claim links to its source in the evidence pack.
- No source, no sentence: unprovable claims never make it into the draft.
Every claim maps to a source it can prove
The quality gate
This is the part other tools skip. Factual grounding is a hard gate: if a claim is not supported by the evidence, the post is held, no matter how well it reads.
Only after grounding passes does Citevine score the draft for SEO, AEO, and GEO. That scoring is additive: it helps a true article rank and get cited, but a high score never buys a shaky claim its way through. Then the draft comes to you, and you approve.
- Grounding is pass or fail, and it blocks publish absolutely.
- SEO, AEO, and GEO scoring runs only after grounding clears.
- If a draft misses, it gets one bounded regeneration attempt, never an endless retry loop.
- You get the final call before anything ships.
Grounding gates publish. Scores make a good post better
Publish and the feedback loop
Approve a draft and Citevine publishes it to your CMS, then watches how it performs. Rankings and AI-referral traffic flow back through GA4 and Search Console and steer what gets written next.
The loop compounds. Topics that earn traffic and citations inform the next round of research, so the calendar keeps pointing at what actually works. Answer-engine attribution is read as a best-effort signal with its own confidence, so a noisy reading never hijacks the plan.
- One click publishes the approved draft to your live site.
- GA4 and Search Console signals return to Citevine automatically.
- The next topic is the one most likely to compound your results.
Why the gate is the whole point
Anyone can generate words. Citevine is built so that what publishes is true first, and optimized second.
Grounding is a hard gate
A post that fails factual grounding is never published, whatever its scores. Grounding is the floor the whole product stands on.
Scoring is additive, never a substitute
SEO, AEO, and GEO scoring runs after grounding passes, to help a true article rank and get cited. It can lift a good post; it can never rescue a false one.
You approve every post
Nothing publishes on its own. Citevine does the research, drafting, and scoring; the final call is always yours.