CitedAudit

Real subject · disclosed method · 4 engines × 183 prompts

From invisible to #2 in AI answers.

When Texas homeowners ask ChatGPT and Perplexity how to protest their property taxes, they get named brands back. TaxStand.us started in none of them. Here's the measured climb — and exactly how it happened.

Share of Citation
0% 13.1%
cited in 24 of 183 AI answers, up from zero
Category rank
Last #2
of 12 tracked brands
Passed
O'Connor
a 50-year-old firm, now behind TaxStand

The AI answer is the new front page. When someone asks an assistant "how do I protest my property taxes in Texas," the two or three brands it names win the click — and the customer. Everyone else is invisible, no matter how good their site is.

Where TaxStand started: nowhere

Our first baseline ran 120 buyer-intent prompts across four AI engines. TaxStand was cited as a source in 0% of them — dead last among twelve tracked competitors. The site was solid; the AIs just didn't know it existed or couldn't quote it.

Where it stands now

Ownwell18.0%
TaxStand13.1%
O'Connor & Assoc.12.6%
Texas Tax Protest6.6%
Gill, Denson & Co.2.2%
Share-of-Citation across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity & Gemini · 183 prompts · Sept 2026. TaxStand now sits second, having passed a firm that's been in business since the 1970s.

How we did it — the honest pipeline

  1. Measured first. Baselined the exact buyer questions in the category and scored who the AIs cite — so every move targeted a real gap, not a guess.
  2. Made the site AI-legible. Fixed crawlability, schema, headings and answer-style content so engines can actually read and quote it — then verified indexation, not just submission.
  3. Earned the citations. Published disclosed, genuinely useful answers to the questions the AIs were asking, on the sources they pull from — no spam, no overlays, no fake reviews.
  4. Re-measured in the open. Re-ran the same prompts monthly and tracked the climb. 0% → 13.1%, and still moving.

No tricks — the same method we run on every site we own, in public. The point of a tool called CitedAudit is that the numbers are real and reproducible.

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Methodology: Share-of-Citation = the percentage of AI answers that cite the brand's domain as a source, measured across ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic), Perplexity, and Gemini on a fixed set of category buyer-intent prompts. Baseline 120 prompts; current 183 prompts. TaxStand is an Outlaw Holdings property; results are real and independently reproducible with the same prompt set.