Rewrite your pages into answers AI will quote

What it is, and what it deliberately is not

Most content tools score text against what already ranks for a keyword. This one scores text against what makes a passage liftable into a generated answer — which turns out to be a different list of properties, weighted differently.

It is also not Web Readiness, and the distinction is worth holding onto. Web Readiness audits your live website and how AI crawlers reach it: the files, the markup, the structure. Content Optimization acts on a single piece of text you hand it and never touches your site. You can run it on a draft that has never been published, on a paragraph from a competitor to see why it gets cited, or on a Google Business Profile description before you paste it in.

The nine checks, and what each is worth

Weights sum to 100 and are tilted toward what the published research associates with citation in generated answers, rather than distributed evenly to look balanced.

Look at the top of that table and the strategy becomes obvious: 55% of the score is evidence — numbers, sources, quotes, a credentialed author. Structure and readability together account for 28%. That ordering is the useful thing this tool teaches, and it is the opposite of how most marketing copy is written, where the structure is agonised over and the evidence is whatever was to hand.

What a finding looks like

A score alone teaches nothing. Every check that falls below its pass mark emits a finding with four parts:

• The title — what is wrong, in one line
• The why — the reason this property affects whether a passage gets quoted, in plain language
• The action — the specific change to make, not a principle to bear in mind
• The evidence — what the engine actually saw in your text, so you can check its work

That last item is there because a scoring tool you cannot audit is a scoring tool you will eventually stop trusting. If it tells you your piece has no statistics and you know it has three, you can see immediately what it counted.

The rewrite, and the before-and-after

Scoring is deterministic: no AI, no network, same text in, same score out. That is why it is free and why you can run it as many times as you like while editing.

Producing a rewrite is the metered step. The rewrite is generated, and then re-scored by the same engine, so what you get back is not a draft you have to take on trust but a before-and-after pair of numbers with the findings that closed between them. If the rewrite fails to lift the score, that is visible rather than hidden.

The rule underneath the pricing is simple and we would rather state it than let you discover it: detection is free, generation is metered. Every score, every finding and every explanation costs nothing, forever. A credit is spent only when the system produces new text for you, and refunded if that production fails.

What to run it on first

In rough order of return for a local service business:

• Your service pages. The pages that answer “what is this, what does it cost, who is it for” are the ones an assistant reaches for when someone asks exactly that.
• Your FAQ answers. Question-shaped headings with a direct answer immediately underneath is the single most liftable content shape there is, and most FAQ pages bury the answer under two sentences of preamble.
• Your Google Business Profile description and service items — before pasting them in. See Profile Optimization for the rest of that surface.
• The page a competitor keeps getting cited for. Score theirs, score yours, and read the difference. This is the fastest way to understand what the model is actually measuring.

Content Optimization compared, feature by feature

The three content tools most often used for this job, set against cite0 one capability at a time. Read from each vendor’s own pricing and documentation on 25 August 2026; sources at the foot of the page.

cite0 vs Surfer

Surfer is an excellent tool for ranking a page in classic search, and its editor is more polished than anything we will ship this year. The distinction is what the score is a score of. Surfer’s model is built from what already ranks, so a high score means “this resembles the pages Google currently rewards”. cite0’s model is built from the properties that make a passage liftable into a generated answer, so a high score means “an assistant could quote this and stand behind it”. Four of our nine checks — sources, author credentials, quotations and specificity — are not scored by Surfer at all, and together they carry 43% of our score.

cite0 vs Clearscope

Clearscope is the most respected term-coverage grader there is, and for editorial teams producing long-form content at volume it earns its price. It grades comprehensiveness against the pages currently ranking. cite0 grades whether a passage carries the evidence an assistant needs in order to quote it — a different question, and one Clearscope’s own documentation does not claim to answer.

cite0 vs Frase

Frase is the closest thing in the market to what this page describes, and it deserves the comparison — its GEO Score measures intrinsic properties rather than competitor overlap, which almost nothing else does. Two things separate us: we publish our weights, and we score the two evidence signals Frase does not — a named credentialed author and attributed expert quotations — which together carry a quarter of our score.

What you get here and nowhere else

• Published weights. All nine checks and their percentages are on this page. Across every content tool we examined, not one publishes the weights behind its score — which means you cannot tell what you are optimising toward, or argue when it is wrong.
• The evidence signals nobody else scores. A named, credentialed author near the content, and attributed expert quotations that travel as self-contained units. No competitor scores either. Together they carry 25% here.
• A score that does not depend on what already ranks. Every finding is a property of your text, so a page can score well before anyone has linked to it, and a brand-new draft can be measured on the day it is written.
• Scoring free, forever. Detection costs nothing and never runs out, so you can score while you edit rather than rationing runs. Only a produced rewrite spends a credit, and a failed rewrite refunds it.
• Every finding shows its working. The title, the reason it matters, the specific action, and the evidence the engine actually saw — so you can check its arithmetic instead of trusting a grade.
• The rewrite is measured against the answer. On Dominate, Radar tracks weekly whether AI began quoting the page you rewrote. No content tool above closes that loop.

What counts as a good score?

Each of the nine checks passes at 80, and any check scoring below that emits a finding — so a piece with no findings is one where every check cleared 80. That is the bar the engine actually applies, and it is published here rather than left for you to infer. The two checks worth looking at first are statistics and author credentials, because together they carry 40% of the score and both are usually a single edit rather than a rewrite: add real figures, add a byline with a credential. Do not chase 100 — a page stuffed with numbers to satisfy a scorer reads badly to humans, and humans are still the ones who book.

Will a rewritten page be penalised for being AI-generated?

Search engines have been clear that the objection is to low-value content produced at scale, not to the tool used to write it. That said, the rewrite here is a draft and should be treated as one: it works from your text, keeps your claims, and gives you back a restructured, evidence-forward version to edit. It cannot invent a statistic you do not have, and if it could, you should not want it to — a fabricated figure is a far bigger risk to your business than an unoptimised page. Read what comes back, check the numbers are yours, then publish.

Should I use this or Web Readiness?

Both, in that order of dependency. Web Readiness first, because if an AI crawler cannot reach or parse your site, the quality of the words on it is irrelevant. Content Optimization second, once the door is open, to make the words worth quoting once someone walks through it. Web Readiness is included from $199; Content Optimization from $499.