The Citation Tracker shows you which Reddit threads and sources ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity pull from when they answer questions about your keyword or niche. Type in a topic and you see the exact threads the AI reads before it recommends a product. That matters because roughly 40% of the sources AI engines cite on commercial questions come from Reddit, so those threads are where buying decisions get shaped. Knowing them tells you exactly where your brand needs to be present.
How it works
Enter a keyword or describe your niche, and the Citation Tracker surfaces the Reddit threads and sources AI engines lean on when they answer questions about it. You get a clear list of where the conversation is actually happening, not a guess.
The logic is simple: AI answers are built from sources, and on commercial and product questions, a large share of those sources are Reddit threads. When you can see which threads get cited, you stop treating AI visibility as a black box and start treating it as a map. Reddit is the mechanism here, and showing up in AI answers is the result.
Why it matters for AI visibility
Your buyers increasingly ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity before they ask Google. The answer they get is assembled from a handful of sources, and if a competitor is named in the threads the AI reads, the AI names the competitor. Being invisible in those threads means being invisible in the answer.
Citation tracking turns that risk into a to-do list. Once you know which threads AI pulls from for your keyword, you know exactly where a helpful, credible presence would move the needle. You are not posting everywhere and hoping. You are showing up in the specific places that feed the answer.
How to read your results
Start with the threads that appear most often across engines: those are the ones doing the heavy lifting in AI answers about your niche. A thread cited by more than one engine is a stronger signal than one cited by a single tool.
Then look at what is actually said in those threads. If your category is discussed but your brand is missing, that is a gap worth closing. If a competitor is recommended by name, that is the thread where the answer is currently being decided. Prioritize by relevance to your buyer and by how directly the thread maps to a purchase question.
From free tool to a real Reddit strategy
The Citation Tracker is a free snapshot. It tells you where AI looks, but it does not do the work of getting you cited there. That is the difference between the free tool and Readyt, the paid platform. Readyt covers the full chain: finding the right threads, drafting replies that read human, using aged accounts to stay ban-safe, keeping the last action in human hands, and tracing every lead back to its source.
Use the free tracker to see the map. Use Readyt when you want to plant your flag on it and turn cited threads into AI recommendations, in about 15 minutes a day.
Frequently asked questions
What does the Citation Tracker do?
The Citation Tracker shows which Reddit threads and sources AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity pull from when answering questions about your keyword or niche. It tells you where the AI is reading so you know where your brand needs to be present.
Why does Reddit matter for AI answers?
Reddit matters because roughly 40% of the sources AI engines cite on commercial queries come from Reddit threads. When AI recommends a product, it often builds that recommendation from Reddit discussions, so those threads directly influence what buyers hear.
Is the Citation Tracker free?
Yes, the Citation Tracker is a free tool. It gives you a snapshot of which threads AI cites for your keyword. Actually getting your brand into those threads, ban-safe and traceable, is what the paid Readyt platform does.
How is this different from a rank tracker?
A rank tracker follows your position in Google search results. The Citation Tracker follows the sources AI engines cite in their answers, which is a different and growing surface. It is built for people whose buyers ask AI before they ask a search engine.
What do I do with the threads it finds?
Focus on threads cited across multiple engines and closest to a buying question. Where your category is discussed but your brand is absent, that is a gap to close with a helpful, credible presence. Those are the threads most likely to shape the AI answer about your market.
