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Modern websites, ranked in AI search✦Cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google AI Overviews✦32% of our own traffic comes from AI search✦Modern websites, ranked in AI search✦Cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google AI Overviews✦32% of our own traffic comes from AI search✦Modern websites, ranked in AI search✦Cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google AI Overviews✦32% of our own traffic comes from AI search✦Modern websites, ranked in AI search✦Cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google AI Overviews✦32% of our own traffic comes from AI search✦
AI-Native Infrastructure

Hosting built so AI engines can actually find you.

Cite-met is our own hosting platform. It edge-renders pages in under 200ms and stays open to the AI crawlers that decide who gets cited. Every site we ship runs on it by default.

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The challenge
Most hosting was built for a world where browsers were the only thing fetching your content: WordPress on shared boxes, a monolith behind a CDN, plugin chains patched together over years. When an AI engine hits a setup like that it bounces off, because the crawler runs into a rate limit, or render-blocking JavaScript hides the text, or the server takes seconds instead of milliseconds to answer. Your old host optimized for uptime numbers and ignored the signals that decide whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Claude can parse your pages at all. Every slow response is a citation you never get and a customer who books the faster competitor instead.
How we solve it
Cite-met is the hosting platform we built and run for every Site, Story, Engine, and Studio client. It edge-renders pages in under 200ms worldwide, provisions SSL automatically, and ships crawler analytics that show you which AI engines visited and what they pulled. Bot-specific response paths mean GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, Google-Extended, and Applebot-Extended each get clean content on the first request, with structured data already built and served at the edge so nothing waits on JavaScript. Hosting comes with the Local plan ($300/mo), and we track your citations across six AI engines on cite-met.com so you watch the data move in real time.

Key benefits

Sub-200ms Global Response Times

Pages render at 300+ points of presence around the world, with no server roundtrip and no render-blocking chain in the way, so your content loads before a competitor's DNS even resolves.

Native AI Crawler Optimization

Dedicated response paths for GPTBot, Google-Extended, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot, so each crawler gets content shaped for the way it parses, which is what lifts your odds of being cited.

Zero-Config Structured Data

Every page generates its own JSON-LD, Open Graph tags, and semantic HTML with no plugins to install and nothing to tag by hand, so the structured data ships as part of the infrastructure rather than as a later patch.

Real-Time AI Crawl Analytics

See exactly when AI systems visit, what they pull, and how your citation footprint changes month over month, which is data a traditional hosting dashboard never surfaces.

Our process

  1. 01

    Infrastructure Audit

    We measure your current stack: response times, whether crawlers can reach the content, how much structured data is in place, and how AI bots behave when they hit the site. That gives us a baseline to beat.

  2. 02

    Architecture Design

    We design a Cite-met deployment around the content you publish, the traffic you get, and the AI visibility you are after, mapping each content type to the rendering approach that serves it best.

  3. 03

    Migration & Deployment

    We move you onto Cite-met without downtime, handling the DNS cutover, SSL, and redirect map, then we check every page against our AI accessibility benchmarks before it goes live.

  4. 04

    Optimization & Monitoring

    After launch we watch how AI crawlers behave, tune the response paths and edge caching rules, and send a monthly report that puts a number on how much your AI visibility has grown.

Proof you can check

4 → 30

pages for Starlit Homes, a NetZero builder whose self-built site became a page per model plus a building-science blog.

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6 → 190+

pages for Zebra Home Cinema, rebuilt from a 6-page WordPress site with 22 city pages and 96 posts.

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90 days

for Lotso Travel's blog to rank one slot under Rogers and Telus on Canadian roaming-versus-eSIM searches.

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Headless React Architecture

The frontend is React (Vite, Next.js, or TanStack Start), the content lives in a headless layer (Sanity, Contentful, Strapi, or a TypeScript data file). Sub-second loads, clean semantic HTML, schema baked in.

Structured Data Automation

Schema markup is the translation layer between your content and ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews. We bake it in at the template level so every new page ships with the right structured data automatically.

Agentic AI Integration

On Studio builds we wire in autonomous AI agents that handle the repetitive work: lead qualification, content generation, monitoring AI citations across engines, and adapting based on what the data shows.

Industries that ship this

Professionals

Professional practices sites with ProfessionalService schema.

Accountants and CPAs

Accounting firms sites with AccountingService schema.

Real Estate

Real estate agents and developers sites with RealEstateAgent schema.

Construction

Builders and contractors sites with HomeAndConstructionBusiness schema.

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Quick answers

Frequently asked.

Traditional hosting optimizes for browser delivery and uptime. AI-native hosting adds one more job: making sure crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot can reach your content, read it cleanly, and index it. That means bot-specific response handling, structured data generated for you, and crawl analytics in real time, none of which a standard hosting platform offers.

Yes. Cite-met handles both fresh builds and migrations off existing platforms. For a WordPress site we can stand up a headless front end that keeps your content but loads far faster. Static sites and React apps usually move over inside a single sprint.

We migrate with zero downtime, map every redirect, keep your canonicals, and carry the sitemap over intact. Because the new site responds so much faster, most clients see rankings climb within four to six weeks. We watch Search Console and AI-traffic numbers the whole way through.

Infrastructure is one piece of being citable. Cite-met makes sure that when an AI system crawls your site it finds fast responses, clean structured data, and content it can follow. Pair that with our AEO content work and clients usually see citations move within 60 to 90 days.
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