Modern websites, ranked in AI searchCited by ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google AI Overviews32% of our own traffic comes from AI searchModern websites, ranked in AI searchCited by ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google AI Overviews32% of our own traffic comes from AI searchModern websites, ranked in AI searchCited by ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google AI Overviews32% of our own traffic comes from AI searchModern websites, ranked in AI searchCited by ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google AI Overviews32% 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 Care retainer ($60/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.

< 200ms

Average global page load time on Cite-met infrastructure

99.99%

Uptime SLA with automated failover across edge regions

3.2x

Average increase in AI crawler successful parse rate after migration

300+

Global edge locations serving your content simultaneously

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