The new platform trains AI models on behalf of small businesses and bridges the growing gap between Google rankings and AI search visibility.
— Cytd.aian AI citation visualization platform, today announced its official release. The company helps small businesses improve the visibility of AI-generated search results, addressing the growing gap between traditional Google rankings and recommendations provided by AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Google AI Oververs, Anthropic’s Claude, and Grok.
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Consumer search behavior is changing rapidly. One in 10 US internet users now turns to generative AI tools first when searching online, and approximately one-third of US adults report using ChatGPT as of mid-2025. This number has nearly doubled since 2023. AI referral sessions to websites increased by 527% year over year in the first half of 2025. Search analysts also predict that traditional search volume will decline significantly through 2026 as AI tools absorb the majority of discovery queries.
When a consumer asks an AI assistant to recommend a local restaurant, insurance broker, real estate agent, or hotel, the response is not retrieved from Google. This is generated from a separate ecosystem of training data, citations, and content signals that most companies have yet to influence. Businesses can maintain their primary rankings on Google while remaining completely unaffected by the AI-generated recommendations that potential customers receive.
address the gap
Cytd.ai is built around a patent-pending AI layer that actively trains AI models on behalf of clients, rather than providing a dashboard of recommendations for companies to implement themselves. Once a company registers, our team of human account managers conducts a complete audit of the company’s presence across major AI platforms, identifies factors that are preventing the company from being cited, and performs the necessary technical and content-level work to improve its standing.
“We’re more than just a reporting platform,” says Cytd.ai founder Andrew Maltin. “We built a technology company that teaches AI systems what businesses do, who they serve, and why they should be cited. Our team does that work on behalf of all of our clients.”
The platform evaluates each client on three dimensions: Visibility. Measure how often your business appears in AI-generated responses. Relevance measures how well a company’s content matches the questions customers are actually asking their AI systems. Compliance assesses whether a company’s technology infrastructure meets the standards that AI platforms use when determining what to cite. These three inputs generate Cytd Score, a proprietary metric that tracks the presence of a client’s AI citations over time. Clients receive monthly performance reports and ongoing access to real-time dashboards.
Market background
Acquia research found that while 70% of organizations believe AI search will have a significant impact on their digital strategy within three years, only 20% have taken action. Cytd.ai is positioned to serve the businesses most exposed to that gap: restaurant owners, real estate agents, insurance brokers, independent service professionals, and hoteliers who recognize changing consumer behavior but lack a dedicated digital team to respond. The platform is designed to scale for agencies managing AI visibility across multiple clients.
“The companies that win with AI search are not necessarily the ones with the biggest budgets,” Martin says. “They start now.”
Cytd.ai is currently available at: cytd.ai
About Cytd.ai
Cytd.ai is an AI citation visualization platform developed by the team at MEDL Mobile, a digital products company with over 17 years of experience building for clients such as The New York Times, Disney, Experian, and Emirates. The company is based in Irvine, California.
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