Changelog #0002

Hello friends. Here is a rundown of what we shipped this week.

Starter tier

We designed and built Cleotic primarily for agencies, consultancies, and companies managing portfolios of brands. But we believe that smaller single-brand companies and startups should also have an affordable entry-point into our product.

To make good on this belief we have release a new subscription tier with everything you need to get started with AI brand monitoring as a small-medium business or startup.

It's called Cleotic Starter. Check it out on the pricing page.

Cleotic WordPress Plugin

This week we have released our first plugin for WordPress: Cleotic AI Traffic. This initial release provides some of the AI crawler and referral tracking capabilities of our platform, built directly into, and running on your WordPress site. No Cleotic account is required to activate and use the plugin.

However, for Cleotic subscribers on all subscription tiers, we have included the ability to sync the traffic data from Your WordPress sites back to a Tracked Site in Cleotic where we can expose deeper insights in relation to overall brand visibility and performance.

Version 1.0.0 features

• Local admin report for AI crawler visits and AI assistant referrals.

• Optional dashboard widget with recent AI traffic totals.

• Curated, explainable detection for AI crawler user agents and AI referral sources.

• Optional Cleotic connection key for signed server-side sync.

• Optional AI-events-only sync mode.

• Optional frontend beacon for AI-positive referral capture on cached pages. This is off by default.

• Optional main dashboard widget. This is off by default.

• Configurable retention up to 90 days.

Pending review we hope to have the plugin available on the WordPress.org Plugin Registry shortly.

Citation improvements

We have deployed a rebuild our citation gathering backend to power an upcoming redesign of the citations explorer. This is the foundation for richer citation UI: source profiles, trust indicators, evidence drilldowns, source-type filtering, model-by-model citation comparisons, and clearer explanations of why a brand is or is not being cited.

Previously, citations were mostly treated as individual links found in model responses. Now, Cleotic separates the actual source from each time that source appears in an AI answer. That means repeated mentions of the same article, page, or domain are grouped more reliably, while still preserving every individual occurrence.

Citation extraction is also more transparent. Cleotic now records how each citation was found: provider annotation, markdown link, or bare URL. Each citation also carries confidence and evidence metadata, so future UI can show whether a source was directly backed by model-provided citation data or inferred from response text.

Brand relevance is sharper too. Citations can now distinguish between direct brand-domain matches and contextual mentions in titles or nearby answer text, with recorded reasons behind the classification.

Source classification has been improved and versioned, giving us a more consistent way to identify publishers, forums, social platforms, wikis, docs, app stores, marketplaces, and other source types over time.

Analytics now include provenance-aware metrics like total occurrences, distinct URLs, annotation-backed citations, regex-only citations, distinct prompts, and distinct models. This makes citation data much easier to trust, compare, and explain.

Stay tuned for more details of the new citations explorer UI. Until then, have a great weekend, and we'll see you next week.