New platform trains AI models on behalf of small and mid-sized businesses to close a growing gap between Google rankings and AI search visibility.
— Cytd.ai, an AI citation visibility platform, today announced its official launch. The company helps small and mid-sized businesses improve their visibility in AI-generated search results, addressing a growing gap between traditional Google rankings and the recommendations delivered by AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Anthropic’s Claude, and Grok.
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Consumer search behavior is shifting quickly. One in ten U.S. internet users now turns to a generative AI tool first when searching online, and roughly a third of American adults reported using ChatGPT as of mid-2025 — a figure that has approximately doubled since 2023. AI-referred sessions to websites grew 527 percent year-over-year in the first half of 2025, and search analysts project a meaningful decline in traditional search volume through 2026 as AI tools absorb a larger share of discovery queries.
When consumers ask an AI assistant to recommend a local restaurant, insurance broker, real estate agent, or hotel, the response is not pulled from Google. It is generated from a separate ecosystem of training data, citations, and content signals that most businesses have not yet worked to influence. A business can hold a leading Google ranking and remain completely absent from the AI-generated recommendations its potential customers receive.
Addressing the Gap
Cytd.ai is built around a patent-pending AI layer that actively trains AI models on a client’s behalf, rather than providing a dashboard of recommendations for businesses to implement themselves. When a business enrolls, a team of human account managers conducts a full audit of the company’s presence across major AI platforms, identifies the factors preventing it from being cited, and carries out the technical and content-level work required to improve that standing.
“We are not just a reporting platform,” said Andrew Maltin, founder of Cytd.ai. “We built a technology company that teaches AI systems what a business does, who it serves, and why it should be cited. Our team does that work on behalf of every client.”
The platform evaluates each client across three dimensions: Visibility, which measures how often a business appears in AI-generated responses; Relevance, which measures how closely a business’s content matches the questions its customers are actually asking AI systems; and Compliance, which evaluates whether a business’s technical infrastructure meets the standards AI platforms use when deciding what to cite. These three inputs generate the Cytd Score, a proprietary metric that tracks a client’s AI citation presence over time. Clients receive monthly performance reporting and ongoing access to a real-time dashboard.
Market Context
Research from Acquia found that 70 percent of organizations believe AI search will significantly affect their digital strategy within three years, while only 20 percent have begun taking 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 hotel operators who recognize that consumer behavior is shifting but lack a dedicated digital team to respond. The platform is also designed to scale for agencies managing AI visibility across multiple clients.
“The businesses that are going to win in AI search are not necessarily the ones with the biggest budgets,” Maltin said. “They are the ones that get started now.”
Cytd.ai is available now at cytd.ai
About Cytd.ai
Cytd.ai is an AI citation visibility platform developed by the team at MEDL Mobile, a digital product company with over 17 years of experience building for clients, including The New York Times, Disney, Experian, and Emirates Airlines. The company is based in Irvine, California.
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