AppTime
Get cited by AI. Get recognised by the market.
AppTime Cite is our beta Chrome extension: scan ChatGPT and Google answers for your brand, save results locally, and turn gaps into briefs.
ChatGPT · local scan
“Best tools for AI citation tracking…”
You are cited
matchBrand and domain matched in the answer. Cite stores the result locally and drafts a brief when competitors appear instead.
Cited
Status
ChatGPT
Host
Local
Saved
The problem
AI answers cite someone. Make sure it’s you.
Generative answers and AI Overviews pick sources fast. Classic SEO alone is slow, and market recognition stays invisible until your name appears in the answer. Cite closes that gap inside the browser you already use.
Product
AppTime Cite: scan, brief, improve recognition
Manifest V3 side panel: Setup brands and domains, Scan the active ChatGPT or Google tab, keep History in local Chrome storage, and generate Briefs when you’re ignored.
Setup + Scan
Configure brands, domains, and competitors — then scan the answer on the open tab.
History
Results stay on your machine in chrome.storage.local — no account required in beta.
Briefs
When you’re not cited, Cite drafts a short brief you can act on or share with us.
How it works
Three steps to clearer AI visibility
01
Setup brands
Load the beta extension, then add brands, domains, and competitors in the side panel.
02
Scan ChatGPT or Google
Open an answer on chatgpt.com or google.com and run Scan tab — matches stay in local Chrome storage.
03
Act on briefs
When you’re ignored, Cite drafts a short brief. Use it in-house or bring it to AppTime for the build.
Who it’s for
Built for people who need to be named
Founders
Make sure AI and search name your product when buyers ask category questions.
Agencies
Give clients a live view of AI citation and market recognition — not another vanity dashboard.
SaaS marketers
Pair classic SEO with generative engine visibility before your category gets locked to someone else.
How we build
Six steps from pain to proof
Whether we’re shipping Cite or rescuing a client SaaS, we run the same discipline: clear promise, real plumbing, and verification before launch — agents accelerate the work; we keep the judgment.
01
Pain
Start from a real market problem — primary research, competitor gaps, and honest fit — before writing product code.
02
Promise
Lock one clear sentence: what you get, who it’s for, and why it matters. That line drives the hero, waitlist, and scope.
03
Product
Architecture first, then ship a usable V1. Agents accelerate build; humans stay project managers of judgment.
04
Plumbing
Auth, data, APIs, payments, and deploy done properly — sandbox first, then production keys — so it scales past a demo.
05
Packaging
Brand, UI, and store/waitlist surfaces that feel buyable: consistent design system, not AI-slop chrome.
06
Proof
Hostile QA, end-to-end journeys, and security review. We fix launch blockers before customers find them.
AI build pitfalls
What breaks after the demo looks done
Patterns we keep seeing in vibe-coded and agent-built products — captured from production rescues and public SaaS build courses. Read deeper on the pitfalls article.
UI without pain
A generated interface is not a validated problem. Research first — or you ship a demo nobody needs.
Vague promise
If the landing page cannot say what you do in one sentence, agents invent scope and customers bounce.
Plumbing last
Auth, roles, Stripe webhooks, and env secrets are where vibe-coded apps die on day one.
Same-model QA
The builder model misses its own bugs. Use a hostile second pass before you invite users.
UI as the moat
Scaffolding is copyable. Durable edge lives in prompts, data, and workflow IP.
No security gate
Exposed keys, open tables, and IDOR show up after launch. Proof includes a real security review.
Architecture skipped
The code writes itself. Architecture, roles, and data boundaries do not. Skip them and you ship a brittle demo.
Never leaves the laptop
If it cannot take a real user, a payment, and a rollback plan, it is still a hobby — not a product.
From the blog
Keywords & playbooks
Services
Need something custom or production-ready?
Beyond Cite, AppTime designs and ships full-stack apps, agentic AI, custom extensions, automation, SaaS rescue, and security remediation — including hardening Lovable and other AI-built MVPs for real users.
View all servicesReady to be the brand AI cites?
Join the AppTime Cite beta, or tell us about a build, rescue, or extension project.