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2026 · SaaS · SEO & AI-visibility platform (a Gspikes product)

Citenix

Our own SaaS. Citenix crawls a site, ranks what to fix, and tracks how the brand shows up in AI answers as well as in classic rankings — positioned as the small-team alternative to Ahrefs, Semrush and Screaming Frog.

Product Design Full-Stack Development SEO Go-to-Market
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tools it replaces for a small team
AI
visibility tracking alongside rankings
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product built and run in-house
Citenix

01 The Challenge

SEO tooling is priced for agencies and built for analysts. The goal was to put crawl, fix and AI-visibility data in front of founders and marketers at a price a small business can carry — in a web app that feels like a product, not a report.

02 Our Approach

  • Marketing site and app shell as a React single-page application built with Vite — small, fast, and easy to iterate.
  • Crawl and audit engine behind an API, with issues ranked by impact on traffic rather than by raw count.
  • AI visibility as a first-class metric: whether and how the brand appears in AI-generated answers, next to its search positions.
  • Everything we learned running SEO for clients baked into the defaults, so the first report is useful without configuration.
  • The product's own site built for organic acquisition from day one — its SEO is its first case study.

03 The Results

  • Live at citenix.com with the crawl, fix and AI-visibility workflow.
  • A clear position against three incumbents, with AI visibility as the differentiator.
  • A product line for Gspikes, not only a services business.

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