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Agencies produce content with no trail and no AI citation measurement; text generators write with no rules and no QA; GEO tools measure without producing; WordPress managers look after infrastructure. CDE writes, signs with experts, reviews, publishes, verifies and measures AI citations in the same flow.
The table below shows what each option does — and what it doesn't. Including us.
Side by side
What each option does for one article.
| Criterion | CDE | Content agency | AI text generator | GEO tool | WordPress manager |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finds the topic from data (search + AI) | Yes | Sometimes, manually | No | Shows the gap, doesn't turn it into a topic | No |
| Blocks a topic already covered in your network | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Required brief with an expert | Yes | Depends | No | — | — |
| Produces the text | Yes, several models, under your rules | Yes, by the hour or the piece | Yes, with no rules | No | No |
| Real expert as an entity | Yes, on every site | Rarely | No | No | No |
| Compliance QA before publishing | Yes, and it blocks | Manual | No | No | No |
| Fact-checking against the sources | Yes | Manual | No | No | No |
| Publishes to your site | Yes (WordPress, API, webhook) | Manual | Copy and paste | No | Infrastructure only |
| Creates a new site | Yes | Quoted separately | No | No | No |
| Verifies it live (URL, markup, indexing) | Yes, at 10 min, 24 h and 7 d | No | No | No | Uptime only |
| Measures AI citations per topic | Yes, monthly, four models | No | No | Yes | No |
| Turns the gap into an article | Yes, on its own | No | No | Only shows it | No |
| Trail of who approved what | Yes | No | No | — | Partial |
| Cost grows with | Articles published | Hours | Words or seats | Prompts tracked | Sites |
| Who answers for what was published | You, with a full trail | The agency, with no trail | You, with no trail | — | — |
CDE
- Finds the topic from data (search + AI)
- Yes
- Blocks a topic already covered in your network
- Yes
- Required brief with an expert
- Yes
- Produces the text
- Yes, several models, under your rules
- Real expert as an entity
- Yes, on every site
- Compliance QA before publishing
- Yes, and it blocks
- Fact-checking against the sources
- Yes
- Publishes to your site
- Yes (WordPress, API, webhook)
- Creates a new site
- Yes
- Verifies it live (URL, markup, indexing)
- Yes, at 10 min, 24 h and 7 d
- Measures AI citations per topic
- Yes, monthly, four models
- Turns the gap into an article
- Yes, on its own
- Trail of who approved what
- Yes
- Cost grows with
- Articles published
- Who answers for what was published
- You, with a full trail
Content agency
- Finds the topic from data (search + AI)
- Sometimes, manually
- Blocks a topic already covered in your network
- No
- Required brief with an expert
- Depends
- Produces the text
- Yes, by the hour or the piece
- Real expert as an entity
- Rarely
- Compliance QA before publishing
- Manual
- Fact-checking against the sources
- Manual
- Publishes to your site
- Manual
- Creates a new site
- Quoted separately
- Verifies it live (URL, markup, indexing)
- No
- Measures AI citations per topic
- No
- Turns the gap into an article
- No
- Trail of who approved what
- No
- Cost grows with
- Hours
- Who answers for what was published
- The agency, with no trail
AI text generator
- Finds the topic from data (search + AI)
- No
- Blocks a topic already covered in your network
- No
- Required brief with an expert
- No
- Produces the text
- Yes, with no rules
- Real expert as an entity
- No
- Compliance QA before publishing
- No
- Fact-checking against the sources
- No
- Publishes to your site
- Copy and paste
- Creates a new site
- No
- Verifies it live (URL, markup, indexing)
- No
- Measures AI citations per topic
- No
- Turns the gap into an article
- No
- Trail of who approved what
- No
- Cost grows with
- Words or seats
- Who answers for what was published
- You, with no trail
GEO tool
- Finds the topic from data (search + AI)
- Shows the gap, doesn't turn it into a topic
- Blocks a topic already covered in your network
- No
- Required brief with an expert
- —
- Produces the text
- No
- Real expert as an entity
- No
- Compliance QA before publishing
- No
- Fact-checking against the sources
- No
- Publishes to your site
- No
- Creates a new site
- No
- Verifies it live (URL, markup, indexing)
- No
- Measures AI citations per topic
- Yes
- Turns the gap into an article
- Only shows it
- Trail of who approved what
- —
- Cost grows with
- Prompts tracked
- Who answers for what was published
- —
WordPress manager
- Finds the topic from data (search + AI)
- No
- Blocks a topic already covered in your network
- No
- Required brief with an expert
- —
- Produces the text
- No
- Real expert as an entity
- No
- Compliance QA before publishing
- No
- Fact-checking against the sources
- No
- Publishes to your site
- Infrastructure only
- Creates a new site
- No
- Verifies it live (URL, markup, indexing)
- Uptime only
- Measures AI citations per topic
- No
- Turns the gap into an article
- No
- Trail of who approved what
- Partial
- Cost grows with
- Sites
- Who answers for what was published
- —
Third-party prices and features change. This page compares by category, not by vendor — and the head-to-head pages, with figures, only go live with the source and the date they were verified.
Honesty
Three cases where another option is better.
You only want monitoring
If production is already mature and you just need to know whether the AI cites you, a monitoring tool does it for less. Come back when you want the gap to become an article.
You publish two articles a month
A good writer and a reviewer will do. CDE pays off from roughly twelve articles a month, with an expert signing them.
You have nobody to sign
CDE does not publish without a real author. With no expert there is no authority to build — start there.
Head-to-head
One page per competitor, when there is a source.
Each head-to-head page carries the other side's price, plan and features with a link to the public source and the date it was verified. Until that verification exists, the comparison stays here, by category — claiming a third party's figures without a source would be the opposite of what this page argues for.
FAQ
What people ask when comparing.
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