Get Your Brand Cited by Claude
Rankavi helps your brand get cited by Claude with mentions in trusted articles, automated end to end with Claude Code. Free API access, from $15 per mention, live within 24 hours.
Why Claude Doesn't Mention Your Brand
Claude doesn't mention your brand because it rarely finds your brand on the pages it reads. Claude searches through Brave Search, not Google, and cites the same small set of top results. When Claude skips search, it answers from training data that may never have included you.
Strong SEO isn't enough for Claude
Anthropic's subprocessor list shows Claude's web search runs on Brave. Profound found 79.2% of Claude citations sit in Brave's top 10, so Google rankings don't carry over.
Claude recommends other brands in your category
Profound's study found Claude cites listicles in 36.4% of cases, nearly double ChatGPT's rate. Competitors named in those roundups get recommended first.
What Are Brand Mentions in Claude?
Brand mentions in Claude are the moments Claude names your brand or recommends your product or service inside an answer.
A citation is different: Claude links a page as a source, and only when it searched the web.
Orbit Media found Claude named tracked brands in 70% of answers but cited their sites in only 40%. The mention is what drives the sale.
How Claude Decides Which Brands to Cite
Claude answers from two places: what it learned in training and what it finds through web search. Most of the time it answers from memory. Profound found Claude searched the web on only 36.6% of prompts.
When it does search, Claude cites pages from the top of Brave's results. Anthropic publishes no rules for how Claude chooses between brands.
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The training data Claude learns from
Anthropic trains Claude on public web pages collected by its ClaudeBot crawler, plus licensed and synthetic data. Public web crawls such as Common Crawl feed many AI models.
How Claude web search works
Claude decides when to search, runs one or more searches, then answers with cited sources. Anthropic says comparisons can take 10 or more searches.
The pages Claude cites most
Claude favors brand sites, review sites and curated lists. Reddit barely registers: Orbit Media and Otterly both found Claude almost never cites it.
How Claude picks between similar brands
Claude picks from what search returns, averaging 3.6 sources per answer in Orbit Media's study. Brands named across more of those pages get more chances.
Content Formats That Earn Claude Citations
Claude trusts third-party articles that compare options fairly. Natural mentions inside useful articles carry more weight than promotional copy.
According to Profound data, Claude cited listicles in 36.4% of cases, against 19.7% for ChatGPT.
In-depth reviews
Reviews give Claude concrete facts to repeat: features, prices and trade-offs. In Orbit Media's study, the review platform Clutch was Claude's most-cited third-party domain.
Head-to-head comparisons
Comparisons match how buyers ask, such as "X vs Y" or "alternatives to X." These prompts often send Claude to search for sources.
Curated top lists
Numbered lists with a clear method and honest picks earn citations. Seer's data shows thin lists that rank their own author first lost ground in 2026.
What a Claude-ready mention looks like
How Rankavi Gets Your Brand Cited by Claude
Publishing where Claude looks for sources
You place reviews, comparisons and top lists on third-party sites in your niche. Each placement adds one more page naming your brand next to your category.
How Rankavi Brand Mentions Work for Claude
Your mention goes live within 24 hours of submitting your article. Everything runs inside your Rankavi dashboard.
Sign up
Create a free Rankavi account with your email.
Load credits
One credit buys one mention. Buy a single credit or save up to 20% with a pack.
Submit your article
Submit up to 5,000 words. A review, comparison or curated top list works best.
Automate with the API
Connect your AI agent and publish without opening the dashboard. See the API section below.
Get placed on trusted sites
Rankavi places your article on a real, indexed site in the niche you choose.
Get confirmation within 24 hours
You receive an email with the live link, usually within one working day.
Track your mentions
Every placement appears in My Mentions with its live status and Ahrefs metrics.
What Claude Cites Most, and Where Your Mentions Go
Claude spreads its citations wider than any other engine studied. The top 10 domains hold only 9.5% of Claude citations, per Otterly.
A third of the domains Claude cited appeared just once.
Sources Claude leans on
Brand sites took 64% of 379,321 Claude citations in Otterly's study, then news sites at 14.9%. Social platforms took under 1%.
The Rankavi publisher network
Rankavi publishes each article with one publisher from a network of 20,000+ real, indexed websites across 74 niches. Many of these sites are crawled by Common Crawl.
Why Claude answers vary from run to run
Claude kept only 30% of its cited pages when Orbit Media reran the same queries two days later. Anthropic says answers are never fully deterministic.
More mentions, more chances to be cited
Sources rotate, so no single article guarantees a citation. A local query may need a handful of mentions, while "best CRM software" can take hundreds.
Claude Brand Mention Pricing
You pay per mention, with no subscription unless you want one. Prices drop as you buy more credits, and credits never expire.
Custom quantities available. A 3.5% payment processing fee and applicable VAT are added at checkout.
Mention vendors charge $199 to $1,000 per placement, and AI SEO agencies charge $899 to $9,000 a month. Rankavi starts at $12 per mention.
How Long It Takes for Claude to Mention Your Brand
Claude runs on two clocks: web search and trained knowledge. Web search can pick up new pages within weeks. Trained knowledge changes only when Anthropic releases a new model.
Your mention goes live
Rankavi publishes your article on a real, indexed site within 24 hours.
Crawlers find and index the page
Search engines, Brave Search and Anthropic's crawlers pick it up. Claude-SearchBot serves search, while ClaudeBot collects training data.
First citations in Claude answers
Most brands typically see first citations within one to two months. Nothing guarantees a citation.
Mentions compound
More pages mean more prompts where you show up. Semrush found visitors from AI assistants convert 4.4 times better than organic visitors.
Your brand becomes part of what Claude knows
New Claude models learn from public web pages. Claude Opus 5.5 has a June 2026 cutoff and launched about three months later.
Automate Claude Brand Mentions With the Rankavi API
Your AI agent can write and publish mentions without you opening the dashboard. Pair the Claude skill from the 50-credit pack with Claude Code and the Rankavi API.
The skill writes the article in a proven format. The API publishes it, and the whole workflow runs on its own.
Generate an API key in minutes
Create a key in your dashboard and connect it to any agent that can call an API.
Works with Claude Code, Codex and Grok
Use Claude Code, Codex or Grok to draft, submit and track mentions from one workflow.
One API call per mention
Send the title, article HTML and category. Rankavi returns an order ID you can track.
Free API access on every plan
API access costs nothing extra. You pay only for the credits you use.
Rankavi vs a Claude SEO Agency
A Claude SEO agency sells a full retainer. Rankavi sells one thing, mentions on real sites, at a fraction of the price.
Claude Brand Mentions: Frequently Asked Questions
Ask Claude your buyers' questions in a fresh chat and repeat each prompt several times. Answers vary, so one run proves little. Add "search the web" to your prompt to see which pages Claude cites. Check that a tracking tool covers Claude before you buy it, since some don't. Your Rankavi dashboard lists every published mention with its date, live status and Ahrefs metrics. It tracks your mentions, not Claude's answers.
No. Placement is guaranteed, or you get your money back. Whether Claude then cites you depends on a few things.
- Search or memory: Claude searches on only about a third of prompts. Otherwise it answers from training data.
- The question: if a buyer asks for a feature only a competitor has, Claude will name them instead.
- Competition: crowded categories such as "best VPN" or "best CRM software" can take hundreds of mentions.
- Your article: in-depth reviews, comparisons and top lists with a clear method are more likely to get picked up.
- Consistency: the more sources describe your brand the same way, the more confidently Claude names it.
- Freshness: Claude added the current year to 94% of its searches in Profound's study, so recent pages matter.
Brave. Anthropic's subprocessor list shows Claude's web search runs on Brave Search. Profound found 79.2% of Claude's citations sit in Brave's top 10 results.
Not often. Profound found Claude searched on only 36.6% of prompts. The rest of the time it answers from training data and shows no sources.
Not from search. ClaudeBot only collects training data. Claude-SearchBot and Claude-User handle search and user requests, and each can be blocked separately.
Almost never. Orbit Media found Claude didn't cite Reddit once across hundreds of answers. Otterly measured Reddit at 0% of Claude's social citations.
Most brands typically see Claude cite them within one to two months. Crowded categories take longer and need more mentions. The timeline above breaks down each stage.
It depends on the competition for the query. A niche local search, such as 'best coffee shop in Oklahoma City', may need a handful. 'Best CRM software' can need hundreds, added over months.
Only indirectly. Links can help your pages rank in Brave, where Claude finds its sources. No study has measured backlinks against Claude visibility. Across Google's AI features and ChatGPT, Ahrefs found branded web mentions far ahead of backlinks.
No. Rankavi mentions are unlinked: your article names your brand in plain text, without a link to your site.
Partly. You pick one of 74 niches, and Rankavi places the article on a real, indexed site in that niche. Named sites can't be requested.
No. Articles publish exactly as submitted and can't be changed afterwards. Proofread before you submit.
Yes. Claude cites a long tail of sites: in Otterly's data, a third of cited domains appear only once. A new brand still needs mentions before Claude can name it.
Possibly, but Anthropic doesn't say. Anthropic names its own ClaudeBot crawler as a training source. Public web crawls such as Common Crawl feed many AI models. Mozilla found Common Crawl in at least 64% of the 47 models it studied.
Over time, often yes. Claude repeats what its sources say, so consistent, accurate mentions shift the picture.