Citation Drift Atlas
Your organic portfolio mapped on a citation grid — what's entrenched, fragile, losing, emerging.
The Citation Drift Atlas maps your organic portfolio against a two-axis citation grid — current AI citation density and citation-stability trend — across up to 500 keywords, classifying each cluster as entrenched, fragile, losing, or emerging.
The deliverable is a portfolio diagnostic: which clusters are about to lose AI citation share, which are already losing it, which are quietly emerging, and which are entrenched and safe. A companion data file contains cluster-level scoring; quarterly drift tracking is available as a $499 ongoing add-on.
Built for CMOs at organic-dependent businesses who need a portfolio view, not a target list.
Half our organic portfolio is about to lose share. Which half?
What buyers actually ask.
How do I tell which keywords are losing AI citation share before it shows up in traffic?
The Citation Drift Atlas scores each cluster on a two-axis grid: where it sits today on AI citation density and where it is trending. Keywords classified fragile or losing are the early-warning set — measured before the SERP-side or traffic-side decline materializes.
How big does my portfolio need to be?
The base scope is up to 500 keywords. If you have fewer than 500 ranked keywords, the report still works — we screen against your full ranked set and report on what is there. The statistical floor for confident cluster classification is roughly 200 keywords in cluster.
How often do AI citations actually drift?
In our white paper data, contested clusters drift on a four-to-twelve-week cadence. Entrenched clusters are stable for quarters at a time. The quarterly tracking add-on at $499 per quarter is calibrated to that cadence.
What is the difference between fragile and losing?
Fragile means current citation density is high but trend is flat or negative — the cluster is at risk. Losing means citation density is already declining quarter over quarter. The classification controls how the report ranks intervention priority.
Can I use this with Vertical Intelligence Complete?
Yes — they are designed to be complementary. Vertical Intelligence Complete gives you a single-vertical baseline across 200 keywords. Citation Drift Atlas gives you a portfolio-wide read across 500 keywords spanning multiple verticals or clusters. Buyers commonly run both.
What does emerging actually mean?
Emerging means AI citation is showing up on the cluster for the first time in measurable density and trending up. These are the under-priced wedges — clusters where intervention now will compound. The report names them explicitly.
How is the data refreshed if I add tracking?
Quarterly. Each refresh re-probes the keyword set, recomputes the grid, and reports cluster-level drift against the prior quarter. The deliverable is a delta report plus an updated companion data file.
The deliverable, in detail.
- Up to 500 keywords mapped across the two-axis citation grid — current density and stability trend — with cluster-level classification.
- Entrenched / fragile / losing / emerging cluster labels with the underlying probe data and the rationale for each label.
- Quarterly drift tracking available as a $499 per quarter ongoing add-on. Each quarter re-probes the set and reports drift against the prior quarter.
- Companion data file with cluster-level scoring, per-keyword grid coordinates, and the cited URL corpus from the probe layer.
How the report is built.
The Citation Drift Atlas runs on a 500-keyword portfolio supplied by you, derived from your domain's ranked-keyword footprint, or expanded from a vertical scope. Keywords are probed across ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini and the cited URL set is captured per probe.
The two-axis grid is computed from the probe data. The density axis measures share of cited URLs that are yours, normalized for keyword volume. The stability axis measures the trend in density across the probe window — sloping up, flat, or sloping down. Each keyword is placed on the grid; clusters are computed from semantic similarity plus shared SERP intent.
A senior analyst reviews the cluster classifications and applies the entrenched / fragile / losing / emerging labels. The Counter-Signal Pass is run on every named cluster — every classification arrives with the strongest opposing case attached.
Quarterly tracking, when added, re-runs the probe and recomputes the grid. Drift between quarters is the headline number. Methodology proof is documented in The State of AEO and GEO in 2026.
Counter-Signal Pass is included on every report. The full Foragentis methodology is documented in The State of AEO and GEO in 2026.
What this report does NOT do.
Procurement-grade reports scope themselves. The work below is adjacent and important — and is not in this SKU.
The Citation Drift Atlas is a portfolio diagnostic, not an intervention plan. The report names the fragile and losing clusters; the playbook for intervention is a separate engagement, typically routed to Citation Displacement Brief or to your content team.
The 500-keyword cap is a working scope, not a true portfolio limit. If you have a 5,000-keyword footprint, we sample down to 500 representatively. The report says explicitly which clusters are sampled and which are estimated.
AI citation behavior changes between model releases. A quarter-to-quarter drift signal that crosses a model upgrade is reported with a model-version annotation rather than as a clean apples-to-apples drift.
What the engagement costs.
The Counter-Signal Pass — every thesis stress-tested against its strongest opposing case — is included on every report at no extra cost. See the Counter-Signal block on the catalog hub →
See the published study.
About Foragentis.
Foragentis is an AI research and product company based in Sacramento, California. ForIntel is the business-intelligence research arm — producing custom dossiers across four buyer lanes: Search & AI Visibility, Markets & Locations, Capital & Innovation, and Specialty.
Every claim in a ForIntel report traces to a public source. Findings are re-verified before delivery. The Adversary/Analyst architecture pairs a senior analyst with a counter-signal pass on every thesis. Anything below our statistical thresholds is labeled directional rather than validated.
Methodology is documented in The State of AEO and GEO in 2026 — a 9,900-word, 42-page public study with effect-size statistics across four frontier AI engines.
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