The evidence, in eight places.
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What the scan measures, and what it does not.
Citehound measures AI readiness: whether AI crawlers can access your content, and whether your on-page signals give a model a reason to trust and cite you. A perfect score does not guarantee an answer engine will cite you.
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Our own results.
A crawl of our own site, 28 pages, nothing edited, and the crawl before we fixed what it found: the whole-site score went from 69 to 83.
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What we store.
No accounts, no email list and no scan history. The privacy page lists the few things we do keep and for how long.
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Where the data comes from.
Benchmarks are our own scans of 219 homepages in 6 categories, on stated dates. Each research report publishes its method and its limits.
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The MCP server.
13 read-only tools and 3 prompts, no key and no account. The documentation says what the server keeps and what it limits.
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What changed, and when.
30 changes a visitor or an MCP user can see, newest first, with the commits behind each.
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Report a security issue.
Email hey@getcitehound.com. The security.txt file lists the contact, the languages we read and when the file expires.