The Sources page shows the external websites that AI models cite when responding to your prompts. Understanding which sources are authoritative in your topic area helps you prioritise where to get listed, reviewed, or published.
Full access to Sources is available on STARTER and above. On FREE, the page shows a teaser preview of the first source(s).
The report
The page opens as a short report, not a table dump: one sentence summarising the picture (how many sources AI cites in your topic area, how many you appear on, and your best competitor's count), followed by a single comparative bar — you vs. your best competitor.
Three quiet icon actions sit in the header: the public benchmark, source settings, and Analyse sources.
Ask Mentova
Right under the hero sits one inline Mentova frame (the same assistant used across the dashboard), pre-loaded with your source data. Ask it things like "where should I get listed first?" — it can also draft content for a gap in one turn.
There is a single assistant instance on the page: clicking the Mentova button on any row below scrolls to this frame and pre-fills the composer with a question about that source, instead of opening a separate panel per source.
Your priorities
Your priorities is the page's action list: your source gaps — domains frequently cited in your topic area where your brand is absent but competitors are present — ranked by influence score, capped at the top 10. Each row shows the domain, an influence badge, which competitors are present there, and two actions: Create content (links to the Content Engine, pre-filled with the source type and domain) and Mentova (pre-seeds the inline assistant above with that gap).
On FREE, only the top 1 priority is revealed; STARTER reveals 3. Full access (STARTER+) unlocks the complete list.
All sources
A collapsed All sources section holds the full picture, expanded on demand: a Cited tab (sources where AI already cites you or a competitor, with a Gaps only toggle) and a Suggested tab (candidate domains not yet confirmed as cited).
Sources that Mentova surfaces as web citations while chatting (in any context, not just this page) are folded into Suggested automatically — deduplicated by domain and filtered for quality — and carry a small via Mentova badge so you know where they came from.
Running a source analysis
If no source data is available yet, click Analyse sources. Mentova uses AI to identify the most-cited domains in your topic area, checks where your brand appears, and maps the gaps.
Source analysis runs asynchronously. You can leave the page and come back - the page will refresh automatically when done.
Source settings
Click the settings icon to configure which source categories to include or exclude from your analysis (e.g. skip social platforms, focus on review sites and directories).
Tip: The sources most likely to move your mention rate are those that multiple AI models cite repeatedly. Focus your effort on high-influence gaps in Your priorities before covering lower-priority domains in All sources.