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 with 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.
Below it, a presence ranking puts you next to your five most-present competitors. Every bar is read against the same total — the cited sources — so the bars compare with one another. Beside it, a tile counts the sources that cite your competitors without citing you.
Where sources come from
There is no source analysis to launch: the page fills itself with every visibility analysis. When a web-connected model (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google's AI Overview…) cites websites in its answer, those sites become your cited sources, and Mentova cross-checks each one against the brands named in the same answers.
If your model selection has no model that browses the web, the page stays empty.
Ask Mentova
The Mentova bubble (bottom right) opens the assistant, 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.
The Mentova button on any row opens the assistant with a question about that source already filled in.
Your priorities
Your priorities is the page's action list: your source gaps — domains cited in your topic area where your brand is absent but competitors are present — ranked by influence, capped at the top 10. Each row shows the domain, an influence meter, 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.
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.
Suggested lists the sites Mentova cites as web sources while you chat (in any context, not just this page) — deduplicated by domain, filtered for quality, and marked with a via Mentova badge.
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.
Two dedicated pages, in the sidebar, offer other cuts of the same data: Sources › All domains (every site an AI cited at least once on your questions) and Sources › All pages (the exact address AIs cited — a source is a page, not a domain).