The Sources section shows the websites AI models cite when answering your questions. Knowing which sites they read helps you choose where to get listed, reviewed or published.
Full access to Sources is available on STARTER and above. On FREE, the overview shows a partial preview.
The three pages of the section share the same filter row: Period and Market. A filter chosen on one follows you to the others.
Where the numbers come from
There is no source analysis to launch: the pages fill with every visibility analysis. When a web-connected model (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google's AI Overview…) cites sites in its answer, Mentova reads that answer back: which sites it cites, and which brands it names.
Two rules apply to the whole section:
- a site counts once per answer — three pages of the same site in one answer are a single read;
- you are "cited" on a site when at least one answer that reads it names you.
These are exactly the rules of Competitors › Their sources: under the same filters, the numbers match. Sources are kept for 90 days only: over a longer period, the page says so and reads the last 90 days. Closed platforms (LinkedIn, Facebook…) are left out.
If your model selection contains no model that consults the web, the pages stay empty.
Overview
At the top, four numbers:
- Sites read by AI, and in how many answers they were read.
- Your site: how many answers cite it, and its rank among the sites read.
- Sites that cite you: those where an answer that reads them names you.
- Your competitors, not you: the sites where a tracked competitor is named and you never are. The link opens Competitors › Their sources, the detailed list of those sites.
Below, the sites AI reads most: site type, number of answers, whether you are cited there, and the competitors present. On the right, Which types of sites (the share of reads by type) and Which AIs read the web: for each assistant, how many of its answers cite at least one site. An assistant that rarely searches the web (often Gemini) weighs little in this section, and the page says so.
All domains
Sources › All domains lists every site an AI read over the period: type, number of pages cited, number of answers, your presence, the competitors present and the AIs that read it. A search box, one chip per site type and the Only where you are absent button filter the list.
All pages
Sources › All pages goes one level down: one row per cited address, with the page title when the AI provided it (otherwise its path), its site, the number of answers, the AIs that read it and your presence. A search box, a site picker and Only where you are absent filter the list.
Ask Mentova
The Mentova bubble (bottom right) opens the assistant, already loaded with your source data. Ask it things like "where should I show up first?" — it can also draft content for a gap in one exchange.
Tip: to decide where to act, start from Your competitors, not you: these are the sites AI already reads on your questions, where a competitor is named instead of you.