AI search intelligence built for real publishers
Unsourced is a software platform that helps independent publishers, content creators, and digital businesses understand how AI systems interact with their content — and where they stand in AI-powered search.
Why we built Unsourced.app
AI models are now a primary way people discover information. ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini collectively handle hundreds of millions of queries every day — and they answer many of them by drawing on content published across the web.
For publishers, this creates a new competitive landscape that is almost entirely opaque. Which AI platforms mention your site? Which competitors are recommended instead of you? Which of your articles generate citations and which are completely ignored? Until now, there was no reliable way to answer any of those questions.
Unsourced was built to close that gap: see which AI platforms mention your site, which competitors they recommend instead, and where the gaps are — week by week.
What the platform does
AI Crawler Monitoring
Identifies AI bots visiting your site by name — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and more — across nginx log uploads and a lightweight JavaScript beacon.
AI Visibility Intelligence
Runs weekly citation checks across seven AI models, tracks competitor domains that appear in AI responses instead of yours, and monitors your position over time.
Origin Signal
Tells you whether a citation came from an AI that visited your site live, or from its training data. Both are recorded in your Evidence Report.
Reports
Generates structured PDF reports in two formats: an AI Visibility Audit for content and SEO strategy, and an Evidence Report structured for licensing discussions or formal complaint — with bot logs, citation excerpts, and timestamped live-crawl records.
Who uses Unsourced
Unsourced is designed for any publisher or creator whose livelihood depends on original content. That includes:
- —Independent bloggers and affiliate marketers tracking AI traction on their content
- —Substack writers and newsletter publishers monitoring AI citation rates
- —Recipe sites and niche content publishers affected by AI training data
- —SEO practitioners and content agencies adding AI visibility to their reporting
- —Financial, medical and legal content publishers who need structured evidence
- —Course creators and IP holders seeking data for licensing conversations
Data, privacy and transparency
Unsourced is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) as a data controller (registration number: ZC150902) and operates under UK GDPR. Your account and monitoring data are stored on servers in the European Economic Area (Hetzner, Germany). To check whether AI systems cite your content, we send generated questions to third-party AI providers — some based outside the UK/EEA — under Standard Contractual Clauses. We never sell or share your data, and we do not use it to train AI models. Our full sub-processor list is in our Privacy Policy.
The evidence collected by Unsourced — bot activity logs, citation check results, and generated reports — is provided as structured data for informational purposes. It is intended to support review, complaint, licensing discussion or legal escalation where appropriate. Unsourced does not provide legal advice, and no output from the platform should be construed as a legal determination.
Our full data processing practices are described in our Privacy Policy. Our terms of service are set out in our Terms of Service.
Contact
For product questions, partnership enquiries, or data subject requests, please get in touch directly.
rene@unsourced.app