But AI never cited it — because it wasn’t structured to be extracted.
And the cost is real.
AI-referred traffic converts at 15.9% from ChatGPT and 10.5% from Perplexity — versus 1.76% for Google organic (Seer Interactive, 2025). Those readers are higher-intent, more likely to subscribe.
You’re just not showing up for them.
Today’s Claude skill is going to fix that for you : )
🔍 What it does
The Substack AEO/GEO Optimizer audits any post against the CITED framework —
Context
Intent
Truth signals
Extraction format
Differentiation
Based on Princeton KDD 2024 GEO research showing 30–40% citation lift from structured optimization.
It rewrites your opening into a direct-answer block.
Generates a FAQ section tuned for AI queries.
Flags every unsourced claim making AI engines hesitate.
Tells you exactly which platform — Perplexity, ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, or Claude — your post is most likely to get cited by.
One audit. Full citation strategy.
⚡ When to use it
Any time you publish a Substack post and want it inside AI answers — not just Google results.
Useful for:
Newsletter Creators
Content Strategists
Solopreneurs
Growth Marketers
Educators / Course Creators
Founders with a personal brand
Prevents your best content from being invisible where your audience is actually searching.
🚀 Try it now - [Claude AI Pro, Max, Team or Enterprise needed!]
Clic on “Download Raw File”, top right corner, to get the file on your computer.
Go to Claude → Settings → Capabilities → Go to Customize (Skills) → Upload. Or simply drag the SKILL.md file in the Claude AI chat and tell Claude to save this Skill.
Anytime you’ll deal with this topic or area of work in the Claude AI chat, the Skill will be triggered.
“But I write for humans, not robots.” AI engines don’t replace your readers — they route new ones to you.
Quick Tip: pick one post you’ve published in the last 30 days and give this SKILL a try!
Great stuff, I will give it a try. The Google vs chatGPT/Perplexity stats are impressive. If you have any other tips which you know work, please shout! Thanks Team!
The conversion gap is the number worth sitting with 15.9% from ChatGPT vs 1.76% from Google organic. That's not a marginal difference, that's a different category of reader. Higher intent, closer to a decision. And most Substack writers are completely invisible to that traffic because their posts aren't structured to be extracted.
The CITED framework operationalizes something most writers do accidentally when it works: give AI engines a clear, citable answer early, then build the argument around it. Worth implementing deliberately.
I write about production AI systems and distributed backends subscribing here too.
Great stuff, I will give it a try. The Google vs chatGPT/Perplexity stats are impressive. If you have any other tips which you know work, please shout! Thanks Team!
The conversion gap is the number worth sitting with 15.9% from ChatGPT vs 1.76% from Google organic. That's not a marginal difference, that's a different category of reader. Higher intent, closer to a decision. And most Substack writers are completely invisible to that traffic because their posts aren't structured to be extracted.
The CITED framework operationalizes something most writers do accidentally when it works: give AI engines a clear, citable answer early, then build the argument around it. Worth implementing deliberately.
I write about production AI systems and distributed backends subscribing here too.