Cited for contractors: be the name AI recommends

What the featured slot costs

$99–$199/mo per business, per city — one trade, one city, one slot

Every other option on this page has a price on it, so ours does too: the featured "AI-recommended" slot is $99–$199/mo, and the band reflects market size rather than anything about your business. That is the whole price — no setup fee, no membership, no per-lead charge on top.

We publish it rather than quoting it privately because most of the people reading this page are reading it through an AI assistant, and a price that only exists in a sales conversation is a price nobody can compare. You should be able to weigh this against an Angi invoice without talking to us first.

What it buys

• A disclosed featured card carrying your business name and your own description, on three of your city’s pages for your trade: the cost page a homeowner reads when they are pricing the job, the "best in town" page, and the dated "who does AI recommend?" snapshot wherever we have run one.
• Exclusivity across all of them: no competitor can buy the same trade in the same city while you hold it.
• A page that AI assistants demonstrably fetch and read — which is the whole mechanism, and the one part of this we can evidence from our own logs.

What it does not buy

• Leads. No number of enquiries is promised, implied, or forecast — if you need a lead count committed in writing, buy exclusive leads from a vendor who will commit to one.
• A ranking. We cannot place you in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, or the map pack, and anybody selling you that placement is selling something they do not control.
• An endorsement. A paid slot means you paid; it is labelled that way on the page and it will never be dressed up as a recommendation Cited made.
• Traffic from this website. Our own log recorded zero human visits over the window in the disclosure below, and that is the single most important thing to know before spending a dollar here.

The terms

• One business per trade per city. When a slot is taken it is taken — that exclusivity is the product, not a launch promotion.
• No contract and no minimum term. Cancel any month and the listing comes down; there is no cancellation fee and no auto-renewing year.
• Always disclosed as a paid placement. Cited does not rank or endorse businesses, and a paid slot is never presented as an AI recommendation.
• The free AI-visibility audit and the fix list stay free whether or not you ever buy a slot.

When it is worth it — the same math as the rest of this page

The slot is only a good deal if it beats what you would otherwise pay to book the same job. Priced at $199/mo — the top of our band, not the bottom — here is how often it has to produce one booked job to be the cheaper route in each trade.

Derived from the shared-lead midpoints and close rates in the rate card above, taking the top of our price band and rounding the month count down — both choices work against us, so the figures understate the offer rather than flatter it. They are arithmetic on directional ranges, not a forecast: nothing here promises the slot will book you a job at all.

Before you buy: our own traffic, in full

Has anyone's assistant opened your city's page?

In the 27 days to 2026-08-24, a live person's assistant opened a page carrying the card in 9 of the 264 markets we sell a slot in — 3.4% of them. The other 255 were not opened at all. The section above is this site's traffic as a whole and the one below is how much there is to sell; this is the only figure here about the single market you would actually be buying, which is the one that decides whether the price is worth paying.

We publish it because the price band is banded by market size, and market size is a proxy for the thing in the table below — which is the measurement. If your trade and city are listed there, a live person's assistant has opened the page your card would appear on. If they are not, we have no evidence anybody's assistant has opened it in this window, and that belongs in your decision rather than in a footnote.

Read the absences carefully, in both directions. 93 of the 108 counted reads in the window landed on pages that carry no card at all — mostly the front page — so they are attributed to no market here. And 27 days of watching cannot show that a market is never read, only that it was not read in those 27 days; a blank is missing evidence, not proof of nothing.

Every count is a floor. Our beacon records at most one row per crawler per day, so a reader whose assistant fetched four of your city's pages in an afternoon appears once. The figures understate demand rather than inflate it, which is the only direction an error on a page that takes money is allowed to run.

Counted live-user fetches over 2026-07-29 → 2026-08-24, across every page that renders the card for that market: the cost page, the "best in town" page, and the dated research snapshot where one exists. Generated from the route table and the landing ledger rather than typed in, so a market joins this table on the build after its first read. A read is one fetch of one page by an assistant acting for a live person — not a customer, not an enquiry, and not evidence that anybody's assistant said a business name out loud. What happened after these 15 reads is the funnel table on our statistics page, and it is zero.

Is the slot for your city still open?

Yes — and so is every other one. Of the 264 markets where a featured slot exists to be sold, not one is held, because Cited has never sold a featured listing to anybody. You are reading that beside the price instead of hearing it in a reply, because "is my city still open?" is a question an assistant reading this page on your behalf cannot email us and wait for.

A slot exists wherever we publish a page for your trade and your city that carries the card — 264 markets across 4 trades today, spanning 574 published pages: your city's cost page for your trade, its "best in town" page, and, where we have run a research pass, its dated "who does AI recommend?" snapshot. If your city is not one of them there is nothing to sell you yet, which is a different answer from "the slot is open" and we would rather give you the accurate one.

This count is generated from the routes that render the card and the registry that fills it, not typed into the page. When somebody buys the slot for their trade and city, the number here goes down in that build — so a sentence claiming availability can never outlive the availability it claims.

How to claim a slot

The form is at the bottom of this page and takes four fields; nothing is charged and no card is asked for, because this is a request rather than a checkout. If you are reading this through an AI assistant and cannot scroll to a form, the same request is also a link — ask it to fill in your business, city and trade and hand this back.

https://iscited.com/for-contractors/?business=BUSINESS+NAME&city=CITY%2C+ST&trade=TRADE#get-featured

• business. Your business name, as it should appear on the listing.
• city. The one city the slot would cover, e.g. Austin, TX.
• trade. One of hvac, plumbing, roofing, electrical — anything else is ignored rather than guessed at.

Every field is optional; the link works with none of them. The values fill the form inside your own browser and are never sent to us unless you submit it, and submitting it is a request rather than a purchase — no card is taken, nothing is charged, and a slot already held in your city means we tell you so instead of billing you. We do count that someone arrived on a prefilled claim link, recording the trade and the page — never the business name, never the city, and no cookie or identifier of any kind.