AI citation readiness: write pages AI engines cite

AI citation readiness is the property of a page that makes AI answer engines (ChatGPT search, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Bing AI) cite it when grounding a response to a user's query. It is not the same as ranking on Google — citation depends on retrievability (can the engine find and extract the answer?), authority (does the engine trust the source?), and specificity (does the page contain the atomic fact the answer needs?). Pages that win on all three get cited; pages that win on only one do not.