Answer Engine Optimization for B2B / A Danish Lead Co company
Case study

DealSource Systems

Early signal on a harder, faster-growing measurement set.

23Total citations, up from 6
5AI mentions, up from 0
4.65%Citation share, roughly flat, peaked at 6.9%

Before

Our first measurement on dealsourcesystems.com (1 August 2026) recorded 0% mention rate and a 5.2% citation share, from 6 total citations across 115 tracked buyer questions.

After

By our most recent measurement (5 September 2026), across a tracked set that has grown to 495 questions (4.3x wider than the starting set), DealSource Systems is now mentioned in AI answers for the first time (1.0% mention rate, 5 total mentions, up from 0), and total citation volume has nearly quadrupled to 23 (up from 6).

The honest read on citation share

Citation share itself has not clearly improved yet: it is currently 4.65%, close to where it started, after touching a high of 6.9% mid-period. We are not calling this a citation-share win. The tracked question set has grown considerably faster than DealSource's citation volume has kept pace with, which is itself useful information: it tells us where the program needs to focus next (more answer-first pages addressing the newer buyer questions we are now tracking), rather than where it has already succeeded.

What changed

The same measurement and content program as above, applied to a newer, faster-growing site. The real result so far is that DealSource went from being invisible to AI answer engines (zero mentions, zero citations at the very first measurement) to having a first foothold, on a bar that keeps rising as we track more of the questions its real buyers actually ask.

Source: SourceRank AI's own measurement engine, tracked prompt set for dealsourcesystems.com. Snapshots: 1 August 2026 (115 tracked responses) and 5 September 2026 (495 tracked responses).

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