AI agents

An SEO AI agent is a specialized autonomous program that executes a single SEO task, auditing, content writing, technical optimization, or brand validation, inside automated workflows without manual input. Unlike a generic AI chatbot, it has a fixed role, defined permissions, and produces structured outputs that feed directly into the next step of the workflow. The key distinction is scope. A generic AI tool responds to prompts broadly. An SEO AI agent is purpose-built for one discipline: it knows what it is looking for, what to produce, and when to hand off to the next agent. Citeme runs five of them in a relay, each covering a specific layer of GEO and SEO work from audit to publish.

A prompt is a one-shot instruction to a general-purpose model. An SEO AI agent is a persistent, scoped program that runs autonomously, with defined inputs and outputs, inside a workflow chain. It does not wait for your next message: it executes, logs the result, and hands off to the next agent. The practical difference shows up at scale. A prompt gets you one output, manually reviewed and manually acted on. An SEO AI agent chain gets you an audit, a rewrite, a technical fix, a brand check, and a publish step, all triggered by a single workflow run and all logged for accountability.

Theo (Strategist) reads your GEO audits, spots gaps against competitors, and prioritizes the next moves. Marcus (GEO Strategist) rewrites pages to improve citation probability on ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. Sophia (Writer) produces blog posts, landing pages, FAQs, meta tags, LinkedIn posts, and tweets. Brian (Technician) handles schema.org, alt text, canonical tags, and internal linking. Élodie (Brand Guardian) validates voice and tone before anything ships. Together they cover the full GEO workflow: from identifying what to fix, to writing the content, to shipping the technical layer, to validating the output. Each agent logs its run with inputs, outputs, and cost, so every decision is auditable.

No. Citeme’s agents handle the execution layer: writing, technical fixes, and brand validation. Human judgment is still required to set strategy, approve major content decisions, and interpret the broader competitive context. What changes is leverage. A one-person SEO team with Citeme’s five agents can execute at the pace of a full agency team, because the repetitive, rules-based work, schema updates, meta rewrites, FAQ generation, runs automatically. The expert focuses on the decisions that require judgment; the agents handle the volume.

No. Each agent is scoped to a single discipline, with fixed inputs, defined permissions, and structured outputs that feed into the next step of the workflow. The names make the roles legible to your team, but the architecture is that of a multi-agent system: agents hand off to each other, share state within a run, and each only has the permissions its job requires. Calling them prompts is like calling a SQL query a spreadsheet. Both involve instructions and data, but a prompted chatbot session and a workflow-triggered agent chain operate at entirely different levels of structure, autonomy, and accountability.

Yes. Élodie, the Brand Guardian, validates voice, tone, and brand guidelines on every output produced by Sophia and Marcus before it reaches publish. You upload your brand guidelines once; Élodie applies them to every run automatically. You can configure her as a hard gate: nothing ships without her approval. If Élodie flags content, the run is paused and the issue is surfaced with a clear explanation. You can override manually or adjust the brand guidelines and rerun. The result is consistent brand voice across every piece of AI-generated content, at any volume.

Citeme’s agents are model-agnostic and run on the latest frontier models, currently OpenAI GPT-4o and Anthropic Claude, depending on the task. The model is selected per agent based on the type of output required: reasoning tasks go to the model with the strongest chain-of-thought performance, long-form writing to the best creative output model. You do not manage model selection. Citeme handles it automatically, and the model used is logged with each run so you know exactly what produced each output.

The Starter plan includes Sophia (Writer) and Brian (Technician), covering content creation and technical fixes. The Pro and Expert plans include all five agents, Theo, Marcus, Sophia, Brian, and Élodie, with unlimited multi-step workflows and full run logging. Agency plans add white-label reporting and multi-client workspace management. A 7-day free trial is available on all plans, with no credit card required.