How to get cited by Claude — the engine nobody optimises for

Claude’s web search is reported to run on the Brave Search index — not Google, not Bing. Almost nobody optimises for this, which makes it one of the least contested engines available.

Updated 14 July 2026 · Dubai · Get AI Cited Technology (DET licence 1635658)

The short answer

To get cited by Claude, be in the Brave Search index and publish long-form analytical writing under a named author. Claude’s web search is powered by Brave — so neither Google nor Bing membership puts you there. Claude is reported to reward substantive, reasoned, long-form editorial with a named human author over thin marketing pages, and it averages around 5.7 citations per response. Because so few businesses even know which index Claude reads, this is one of the least competitive engines in the market.

Which search index each AI engine uses to choose citations Diagram showing that ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot read the Bing index, Google Gemini and Google AI Overviews read the Google index, Perplexity reads its own index, and Anthropic Claude reads the Brave Search index. To get cited by an AI engine you must first be in the index that engine reads. Which index does each AI engine read?You cannot be cited by an engine whose index you are not in.ChatGPTCopilotGemini / AI OverviewsPerplexityClaudeBING INDEXChatGPT + CopilotGOOGLE INDEXPERPLEXITY INDEXBRAVE INDEXTo get cited by AI:1. Be IN the index that engine reads2. Answer the question the model rewrites3. Be quotable in one clean sentence4. Be an unambiguous entity
Which search index each AI engine uses to choose citations — Get AI Cited (getaicited.ai), Dubai.

How to get cited by Claude, step by step

  1. Get into the Brave Search index. This is the step nobody takes, because almost nobody knows it is the one that matters. Brave runs an independent index and accepts site submissions.
  2. Allow ClaudeBot and Claude-Web in robots.txt. Free, instant, and frequently blocked by default in common plugin configurations.
  3. Write long-form and analytical. Claude is reported to favour reasoned editorial with depth over short marketing copy. A 1,500-word argued piece outperforms five 300-word service pages.
  4. Name your author. A real, attributable human byline is reported to carry weight here in a way it does not elsewhere.
  5. Publish original analysis. Claude rewards work that reasons from evidence — a study, a measurement, a dataset with method shown.
  6. Be precise. Claude extracts and attributes carefully. Give it exact claims it can quote without hedging.

The opportunity

Every AI-visibility guide on the internet optimises for ChatGPT. Almost none optimise for Claude, and fewer still know that Claude reads Brave. That gap is the point.

Do not confuse readable with findable

Schema markup, clean HTML and a fast site make you readable once an engine arrives. They do not make you findable. Findability is decided by the Brave Search index — and if you are not in it, none of the on-page work can help you. Fix the index first. Everything else is downstream.

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Get AI Cited (getaicited.ai) is a Dubai-licensed AI-visibility service (Get AI Cited Technology, DET licence 1635658). We do not guarantee rankings or citations — AI answers are controlled by the engines and change day to day. What we commit to is a published method, multi-run measurement and dated logs.

Frequently asked

How do I get cited by Claude?

Get into the Brave Search index, allow ClaudeBot and Claude-Web in your robots.txt, and publish long-form analytical writing under a named author. Claude's web search runs on Brave, so Google and Bing index membership does not put you in front of it.

Which search engine does Claude use?

Claude's web search is reported to be powered by the Brave Search index. This is distinct from ChatGPT (Bing), Gemini (Google) and Perplexity (its own index).

What kind of content does Claude cite?

Claude is reported to reward long-form, analytical, reasoned editorial from named authors over short marketing pages. Original research with a visible method is cited more readily than service-page copy.

Why is Claude worth optimising for?

Because almost nobody does. Nearly every AI-visibility guide targets ChatGPT. Very few businesses know Claude reads the Brave index, which makes it one of the least contested engines currently available.

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