Citation Readiness Checker
Paste your draft and see which sentences could be lifted straight into an answer, which fall apart out of context, and which single line is your best quote.
| Paragraph | Checkable claim | Attributed | Dated | Stands alone | Words per sentence |
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"Checkable" here means the sentence contains something a reader could go and verify — a figure, a price, a count, a named comparison. A sentence can be true, useful and well written and still fail that test. What it cannot do is get quoted as evidence.
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Write for the sentence, not the paragraph
The unit that gets quoted is smaller than you think. Not your page, not your section — a sentence or two, pulled out and set beside sentences from other people's pages. So the question to ask of every line you write is brutally simple: if this were the only sentence of mine that anybody saw, would it still mean anything?
Most professional writing fails that test, and it fails it for reasons that are virtues in ordinary prose. We avoid repeating the subject, because repetition reads badly. We open with a connector, because it carries the argument along. We put the number in the sentence before and the conclusion in the sentence after. All of that makes a smoother read and an unliftable paragraph.
The four things this checks, and why
- A checkable claim. A figure, a price, a count, a named comparison. Something a sceptical reader could go and test. Vague claims are unquotable not because they are wrong but because quoting them achieves nothing.
- Attribution in the same sentence. "According to", "in our own data", a named source. Not in a footnote, not in the paragraph above — an extractor takes the sentence, not the apparatus around it.
- A date that is a date. "In 2025" survives. "Recently" and "currently" do not: once lifted, they are undatable, and a claim whose age cannot be established is a claim that gets dropped in favour of one whose age can.
- No unbound reference. A sentence opening with "It", "This" or "They", or one that says "as mentioned above", is a sentence that means nothing once it is cut out. Naming the subject again costs three words.
What this deliberately does not do
It does not look at your markup, your schema, your headings, your byline or your internal links. If you want the whole page audited, use the AI Search Readiness Checker, which covers structure and signals as well. If the question is whether a model has any idea who your company is, that is a different problem entirely and the LLM Visibility Checklist is the one to use. This page is for the draft in front of you, at the sentence level, while you can still change it.
A warning about overcorrecting
You can push any of these numbers to a hundred and end up with prose that reads like a reference table written by a robot. Nobody links to that, nobody shares it, and being quotable is worth nothing if the page never earns an audience in the first place. The useful move is narrower: find the three or four sentences on the page that carry the actual argument, and make those stand on their own. Leave the connective tissue alone.
Questions people ask
Does a high score mean I will be cited?
No. It means your sentences survive being taken out of the page, which is a precondition, not a cause. Selection depends on what else ranks for the question and on factors none of the providers have published.
Why does it mark "recently" as a problem?
Because a relative date has no meaning once the sentence is separated from its publication date. "Recently" could be last month or six years ago. Writing the year costs you nothing and makes the claim checkable.
It says my sentence does not stand alone but it reads fine.
In the page, it does. Read it aloud with nothing before it. If the first word is "it", "this" or "however", or if it refers to something above, it arrives in an answer with the reference dangling. That is the whole test.
Should every sentence be liftable?
No, and a draft where every sentence is self-contained reads like a list of facts. Aim for the sentences carrying your actual argument — the claim you want repeated. The connective prose between them is doing a different job.
Does my draft get uploaded?
No. The analysis runs in your browser, and unpublished drafts are exactly the kind of text that should never be pasted into a tool that does otherwise.
Related tools
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