ThoughtCite help center

What ThoughtCite helps you do

ThoughtCite helps you turn a rough idea into voice-matched LinkedIn draft options, spot generic AI-sounding language, review two separate draft-readiness scores, and track whether answer engines mention or cite you for prompts you care about.

ThoughtCite does not guarantee reach, engagement, search ranking, citations, pipeline, or sales. It gives you better drafting, scoring, and tracking signals so you can make sharper publishing decisions.

Beta setup steps

Sign in from your beta invite, build a voice profile from LinkedIn or pasted posts, generate a first draft from a specific topic, review LinkedIn Feed Score and AEO Citation Score separately, then add buyer-like tracking prompts.

If sign-in fails in Safari, try refreshing once or use Chrome while the team validates the Safari auth path. Report the browser, device, and screenshot to support.

What to send support

Include the page, what you clicked or entered, visible error text, browser/device, and whether the issue repeats. Do not send API keys, passwords, private customer data, or browser storage dumps.

When to use manual paste

Manual post paste lets you build or refresh your ThoughtCite voice profile without relying on LinkedIn post-reading access. This is the recommended beta path when LinkedIn import is unavailable, denied, or still pending.

What to paste

Paste at least 3 LinkedIn posts. Stronger profiles usually come from 5-10 examples with similar quality and topic range.

• Use posts you wrote yourself that sound unmistakably like you.
• Include topics you want to be known for and a mix of stories, opinions, lessons, and evidence.
• Avoid reposts, company announcements written by someone else, off-brand outliers, and sensitive information.

Paste format

Separate each post with three dashes on their own line. ThoughtCite counts each section between --- separators as one post, and the build button stays disabled until at least 3 posts are detected.

Troubleshooting

If you see “need at least 3,” check that each post is separated by three dashes on its own line. If the profile sounds generic, rebuild with stronger source posts that contain opinions, original stories, specific examples, and natural phrasing.

What the voice profile looks for

ThoughtCite analyzes common topics, hook styles, sentence length and rhythm, tone descriptors, vocabulary patterns, formatting habits, and phrases or structures that make a post sound unlike you.

What the voice profile does not do

The voice profile does not guarantee that every draft sounds exactly like you, replace your factual review, know facts that were not provided, or automatically decide what you should publish. You are still responsible for accuracy, judgment, and final approval.

When to refresh

Refresh your profile when your positioning changes, you start writing for a new audience, your best recent posts sound different from older ones, drafts feel generic, or you accidentally used low-quality examples.

Keep the two scores separate

ThoughtCite scores every draft with two independent numbers: LinkedIn Feed Score (LFS) and AEO Citation Score (ACS). Keep them separate when making edits.

These are decision-support scores, not guarantees. A high score does not guarantee reach, engagement, ranking, or citation. A lower score can still be worth publishing if the idea is timely, personal, or strategically important.

LinkedIn Feed Score (LFS)

LFS evaluates signals such as hook strength, first-sentence length before the see-more cutoff, post length, readability, line breaks, external link risk, CTA clarity, and save-worthy specificity.

AEO Citation Score (ACS)

ACS evaluates signals such as factual density, specific claims, concrete numbers, clear declarative statements, original observations or data, authoritative but supportable language, and source-citable structure.

Anti-slop report

ThoughtCite also checks for AI-sounding language. Use the report to make surgical edits, but do not accept rewrites blindly if they change facts, stance, or voice.

What tracking prompts are

Tracking prompts are the questions you want answer engines to connect with your expertise. Supported beta tracking engines may include ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini, depending on provider availability and account configuration.

Tracking is directional

Results can vary by model, search grounding, prompt wording, timing, geography, and each provider's retrieval behavior. ThoughtCite helps you monitor signals; it does not guarantee citations or rankings.

What makes a good prompt

Good prompts sound like questions your buyer, investor, customer, or peer would actually ask. Start with 10-25 prompts grouped around category, problem, comparison, expert, and niche questions.

Prompt safety

Do not track prompts that include private customer data, unreleased company details, or sensitive personal information. Use public, buyer-like questions instead.

Beta billing status

ThoughtCite beta billing and support are still being finalized. This article is safe for beta help center use, but public launch copy should be checked against LI-17 billing implementation, LI-19 legal pages, and LI-47 support setup before publication.

Beta plan

The Founding Creator beta is intended for the first 200 creators at $39/month, locked for 12 months. Included beta limits currently described in product/pricing copy include 1 LinkedIn profile, voice profile from LinkedIn history or pasted posts, 30 drafts per month, publishing where account connection is available, 25 tracked prompts, and weekly tracking refresh.

Planned plans are conditional

Current pricing copy describes Creator, Pro, Agency, and Enterprise plans. Do not treat planned plan details as a legal quote until the pricing page, Stripe products, and terms are finalized.

Support expectations

Until the production support inbox/widget is finalized, use the support path provided in your beta invite or onboarding email. If you do not have one, reply to the person who invited you and include “ThoughtCite beta support” in the subject or first line.

Is ThoughtCite another AI LinkedIn writer?

No. Drafting is part of the workflow, but the main value is better judgment before and after publishing: voice match, anti-slop checks, LinkedIn Feed Score, AEO Citation Score, and answer-engine tracking.

Do I need to connect LinkedIn?

No. You can paste posts manually to build a voice profile. Connecting LinkedIn may support account workflows where available, but manual paste is the expected beta fallback when permissions are limited or pending.

Why are there two scores?

A post can be engaging in the feed but too vague to be cited later. A post can also be substantive but poorly packaged for LinkedIn. Keeping the scores separate helps you decide what kind of edit the draft needs.

Does ThoughtCite guarantee more reach, leads, rankings, or citations?

No. ThoughtCite helps you improve drafting quality, evaluate signals, and monitor visibility. Outcomes still depend on your ideas, audience, market, timing, distribution, and how answer engines retrieve information.