Configuring Your Setup: Brands, Competitors & Topics
Set up the foundation of your monitoring by defining your brand, competitors, and topic clusters that drive every scan.
What you'll learn
- Add your brand with aliases and domains
- Use AI suggestions for competitors
- Distinguish your brand from competitors
- Group related prompts into topics
Step-by-step walkthrough
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The Setup page is the foundation of CiteLens, where you define the brands, competitors, topics, and prompts that power every scan.
Setup - 2
Start with 'Brands & competitors'. This is where you list your brand plus the competitors you want to compare against.
Brands & competitors - 3
Don't want to research competitors manually? Click 'Suggest competitors with AI' to let CiteLens propose them for you.
Suggest competitors with AI - 4
Add a brand by entering its name, comma-separated aliases, and domains. Toggle 'This is a competitor' to classify it correctly, then click 'Add brand'.
Add brand - 5
Each entry in the list is tagged by type. Your own brand shows 'own', while the others are marked 'competitor', like Blue Mosque or Topkapi Palace.
competitor - 6
Scroll down to 'Topics'. These clusters group related prompts together so your monitoring stays organized.
Topics - 7
Use 'Suggest topics with AI' to automatically generate sensible topic clusters from your prompts.
Suggest topics with AI
Test yourself
What is the primary purpose of the Setup page in CiteLens?
- To generate billing reports for your account
- To define the brands, competitors, topics, and prompts that power every scan
- To export scan results to external tools
- To manage user permissions and team access
The lesson states that the Setup page is the foundation of CiteLens, where you define the brands, competitors, topics, and prompts that power every scan.
What should you do if you don't want to research competitors manually?
- Skip the competitors section entirely
- Click 'Suggest competitors with AI' to let CiteLens propose them
- Enter random competitor names and edit them later
- Contact CiteLens support to add them for you
The lesson explains that you can click 'Suggest competitors with AI' to let CiteLens propose competitors for you instead of researching them manually.
Which details do you enter when adding a brand?
- Only the brand name
- Its name, comma-separated aliases, and domains
- Its logo, website, and social media handles
- Its industry category and revenue
To add a brand, you enter its name, comma-separated aliases, and domains, then toggle 'This is a competitor' if needed and click 'Add brand'.
What role do Topics play in CiteLens?
- They store your scan history archives
- They are clusters that group related prompts together to keep monitoring organized
- They classify brands as own or competitor
- They define the domains associated with a brand
The lesson describes Topics as clusters that group related prompts together so your monitoring stays organized.
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