Cituna is an AI visibility tracker that includes Google Search Console. Every day it asks seven AI engines the questions your buyers ask and records whether each one names your brand, which pages it cites and which competitors it names instead. Search Console adds the other half: what people actually searched on Google, which of your pages Google showed, and whether anyone clicked.
What the integration does
You connect once from the app. Cituna asks Google for read-only Search Console access, finds the properties your account can see, and matches them to the brands you track. A workspace can hold more than one Google connection, which matters when an agency and its client own different properties.
The Search Console tab shows the report Google shows you: clicks, impressions, click-through rate and average position over the range you pick, with the query and page tables underneath. Your dashboard puts the same brand’s Search Console performance beside its daily AI visibility, so when an engine starts or stops naming you, you can see whether Google clicks moved with it.
Why the two belong together:
AI-style searches
Google counts AI Mode searches inside the ordinary web rows of Search Console, but its API has no filter that separates them, and Google’s own AI Overviews and AI Mode totals exist only in the Generative AI report inside Search Console. So Cituna reads the named queries your site earned and flags the ones worded like prompts rather than searches: follow-ups, chat replies, instructions, pasted text and long questions.
Treat that count as a floor on AI use, not as Google’s AI numbers: ordinary long-tail searches are never flagged, and Google withholds rare queries from the API altogether. Our guide to using Google Search Console for AI search explains what the Generative AI report adds and where its gaps are.
Ask it from Claude
Cituna’s MCP server, included from Starter (read-only there), lets Claude or another MCP client query your Search Console data in plain language. Beyond the standard report, it can return:
- queries ranking just off page one, at positions 11 to 60, ordered by how much a realistic move would unlock;
- pages Google shows but nobody clicks, split into a ranking cause and a snippet cause, because they need opposite fixes;
- the kind of demand you earn, grouped by intent, from brand and competitor searches to how-to and category ones;
- sitemap pages Google has never shown to anyone in the window, grouped by section;
- queries where two of your pages compete, and which one Google favours.
The walkthrough in querying Search Console from Claude shows the prompts and what comes back.
What it cannot tell you
- Search Console data arrives about two days late, so the newest window Cituna shows ends about two days ago.
- Google withholds rare queries from the API, so the named query rows add up to less than your total clicks.
- It covers Google only. Whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude or Grok name you is what the daily scans measure, and Search Console cannot see it.
Other AI visibility tools with Search Console
Cituna is not the only tracker that reads Search Console, and they use it differently. We keep a dated comparison of which tools connect it and what each does with the data: which AI visibility tool includes Google Search Console. For the full field, see our comparisons, and for the plans, the pricing page.
Drafted with AI assistance from our own research and Search Console data, and reviewed by Rahul A before publishing. Rules and prices change; check the linked official source before you act.