---
title: "Starter Citation Prompts"
method: GET
path: "/citations/prompts/starter"
tags: ["AI Citations"]
---

# Starter Citation Prompts

`GET /citations/prompts/starter`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://seoscoreapi.com` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://seoscoreapi.com/citations/prompts/starter`
- Auth: none declared. Required headers: `X-API-Key`

A starter set of prompts to track, from your topic, brand, competitors and audience.

Covers the six kinds of question buyers ask an AI assistant: `direct_recommendation`,
`comparison`, `alternatives`, `feature_specific`, `use_case` and `pricing`. Built from
fixed templates, not a model: the same inputs always return the same list, nothing is
fetched, and no AI check is spent. A template that needs an input you didn't send is
left out, so with no `competitors` the comparison prompts are generic.

`prompts` is the flat list, interleaved across categories, ready to send as `prompts`
to `POST /citations/trackers`. `categories` groups them; `items` flags which ones name
your brand or a competitor.

The default is two per category, 12 prompts. Run on the default four engines at three
samples that is 144 checks, which fits one run a month on Starter (150 checks).

Works on every plan and is not metered. Treat the list as a first draft: rewrite it in
the words your buyers use. To read prompts off a website instead, use
`GET /citations/prompts/suggest`.

## Query parameters

- `topic` string, required: What you sell, as a buyer would type it, singular: `SEO audit API`, `emergency plumber in Grand Rapids`, `standing desk`
- `brand` string, nullable: Your brand name. Adds the reputation and pricing questions that name you
- `competitors` string, nullable: Comma-separated competitor names (up to 5). Adds `X vs Y` and `alternatives to X`
- `audience` string, nullable: Who buys it, plural: `marketing agencies`, `homeowners`
- `features` string, nullable: Comma-separated features buyers ask about (up to 6): `a free tier, PDF reports`
- `use_cases` string, nullable: Comma-separated jobs it is bought for (up to 6): `CI/CD checks`
- `per_category` integer: Prompts per category (default 2 = 12 prompts; 3 = 18)
- `limit` integer, nullable: Cut the list to this many, keeping the spread across categories (use your plan's tracked-prompt limit)

## Headers

- `X-API-Key` string, required: Your API key

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

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