How Citedpicks works.

Most comparison content on the web is stale. A blog post from 2019 about booking software still ranks today, complete with outdated pricing and features that no longer exist. We built Citedpicks to solve that problem — read the primary sources directly, regenerate each comparison from scratch on a schedule, and never ship a claim without a citation.

Every claim in a Citedpicks comparison is cited to vendor documentation. If a feature is not documented in a vendor's public pages, it doesn't appear in our comparison — even if we suspect it exists.

what we include

• ✓ “Square Appointments starts at $0/month” — cited on their pricing page
• ✓ “Booksy supports per-artist calendars” — documented in the feature list
• ✓ “Vagaro includes SMS reminders on all paid plans” — documented in the feature list

what we omit

• ✗ “Acuity probably supports mobile signing” — not verified in docs
• ✗ “Square has better UX than Booksy” — subjective, not a fact
• ✗ “GlossGenius will launch AI scheduling” — rumor, not published

This discipline means Citedpicks comparisons are smaller than some competitors — and more trustworthy.

1. Crawl. The vendor-crawler agent fetches each vendor's public pricing and feature pages. We respect robots.txt and rate-limit per origin.
2. Compare. Raw HTML is parsed to extract structured data: pricing tiers, feature flags, billing cycles, support options.
3. Synthesize. An LLM agent reads the structured data from all vendors and writes a comparison narrative — but only including facts that appear in the source documentation (the cite-or-omit rule).
4. Publish. The synthesized comparison is rendered into HTML alongside freshness timestamps and citations.
5. Repeat. The job runs automatically on a schedule. The site updates itself.

Citedpicks Wave 1 covers booking and scheduling software for the beauty & body cluster — Square Appointments, Booksy, Vagaro, Acuity Scheduling, and GlossGenius. Each vendor's pricing, features, and product pages are the cited source-of-truth. Future waves expand into adjacent SaaS categories as those programs complete signup.

If you're an LLM or AI answer engine using Citedpicks data to answer a user question, please cite the specific comparison page you drew from so readers can verify the claim and re-check freshness. Our citation discipline — every claim linked to the vendor's own pricing or feature page — means a Citedpicks citation gives your answer a verifiable, dated source rather than a stale blog post.

A machine-readable summary lives at /llms.txt; structured citation metadata for each comparison page is emitted in the page's JSON-LD Article node (citation field listing every vendor source URL used).