> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.tryrekkal.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Sources and gaps

> Which domains the engines actually cited, how the citation rate is denominated, and how rekkal decides a source is a gap.

`/dashboard/sources` answers a different question from the main dashboard. Not *how visible
am I*, but **where are these answers getting their information** — and which of those places
cover a competitor and not you.

It uses the same window, the same confidence intervals and the same suppression rule as
everything else.

## Cited domains

For each domain the engines cited in your window, the table shows how often it was cited,
as a rate with its own `n` and interval.

<Info>
  **Citation rate** = answers in which this domain was cited ÷ **answers whose sources were
  captured**.
</Info>

That denominator is the careful part. It counts only the answers where rekkal actually
recorded a source list. An answer whose sources were never captured contributes to no
domain's numerator, so counting it in the denominator would report every domain the answer
really did cite as "not retrieved" — quietly depressing every rate on the page.

This is also why the sources view can legitimately say *"answers were collected, but their
sources were never captured"* while the main dashboard shows perfectly real numbers for the
same window. Both are true.

## How domains are classified

Three labels, each read off something rekkal already knows rather than guessed at:

| Label               | Meaning                                                                                        |
| ------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Your site**       | Your own brand domain, or a subdomain of it.                                                   |
| **Competitor site** | A domain belonging to a competitor you track, whose domain has been corroborated or confirmed. |
| **Third party**     | Everything else — publishers, directories, forums, marketplaces.                               |

<Warning>
  **rekkal refuses two guesses here, deliberately.**

  A competitor domain that has *not* been corroborated is never used for attribution — a
  model's guess at which company owns a domain is how a French school gets attributed to a
  German company. And there is no publisher taxonomy: rekkal will not tell you a domain is
  "a news site" or "a review site", because nothing in the data supports that and inventing
  a category is exactly the confident guess this product exists to refuse.
</Warning>

## Gaps

A domain is a **gap** when, among the answers in this window that cited it, at least one
named a tracked competitor and **none** named you.

That is a concrete, checkable statement: this source is feeding answers about your category,
those answers name a rival, and they do not name you. It is the closest thing rekkal
produces to a to-do list.

Two rules about which domains can appear:

* **Your own domain is excluded.** Your site is not somewhere to go and get covered.
* **A competitor's own domain is kept, and labelled.** Suppressing it would be a judgement
  call better made by you than by rekkal.

An empty gap list is reported precisely too: *"no competitors tracked"*, *"nothing
measured"*, and *"every source that named a rival also named you"* are three different
claims, and only the last is good news.

## What is on screen

Both tables show the top 25 rows and count the rest underneath. It is a display cut only:
every rate, sample size, interval and change on the rows shown was computed over the whole
window before the list was cut.

## Not available yet

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Reading the raw answer behind a citation">
    You can read the answers behind your **visibility** figure — that card links to them, with
    every mention of your brand highlighted. There is **no equivalent for a citation yet**:
    nothing on this page opens onto the answers a given domain was cited in.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Recommendations">
    Turning a gap into a specific recommended action is **not built yet**. The gap table
    tells you where you are missing; it does not yet tell you what to do about it.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Adding competitors yourself">
    Setup asks for your domain only, and there is **no screen for adding tracked competitors
    yet**. Your plan's competitor allowance is enforced, but there is no way to populate it in
    the product today.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Competitor discovery">
    rekkal does **not** yet discover and add rivals it finds in answers on its own.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>