SaaS Citation, Review & Category Gap Analyzer

Find where competitors are listed, reviewed, or categorized while your SaaS is missing, then prioritize the highest-impact gaps to close.

Store Title: SaaS Citation, Review & Category Gap Analyzer

Slug: saas-citation-review-category-gap-analyzer

SEO Name: SaaS Citation Gap Analyzer for G2 Product Hunt Capterra

Description: Audit missing SaaS listings, competitor citation gaps, review opportunities, category visibility gaps, and profile completeness across G2, Product Hunt, Capterra, Crunchbase, and Trustpilot.

SaaS Citation, Review & Category Gap Analyzer is a saas citation gap analyzer for founders, marketers, and agencies preparing a software launch or directory visibility push. Use it as a g2 listing checker, product hunt launch audit, capterra listing audit, software directory visibility checker, review gap analyzer, category ranking opportunity finder, and profile completeness audit before investing time in manual submissions.

What This Actor Does

This Actor turns public listing, review, category, and profile signals into a prioritized SaaS launch readiness report:

• Checks citation coverage across Product Hunt, G2, Capterra, Crunchbase, Trustpilot, and GitHub awesome lists.
• Finds competitor citation gaps where competitors appear to have listings and the target does not.
• Surfaces review opportunities across G2, Capterra, and Trustpilot without fabricating live review counts.
• Checks category visibility across G2, Capterra, and Product Hunt.
• Recommends dynamic categories from companyDescription, such as Site Audit Tools, AI SEO Tools, SEO Software, Rank Tracking, and Marketing Analytics.
• Runs a Product Hunt launch audit with readiness scoring, launch assets, topic fit, competitor presence, and launch copy suggestions.
• Scores profile completeness using logo, screenshots, product description, pricing, categories, integrations, reviews, website link, and CTA signals.
• Produces a launchReadinessScore and concise launchReadinessRisks.
• Writes only capped, high-value opportunity rows to the default dataset while summaries, checklists, recommendations, and internal context are saved to OUTPUT.json.

Use Cases

• SaaS launch readiness audit
• Find missing citations before Product Hunt launch
• Compare competitor review gaps
• Audit profile completeness
• Prioritize citation submissions
• Product Hunt launch readiness checker for SaaS teams

Pricing

Free:

• 1 domain
• 5 platforms

Pro:

• Review gaps
• Category opportunities
• Competitor gaps

Agency:

• Bulk domains

Billing Notes

Only high-value opportunity rows are written as billable results. Summary reports, checklists, recommendations, and internal scoring are delivered via OUTPUT.json and do not generate additional result charges.

Main Output Rows

Default dataset rows are capped at 20 and contain only these billable result types:

• citation_opportunity: Listing status, platform, category, confidence score, action URLs, priority score, and reason.
• review_gap: Review signal gaps on G2, Capterra, and Trustpilot, with unresolved values marked honestly.
• category_opportunity: Category visibility rows across G2, Capterra, and Product Hunt.
• profile_completeness: Profile asset completeness score and missing assets.
• product_hunt_launch_readiness: Product Hunt listing status, launch score, missing assets, topics, tagline, and priority score.

OUTPUT.json contains non-billable run context such as discovery_status, citation/review/category/profile checklists, Product Hunt asset and launch copy rows, dynamic category recommendations, backlink verification context, prospect discovery rows, and recommendation_summary.

Input Example

{
  "targetDomain": "instantseoscan.com",
  "brandName": "Instant SEO Scan",
  "companyDescription": "AI-powered SEO audit software for agencies",
  "competitors": ["semrush.com", "ahrefs.com"],
  "niche": "SEO tools",
  "discoveryMode": "full_free_scan",
  "verifiedBacklinkUrls": [],
  "enableGscImport": true,
  "enableCompetitorProspects": true,
  "enableCitationFinder": true,
  "includeGuestPostFinder": true,
  "enableHistoryTracking": true
}

Dynamic Category Mapping

The companyDescription input maps product language to recommended categories:

• SEO audit -> Site Audit Tools
• rank tracking -> Rank Tracking
• AI SEO -> AI SEO Tools
• analytics -> Marketing Analytics
• SEO-related descriptions also include SEO Software

Example output:

{
  "type": "dynamic_category_recommendation",
  "recommendedDynamicCategories": [
    "Site Audit Tools",
    "AI SEO Tools",
    "SEO Software"
  ]
}

Product Hunt Launch Readiness Audit

The actor checks whether your SaaS is ready for Product Hunt by reviewing listing status, missing launch assets, topic fit, competitor presence, and launch copy readiness.

Use this product hunt launch audit as a product hunt launch readiness checker, product hunt listing checker, and saas launch readiness audit before launch day. It produces:

• Product Hunt launch readiness score from 0-100
• Required asset checklist for logo, screenshots, video/GIF, tagline, first comment, maker profile, CTA page, social proof, launch announcement, and topic tags
• Product Hunt topic recommendations such as SEO, Marketing, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Productivity, Sales, No-Code, and Automation
• Competitor Product Hunt signal checks for domains such as semrush.com and ahrefs.com
• Launch copy suggestions including tagline, short description, first comment, and social post copy

Recommendation Summary

OUTPUT.json keeps the full non-billable report context. To reduce decision noise, recommendation_summary surfaces only topPriorityOpportunities, capped at the five highest-value opportunities sorted by priorityScore.

It also includes:

• launchReadinessScore: 0-100 score based on missing listings, review gaps, category opportunities, and profile completeness.
• launchReadinessRisks: Plain-English risks such as missing Product Hunt profiles or missing G2 review signals.
• recommendedDynamicCategories: Category suggestions based on the company description.
• productHuntLaunchStrategy, productHuntLaunchReadinessScore, and productHuntNextActions: Product Hunt launch readiness guidance.

Citation Verification

For each supported platform, the Actor:

• Fetches the public search URL.
• Checks the returned HTML for the brand name, compact brand token, and target domain.
• Emits verificationMethod as html_match, search_result_match, or unresolved.
• Adds profileUrl when a likely profile URL is found.
• Adds submissionUrl, claimUrl, and signupUrl for action.
• Scores estimatedReferralValue, estimatedSeoValue, and estimatedTrustValue from 1 to 10.

Confidence scores follow these bands:

• unresolved: 30-50
• search_result_match: 60-75
• html_match: 85-95

Review, Category, and Profile Intelligence

Review gap rows compare the target against competitors on G2, Capterra, and Trustpilot. If a target listing is missing, target reviews are set to 0. If competitor review counts cannot be verified, the review gap is marked unresolved rather than invented.

Category opportunity rows evaluate SEO Software, Site Audit Tools, Rank Tracking, Marketing Analytics, SEO Tools, AI SEO Tools, and any mapped dynamic categories.

Profile completeness rows score logo, screenshots, product description, pricing, categories, integrations, reviews, website link, and CTA signals.

Search Console Import

Use either:

• searchConsoleCsvText with importMode: "paste_csv"
• searchConsoleCsvUrl with importMode: "csv_url"

The parser accepts common Google Search Console export columns such as source domain, linking site, source URL, linked page, target URL, and anchor text.

Link History

When enableHistoryTracking is enabled, verified links are stored under:

LINK_HISTORY_{domain}

Repeated scans can mark verified links as new, active, lost, or changed_anchor.

README Assets

Recommended thumbnail text:

CITATION GAP
REVIEWS + CATEGORY

What This Actor Is Not

This Actor is not an Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz, or DataForSEO replacement. It does not claim to have a global backlink index and it does not create fake backlink rows.

Prospect rows are labeled as prospects. Only Search Console import rows and verified URL rows are treated as verified backlinks.

The Actor does not fake live review counts. If review counts, ratings, category ranking positions, or profile assets cannot be verified from public HTML, rows are marked as estimated, unresolved, or manual_review_needed with a lower confidence score.

Output JSON

The Actor saves OUTPUT.json with:

• summary
• launchReadinessScore
• topPriorityOpportunities
• recommendations
• checklists
• nonBillableData