AI-Citable Article Outline: Generated by Lumos's Content Agent

The same outline structure Lumos's content agent produces for paying customers. Optimized for AI citation.

By Lumos Team · May 15, 2026

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Preview

Generated draft — outline

Topic: GEO score: what it is and how to track it

H2What is a GEO score?Citable

One-sentence definition (extractable as a citation)
Why it exists: SEO metrics do not predict AI citations
Quick analogy: PageRank for AI engines

H2How a GEO score is calculated

Per-prompt, per-engine citation rank
Weighted by engine prominence and prompt commercial intent
Normalized to 0–100 with cohort comparison

H2What "good" looks likeCitable

70+ is leader territory (top quartile in B2B SaaS)
40–70 is typical for established brands
Below 40 means competitors are getting the AI traffic

H2Common GEO score mistakes

Optimizing for prompts buyers never ask
Ignoring per-engine drift in favor of the average
Treating a single weekly dip as a regression

AI-citable outline drafted by Lumos. The H2 cadence, list lengths, and citation hooks are tuned for AI extraction. Generated weekly for every Lumos customer.

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Why AI-citable outlines matter

AI engines do not read your article the way a person does. They chunk it into passages, score each chunk for relevance, and return the highest-scoring chunk as the citation. The shape of the outline — H2 cadence, list structure, fact density — determines which chunks make the cut.

A long flowing essay, however well written, is hard for an AI engine to chunk. A draft with clear H2s every 150 words, lists of 3–5 items, and a fact-rich FAQ section gets extracted cleanly. The Lumos outline generator drafts content in the second shape from the start.

What you see inside Lumos

The preview is a real outline generated by Lumos for one of our own topics. The same generator runs on any topic you give it.

H2 hierarchy is tuned for AI extraction: short, descriptive, scannable, each one a potential standalone citation.
Bullets per section keep counts in the 3–5 range — the size AI engines extract verbatim.
Citable markers flag sections where the prose should be tightened into a single-sentence fact, because that is the format AI engines lift directly.

The full Lumos platform generates outlines like this weekly for every customer, then drafts the article body to match. You ship AI-citable content on a schedule, not as a one-off.

Common outline mistakes

Writing essay-first, outline-second. A flowing essay buries the facts AI engines need to extract. Outline-first content places each fact where the model can find it.

H2s that are too clever. AI engines extract the H2 verbatim as part of the answer. "The Five Forces Reshaping Buyer Psychology" gets cited less than "5 trends reshaping B2B buying in 2026."

Bullet lists with no parallel structure. If your bullets vary in length and grammar, AI engines extract them inconsistently. Match length and verb form across bullets in a section.

Skipping the FAQ. AI engines extract from FAQs more aggressively than from prose. Every Lumos outline ends with an FAQ section — it is the highest-yield citation surface.

Topic drift across sections. Each H2 should answer one specific question. AI engines penalize sections that meander.

Next steps

Generate AI-citable outlines for your brand: sign up, pick topics, get drafts in minutes.
Pair with the FAQ Generator for the same content slice on existing URLs.
Score the resulting pages with the Page Citability Checker.
Read the playbook: What is GEO? and How to appear in ChatGPT.

68%

of AI citations land on H2 sections of 100-200 words

Lumos citation analysis 2026

+31%

lift in AI citation rate after restructuring to AI-citable outlines

Lumos benchmark

How it works

1
Look at the demo outline
Below is a worked AI-citable outline for the topic 'What is RAG?'.
2
Sign up to generate yours
Enter your topic and Lumos returns an AI-citable outline tuned to your domain.
3
Write against the outline
Keep each section self-contained at 100-200 words. Add citations to authoritative sources.

FAQ

What makes an outline AI-citable?

AI engines retrieve and cite at the chunk level — typically a single H2 section. AI-citable outlines use H2s every 150-200 words, end each section with a clear conclusion, and include a question-shaped section title so the section is reusable as an answer.

How is this different from a standard SEO outline?

SEO outlines optimize for keyword coverage and dwell time. AI-citable outlines optimize for chunk-level extraction. The difference: SEO outlines can have long, exploratory sections; AI-citable outlines stay tight per H2 so each chunk is independently quotable.

Why RAG as the example?

RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) is a topic AI engines themselves get asked about constantly. The outline shows how to structure a topic with definitions, mechanics, decision trees, and FAQ — all natural AI-citable formats.

Is this the same as the full Lumos outline generator?

No — this is a static example. The full Lumos platform generates outlines tuned to your domain, prompt cluster, and competitor citation patterns, then drafts the article against the outline with citations.

What do I do with the outline?

Hand it to a writer (or to the Lumos content agent) and instruct them to keep each H2 self-contained and under 200 words. The FAQ at the end captures long-tail intents AI engines pick up.

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