You earned the citation. Now watch how fast it leaves.
Profound tracked 680 million citations over nine months. Forty to sixty percent of cited domains changed month over month.
A citation is not a trophy you put on a shelf. It is a position the model re-decides every cycle, from whatever it can resolve that month.
The brands that hold their citations are not the ones who earned them once. They are the ones the model keeps resolving, because their name, their claims, and their structure stay coherent while everyone else drifts.
Resolution is maintenance, not conquest. The work is to stay the cheapest brand to be certain about, this month and the next.
You do not win the position once. You keep being the answer, or you get replaced by the brand that does.
Stage30 is the resolution methodology for AI search. It is how a brand becomes coherent enough to be chosen.