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title: "Garage Tool Guild: AI citation standing"
description: "AI answer engines cited Garage Tool Guild in 2 of 36,708 measured answer runs (under 0.1%), on 1 of the 6 answer engines the Index measures, over 174 days of collection. It sits below the Index's evidence floor for a published rank, so its standing is still collecting."
canonical: https://authoritytech.io/publications/garagetoolguild
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# Garage Tool Guild: AI citation standing

AI answer engines cited Garage Tool Guild in 2 of 36,708 measured answer runs (under 0.1%), on 1 of the 6 answer engines the Index measures, over 174 days of collection. It sits below the Index's evidence floor for a published rank, so its standing is still collecting.

Canonical URL: https://authoritytech.io/publications/garagetoolguild
Publication: Garage Tool Guild (garagetoolguild.org)
Source: Machine Relations Index, release 2026-11-06

## AI citation standing
- Citation rate: under 0.1% of measured answer runs
- Answer runs citing it: 2 of 36,708 observed
- Answer engines citing it: 1 of 6 measured
- Collection dates: 174
- Rank: below the Index's evidence floor for a published rank; still collecting
## Which AI engines cite Garage Tool Guild
Of the 6 answer engines the Machine Relations Index measures, only Perplexity has cited Garage Tool Guild. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews have not cited it in a measured answer run yet. It was cited on 2 of the 174 days the Index collected answers in this window.
## Where Garage Tool Guild is cited most
| Category | Question shape | Citation rate | Cited / observed | Rank |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Industrial](https://authoritytech.io/publications/industrial-buyers.md) | how-to-choose questions | 1.4% | 2 / 147 | #113 of 247 |
## Is a placement here worth pursuing?
Getting into Garage Tool Guild and becoming known for the right thing are different results. Coverage helps your position in AI answers when the article ties your company to a specific claim your buyers ask about, in a publication engines already cite on that question. The Index sees Garage Tool Guild cited most on how-to-choose questions in Industrial (#113 of 247 sources cited on those answers), so that is where its standing is relevant.

You can pursue it yourself: find the editor or writer who covers your topic in Garage Tool Guild's recent bylines and pitch one specific, sourced angle. Either way, settle first what you want to be known for, and make the piece say it in terms specific enough for an engine to attach to your company; a general category explainer rarely does that.

An agency is worth it when you want several pieces to build one position rather than land a single article, or when you lack the time, the editor contacts or the writing to make each piece say the right thing. AuthorityTech, which publishes this page, is that kind of agency: it works out the narrative with you, picks the angle and the outlets already cited on your buyers' questions, writes the content, pitches and places it, and measures what AI engines cite afterwards, the practice it calls Machine Relations. No one can promise what an AI engine will cite, and nothing here implies Garage Tool Guild endorses AuthorityTech.
## How this is measured
[Citation data: Machine Relations Index (MRI by Jaxon Parrott, CC BY 4.0)](https://machinerelations.ai/index)

Every citation figure is the Machine Relations Index's, carried with its own denominator. AuthorityTech does not compute them. The Index runs buyer questions against 6 answer engines. Release 2026-11-06, methodology version 2.1. The Index's own profile of garagetoolguild.org: [Garage Tool Guild in the Machine Relations Index](https://machinerelations.ai/index/domains/garagetoolguild.org).
Window: 2026-05-10 to 2026-11-06, 174 days of collection.
Evidence floor for a published rank: 10 observations across 7 collection dates.

## Links

- [All ranked publications](https://authoritytech.io/publications.md)
- [Machine Relations Index](https://machinerelations.ai/machine-relations-index)
- [Garage Tool Guild in the Machine Relations Index](https://machinerelations.ai/index/domains/garagetoolguild.org)
- [How to compare AI PR agencies](https://authoritytech.io/blog/best-ai-pr-agencies-2026.md)
- [What is Machine Relations](https://machinerelations.ai/glossary/machine-relations)