Project settings, pausing and archiving
Changing what a project measures after it exists, and the difference between pausing, archiving and deleting.
Everything you set when creating a project can be changed afterwards, on the project's Settings page.
What you can change
| Field | What it affects |
|---|---|
| Name | The brand Citerva looks for in answers. Changing it changes what counts as a mention. |
| Website | Your primary domain. Sources on it are attributed to you. |
| Other domains you own | One per line. Sources on these are yours too. |
| Alternate names | Old names, legal names, common abbreviations — each on its own line. |
| Category and description | What the generated prompts are about. |
Changes apply to future scans and to anything recomputed from stored answers. They do not silently rewrite what a past scan reported, because a scan is a record of what happened on a day.
Adding an alternate name or an owned domain is the most common reason a past number was wrong in your favour — the model did name you, under a name Citerva had not been told about. If that has happened, the raw answers are still stored and the figures can be re-derived from them without asking any provider again. Ask us.
Pausing
Pausing stops a project spending anything.
- No scheduled scan runs. The schedule stays where it is and picks up at its next slot after you resume — it does not fire a backlog of everything it missed.
- No manual scan can be started. The Run scan button says why.
- Nothing already measured changes. Every scan, answer and figure stays readable while paused.
A paused project still occupies a slot against your plan's project limit. That is deliberate: pausing says you are coming back to it. If you want the slot back, archive instead.
Pause is the right control when you want a project to stop costing you money for a while. To stop only the automation while still scanning by hand, pause the schedule on the Scans page instead.
Archiving
Archiving is the real off switch for a project.
An archived project:
- frees a slot against your plan's project limit, so you can create another;
- keeps everything — every scan, every raw answer, every metric stays exactly as it was;
- disappears from your project list.
It is not a delete. Nothing is destroyed, and the measurement history remains intact. That is deliberate: a settings page should not be able to throw away months of measurement by accident.
Deleting
There is no delete button for a project, and that is on purpose. Deleting a project would cascade away every scan, answer and metric belonging to it — the one action in this product that cannot be undone and cannot be reconstructed, because the raw answers are the only record that a model ever said what it said.
If you genuinely need a project and its history removed, contact us and we will do it deliberately rather than through a button that sits next to "rename".