DEJAN executes external citation seeding by generating non-promotional, source-grounded third-party articles with the adversarial Outreach Writer, optimizing anchor placement via LinkBERT, and enforcing strict co-link policies to prevent competitor mentions while securing citation-worthy backlinks.

sequenceDiagram
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    actor User as SEO Specialist
    participant OW as Outreach Writer
    participant AD as Adversarial Detector
    participant LC as Link Scanner
    participant PE as Co-Link Policy Engine
    participant TP as Third-Party Publisher

    User->>OW: Request citation-seeded article
    OW->>OW: Generate draft with anchor placement
    OW->>AD: Submit draft for tone check
    AD-->>OW: Confirm non-promotional score
    OW->>LC: Scan target URLs
    LC-->>OW: Verify active links (no dead links)
    OW->>PE: Check outbound domains
    PE-->>OW: Validate approved / banned domain rules
    OW->>TP: Dispatch approved content
    TP-->>User: Publish external citation