AEOSearch
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AEOSearch · AI visibility, measured and fixed

You Will WinWith Uson ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok and Perplexity — and the next engine that matters

The new frontier has arrived. We are prepared: every buyer question measured across the engines, every loss diagnosed, every fix planned.

$0 · NO CARD · FIRST REPORT ~20 MIN · EVERY NUMBER TRACES TO A STORED ANSWER

AEOSearch Overview: visibility index, sentiment, average position and Share of AI Voice with the tracked-brands trend

The Overview, running on a live demo property.

Every Sophisticated ConsumerUses AI TodayDon't Be Left Behind

45% of B2B buyers used generative AI during a recent purchase (Gartner, 2026). The answer names a few brands — and the brands left out never know.

Why this is the SEO moment, again →

The platform

Scale Your AEONot Your Workload

One property, every engine, every question — measured, diagnosed and re-measured on a schedule. These are real screens from the product.

01

The Overview

Four scores, one screen, every arrow explained.

Visibility index, sentiment, average position and Share of AI Voice — each card names its denominator, and a failed engine call is disclosed, never counted as a zero.

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AEOSearch Overview dashboard: visibility index, sentiment score, average position and Share of AI Voice cards above the tracked-brands trend chart

02

Every Question, Scored

20 to 100 buyer questions, per-engine outcomes.

Each tracked question shows who wins it, on which engine, at what rank — filterable by engine, question type and journey phase, exportable to CSV.

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AEOSearch Questions page: tracked buyer questions with per-engine outcome chips and visibility percentages

03

Receipts, Not Vibes

Open the stored answer behind any score.

Click a question and read the full AI answer it was scored from — engine, model as the provider reports it, timestamp, grounding flag, and the exact sentences that named each brand, highlighted.

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AEOSearch answer receipt: the full stored ChatGPT answer with brand mentions highlighted and per-brand outcome chips

04

Competitors, Tracked

Their share and yours, from the same answers.

Add a competitor by domain and score them retroactively from answers you already stored. Mention-rate movement doubles as a control group: if the whole field moved, we say so.

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AEOSearch Competitors page: tracked competitor leaderboard with per-brand share and movement

05

Movement, Proven

Month over month, like for like, attributed honestly.

Re-runs re-ask your approved questions, so every delta compares the same thing. When two runs aren't comparable, the report says “we can't attribute it” instead of guessing.

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AEOSearch delta report: Share of AI Voice movement and per-engine mention-rate changes since the last audit, with non-comparable runs disclosed

06

The Plan, Executed

Every loss becomes a work item with a target.

Content briefs tied verbatim to lost questions, the exact roundups to enter, schema to add — prioritized for 90 days. On Command, we execute it and the next run grades us.

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AEOSearch 90-day action plan: content briefs and third-party placement targets derived from lost questions

Past the chart

We Not Only Give you the DataWe Solve Your Problems

Most visibility tools stop at a score. Every AEOSearch report ends in work: the diagnosis names the gap, the plan turns it into items, and on Command we execute them — then the next run grades the result, on the record.

  • Content gap

    You don't have a page that actually answers the question.

    Fix: publish the page that's missing, titled the way buyers actually ask it.

  • Format gap

    The content exists, but not in a shape the AI can lift — no table, no list, no clean structure.

    Fix: rebuild the page as a comparison table or ranked list the AI can quote directly.

  • Authority gap

    The AI is citing a third-party "best X" roundup, and you're not listed in it.

    Fix: get listed in the specific roundup the AI is already citing.

Diagnosed with evidence

For every lost question we fetch the page the AI actually cited and attach it to the fix — symptom, cause, action, in one chain.

Executed on Command

On the $950/mo tier we do the work — content, placements, schema — with every outreach contact human-approved and every placement disclosed.

Applied with receipts

Where a change is applied to a store, it carries a recorded opt-in, a rollback token, and disclosure on the report itself. A change that can't be undone doesn't ship.

Run your audit

Tell us who you're up against.

Get your free Share of AI Voice scorecard — no card required.

We read your homepage and suggest brand details, buyers, and competitors — you confirm or edit everything before anything runs.

comma-separated
comma-separated
one or more profiles, comma-separated
Competitors (up to 4)
one per line — we'll add these to the set
we'll send your report link — nothing else

We'll generate 8 buyer questions for you to review before anything runs.

How it works

  1. 01

    We generate your questions — you approve them

    Claude writes buyer-intent questions across four types: best-of, comparison, problem-led, and category-explainer. 20 on the one-time audit, up to 100 on subscription plans — and you review every one before anything runs.

  2. 02

    We ask the answer engines, grounded

    Each question goes to every engine on your tier — ChatGPT and Gemini on the free scorecard; ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini on the $199 audit; all five on Full Coverage — three times each, with live web search on. The free scorecard answers ChatGPT on its fast model; the $199 audit answers everything your free run didn't already cover on the frontier ones, and Gemini answers on 3.6 Flash for everyone.

  3. 03

    We measure your Share of AI Voice

    We extract every brand mention and cited domain from every stored answer. Then we compute six metrics: Share of AI Voice, mention rate, average rank, recommendation rate, citation share, and volatility.

  4. 04

    We tell you why you lose — then fix it

    For every question a competitor wins and you don't, we fetch the page the AI actually cited, classify why — content, format, authority, freshness, or schema — and turn the fix into a work item on your plan.

What we measure

Mention rate
How often your brand comes up at all, across every sample.
Share of AI Voice
Your mentions divided by every tracked brand's mentions — your actual slice of the answer.
Average rank
Where you land among the brands named, on the samples where you show up.
Recommendation rate
How often a mention is a real endorsement, not just a name-check.
Citation share
How many of the sources the AI cited are yours.
Volatility
How much the 3 samples disagreed — shown, not hidden.
Unprompted visibility
Your numbers on questions that name no tracked brand — the way a cold buyer asks. Questions that name you or a competitor are scored separately, so they never inflate it.
Source Map
Every domain the engines cited, ranked by how many answers cited it — the sources that actually decide your category's answers, and your outreach list for getting into them.
Recognition ladder
Mention rate by question specificity, from branded questions down to fully generic ones. The deepest rung where you're still named is your recognition boundary.
See the scorecard in depth →

The agents

Revolutionary Agents Fighting for YouWe HelpYou Win

Our agents run the audit end to end: they write your buyer questions, ask every engine with live search on, extract each mention, and diagnose every loss down to the page the engine cited. The scores themselves are computed in the open — pure, unit-tested math. You read the receipts.

PREFILLS YOUR AUDIT SETUP · WE SEND THE REPORT LINK, NOTHING ELSE

Under the hood

Built like an instrument, not a dashboard.

Measurement you'd bet budget on has to be engineered. This is the exact pipeline that runs when you click start — and when it runs on your audit, you watch these stages go green live.

Pipeline · completed run

  1. 01 · GENERATE

    Succeeded

    Buyer-intent questions across four types — written by Claude, reviewed and approved by you before a single query runs.

    OutputApproved question set
  2. 02 · QUERY

    Succeeded

    Every question × every engine × 3 samples, live web search on. Each raw answer is stored with its grounded status.

    OutputRaw answersGrounded flag
  3. 03 · EXTRACT

    Succeeded

    A structured pass reads every answer: which brands were named, in what order, with what sentiment, citing which domains.

    OutputMentions · ranks · citations
  4. 04 · SCORE

    Succeeded

    Six metrics computed as pure, unit-tested functions over the stored extractions. No black-box visibility index.

    OutputShare of AI Voice + 5 metrics
  5. 05 · DIAGNOSE

    Succeeded

    For each loss we fetch the page the AI actually cited — robots-aware, timeout-capped — and classify it into one of five gap types.

    OutputGap type + cited evidence
  6. 06 · PROVE

    Succeeded

    Monthly re-runs reuse your approved question set, so every delta compares like with like — engine for engine, question for question.

    OutputMovement delta

Spec sheet

Sampling
3 answers per question per engine — a single run can't tell signal from noise. When samples disagree, the report says so; volatility is a metric, never averaged away.
Grounding
Live web search on every query. An ungrounded answer measures training data, not the live assistant — so each answer carries its grounded flag.
Idempotency
Every (question, engine, sample) unit runs exactly once. Interrupted runs resume; plan upgrades top up in place instead of starting over.
Traceability
Every number on the report links back to a stored raw answer you can open and read.
Engine layer
All five assistants sit behind one interface. When the next answer engine matters to buyers, adding it is a registry entry, not a rewrite.
Throughput
Up to 1,500 grounded answers a month on Command — 100 questions × 5 engines × 3 samples, re-run automatically.

We're new to this market on purpose — the instrument is built for how answer engines work now, not retrofitted from an SEO rank tracker. Same class of results, a fraction of the price, live from day one.

Why “AEOSearch”

Search moved into the answer. So did we.

Twenty years ago the question was “does Google rank you?” — and the businesses that answered it early won a decade of customers. Today your buyers ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, and the answer names three brands instead of ten blue links. Same problem — be the answer when a buyer asks — new mechanism. We measure the new mechanism directly.

Then

Ten blue links and rank trackers — and an industry that earned its snake-oil reputation selling promises nobody could verify.

Now

One answer, a few brands named, sources cited. Your share of those answers is directly measurable — and most brands have never measured it.

The difference

No promises, no black-box visibility index. Every number is computed from stored AI answers you can read — and we run this instrument on our own brands before we sell it to you.

Methodology

We Always Tell youTruth

No guaranteed rankings. No invented statistics. No black-box score you have to take on faith. The report is built to be checked — here's what that costs us, and why it's worth it.

  • Every number traces to an answer

    Each score links back to a stored AI answer you can open and read. Nothing is aggregated into a black-box index you have to take on faith.

  • Grounded, and labeled

    An ungrounded answer only reflects what the model memorized in training, not what a buyer sees today. We run every question with live web search on and label each answer grounded or not.

  • Volatility, shown

    Each question runs 3 times per engine, because AI answers vary. When the samples disagree, the report says so instead of averaging the disagreement away.

  • Outages are never zeros

    A failed engine call is stored as a failure and disclosed on the report — it is excluded from every metric, because our outage must never read as your invisibility.

Read the methodology

Advertising is a BattleWe Love to Win

High stakes, kept honest: every win and every loss on your report traces to a stored answer you can read.

Pricing

Start free. Grow monthly.

Every plan starts with the same free scorecard, no card required. Subscribe and your audit re-runs itself every month — the platforms with comparable engine coverage charge $250–$800+/mo just to track. Every AEOSearch tier ends in fixes, not charts.

  • Track

    $249/mo

    Know exactly where you stand — every month.

    • 20 buyer questions across all 5 engines
    • 300 grounded answers, re-run automatically every month
    • Month-over-month movement: share, rank, wins and losses
    • Fix plan re-prioritized as gaps close
    Start with the free scorecard
  • Most popular

    Grow

    $495/mo

    Cover the whole buyer conversation, not a sample of it.

    • 50 buyer questions — 2.5× the coverage
    • All 5 engines, 750 grounded answers a month
    • Monthly movement delta + refreshed 90-day action plan
    • Every loss diagnosed with the cited page attached
    Start with the free scorecard
  • Done for you

    Command

    $950/mo

    We run the playbook for you — and prove it moved.

    • 100 buyer questions — full-category coverage
    • Everything in Grow, at 1,500 grounded answers a month
    • Implementation included: we execute the fix plan — content, placements, schema
    • We pursue every placement the plan identifies — every contact human-approved, every placement disclosed
    • Monthly movement review with your team
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Prefer a one-shot diagnosis?

No subscription required. Run the audit once, keep the report and the fix plan forever — and upgrade to a monthly plan later without re-doing setup.

  • Scorecard

    $0

    8 questions on ChatGPT (fast model) and Gemini 3.6 Flash. Share of AI Voice vs up to 4 competitors, up to 3 example lost questions. No card required.

    Get your scorecard
  • Full audit

    $199one-time

    20 questions across ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Everything your free run didn't already cover is answered on the frontier models — GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5, Gemini 3.6 Flash — and the answers you have are kept, not re-billed. Every citation, the full fix plan and 90-day action plan.

    Get the full audit
  • Full Coverage

    $450one-time

    The same audit across all 5 engines — 300 grounded answers, per-engine breakdown.

    Get full coverage

Not sure which direction fits? Book a call and we'll read your scorecard with you.

Straight answers

All questions →

Is this SEO?

No. SEO optimizes for search engine rankings; AEOSearch measures whether AI assistants mention and recommend you when they answer a buyer's question directly, and diagnoses what is standing in the way. The two overlap — the pages that win AI citations are often well-structured, authoritative pages — but ranking first on Google doesn't guarantee an AI assistant cites you.

Who is AEOSearch built for?

Small and medium-sized businesses, first and deliberately. The enterprise AI-visibility platforms sell contracts behind demo calls and onboarding weeks; we built the same class of measurement — grounded queries, per-engine breakdowns, evidence-backed diagnosis — to be self-serve and priced for teams without an enterprise budget. We're a young company growing our brand the same way we tell you to grow yours: by proving value, run after run. Working with businesses like yours is exactly how we plan to do it.

Which AI engines do you query?

ChatGPT and Gemini on the free scorecard; ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini on the $199 audit; all five on Full Coverage. Every answer is grounded with live web search. The free scorecard answers ChatGPT on its fast model; the $199 audit answers everything the free run did not already cover on the frontier models — GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5 and Gemini 3.6 Flash. Perplexity and Grok, where a plan includes them, answer on Sonar and Grok 4.3. Gemini answers on 3.6 Flash on every tier, free included. Each report names which models each engine answered on, wherever the provider's stored response records one. The engine layer is built to add assistants as they matter to buyer research.

Why do results vary between runs?

Because AI answers are probabilistic, not lookups. We ask each question 3 times per engine and report when the samples disagreed instead of averaging it away — that's the volatility metric. Treat every report as a dated snapshot, not a permanent score.

One-time or monthly — which should I pick?

One-time if you want a diagnosis: $199 runs the full 20-question audit on ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Everything your free scorecard did not already cover is answered on the frontier models — GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5 and Gemini 3.6 Flash — and the answers you already have are kept rather than re-asked. $450 covers all five engines. Monthly if you want the number to move: Track ($249/mo) re-runs 20 questions across all five engines every month with a movement delta, Grow ($495/mo) widens that to 50 questions, and Command ($950/mo) runs 100 questions and includes implementation — we execute the fix plan for you. Every path starts with the same free scorecard.

The Answer is AlreadyKnownMake it Yours

Up to 100 questions. 5 engines. 3 samples each. One clear answer — and a loop built to move it.

$0 to start · ~20 minutes · every number traces to a stored answer