# AEOSearch

> AEOSearch (aeosearch.io; formerly AEOSolved and SolvedAgain at solvedagain.com, launched as AnswerShare) measures whether AI assistants — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok — mention and recommend a brand when buyers ask real purchase questions, then diagnoses why a competitor wins and prescribes specific fixes. Built for small and medium-sized businesses. The name states the thesis: SEO solved "be the answer when a buyer asks" once; answer engines pose the same problem again, and we measure it directly.

Every number in an AEOSearch report is computed from stored, grounded AI answers (live web search enabled, three samples per question per engine). We invent no statistics; AI answers are probabilistic and every figure is a dated snapshot.

## How it works

- [Methodology](https://www.aeosearch.io/methodology): grounded queries, 3× sampling, per-engine grounding labels, and the published metrics — mention rate, Share of AI Voice, average rank, recommendation rate, citation share, volatility. Questions that name the audited brand or a competitor are scored separately from unprompted questions, so a brand name in the question never inflates unprompted visibility. Each report also includes a Source Map (every domain the engines cited, ranked by how many answers cited it), a recognition ladder (mention rate by question specificity, locating the brand's recognition boundary), and — when unprompted visibility is 0% — a new-brand readiness checklist run against the brand's own domain (AI-crawler access, schema.org, llms.txt, citation presence).
- [The scorecard](https://www.aeosearch.io/platform/scorecard): per-engine visibility scores with month-over-month movement.
- [Gap diagnosis](https://www.aeosearch.io/platform/gap-diagnosis): for every question a brand loses, an evidence-backed classification of why — content, format, authority, freshness, or schema/entity gap.
- [90-day action plan](https://www.aeosearch.io/platform/action-plan): prioritized fixes tied verbatim to lost questions; community placements always carry FTC-required disclosure; we never promise rankings or mentions.

## Who it's for

- [SaaS](https://www.aeosearch.io/solutions/saas)
- [Agencies](https://www.aeosearch.io/solutions/agencies)
- [Local & service businesses](https://www.aeosearch.io/solutions/smb)
- [E-commerce](https://www.aeosearch.io/solutions/ecommerce)

## Pricing

Free scorecard: 8 questions on ChatGPT (fast model) and Gemini 3.6 Flash. One-time: $199 full report (20 questions; everything the free scorecard did not already cover is answered on the frontier models GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5 and Gemini 3.6 Flash), $450 Full Coverage (all five engines). Monthly: Track $249, Grow $495, Command $950 (done-for-you implementation). Details: https://www.aeosearch.io/#pricing

## Guides (Academy)

- [What is answer engine optimization (AEO)?](https://www.aeosearch.io/academy/what-is-answer-engine-optimization): the definition, AEO vs. SEO, why it matters for DTC brands, and how to measure it without inventing a number.
- [How to measure brand visibility in AI answers](https://www.aeosearch.io/academy/measure-ai-visibility): the seven-metric framework (mention rate, unprompted rate, share of AI voice, rank, recommendation rate, citation share, recognition boundary) and the three traps that invalidate most AI-visibility numbers.
- [AEO vs. SEO reporting](https://www.aeosearch.io/academy/aeo-vs-seo-reporting): what replaces rankings and CTR, why a separate measurement layer, and what an honest client-facing AI-visibility report contains.
- [What is agentic AEO?](https://www.aeosearch.io/academy/what-is-agentic-aeo): definition, agentic AEO vs. AEO vs. SEO comparison table, and the consent + rollback rules that make agentic execution safe.
- [How to get your brand recommended by ChatGPT](https://www.aeosearch.io/academy/get-recommended-by-chatgpt): the five-step playbook — measure, diagnose, enter the evidence pool, close content gaps, re-measure.
- [AI crawler & citation checker](https://www.aeosearch.io/academy/ai-crawler-citation-checker): the AI user-agents (GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot), how to check logs and robots.txt, and how to verify whether engines cite your domain.
- [AEOSearch vs. Profound vs. Semrush vs. Ahrefs vs. Conductor](https://www.aeosearch.io/academy/aeo-tools-compared): an honest comparison — public positioning only, our own weaknesses in the same table.

## Essays

- [AEO is eating SEO — and we're still in the first inning](https://www.aeosearch.io/blog/aeo-is-eating-seo)
- [The grounding rule: most AI-visibility numbers measure the wrong thing](https://www.aeosearch.io/blog/the-grounding-rule)
- [How an answer engine picks a winner — and the five ways you lose](https://www.aeosearch.io/blog/how-ai-picks-a-winner)

## FAQ

- [Straight answers](https://www.aeosearch.io/faq)