Updated June 2026
Everything you need to know about AI visibility, Answer Engine Optimization, and what AEO Studio does, from first questions to account details.
Because AI assistants only mention brands they've "learned" about from the web, pages, reviews, forums and listings they can read and trust. If your business is thin online, behind logins, or not described in plain language, the AI simply has nothing to pull from, so it names competitors instead. The fix is making your brand easy for AI to find and quote. AEO Studio shows you exactly which questions you're invisible for.
Publish clear, factual pages that answer the real questions your customers ask, get mentioned on trusted third-party sites (reviews, Reddit, directories), and make sure AI crawlers can actually read your site. AI then has source material to cite you. Start by checking where you stand today, AEO Studio measures which AI answers already mention you and which mention rivals instead.
Your competitor is probably described more clearly across the web, mentioned on sites AI trusts, and structured so answers are easy to lift. It's rarely about being a bigger company, it's about being more quotable. A visibility scan reveals the exact prompts where they win and you're missing, so you know what to fix first.
You can't directly edit an AI's answer, but you strongly influence it by controlling the sources it reads, your own pages, reviews, and mentions across the web. Clear, accurate, well-structured information makes AI more likely to describe you correctly and recommend you. Monitoring your AI mentions over time tells you whether your changes are working.
Yes. People increasingly ask AI assistants things like "best CRM for a small team" or "top running shoes for flat feet," and the AI names specific brands. If you're not among them, you're losing customers before they ever reach Google. Checking whether AI mentions you for your category is the first step, AEO Studio does this in one scan.
It's already shifting. Millions of buying questions now start in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI overviews instead of a list of blue links. You don't need to abandon SEO, but ignoring AI visibility means missing a fast-growing slice of customers. Tracking your presence across AI answers helps you stay ahead of that shift.
Answer Engine Optimization is the practice of making your brand and content easy for AI answer engines, like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, to find, understand and cite. Where SEO aims for a high ranking in a list of links, AEO aims to be the source the AI quotes in its direct answer. AEO Studio measures how visible you are across those engines and what to improve.
SEO optimizes for ranking in traditional search result lists. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) optimizes for appearing inside AI-generated answers. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is the broader practice of being the trusted, quotable answer across AI assistants and answer boxes. They overlap heavily, good structured content helps all three. AEO Studio focuses on measuring the AI-answer side most tools ignore.
They draw on what they learned during training plus, increasingly, live web sources they retrieve at answer time. Brands that are described clearly, mentioned on trusted independent sites, and structured so answers are easy to extract get cited more. There's no single ranking score, it's about being the most credible, quotable source for a given question.
Write pages that answer specific questions in plain language, put a concise 40–70 word answer right under a question-style heading, add FAQ/structured data, make sure the page renders without JavaScript, and earn mentions on sites AI trusts. Then measure which AI answers start citing you. AEO Studio tracks that progress so you know what's working.
Yes, indirectly. Structured data like FAQ and Organization schema helps AI engines extract clean, unambiguous answers from your pages, even though Google no longer shows some rich-snippet types. It's one signal among many, clear writing and trusted mentions matter more, but it's low-effort and worth doing on key pages.
Ask the assistants the questions your customers would ask and see whether you're named, or use a tool that does this systematically across many prompts and engines. Manual checks are slow and inconsistent. AEO Studio runs your brand against customer-style prompts and gives you a visibility score plus who's being mentioned instead of you.
Ranking on Google and being cited by AI are different games. AI often pulls from sources that never rank #1, forums, reviews, well-structured explainer pages, and ignores pages it can't easily read or quote. So a strong Google position doesn't guarantee AI mentions. A dedicated AI-visibility scan shows the gap.
AEO Studio checks whether AI assistants mention and recommend your brand for the questions your customers ask. You get an AI Visibility Score, a view of which competitors are being named instead of you, the sources AI is citing, and prioritized recommendations to improve. It turns "are we invisible to AI?" into a number you can track and act on.
The right tool depends on budget and depth. Enterprise platforms like Profound or AthenaHQ are powerful but cost hundreds per month. AEO Studio focuses on giving smaller teams and solo founders the core answer, are you visible, who's beating you, and what to fix, at an accessible price, including a free check to start.
Yes, AEO Studio offers a free check so you can see your AI visibility before paying anything. You enter your brand and get a snapshot of how AI answers treat you. Upgrading unlocks more prompts, more engines and ongoing tracking, but the first "are we invisible?" answer is free.
There's a free tier so you can run an initial check at no cost, and a Pro plan for teams that need more scans, more AI engines and continuous monitoring. Pricing is kept affordable for solo founders and small businesses rather than enterprise budgets. See the pricing page for current plans.
SEO and AEO solve different problems. Your SEO tools track Google rankings; they don't tell you whether ChatGPT or Perplexity recommend you. As more buyers ask AI directly, that blind spot grows. AEO Studio complements your existing SEO stack by measuring the AI-answer layer it can't see.
No honest tool can, and you should be wary of any that promises it. AI answers change constantly and no one controls them directly. What AEO Studio does is measure your current AI visibility, show what's holding you back, and track whether your improvements move the needle. Think of it as measurement and guidance, not a guarantee. Results are estimates.
AEO Studio is built to measure visibility across the major AI answer engines people use to find brands, currently including ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity on our Pro plan, with a single engine available on the free tier. Coverage expands as the product grows.
Yes. SaaS teams use it to see if AI recommends them for "best tool for X" questions; ecommerce brands check product-category prompts; agencies track AI visibility for multiple clients. The core value is the same, knowing where AI mentions you and where it names a competitor instead.
AEO Studio only needs the public information required to check your brand's AI visibility, it doesn't ask for sensitive customer data. Accounts are protected with secure authentication, and payment is handled by a trusted payment processor, so your card details are never stored on our servers.
No. You can run the free check without entering any payment details. A card is only needed if you choose to upgrade to Pro.
AI answers vary between users and change over time, so any AI-visibility measurement, including ours, is a strong estimate, not an exact guarantee. AEO Studio's value is in tracking the trend and direction: are you becoming more visible to AI over time, and how do you compare to competitors? Treat scores as a reliable signal, not an absolute.
Yes. You can cancel your Pro plan whenever you like; you'll keep access until the end of your current billing period and won't be charged again.
Run the free check on the homepage, enter your brand and see how AI answers treat you in seconds. If you want deeper tracking and more engines, create an account and upgrade to Pro. The free snapshot is the fastest way to find out whether you're invisible to AI today.
Still have questions? Email us or run a free check to see your AI visibility in seconds.