AEO is not keyword ranking. It is getting your brand cited inside AI answers, and measuring it like a performance channel. Here is the full method: the five workstreams, the phased build, and the report you get.
The build
From invisible to cited, in phases
Authority compounds. On-site work lands fast; off-site consensus builds slowly, then accelerates. That is why results show in months, not days.
Phase 1 · Foundation
Weeks 1-3
Pillar published
Core spokes + money page
Schema + crawlability
Hub + internal links
Phase 2 · Authority
Weeks 4-8
Entity optimization
Citation building (Reddit, G2)
Vertical spokes
Baseline tracking live
Phase 3 · Compound
Weeks 9-12+
Original-data PR
Off-site scale
Second cluster
Tracking-driven steering
The method
The five workstreams of a complete AEO program
Real AEO runs all five. Cover only two or three and the gaps show in the first quarter of reporting.
Visibility trackingthe report you pay for
Weekly share-of-model across engines, measured against competitors.
measurement
Entity optimization
Wikidata, Google Knowledge Graph, Crunchbase, and industry directories, so AI has a consistent fact base to cite.
delivery
Schema engineering
Article, FAQ, Organization, Product, and Review schema, plus crawlability (robots, sitemap, canonical).
delivery
Citation building
Mentions on the sources LLMs trust most: Reddit, G2, niche media, high-authority references. Digital PR.
delivery
AI-citation content
Answer-first content engines can lift cleanly: comparison tables, expert listicles, original research, FAQ.
delivery
The report you get
What success looks like
example report, illustrative figures
Every cycle you get a plain-English share-of-model report: where you are cited, who else is named, and what to do next. Like a performance-marketing dashboard, for AI answers.
Share of model
28%
Prompts tracked
18
Engines covered
5
Share of model vs competitors
% of tracked answers that cite each brand
You28%
Competitor A41%
Competitor B33%
Competitor C19%
Where citations come from
sources the engines pulled
Reddit & communities34%
G2 & review sites22%
Industry media19%
Own site15%
Other10%
Citation tracking, by prompt and engine
re-run every two weeks. Green is cited.
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ChatGPT
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Claude
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Steering
What we do next
The report does not just measure, it steers. Each cycle the gaps decide the next moves.
01Entity
Establish a consistent fact base on Wikidata, Crunchbase, and Google Knowledge Graph so engines can resolve who you are.
02Citation
Earn third-party mentions where LLMs look first: relevant Reddit threads, G2, and niche industry media.
03Tracking
Run the baseline audit to start measuring share of model, then re-run every two weeks to steer the next cycle.
See your own share of model
We run your business through ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude and show you exactly what comes back, and where competitors are cited instead. No pitch unless you ask for one.