AEO Verdict

Answer engine optimization for B2B software

Answer engine optimization that changes what AI recommends.

AEO Verdict runs the questions your buyers really ask across AI assistants, finds the exact worries that stop a confident recommendation and the page each one came from, fixes your site safely, and re-measures the verdict.

Free for our first design partners. No credit card.

  • AEO
  • AI visibility
  • AI search optimization
  • GEO
  • llms.txt
buyer-job run · example
job"Shortlist an observability platform for a 50-engineer team"
runsChatGPT ×3 · Claude ×3
verdictpartial mentioned, with caveats

worries
  • "Unclear if SSO is in the base plan"from /pricing · outdated copy
  • "No public data-retention policy found"from third-party comparison
  • "Self-hosting docs look out of date"from /docs/install

fixes3 changes · same page for people and crawlers · preview ready
pushedIndexNow · sitemap
nextre-measure same job, same assistants
Illustrative example. Not customer data.

The problem

Buyers ask AI for a shortlist before they ever visit your site.

The answer is often "partial". The assistant names you, then hedges on pricing, licensing, lock-in or reliability, citing an old page or someone else's comparison. A mention dashboard shows you the symptom. It doesn't tell you what to fix.

What a hedged AI answer sounds like

"You could consider them, but it isn't clear whether SSO is included, and some users report the setup docs are outdated. You may want to compare alternatives."

Each hedge has a source. We find it and fix it.

How it works

One loop: measure, fix, re-measure.

AI search optimization you can check. Every change has a reason, and every reason traces back to something an assistant actually said.

Measure

Run real buyer jobs

We take a job your buyers bring to AI, such as "pick a tool for our team", and run it several times across assistants. Each answer gets a verdict.

  • Confident, partial or not recommended
  • Every worry pulled out
  • The page each worry came from

Fix

Fix the site, safely

We write fixes from facts you sign off and apply them at the edge, in one reviewable config with a preview and a rollback.

  • Same page for every visitor and crawler
  • Titles, H1s and URLs untouched
  • HTML, Markdown and llms.txt updated together

Prove

Push and re-measure

Changed pages are submitted to search indexes. Then we run the same job again and compare the verdicts, before and after.

  • IndexNow and sitemap submissions
  • Same job, same assistants
  • A before-and-after you can share

Then the next job, or the next worry.

Why not a mention tracker

AI visibility dashboards count mentions. We change the answer.

TopicTypical mention trackerAEO Verdict
What you getShare of voice across hundreds of promptsA verdict on the buyer jobs that matter to you
Why AI hesitatesRarely shownEach worry, tied to the page that caused it
Changes to your siteA list of recommendations, or a separate copy served only to botsReviewed fixes on your real pages, identical for everyone
SEO riskBot-only pages raise cloaking questionsOne response for every visitor and crawler
ProofA trend lineThe same job, re-run before and after

No cloaking

People, search crawlers and AI crawlers all get the same page.

SEO-safe

We never touch titles, H1s, headings or URLs. Meta descriptions only change if you opt in.

Your facts, signed off

Every claim comes from you, with a source. The AI never invents them.

Design partners

Get a free AI buyer-job audit.

We're working with a small group of first design partners. Tell us your site and the buyer question you want AI to answer with you.

  1. 01We run your buyer question across AI assistants, several times.
  2. 02You get the verdict, the worries behind it, and the page each came from.
  3. 03We show the fixes we'd make, and you decide what happens next.

The question a buyer types into ChatGPT or Claude when they are choosing.

We only use these details to run your audit and contact you about it.

FAQ

Questions about answer engine optimization

What is answer engine optimization (AEO)?

Answer engine optimization is the work of making AI assistants and AI search give accurate, confident answers about your product when buyers ask. It overlaps with generative engine optimization (GEO) and AI search optimization. The goal is not just to be mentioned, but to be recommended for the job the buyer is trying to get done.

How is this different from an AI visibility or mention tracker?

Mention trackers report how often AI names you across many prompts. We start from a few buyer jobs that matter, record the verdict for each, extract every worry that holds the recommendation back along with the page it came from, then fix those pages and re-run the same job to show whether the verdict changed.

Is this safe for SEO? Is it cloaking?

It is not cloaking. Every visitor and every crawler, human or AI, gets the same page. We do not change titles, H1s, headings or URLs, and every change is reviewable, previewed first and reversible.

Which AI assistants do you test?

We run buyer jobs through widely used assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude, several times each, because single answers vary. Every report states how each answer was collected.

Where do the facts in the fixes come from?

From you. Each fix is based on a fact you supply and sign off, with a source link. The AI never invents claims about your product.

Do I need to be on Cloudflare?

The edge fixes run as a Cloudflare Worker in your own Cloudflare account, so you keep control and can roll back at any time. If your site is not on Cloudflare, we hand over the same changes so your team can apply them in your CMS or docs.

What does the free AI buyer-job audit include?

We run the buyer question you choose across AI assistants and send you the verdict, the specific worries behind it, the pages each worry came from, and the fixes we would make. It is free for our first design partners.

Is my site agent-ready?

An agent-ready site lets AI crawlers in, publishes an llms.txt file and serves clean Markdown versions of key pages. The audit checks these basics too.

This page is an example: see /llms.txt, /index.md, or request it with Accept: text/markdown.

Find out what AI tells your buyers, and why.

One buyer question, a real verdict, and the pages behind it.

Get a free AI buyer-job audit