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title: Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) That Fixes the AI Verdict
url: https://aeoverdict.com/
description: Answer engine optimization for B2B software. We run real buyer questions through AI assistants, find what makes them hesitate and the page behind it, fix your site safely, and re-measure the verdict.
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# 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.

[Get a free AI buyer-job audit](https://aeoverdict.com/#audit). Free for our first design partners.

Covers: AEO, AI visibility, AI search optimization, GEO, llms.txt.

## 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.

## How it works: measure, fix, re-measure

1. **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 is pulled out, and each worry is tied to the page it came from.
2. **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. Every visitor and crawler gets the same page. Titles, H1s and URLs are untouched. HTML, Markdown and llms.txt are updated together.
3. **Push and re-measure.** Changed pages are submitted to search indexes (IndexNow and sitemaps). Then we run the same job again, with the same assistants, and compare the verdicts before and after.

## AEO Verdict vs a typical mention tracker

| | Typical mention tracker | AEO Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | Share of voice across hundreds of prompts | A verdict on the buyer jobs that matter to you |
| Why AI hesitates | Rarely shown | Each worry, tied to the page that caused it |
| Changes to your site | A list of recommendations, or a separate copy served only to bots | Reviewed fixes on your real pages, identical for everyone |
| SEO risk | Bot-only pages raise cloaking questions | One response for every visitor and crawler |
| Proof | A trend line | The 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.

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

Sign up at https://aeoverdict.com/#audit with your name, work email, website URL and, optionally, the buyer question.

## FAQ

### 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 https://aeoverdict.com/llms.txt, https://aeoverdict.com/index.md, or request https://aeoverdict.com/ with `Accept: text/markdown`.