Use case

Prove AEO is working

Proving AEO works means showing that your brand is named more often in AI answers than it was, and pointing at the specific pages and placements that caused the change.

The problem

AEO budget gets approved on a hunch and reviewed on evidence. Somewhere around month three, someone senior asks whether it is working, and "we feel more visible" is not an answer that survives that meeting.

The honest difficulty is that AI answers leave no rank report and no click data. Without tracking from day one there is no before to compare against, which is why this gets uncomfortable fast.

How it works

  1. Establish the baseline before you do the work

    Track your prompts daily from the start. The baseline is the asset; you cannot reconstruct it later, and a month of history is worth more than any single report.

  2. Show the trend, not a snapshot

    Visibility across the same prompts over time, per engine and per country, so a single good day cannot be mistaken for progress.

  3. Point at what caused it

    Citation Impact ranks the individual pages carrying your presence, so the story becomes "this page moved these prompts" rather than a number with no explanation.

  4. Send it without building a slide

    The summary scorecard emails to whoever needs it, so leadership reads it without a seat and you stop rebuilding the same spreadsheet.

What you see

Who it's for. Whoever owns the AEO budget and has to defend it to someone who does not use the product.

What this uses

This job leans on these parts of the platform.

Feature

Reports and alerts

A leadership scorecard you can email, and alerts when something actually changes.

Feature

Citation Impact

The handful of pages carrying your presence in AI answers, so effort goes where it counts.

Feature

AI visibility tracking

See whether AI answers name your brand, every day, across six engines and seven countries.

Frequently asked questions

How long before I can show results?

You can show a baseline immediately and movement once there is enough history to separate signal from daily noise. Start tracking before the work, not after: the baseline is the part you cannot recreate.

What is the headline metric?

How often your brand is named across your tracked prompts, ideally alongside competitor share of voice. A visibility number on its own is hard to judge.

Can leadership see it without an account?

Yes. The summary scorecard is emailed to any recipients you name.

Can I prove a specific page caused a change?

You can show which pages are cited for which prompts and rank them by the presence they carry. That is strong evidence, though AI answers do not expose attribution the way a click does, so treat it as evidence rather than proof.

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Work out what to publish

Stop guessing at content. Start from the queries engines run and the sources they already trust.

See where you stand in AI answers

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