Everything we’re learning about being seen by AI.
Field guides, playbooks and head-to-head comparisons for getting your brand recommended by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI.
How to get ChatGPT to recommend your brand
ChatGPT recommends brands it can find, parse and corroborate. The working method: earn the sources it reads, answer the questions buyers ask, keep your facts consistent, and measure the answers themselves.
Perplexity
Gemini Google AIAEO for home brands: one roof, a dozen shortlists
Home is where AI answers carry the most default power: every micro-category from mattresses to cookware already has a settled shortlist. We measured all of them, and where the openings are.
AEO for finance brands: the most careful answers in AI
Money questions get AI's most guarded answers: regulation fills the space where brands stand elsewhere, accounting software crowns the category, and infrastructure names carry the trust. Measured across four engines.
AEO for fashion brands: who gets named when AI dresses the buyer
We asked four AI engines to build wardrobes, judge quality and vet stores. Transparency-led brands beat giants, resale platforms answer the ethics question, and the quality conversation has no brands in it at all.
AEO for software brands: the answers that pick your stack
Software buyers now ask AI which tools to run. We measured what they ask, which brands all four engines name, why mature categories freeze, and how a software brand earns the naming.
AEO for beauty brands: the answers skincare buyers act on
Skincare buying is now a conversation about skin type, concerns and trust. We measured what buyers ask, which brands all four engines name, and how a beauty brand earns the naming.
AEO for travel brands: winning the answers travellers act on
Travel buying moved into AI conversations before most verticals. We measured what travellers ask, which operators all four engines name, and how a travel brand earns the naming.
AEO vs SEO: what transfers, what doesn't, and how to run both
The two disciplines share a foundation and contest different surfaces. Exactly what carries over, what stays behind, where instincts mislead, and how one budget runs both.
The AEO audit: check your AI visibility in an afternoon
The complete manual method: build the question set, run it across the engines, record what comes back, and turn the findings into a ranked work queue. No tools required.
How AEO works: from a buyer's question to your brand in the answer
The full mechanism, step by step: how AI engines compose answers, where citations come from, how brands become entities, and how shipped work turns into changed answers.
What is Answer Engine Optimization? The complete guide
The full discipline in one place: what AEO is, how AI engines choose the brands they name, the five workstreams, honest measurement, and how to start this week.
Answer engine optimization services: what you are buying, in plain terms
AEO services all sell the same underlying work. The honest differences are who performs it, where the results land, and what proof you get. A plain-terms buyer's guide.
What is an AI SEO agent, and what should it be trusted to do?
An AI SEO agent owns an outcome and works at it on its own schedule. What separates a real agent from an AI feature, and how authority should be governed.
What is an AEO tool, and what should a good one do?
An AEO tool measures how AI engines represent a brand and helps improve it. What the category measures, what a good one must show you, and where tools end and agents begin.
Hiring an answer engine optimization agency: the questions that matter
What an AEO retainer buys, the six questions that expose a weak agency in one call, and when an agent replaces the retainer entirely.
The best rated answer engine optimization tools in 2026
Eight AEO tools compared honestly, ours included, with the concessions left in. Who each one fits, what it measures or does, and where to dig deeper.
Why your Google rank means nothing to ChatGPT
Ranking and being recommended are different games with different referees. What a strong Google position does and does not buy you inside AI answers, and what fills the gap.
MentionOS vs Ahrefs
The SEO toolkit vs the operating Agent for AEO
MentionOS vs Semrush
The marketing suite vs the operating Agent for AEO
MentionOS vs Profound
Enterprise AI Visibility Intelligence vs the Operating Agent for AEO
MentionOS vs Peec
AI search analytics vs the Agent that does the work
MentionOS vs PromptWatch
A kit of strong parts vs one Agent on the whole job
MentionOS vs Searchable
Two AI search agents, held to different standards
MentionOS vs Mentions
Similar names, different products, honestly mapped
MentionOS vs Scrunch AI
Enterprise AI-search infrastructure vs the working Agent