We make websites visible to AI
AEO is the practice of optimizing content so AI answer engines choose it as the answer. We audit, score, and fix websites so they get cited - not just ranked. AEO Rank is the 53-criterion engine that quantifies how citation-ready a site is.
Founders
Michael Kansky CEO
Serial entrepreneur, customer experience strategist, and multi-patent holder in client session technologies. INC 5000 inductee (#84, 2015-2018). Two decades in the customer support industry - from founding LiveHelpNow to pioneering AI-powered recruitment assessments. Now applies that same obsession with measurable outcomes to AEO, leading the research that shapes every AEORank update.
Alex Shortov CTO
Full-stack engineer and content infrastructure architect with 20 years of building enterprise systems. Built AEO Content from the ground up - the scoring engine, multi-engine pipeline, visibility analysis, content generation system, and the WordPress plugin that executes fixes remotely. Translates Michael's research findings into production-grade scoring updates, often within days of discovery.
Our Mission
SEO gets you ranked. AEO gets you cited. We built AEO Content to answer one question: does your website show up when someone asks an AI about your industry?
Michael and Alex bring a combined 40+ years of SEO and content infrastructure experience to AEO. That background is what makes AEORank possible - not a one-time product, but a living scoring system that evolves as AI engines change how they select and cite sources.
AEORank Scoring Engine
A governed scoring methodology - not a static checklist. 53 criteria across 5 pillars, continuously recalibrated from how AI engines actually select and cite sources.
Can AI extract a citable answer from your page?
The heaviest pillar. Measures whether your content contains self-contained, fact-dense answers that AI engines can lift directly into a response. Original data, answer capsule patterns, evidence packaging.
Can AI navigate and parse your content?
How your content is organized determines whether AI finds the right answer or skips to a competitor. Direct answers, Q&A format, entity disambiguation, and sentence atomicity.
Why should AI trust you over competitors?
Schema markup, author credentials, citation provenance. AI engines weight trust signals heavily when choosing between similar answers.
Can AI crawlers reach your pages?
The best content is invisible if crawlers cannot parse it. Semantic HTML, extraction friction, page speed.
Are you explicitly guiding AI engines?
The newest pillar. llms.txt, structured data, RSS. Low weight today because adoption is early - but highest per-point impact.
The first scoring system purpose-built for AI citation. We study how major AI answer engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AIO, and others) actually pick sources - then encode those patterns into 53 deterministic criteria across 5 pillars. No LLM guesswork. No static checklists.
AEORank evolves continuously. That research feeds directly into the algorithm - new criteria get added, weights get recalibrated, false positives get eliminated. 11,000+ domains scored across 15 sectors and 28 categories.
Changelog
AI Content Agent
Scores every article on the AEO Rank pillars before it publishes and flags what to improve. Our bar is 70+, and you can see each article's AEO Rank in Studio.
Score
Every article is scored on 17 checks across the 5 AEO Rank pillars before it publishes.
Flag
The checks it misses are flagged, so you see what would raise the score.
Improve
Our team or you apply the improvements in Studio, and the article is scored again.
What We Do
AEO Audit
Score your site across 53 criteria. Free instant audit or multi-engine deep analysis.
Visibility Analysis
Real queries against AI engines to see who gets cited, with competitor comparison.
Industry Benchmarks
AEO Site Ranks across 4 verticals. See where your competitors land.
Context-Aware Generation
Learns your domain, competitive landscape, and brand voice - then continuously produces the content that fills your AI visibility gaps.
Compounding Visibility
Every audit finding, every citation signal, every competitive shift feeds back into the pipeline. It gets smarter with each cycle - compounding AI visibility, not a one-time fix.
Human-Quality Output
Every piece passes through our humanizer. No robotic phrasing, no filler, no telltale AI patterns - content that reads like your subject-matter expert wrote it.
From the blog
The latest from our content engine.
Original-data articles, case studies, and AEO research from our content engine - the same pipeline we run for clients.
The State of AEO 2026: What 13,385 Sites Tell Us About AI Citation Readiness
We scored 13,385 unique domains on AEO Rank. The median is 47, only 32 sites clear 70, and just 2 reach 80. Here's what separates the top from the middle.
The Top 32: What the Only Sites Scoring 70+ on AEO Rank Do Differently
Out of 13,385 sites, just 32 clear AEO Rank 70. We analyzed all of them. Four patterns explain the gap, none of them are about word count or backlinks.
Trust & Authority Is the Weakest AEO Rank Pillar. Here's Why.
Across 13,385 sites, Trust & Authority averages 3.7, the lowest of the five AEO Rank pillars. The five weakest criteria reveal what AI engines actually want.
Your competitors are already optimizing for AI
Every day without action is traffic your site loses to AI-ready competitors. We fix that.