# monitoraeo

> AI Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) audits. We measure how often Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews name a brand, cite its domain, and recommend it in buyer-facing answers — then turn the gaps into a fix list.

monitoraeo is the AEO/GEO audit platform for brands that want to be the answer when buyers ask AI a question. The product runs real-time queries across the five major AI answer engines, scores visibility, citation rate, sentiment, accuracy and hallucination risk per engine, and produces a prioritised action plan.

## Key concepts
- [What is AEO?](https://www.monitoraeo.com/what-is-aeo): Answer Engine Optimisation — the practice of getting your brand named, cited and recommended in AI answers from ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews.
- [What is GEO?](https://www.monitoraeo.com/what-is-geo): Generative Engine Optimisation — the technical and content layer that makes a site retrievable, parseable and quotable by generative AI systems.
- [What is AI Overview?](https://www.monitoraeo.com/what-is-ai-overview): Google's inline AI-generated answer panel that appears above the regular search results on roughly 25–48% of queries.
- [What is AI Mode?](https://www.monitoraeo.com/what-is-ai-mode): Google's standalone full-page AI search experience (?udm=50). Always renders a complete conversational answer with 15–30 citations, unlike AI Overview which renders inline only on a subset of queries.
- [What is llms.txt?](https://www.monitoraeo.com/what-is-llms-txt): An emerging standard (llmstxt.org) — a markdown manifest at /llms.txt that summarises a site for AI crawlers, similar to robots.txt for search engines.
- [AEO vs SEO](https://www.monitoraeo.com/aeo-vs-seo): Where traditional SEO ends (ranking blue links) and AEO begins (winning the synthesised answer).
- [AEO checklist](https://www.monitoraeo.com/answer-engine-optimization-checklist): The prioritised 20-item list for getting your brand named, cited and recommended by AI engines.
- [AEO tools comparison](https://www.monitoraeo.com/aeo-tools): Honest comparison of the AEO tooling landscape — monitoraeo, Otterly.ai, Profound, Athena, Goodie and others.
- [Glossary](https://www.monitoraeo.com/glossary): Every AI search term defined — AEO, GEO, AI Overview, AI Mode, llms.txt, citation rate, share of voice, brand hallucination and more.

## Industry rankings
- [AI visibility rankings by industry](https://www.monitoraeo.com/ai-visibility): Public ranking pages for the top brands in each industry, scored by how often AI engines name and cite them. Updated monthly. Each industry page (e.g. /ai-visibility/crm-software) is a Dataset with per-brand visibility and citation rates across Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini.

## Product
- [How it works](https://www.monitoraeo.com/how-it-works): A monitoraeo audit takes a domain, runs 40 buyer-facing queries across 5 engines (200 AI answers), and scores how each engine describes the brand.
- [Audit product](https://www.monitoraeo.com/product/audit): One-off diagnostic across all 5 AI engines.
- [Monitoring product](https://www.monitoraeo.com/product/monitoring): Monthly cron-scheduled audits with trend charts so you see drift over time.

## Pricing
- [Free preview](https://www.monitoraeo.com/#preview): 8 buyer-facing questions on Google AI Overviews. No account, ~30 seconds.
- [Two Engine Audit](https://www.monitoraeo.com/pricing): $29 one-off — Google AI + ChatGPT, 40 queries, competitor share-of-voice, hallucination flags, prioritised action plan.
- [Full Audit](https://www.monitoraeo.com/pricing): $79 one-off — all 5 engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI), 40 queries × 5 engines = 200 answers, prioritised action plan.
- [Two Engine Monitoring](https://www.monitoraeo.com/pricing): $35/mo — includes the Two Engine Audit, monthly re-runs, trend chart, prioritised action plan, 20 monitored buyer questions.
- [Full Monitoring](https://www.monitoraeo.com/pricing): $95/mo — includes the Full Audit, all 5 engines monitored monthly, per-engine trends, competitor + source change tracking, prioritised action plan, 40 monitored buyer questions.

Every paid tier includes the prioritised action plan (content, schema and entity fixes generated by Claude Sonnet 4.6 from the full audit result set). The free preview does not include the action plan.

## Engines covered
- Google AI Overviews (free preview tier and up)
- ChatGPT (Two Engine and up)
- Claude (Full and up)
- Perplexity (Full and up)
- Gemini (Full and up)

## What every audit measures
- Visibility — % of AI answers that name the brand
- Citation rate — % that link to the brand's domain as a source
- Competitor share-of-voice — who gets named or cited instead
- Hallucination flags — false claims AI engines make about the brand
- Sentiment + accuracy (paid tiers) — second-pass LLM scoring of every answer
- Technical foundations — 15 GEO checks across crawlability, structured data, metadata, content, performance and entity signals

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- [Pricing](https://www.monitoraeo.com/pricing)
- [Run a free preview](https://www.monitoraeo.com/#preview)
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