Be the answer AI gives, not a link it forgets.
When someone asks ChatGPT or Perplexity for the best option in your category, one answer wins. Answer engine optimization is how you become that answer. xSeek tracks your answer-engine visibility and shows exactly what to fix to get picked.
The basics
What is answer engine optimization?
Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the practice of getting your brand chosen as the answer in AI search. Answer engines, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google's AI Overviews, don't return ten links. They return one synthesized answer, built from the sources they trust most.
AEO is how you become one of those trusted sources. If the answer names a competitor when a buyer asks for the best tool in your space, you've lost the sale before the conversation even started.
How xSeek optimizes your AEO
From invisible to cited. In three moves.
See who the answer picks
xSeek asks the real buyer questions across every answer engine and records which brands get named, and which get ignored.
Pinpoint why you're skipped
We trace each answer back to its sources, so you see the exact pages and signals AI trusts instead of you.
Close the gap
A ranked to-do list of the content, pages and profiles to create so the next answer includes you.
AEO vs GEO vs SEO
Three acronyms, one goal: get chosen.
Rank a page on Google. Earn a click among ten links.
Get chosen as the answer. Earn the citation AI reads out.
Optimize your content specifically for generative engines.
AEO and GEO overlap heavily, both are about winning the AI answer. And both sit on top of real SEO: without a credible site, there is nothing for AI to cite. xSeek covers all three in one place.
See generative engine optimization →What you get
One platform to win every answer engine.
- AEO tracking across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI Overviews
- Source-level analysis, see the exact pages AI cites
- Competitor answer-share: how often AI names them vs you
- A prioritized action plan, refreshed weekly
- Answer-ready content generation
- Sentiment and brand monitoring inside AI answers
FAQ
Answer engine optimization, answered.
What is answer engine optimization (AEO)?
AEO is optimizing your brand and content to be selected as the answer in AI search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews, instead of just ranking as one link among many.
What's the difference between AEO and SEO?
SEO gets you ranked on a results page. AEO gets you named inside the single answer an AI gives. AEO builds on SEO, strong technical SEO and content are the foundation AI cites from.
AEO vs GEO, are they the same?
They overlap almost completely. AEO focuses on being the answer; GEO (generative engine optimization) focuses on optimizing content for generative engines. In practice you do both, and xSeek covers both.
Which answer engines does xSeek track?
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google's AI Overviews, plus the AI crawlers visiting your site.
Is AEO worth it for my business?
If your buyers ask AI for recommendations in your category, yes. xSeek shows you first whether AI already mentions you and where the gaps are, so you invest with data, not hope.
Do I need technical skills?
No. xSeek gives marketing teams clear, prioritized steps, not raw data to interpret.
Find out if AI names you, or your competitor.
Run a free AEO analysis. See which answers cite competitors instead of you, and get your first plan to fix it.