Clear answers about AI visibility.

Answer Engine Optimization is the practice of making an entity and its information easier for answer systems to identify, understand, verify, and use accurately. It complements rather than replaces search engine optimization.

SEO focuses largely on discoverability in search results. AEO also considers how answer systems synthesize information, resolve entities, select sources, and construct responses. Strong technical SEO can support AEO, but it does not guarantee an AI mention.

AI visibility describes whether and how an entity appears in generated answers for a defined set of questions, engines, markets, languages, and research dates. It is always contextual, not a universal permanent rank.

No. AEO.METRY cannot control ChatGPT or any independent provider. We do not guarantee mentions, recommendations, citations, rankings, or answer positions.

A Light Presence Scan is an automated, deterministic inspection of public website, entity, technical, and structured-data signals. It never claims that a live AI engine was queried. You can start a Scan after creating an account.

No. Automated Scans use public-web evidence. Live answer-engine research is kept separate in the manual Deep Investigation service.

A Minor Presence Report explains the deterministic public signals captured by a completed Light Presence Scan. It preserves evidence boundaries and does not turn website inspection into fabricated mentions, citations, competitors, rankings, or recommendations.

The published bands are exact: 0–7 gives 0 Doves; 8–19 gives 1; 20–32 gives 2; 33–49 gives 3; 50–69 gives 4; and 70–100 gives 5. A Dove Rating inherits the evidence limits of the report it appears in.

Failed, partial, unavailable, empty, and timed-out evidence remains auditable but is excluded from measured metrics. Incomplete evidence does not become a scored visibility report.

It is a human-led, manually scoped investigation of selected live AI answering engines, with dated evidence, answer observations, screenshots where available, and prioritized recommendations. See the four-step methodology.

The request form includes major conversational, regional, emerging, and search-led answer experiences. Availability, features, retrieval, and observed citation behavior differ by engine and market.

A one-engine investigation is $115 and a two-engine investigation is $230. For three or more engines, contact us for a direct scope and timeline. Current automated plan pricing remains separate on the pricing page.

The typical timeline is 5–7 business days for one engine and 7–10 business days for two engines. Work begins after payment confirmation.

No. Manual investigations do not start automated Scans, consume plan Scan allowances, or trigger automated paid-provider accounting.

No. Structured data can clarify machine-readable facts when it matches visible content, but it does not guarantee inclusion, citation, recommendation, or ranking. See Schema.org guidance.

They can affect crawler access and URL discovery, but provider behavior varies. A technically accessible page can still be absent from generated answers. Google documents the roles of robots.txt and sitemaps.

Automated inspection can evaluate supported public signals such as crawlability, canonical URLs, headings, metadata, robots directives, sitemaps, and visible structured-data types. These are discoverability inputs, not proof of an AI mention.

No. Structured data should match publisher-authored content that users can see on the page and should use the most specific appropriate type. It should never describe hidden or fabricated questions and answers.

Yes. Completed manual reports are stored privately and access is limited to the owning customer and authorized administrators. Read the privacy summary for more context.

No. Reports explain evidence, scope, and conclusions, while proprietary prompt libraries, weighting formulas, analyst instructions, and templates remain private.

Answers can vary by provider, model, query wording, account context, time, location, language, retrieval state, and source availability. That is why evidence is dated and repeated research must document scope.

They use a direct invoice from our company in Georgia. Submitting a request does not charge Dodo, mark the work paid, or start research before payment confirmation.

No. Manual investigation packages are separate from existing automated subscription prices, checkout links, allowances, and access rules. Review the current options on the pricing page.