Your AEO score is a starting point. Here is how to read it.
Understand what a readiness score measures, what it misses, and how to turn it into action.
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A repeatable readiness review for product pages
Check whether a reader can understand the product, verify its claims, and choose a sensible next step.
An evidence log for AI mentions, recommendations, and citations
Preserve enough context to make an AI visibility observation useful and repeatable.
Audit whether a citation supports the claim beside it
Classify supported, partial, contradicted, and irrelevant citations using the exact claim and source passage.
Brand mentions, recommendations, and citations need different reporting
Define three observation types, preserve overlap, and connect each to the question it can actually answer.
Build a frozen prompt panel for an AEO review
Use a documented set of buyer questions, separate branded prompts, and preserve a comparable panel across reviews.
Calibrate two reviewers coding AI recommendations
Use a small labeled-answer exercise to resolve coding disagreements before reporting AI mentions and recommendations.
Check whether your business identity is consistent across its own pages
Resolve conflicting descriptions of the business before asking outsiders to understand it.
Compare two answer engines with paired observations
Use the same questions, report missing responses, and compare a matched subset before drawing conclusions across engines.