AEOlens is an Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) platform that helps founders, developers, and agencies improve how AI search engines discover, cite, and recommend their content. It runs 48 structural checks on any URL and returns a 0–100 score plus a ranked implementation list.

Unlike traditional SEO tools that optimise for Google keyword rankings, AEOlens targets the structural signals that determine whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Grok will quote your content in their responses.

You can run your first AEO audit in under 60 seconds — no account required.

The AEO score is a 0–100 rating of how structurally ready a page is to be cited by AI answer engines. It is calculated from 207 total raw points across 48 checks, normalised to a 100-point scale.

The AEO Audit crawls any public URL and runs 48 structural checks across four signal categories. The result is a 0–100 score and a ranked implementation list with exact code changes.

AI Buyer Simulation runs real buyer-intent prompts through ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Grok simultaneously. It measures how often each model cites your brand, where you appear when cited, and which competitors AI recommends when you don't appear.

AI Agent Analytics shows you exactly which AI systems are crawling your site, which pages they access, and how frequently. Because most AI crawlers do not execute JavaScript, they are completely invisible to tools like Google Analytics. AEOlens captures them at the server layer and verifies each bot, giving you data traditional analytics tools cannot see.

AEOlens integrates with your hosting platform to detect AI crawler traffic server-side. All integrations are non-intrusive — AEOlens never sits in the path of your site's traffic and has zero impact on page load times for your visitors.

# Quickest way — one command sets everything up
npx @aeolens/middleware init

# Or install manually
npm install @aeolens/middleware
# Then add to .env.local: AEOLENS_KEY=your_key_here

Competitor Intelligence runs full AEO audits on competitor domains and compares their structural signals against yours. When AI cites a competitor instead of you, AEOlens identifies the specific checks where they outperform you and prioritises the gap-closing fixes.

Brand Monitoring checks community platforms daily for mentions of your brand and competitors. Community discussions on X, Reddit, Hacker News, and ProductHunt directly influence what AI models say about your category — these platforms are major sources for AI training data and citation.

Run AEOlens against the URL you just deployed and fail the build when the AEO score drops below your threshold. One curl call from any CI provider; pass/fail in under three minutes.

The robots.txt generator creates a properly structured robots.txt file that allows all major AI crawlers while keeping private routes protected. It covers every major AI user agent.

The llms.txt standard gives AI systems structured context about your site: who you are, what your key pages do, and how they should be cited. It is placed at /.well-known/llms.txt or /llms.txt.

# YourBrand

Short description of what your product does.

## Key pages
- [Product](/product): what it does
- [Pricing](/pricing): plans and tiers
- [Docs](/docs): documentation
- [About](/about): company background

## Contact
hello@yourbrand.com

## Usage permissions
Training: Yes
Summarisation: Yes
Citation: Yes

Answer Engine Optimisation is the practice of structuring content so AI systems can discover it, understand it, trust it, and cite it inside generated answers.

Traditional SEO earns a click from a ranked result. AEO earns a citation inside a model-generated response — often before a user visits any website at all. The structural signals that drive citations are different from those that drive rankings.

Each AI model prioritises different structural signals. ChatGPT responds strongly to FAQ schema and direct-answer sentences. Perplexity weights freshness and entity clarity. Gemini values trust signals and author attribution. Claude responds to self-contained passages and factual density. Grok responds to Twitter Card metadata and social signals.

The fastest path to citation across all five models is to address the universal blockers first: AI crawler access, FAQ schema, and answer-first content structure.

AEO and SEO share foundational practices — clear content, structured markup, technical accessibility — but they optimise for different outcomes.