AEO/GEO Intelligence

When to Use This Skill

Activate this module when the user's request involves any of the following:

• AI Visibility: Questions about how a brand, product, or person appears in AI-generated answers (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Copilot, Gemini, Claude)
• Answer Engine Optimization (AEO): Optimizing content so it gets selected as a source for AI-generated answers
• Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): Structuring content and entities so generative AI platforms accurately represent a brand
• Citation Tracking: Monitoring which sources AI models cite when answering queries related to a brand or industry
• Entity Consistency: Ensuring brand information is uniform across all knowledge sources that AI models train on or retrieve from
• Knowledge Graph Optimization: Improving how a brand is represented in Google Knowledge Graph, Wikidata, and other structured knowledge bases
• Structured Data for AI: Implementing schema markup and structured data specifically to improve AI comprehension and citation likelihood

Trigger phrases: "AI visibility," "how does ChatGPT describe my brand," "Perplexity results," "AI Mode optimization," "AI Overview optimization," "answer engine," "generative engine," "LLM optimization," "AI citations," "entity consistency," "Knowledge Graph"

Google AI Mode (May 2026 — treat as a distinct surface): At Google I/O on 19 May 2026 AI Mode became the default search experience for opted-in users, crossed ~1B MAUs, and switched to Gemini 3.5 Flash as the base model. AI Mode is not the same as AI Overviews — it is a separate conversational tab with deeper reasoning, multi-turn follow-ups, and a citation pattern that frequently diverges from AI Overviews for the same query. Brands must audit AI Mode independently. Practical implication: an AEO program that only tests AI Overviews + ChatGPT + Perplexity now has a measurable blind spot.

Additional I/O 2026 announcements that change AEO scope (source: blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-io-2026):