AEO Engine

What is AEO Engine?

AEO Engine is an Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) service run by AEO Engine LLC (Manvel, TX), founded and led by Vijay Jacob (Founder & CEO) and Dan Ashburn (Co-Founder & CMO), formalized under the AEO Engine name in January 2026. Its standalone free tool, the GEO Audit at aeoengine.ai/geo-audit, takes a single URL, checks it with no sign-up required, and returns a numeric visibility score plus a per-bot AI-crawler-access report in under a minute. Behind that free tool sits a managed, done-for-you service: dedicated staff producing AEO-optimized content, backlinks, Reddit/Quora mentions and PR campaigns on 90-day contracts starting at $1,597/month, closer in shape to an agency retainer than to self-serve monitoring software.

What does AEO Engine do?

Entering a URL and clicking "Run GEO Audit" fires a direct call to AEO Engine's own audit engine (no login, no email) and returns results in under 60 seconds. Run live against citedindex.com during this review, it returned a Composite GEO Score of 66/100, broken into six sub-scores — Citability 65, Crawlers 100, Brand 50, E-E-A-T 50, Schema 100, Platform 50 — plus a full table showing whether each of 19 named AI crawlers (gptbot, chatgpt-user, oai-searchbot, claudebot, anthropic-ai, claude-web, perplexitybot, perplexity-user, google-extended, googleother, ccbot, applebot-extended, bytespider, amazonbot, meta-externalagent, cohere-ai, youbot, diffbot, petalbot) is allowed to crawl the site, and a prioritized list of specific issues (e.g. a "weak citation block" flagged for not being self-contained enough for an AI engine to quote directly). Beyond the free audit, the paid Growth and Scale plans replace that self-serve report with a managed service: a dedicated team ships 30–60 AEO-optimized articles a month, 3–10 backlinks from 35+ Domain Rating sites, several Reddit/Quora mentions, and monthly press-release distribution (596+ placement instances, up to 1,788 backlinks per release, on both plans) — with a dedicated account strategist reserved for Scale — under a 90-day rolling contract that carries a stated 30% traffic-growth guarantee.

How AEO Engine works

1. 1Enter a single URL at aeoengine.ai/geo-audit and run the free audit — no sign-up or email required, results in under 60 seconds.
2. 2Review the Composite GEO Score and its six sub-scores (Citability, Crawlers, Brand, E-E-A-T, Schema, Platform), plus a table showing whether each of 19 named AI crawlers can access the site.
3. 3Work through the prioritized list of specific issues the audit flags, such as a citation block that isn't self-contained enough for an AI engine to quote directly.
4. 4For ongoing work beyond the free audit, a paid Growth or Scale contract adds a dedicated team producing 30-60 AEO-optimized articles/month, backlinks from 35+ Domain Rating sites, and monthly press-release distribution under a 90-day rolling contract.

Who is AEO Engine for?

• Teams that want a fast, free, no-signup technical read on whether AI crawlers can access and parse their site before buying anything.
• Companies without an in-house content/SEO team that want content, backlinks and PR fully outsourced under a managed retainer.
• Marketers diagnosing one specific citation gap (e.g. a flagged "weak citation block") who want a concrete, checkable finding rather than a vague score.

Key features

• Free GEO Audit Tool: No-signup, ~60-second audit at aeoengine.ai/geo-audit — a Composite GEO Score plus 6 sub-scores, a 19-bot AI-crawler-access table, and prioritized fixes.
• AEO-optimized content production: 30 articles/month on Growth, 60/month on Scale, written toward AI-citation readiness rather than classic SEO alone.
• Backlink building: 3–5 links/month (Growth) or 6–10/month (Scale) from sites with 35+ Domain Rating.
• Reddit/Quora mention building: Several placements per month aimed at building the kind of community-source citations AI engines pull from.
• Monthly press-release distribution: 596+ placement instances across a 400+ outlet footprint and up to 1,788 high-value backlinks per release, included on both Growth and Scale.
• 30% traffic-growth guarantee: Stated on the pricing page, tied to the 90-day rolling contract term.

What are AEO Engine's use cases?

• First, free look at AI-crawler access before buying anything: A team runs the no-signup audit to see whether AI crawlers can even reach and parse its site before evaluating any paid AEO/GEO tool.
• Fully managed AEO instead of an in-house hire: A company without a content/SEO team pays for the Growth or Scale plan to get content, backlinks, and PR handled by a dedicated outside team.
• Diagnosing a specific citation gap: A marketer uses the audit's per-issue breakdown (e.g. a flagged "weak citation block") to rewrite one section rather than commissioning a full audit elsewhere.

Why use AEO Engine?

• The free GEO Audit Tool is genuinely no-signup and instant, verified by running it live, not just reading the marketing copy.
• A named founder (Vijay Jacob) and co-founder (Dan Ashburn), independently corroborated (RocketReach, third-party PR coverage) rather than only self-reported, plus a registered US address and phone number.
• The audit's AI-crawler-access table names 19 specific bots rather than a generic "AI visibility" score, giving a concrete, checkable technical finding.

Pros & cons

AEO Engine pricing

• Growth$1,597 / month, 90-day rolling contract
• Scale$2,997 / month, 90-day rolling contract
• Enterprise Managed AEOCustom / custom scope

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AEO Engine review

AEO Engine's free GEO Audit Tool is a genuine, no-signup, technically specific first read, the AI-crawler-access table in particular is a sharper, more checkable finding than most "AI visibility score" tools give away for free. The paid product behind it, though, is a four-figure-a-month managed content/backlink/PR retainer with no independent review coverage yet and a legal entity formalized only in January 2026, so it is a much bigger commitment than the free tool alone suggests.

Listed primarily for the free, no-signup GEO Audit Tool, run live during this review rather than taken on faith, in a niche search ("geo audit tool") that still has zero neutral third-party coverage. The paid managed-service tier is evaluated on its own separate terms as an agency-style retainer, not benchmarked against self-serve AI-visibility monitors like Otterly AI or Profound.

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