# AEO Engine — Human-managed AEO agency that ships schema, content, links and PR, with AI visibility tracking in its own platform. > Source: CitedIndex — https://citedindex.com/aeoengine (structured, researched, re-verified) > Facts last verified: 2026-09-10 AEO Engine is a managed answer-engine optimisation agency that runs a brand's technical SEO, schema, content production, link building and digital PR. Human strategists set direction while the firm's own platform and specialist agents execute the work and track AI visibility. | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Website | https://aeoengine.ai | | Price | from $1,597/month | | Free tier | Partly | No $0 tier of the managed program. The free entry is a one-off AEO audit report covering 5 prompts across 4 engines, requiring a verified work email and rate limited to 3 per hour per IP, 1 per 24h per email and 1 per 24h per domain. A suite of standalone free checkers and generators is also published without login. ## What it does **Monitors AI answers** · Yes — A dashboard queries answer engines with the client's prompts on every plan and records brand mentions, share of voice and citation share. > Multi-Engine Tracking Monitor ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews in one dashboard. > — https://aeoengine.ai/platform/ai-search-tracking · Comprehensive Tracking Features section, Multi-Engine Tracking card **Optimises your content** · Yes — The agency audits existing pages and then implements the fixes itself rather than handing back a report, with weekly automated on-page work. > We ship the technical fixes, schema, and content that make you citable. > — https://aeoengine.ai · How it works section, step 02 Fix and create **Generates content** · Yes — Article production is the largest deliverable in every plan, ranging from 30 pieces monthly on the entry plan to 90 on the top tier. > 30 on-brand SEO/AEO articles per month with supporting media > — https://aeoengine.ai/pricing · Growth plan card, WHAT'S INCLUDED list **Publishes to your site** · Yes — Finished articles are pushed live to the client's own CMS on a schedule, with an approval hold available before anything goes public. > We support WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, GoHighLevel, and any platform with an API. Direct publishing means no copy-paste needed. > — https://aeoengine.ai/platform/ai-blog-writer · Frequently Asked Questions, 'Which CMS platforms are supported?' **Technical AEO** · Yes — Crawlability, schema governance and entity work are named as standing plan inclusions, and the vendor sells schema markup as its own service line. > Site optimization covering crawlability, schema governance, and technical SEO foundations at the scope specified for each plan. > — https://aeoengine.ai · Every AEO Engine Plan Includes section, technical foundations item **Done-for-you service** · Yes — This is a done-for-you retainer with named human roles per tier, not software a buyer operates; agents execute under strategist direction. > AEO Engine is a human-managed Answer Engine Optimization agency with software under the hood > — https://aeoengine.ai/pricing · About AEO Engine block below the FAQ ## Answer engines **ChatGPT** · Yes — ChatGPT heads the vendor's stated tracking inventory and the platform queries it directly with the client's own prompt set. > We track ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Our platform queries each engine with your target prompts and records brand mentions. > — https://aeoengine.ai/platform/ai-search-tracking · Frequently Asked Questions, 'Which AI search engines do you track?' **Perplexity** · Yes — Perplexity is one of the four engines the platform queries on every plan, counted into share of voice and citation share alongside the rest. > We track ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Our platform queries each engine with your target prompts and records brand mentions. > — https://aeoengine.ai/platform/ai-search-tracking · Frequently Asked Questions, 'Which AI search engines do you track?' **Gemini** · Yes — Gemini is queried as a distinct engine, separate from the Google AI Overviews surface which the vendor counts on its own. > We track ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Our platform queries each engine with your target prompts and records brand mentions. > — https://aeoengine.ai/platform/ai-search-tracking · Frequently Asked Questions, 'Which AI search engines do you track?' **Google AI Overviews** · Yes — AI Overviews are tracked in the paid dashboard and also exposed publicly through a free checker that reports the cited source URLs per query. > We track ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Our platform queries each engine with your target prompts and records brand mentions. > — https://aeoengine.ai/platform/ai-search-tracking · Frequently Asked Questions, 'Which AI search engines do you track?' **Google AI Mode** · Partly — AI Mode is never sold as tracked coverage; the vendor says its Google citation data may arrive through AI Mode paths depending on the provider, which is incidental rather than guaranteed. > The page is built around Google AI Overview citation checks. Under the hood, live Google AI-search citation data may come from AI Overview or AI Mode data paths depending on provider availability > — https://aeoengine.ai/ai-overview-checker · FAQ, 'Does this check Google AI Mode too?' **Claude** · Partly — Claude is queried by the free one-off audit and named in the analytics and recovery service pages, but it is absent from the four engines the paid dashboard says it tracks. > Run a free AEO audit and AEO checker to see how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude find, cite, and recommend your brand. > — https://aeoengine.ai/aeo-report · Page hero, below the H1 **Microsoft Copilot** · No — Copilot sits outside the stated tracking inventory on every plan; the free Copilot page only audits whether your pages are reachable and answer-ready for Bing, it does not query the assistant. > We track ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Our platform queries each engine with your target prompts and records brand mentions. > — https://aeoengine.ai/platform/ai-search-tracking · Frequently Asked Questions, 'Which AI search engines do you track?' **Grok** · No — Grok is outside the four engines the platform says it queries, and it is named nowhere in the vendor's own agent-facing corpus or free checker set. > We track ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Our platform queries each engine with your target prompts and records brand mentions. > — https://aeoengine.ai/platform/ai-search-tracking · Frequently Asked Questions, 'Which AI search engines do you track?' **DeepSeek** · No — DeepSeek falls outside the enumerated tracking set and appears in none of the plan deliverables, engine-specific checkers or the vendor's llms-full corpus. > We track ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Our platform queries each engine with your target prompts and records brand mentions. > — https://aeoengine.ai/platform/ai-search-tracking · Frequently Asked Questions, 'Which AI search engines do you track?' **Meta AI** · No — Meta AI is not among the engines queried on any tier; the vendor's authority work touches Facebook as a mention platform, which is distribution rather than answer tracking. > We track ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Our platform queries each engine with your target prompts and records brand mentions. > — https://aeoengine.ai/platform/ai-search-tracking · Frequently Asked Questions, 'Which AI search engines do you track?' **Coverage in the vendor’s words** · Yes — Coverage is stated as four engines identically on every tier; what changes with price is the prompt ceiling, from 150 up to 1,000, not the engine list. > AI visibility tracking across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. > — https://aeoengine.ai · Every AEO Engine Plan Includes section, AI visibility tracking item ## What it reports **Names the cited sources** · Yes — The free Google checker returns the actual cited URLs and domains for a query, while the paid dashboard reports which brands were cited per prompt and your share of them. > Cited source URLs and citation domains > — https://aeoengine.ai/ai-overview-checker · What this tool measures list **Competitor tracking** · Yes — Rivals are captured automatically from the same prompt runs rather than configured separately, and win rate against them is a headline metric. > competitor tracking is automatic. When we test prompts, we record all brands mentioned > — https://aeoengine.ai/platform/ai-search-tracking · Frequently Asked Questions, 'Can I track competitor brands?' **Brand sentiment** · Yes — Sentiment is one weighted input to the vendor's composite AI visibility score, so tone is measured, though no per-attribute breakdown of what engines associate with the brand is shown. > Our visibility score considers mention frequency, citation quality, recommendation prominence, sentiment, competitive position, and query importance > — https://aeoengine.ai/services/ai-search-analytics · FAQ, 'What's included in an AI visibility score?' **Recommendations** · Yes — Every diagnostic ends in ranked fixes rather than a score alone, and on the paid programs the agency implements those fixes itself. > it shows where your website is already answer-ready, where competitors are being recommended instead, and which fixes can improve visibility across AI search > — https://aeoengine.ai/aeo-report · What Is an AEO Checker? explainer paragraph **AI crawler analytics** · No — The reporting stack ingests analytics, Search Console and its own citation data only; AI bot crawl logs are not among them, and the nearest features are LLM referral traffic and a robots.txt access review. > We integrate Plausible Analytics (traffic, pageviews, conversions, revenue), Google Search Console (rankings, impressions, clicks, CTR), and our AI Visibility tracking (AI engine citations). > — https://aeoengine.ai/platform/seo-reporting · Frequently Asked Questions, 'What data sources are integrated?' **Wrong answers about you** · Partly — Accuracy of what engines say is claimed as something the analytics assess, but no alerting, flagging surface or correction workflow for false statements is documented anywhere on the site. > Sentiment & Accuracy: What AI engines say about you when they mention your brand, is it accurate, positive, and helpful? > — https://aeoengine.ai/services/ai-search-analytics · What AI search analytics measures, Sentiment & Accuracy bullet ## Plans and signing up **Prompt or credit allowance** · Yes — Prompts are the metered unit and the ceiling is published per tier, climbing from 150 on the entry plan to 1,000 on the most expensive one. > AI prompts tracked Up to 150 Up to 300 Up to 500 Up to 750 Up to 1,000 across every market > — https://aeoengine.ai/pricing · Full Feature Comparison table, 'AI prompts tracked' row **Projects or brands** · Partly — The entry plan is scoped to a single site, so a second brand means a second retainer; the reporting layer does allow several domains under one organisation. > Site optimization, topical mapping, and AEO prompt analysis for one site > — https://aeoengine.ai/pricing · Growth plan card, first WHAT'S INCLUDED item **Countries** · Partly — Market selection is free in the AI Overview checker, but multi-market tracking inside the managed programs is named only at the top tier, four steps above the entry price. > AI visibility tracking for up to 1,000 prompts across every market > — https://aeoengine.ai/pricing · Dominate Tier 3 card, WHAT'S INCLUDED list **How often it checks** · Yes — Automated visibility runs are monthly rather than daily or weekly, with manual runs available in between; written client reporting is the weekly artefact. > Automated tests run on the 1st of every month. You can also run manual tests anytime to check current visibility. > — https://aeoengine.ai/platform/ai-search-tracking · Frequently Asked Questions, 'How often is tracking updated?' **Card required to start** · No — The free audit asks for a verified work inbox rather than payment details, and the strategy call is likewise booked without a card. > No credit card. Instant start. Actionable report. > — https://aeoengine.ai/aeo-report · Closing CTA under 'Ready to see how AI sees your brand?' **Self-serve signup** · Yes — All five plans carry a direct checkout link and the Growth page renders a real secure checkout, though the traffic guarantee is only granted after a qualification call. > SECURE CHECKOUT Get your brand recommended by AI search > — https://app.aeoengine.ai/growth/signup · Checkout page header, above the YOUR PLAN panel ## Access and integrations **API** · Partly — A keyless public API exists but only runs the free report, with per-IP, per-email and per-domain rate limits; no API is documented for the paid dashboard's tracking data. > Keyless API for AI agents to run the free AEO report on a user's behalf. POST {domain, email} > — https://aeoengine.ai/llms.txt · Free Tools and Reports section, AEO Report Agent API entry **MCP server** · Partly — An official MCP connector is published for the free report only, so an agent can run an audit directly but cannot reach a client's tracked prompts or citation history. > Run AEO Engine's AEO Report from Claude Open AEO Engine's official Claude directory listing to connect the AEO Report MCP. > — https://aeoengine.ai/aeo-report · Official Claude MCP block at the foot of the page **BI export** · Partly — CSV export and a real-time webhook exist on the paid Identity add-on and carry resolved visitor records, not AI citation data; no Looker, Power BI or warehouse connector is documented. > Monthly CSV on Starter, monthly + on-demand on Growth, weekly on Pro, daily on Scale. > — https://aeoengine.ai/platform/website-visitor-tracking · Everything You Get With AEO Engine Identity, Plan-Tier CSV Export card ## Coverage elsewhere | Source | Kind | Read | | --- | --- | --- | | digitalreference.co | Independent source | 2026-08-23 | ## CitedIndex in AI answers 0 of 4 answers cite CitedIndex. | Engine | Result | Question | Asked on | Other sources | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ChatGPT | Does not cite CitedIndex | AEO Engine alternatives | 2026-10-12 | orchly.ai, ai-search-tools.com, bestgeosoftware.com, tryanalyze.ai, tryprofound.com, saffronedge.com | | Claude | Does not cite CitedIndex | AEO Engine alternatives | 2026-09-04 | elmohq.com, g2.com, airops.com, xseek.io, useomnia.com | | Gemini | Does not cite CitedIndex | AEO Engine alternatives | 2026-09-04 | aeoengine.ai, aibuildrs.com, tryprofound.com, contently.com, seo.com, llmpulse.ai | | Perplexity | Does not cite CitedIndex | AEO Engine alternatives | 2026-10-12 | geoptie.com, topbusinesssoftware.com, listablelabs.com, slatehq.com, aeoengine.ai, nerdbot.com | ## What changed - 2026-09-10 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-09-01 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-08-31 — Capabilities · Free tier · Price - 2026-08-23 — Alternatives · Summary · Tagline - 2026-08-22 — Alternatives · LinkedIn link · Summary · Tagline ## Corrections If you represent AEO Engine, or anything here is wrong or out of date, send a correction with a source. 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