Get cited when AI answers your buyers’ questions
Answer engines no longer return ten blue links, they synthesize one answer and name a few sources. AEO is the practice of getting your brand into that answer. SearchFit measures whether you’re cited and shows you how to fix it.
PerplexityWhat is answer engine optimization and which tools help with it?
Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the practice of structuring content so AI assistants cite your brand in their responses. Platforms like SearchFit track citation share across engines, while Profound focuses on enterprise monitoring. The core idea is optimizing to be quoted, not just ranked.
Everything you need to get cited.
SearchFIT turns AI search visibility from a black box into a plan.
Measure your citation share
See how often each answer engine names your brand for the questions your buyers actually ask, and which competitors get cited when you don’t.
Track prompts, not keywords
AEO runs on natural-language queries. SearchFit monitors the real prompts in your category and tells you where you appear, where you’re missing, and why.
Diagnose why you’re left out
We surface the missing structured data, thin coverage, and unanswered questions that keep answer engines from quoting your pages.
Content built to be quoted
Generate answers, comparisons, and FAQs in the extractable format engines pull from, clear claims, sources, and structure they can lift verbatim.
Prove it’s working
Watch your citation share climb over time by query and by engine, so you can show AEO is influencing the questions that drive pipeline.
One workflow, every engine
Instead of checking assistants by hand, track ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini together in a single, repeatable view.
From first check to getting named.
- 1Run a free answer-engine checkEnter your domain. In about 90 seconds you get a Visibility Score across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek and Grok, plus the buyer questions where competitors are cited and you’re not.
- 2Find the gaps that block citationsSearchFit maps each unanswered question to the page, or missing page, that should own it, prioritized by how often it comes up in your category.
- 3Publish answers engines can quoteGenerate and ship content structured to be extracted: direct answers, supporting evidence, and schema that assistants can lift into a response.
- 4Monitor and defend your shareTrack citations continuously and get alerted when a competitor starts winning a question you used to own.
Frequently asked questions
SEO optimizes for a ranked list of links on a search results page. AEO optimizes for a single synthesized answer that names a few brands. You’re no longer competing for position one, you’re competing to be one of the sources the model quotes.
No. Strong fundamentals, crawlable pages, clear structure, real authority, still help. AEO adds a new layer: making sure your content is quotable and that you can measure whether AI assistants actually cite you.
We run real buyer-intent prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini, then track whether your brand and pages appear in the answers, how prominently, and who’s cited alongside or instead of you.
Content that answers a specific question directly, backs claims with evidence, and uses clean structure and schema. SearchFit generates in exactly this format, so pages are easy for engines to extract.
Your first visibility report is ready in about 90 seconds. How fast citations improve depends on your category and how quickly you ship the recommended fixes, but you leave with a prioritized plan from day one.