CITED
INSIGHTS

Answers about being the answer.

Plain-English guides on Answer Engine Optimisation — how AI engines choose sources, and how your brand becomes one.

RESEARCH & DATA
RESEARCH

What Princeton proved about getting cited by AI

The first peer-reviewed study on AI citations tested nine tactics across 10,000 queries.

7 min read·Jul 2026Read →
RESEARCH

The data on AI Overviews and disappearing clicks

What the Pew study found about clicks when AI summaries appear in Google Search.

6 min read·Jul 2026Read →
RESEARCH

Australian AI Search Report 2026

A practical Australian baseline for AI search readiness, using official adoption data and a transparent framework for measuring whether brands can be found, understood and cited by AI systems.

9 min read·Jul 2026Read →
BENCHMARKS & CASE STUDIES
CASE STUDIES

How to Build an AI Visibility Case Study That Proves Something

A rigorous template for documenting AI visibility work without cherry-picking prompts, overstating causation or presenting one screenshot as evidence.

8 min read·Jul 2026Read →
BENCHMARKS

Australian AI Visibility Benchmark 2026

A transparent methodology for comparing how often Australian brands are mentioned, recommended and cited across major AI answer engines.

9 min read·Jul 2026Read →
EXPERIMENTS
EXPERIMENTS

Does llms.txt Improve AI Visibility? A 60-Day Experiment

A transparent experiment design for testing whether llms.txt changes crawling, citations or brand visibility—without claiming results before the test is complete.

7 min read·Jul 2026Read →
PROMPT LIBRARIES
PROMPT LIBRARY

Australian AI Search Prompt Library

A practical prompt library for testing whether an Australian brand is visible, understood and recommended across AI answer engines.

10 min read·Jul 2026Read →
GUIDES & COMPARISONS
FUNDAMENTALS

What is Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO)?

A plain-English definition of AEO, why it matters now, and how brands earn citations inside ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.

6 min read·Jul 2026Read →
FUNDAMENTALS

What is Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO)?

How generative AI engines assemble answers, how GEO differs from AEO and SEO, and how brands get surfaced inside AI-generated responses.

6 min read·Jul 2026Read →
STRATEGY

AEO vs SEO: what’s the difference?

They share DNA but optimise for different outcomes. Here’s how AEO and SEO differ — and why you need both.

7 min read·Jul 2026Read →
PRICING

How much does AEO cost in Australia?

Typical retainers, audit pricing, cost drivers and how AEO pricing compares with SEO.

6 min read·Jul 2026Read →
COMPARISONS

ChatGPT vs Gemini for Brand Visibility

A practical comparison of how brand visibility differs between ChatGPT search and Google AI Overviews, and what website owners should optimise for in both.

8 min read·Jul 2026Read →
GUIDES

How to Measure AI Visibility Without Vanity Metrics

A practical measurement system for tracking brand mentions, recommendations, citations and referral traffic across AI search experiences.

8 min read·Jul 2026Read →
MORE RESEARCH

More practical AI search resources

COMPARISONS

ChatGPT vs Claude vs Perplexity for Brand Visibility

A practical comparison of three AI discovery environments and the implications for brand monitoring.

GUIDES

How AI Search Chooses Sources

A plain-English explanation of why AI systems select some sources over others, and what brands can improve without chasing shortcuts.

GUIDES

Entity SEO for AI Search

How entity clarity helps AI systems understand what a business is, where it operates and when it should be recommended.

EXPERIMENTS

FAQ Schema and AI Visibility: A Controlled Experiment

How to test whether FAQ schema affects machine understanding without confusing correlation with causation.

EXPERIMENTS

Canonical URLs and AI Retrieval: A Practical Experiment

A practical framework for testing whether cleaner canonical signals improve source consolidation and retrieval consistency.