What is answer engine optimization (AEO)?

Getting AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews to name your business when people ask them for a recommendation. The AIs build their answers from the pages they cite, so being named on those pages is most of the work

Which AI assistants does AEO Monitor check?

ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews. Each question goes to all three, and you see who each one named and the pages it cited

How much does it cost?

Signing up is free. Each check is paid per call from your Vaaya credit, with no subscription

Do I need an account?

Yes, a Vaaya account. Get started, then ask Vaaya to check your website or a sentence about what you do

AEO Monitor

AI answer check

Does ChatGPT recommend you?

People now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI what to buy and who to hire. Paste your website and we’ll write the questions your customers ask, put them to all three, and show you what they answer right now

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How it works

Tell us who you areYour website, or a sentence about what you do and where

We write your questionsThe questions your customers ask AI assistants, where you should be the answer

We ask the AIs nowChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI, with who they named and the pages they cited

Then every MondayThe same questions every day, one report a week, so you see what changes

Sample report · law firms

We asked three AIs where to find a personal injury lawyer in Austin

A sample from Austin, TX · your check asks about your own city

Who the AIs name

Same question, three different answers

Pick a question to see what each AI said, in the order it named firms, and the pages it cited

Where the AIs get their answers

The pages each AI cited across the 30 answers. Being named on these pages is how a firm gets named in the answer

Your Monday report

We ask your customers’ questions every day across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews, then send one page a week

How often you’re namedBy each AI, on every question you care about, week over week

Who is named insteadThe competitors that take your spot, and on which questions

Sources to earnThe directories, review sites and articles the AIs cite that don’t mention you yet

What changedAnswers that moved this week, so you see the effect of every fix

Why businesses are watching this now

2×

Google interest in “answer engine optimization” more than doubled over the last six months and is still at its peak

Google Trends, March to August 2026 against the six months before

$30

What advertisers pay per click on “answer engine optimization”, with 127 of them bidding on it

SpyFu, US, September 2026

$88–97

Per click on “law firm seo companies” and “law firms seo”. Businesses already pay to be found; AI answers are the new place to be found

SpyFu, US, September 2026

See what the AIs say about you

Paste your website or describe what you do. We’ll write your customers’ questions and ask all three AIs

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Questions

What is answer engine optimization (AEO)?: Getting AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews to name your business when people ask them for a recommendation. The AIs build their answers from the pages they cite, so being named on those pages is most of the work
Which AI assistants does AEO Monitor check?: ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews. Each question goes to all three, and you see who each one named and the pages it cited
How much does it cost?: Signing up is free. Each check is paid per call from your Vaaya credit, with no subscription
Do I need an account?: Yes, a Vaaya account. Get started, then ask Vaaya to check your website or a sentence about what you do

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