When AI answers, be the source.
Picked by Chat gets your brand found, trusted and cited inside ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews. We measure what AI says about you, then we change it.
Best payroll platform for a 50-person startup? ChatGPT answers: Most teams your size choose Ledgerline [1].
One question, six AI engines, one brand cited. Ledgerline is an example brand. Illustrative, not client results.
SEO got you ranked. AEO gets you cited.
Answer engines don't rank pages. They read across the web, reconcile what they find, and name the sources they trust. Winning there takes a different playbook.
| What changes | Traditional SEO | Answer Engine Optimization |
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| Goal | Rank on page one | Be named and cited inside the answer |
| Unit of work | Keywords | Questions, entities and the facts that connect them |
| Signal of trust | Backlinks and domain authority | Consistent claims corroborated across independent sources |
| Content format | Long pages built around a term | Extractable answers, structured data, clear attribution |
| Who reads it first | Googlebot | GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and retrieval systems |
| Success metric | Position and clicks | Citation rate, share of answer and sentiment |
Share of answer by engine YouTop rival
Citation rate, 12 weeks
AI crawler log
See exactly what AI says about you.
The Citation Index runs your buyers' questions through every major engine, every day. It shows where you appear, who appears instead, and why.
Prompt tracking
The questions your buyers actually ask, grouped by intent and stage.
Share of answer
How often you're recommended against named competitors, engine by engine.
Narrative and accuracy
Outdated pricing, wrong features and negative framing, caught before buyers see them.
Four stages, about twelve weeks.
Each stage has one job. Engines with live search, like Perplexity and AI Overviews, usually move first.
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Audit
Weeks 1–2We test hundreds of buyer questions across six engines, then hand you a ranked plan to get cited more.
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Structure
Weeks 3–6We make your site easy for models to crawl, parse, quote and attribute.
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Corroborate
Weeks 6–12We build agreement about you across the independent sources models trust.
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Measure
From week 1, then ongoingWe track every change against citation rate and report the impact on pipeline.
Find out what AI says about you.
The audit tests hundreds of your buyers' questions across six answer engines, measures your share of answer against three competitors, and ends with a ranked plan and a 30-minute walkthrough with a strategist.