The AEO Platform That Gets You Cited by AI

SEO optimises for traditional search crawlers. AEO — Answer Engine Optimization (also called GEO) — optimises for AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, which synthesise answers from many sources rather than just ranking pages.

Fastlook engineers every page against the six signals engines actually use to select sources: crawler access, extractability, entity coverage, structured data, freshness, and information gain. Brand Memory supplies the approved facts, Page Engine publishes the pages to your CMS with JSON-LD and llms.txt, and AI Feed keeps those signals fresh between publishes.

Fastlook tracks citations across six engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, and SearchGPT. One honest caveat worth knowing before you compare tools: only grounded engines return source lists, so Perplexity and Gemini can be observed directly, while non-grounded chat responses are measured as readiness rather than confirmed citations. Fastlook labels which is which instead of blending them into one number.

Make your content crawlable, quotable, and verifiable. Allow GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended by name in robots.txt; publish an llms.txt index; open each section with a self-contained answer a model can quote verbatim; name at least three verifiable entities per passage; emit JSON-LD that binds the page to a real organization; and keep lastmod honest.

Yes — freshness is one of the six selection signals. Engines prefer recently-updated sources with honest lastmod dates, especially on fast-moving topics. Fastlook monitors published pages, flags the ones going stale, and refreshes them in place so the URL and accumulated authority are preserved.

Crawl and indexing typically take days, not minutes, and first citations usually follow within a few weeks of a page being indexed. Grounded engines like Perplexity move fastest because they fetch live; model-trained surfaces lag. Timing depends on your domain's existing authority, how competitive the query is, and how much genuine information gain the page carries — so treat any guaranteed timeline as a red flag.

Yes. Native publishing to WordPress, Webflow, and Shopify is included from the Grow plan, and pages ship to your own domain so the authority accrues to you, not to us. Launch includes managed publishing for a single site.

Answer engines don't rank ten links — they select sources they can crawl, extract, and verify, then synthesise. In practice that means: can the bot reach the page, can the model lift a self-contained passage from it, can the claims be cross-checked against named entities, is the page bound to a real organization via structured data, is it current, and does it say something the model can't already find elsewhere.

The six ranking signals above, plus one that cuts across all of them: consistency. When your pages, structured data, and off-site profiles describe the same entity the same way, engines resolve your brand confidently. Contradictory facts across sources are the most common reason a well-written page never gets quoted.

Keep one canonical set of location facts — name, address, service area, hours — identical across your site, your structured data, and your business profiles. Then publish a genuine page per location and per local service query rather than one page with swapped city names. Fastlook grounds location pages in Brand Memory and emits LocalBusiness JSON-LD so engines can verify the entity behind the answer.

Six: ChatGPT and SearchGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Claude, and Grok. Crawler access is configured for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended by name.