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Guides, research, and news for founders who want to be found by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI.
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A community for founders shipping in the age of AI search — what's actually moving citations, not generic SEO advice. Why we built it, what we're hoping users teach us, how GEO and SEO actually relate, plus an FAQ on synthetic personas, posting rules, privacy, and whether your threads get cited by ChatGPT.
Petr Vlček
May 26, 2026
Google's May 2026 AI optimization guide debunked 8 GEO tactics. We cross-checked each against Ahrefs, Tinuiti, 5W Research, OtterlyAI, and Muck Rack — here's the data on what actually moves AI citations.
We built an AI visibility tracker. We ran it on our own brand. Result: zero mentions across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode. Here's the data, the diagnosis, and our 60-day plan to fix it in public.
BrightEdge: Google AI Overviews surfaces negative brand content 44% more than ChatGPT. The 2026 data, the mechanism, and a 7-step defensive playbook.
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A practical 2026 hygiene checklist for AI search visibility — four free tools, eight guides, the per-engine differences, and the honest math on what each step delivers.
A data-driven 2026 market study comparing paid advertising, SEO, and GEO (AI search visibility). B2B paid search CPC is up 29%, CTR is down 26%, publisher organic traffic is down 33%, AI referrals are up 558% — and the honest math on what to do with $5K a month.
On May 6, 2026, Google added 'Community Perspectives' and 'Expert Advice' from Reddit and other forums directly into AI Mode and AI Overviews. We unpack the announcement, the Tinuiti Q1 2026 data on Reddit's citation share, and a practical action plan — without the hype.
Most visibility tools draft a Reddit comment for a thread that's been read-only for six months. We classify before we generate. Here's the framework — not the code.
We audited 22 GEO and AI visibility tools — Profound, Peec, Otterly, AthenaHQ, Ahrefs Brand Radar, HubSpot AEO, and the rest. Every one shows you metrics. Not one drafts the Reddit comment, the journalist pitch, or the email you'd actually send. Inside: the full matrix, 12 verbatim user quotes from Reddit, and the design spec for the action layer that nobody has built yet.
AI visibility is becoming a multi-engine discipline. This guide maps the difference between crawl access, search inclusion, citations, user-initiated retrieval, and brand mentions — without treating every AI engine as the same system.
Crawl policy, machine-readable clarity, and entity consistency are prerequisites for being cited. This guide separates vendor-documented bot roles so you do not optimize against the wrong lever.
SEO and GEO solve different discovery problems. Here is a defensible way to compare them, allocate effort, and measure progress — with third-party context clearly labeled.
They are different Search experiences with different interaction models. Here is a careful comparison grounded in Google’s public documentation — plus third-party CTR context where explicitly labeled.
These products answer questions differently. Here is a vendor-grounded comparison plus a practical checklist — with clear separation between facts, documentation, and practitioner heuristics.
GEO is the practice of improving how your brand appears in AI-mediated answers. This pillar article separates official guidance, third-party research, and practical monitoring — without treating anecdotes as benchmarks.
