# Mentionwell AEO Platform

> AEO (Answer Engine Optimization): track where AI answer engines cite your brand, understand why each cited page won, and ship the articles that close the gap. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) and LLMO are sub-disciplines rolled into the AEO platform.

Mentionwell gives every onboarded site an AEO layer. It runs a buyer-intent prompt corpus across up to ten answer engines — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, Exa, and DeepSeek — captures the citation evidence behind each answer, and turns it into the next article. The engine pack scales with the plan: Starter unlocks 4 (ChatGPT, Claude, Google AI Overviews, Gemini), Growth unlocks 9 (adds Perplexity, DeepSeek, Exa, Google AI Mode, Copilot), Scale unlocks all 10 including Grok.

## What the AEO scan captures

- Buyer-intent prompt corpus generated from the site profile, ICP, value props, competitors, and product surface — editable in the Prompt Explorer.
- Fan-out queries each engine searched internally before composing its answer.
- Citations: every cited URL with domain, title, snippet, position, source type (owned / competitor / third-party), and per-engine confidence.
- Page evidence: markdown, HTML schema, word count, headings, statistics, byline, and claim-level facts from each cited page.
- Share of voice: brand mentions by engine, locale, topic cluster, prompt, and competitor — trended over time.
- Per-citation sentiment (positive / neutral / negative).
- AI-bot crawl logs (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Bingbot, etc.) from server logs.
- A ranked top-5 list of recommended actions per scan.

## Optional article injection

When creating an article, operators choose a normal draft or a **Run + AEO** draft. AEO scan context is optional and per-article. When enabled, Mentionwell can feed observed prompts, fan-out queries, cited-page claims, competitor gaps, statistics, source-backed evidence, schema patterns, and regional performance into the synthesis, outline, draft, metadata, and FAQ stages — never a forced rewrite. The Auto Agent uses Run + AEO by default for top-priority topics.

This is useful for comparison posts, alternatives pages, best-tools articles, and articles targeting prompts where competitors currently win citations. It can be skipped for brand updates, opinion pieces, or simple educational articles where AEO data is not useful.

URL: https://mentionwell.com/aeo-platform