More and more people ask Doubao, DeepSeek or ChatGPT before they buy or hire: who is reliable, who suits me best. AEO is about making sure AI can find you, understand you and describe you correctly, and recommends you in those questions. We work on AI assistants in China and internationally, and the scoring method is open source, so anyone can recompute it.
China: Doubao · DeepSeek · Tencent Yuanbao · Kimi · ERNIE Bot International: ChatGPT · Perplexity · Gemini · Google AI Overviews · Copilot
Companies: we put AI and AEO to work in your business. Individuals: learn the work yourself, starting with a business you know. Partners who already have clients: turn it into a service with us. The last two run in Chinese, in our community, CiteSpot GEO.
First we check what AI says about you today, then we fill in the facts, content and sources quarter by quarter. If you want your team to do it themselves, there is a bootcamp and role-based training.
See AEO for businessSix or twelve months of support: recorded lessons you can start any time, a live session every two weeks, graded assignments and help with pricing and closing deals. Ends with the GEO Consultant certification.
See the program (in Chinese)You have business clients; we bring the diagnosis, proposal and delivery, and the revenue is shared when a deal closes. No regional agents, no exclusive territories.
See the partner program (in Chinese)In every industry, buyers ask different questions, and AI looks for answers in different places. We have written dedicated approaches for the six industries below; for any other industry, start with a free check and we will tell you whether it is worth doing.
Inquiry-driven businesses: first make sure ChatGPT and Perplexity understand your products, specifications and certifications, then work toward a place in their supplier recommendations.
B2B export approachOne of the most common kinds of question on Doubao: first make store details, prices and credentials clear, then work on local questions; if you have no website, build one first.
Local services approachThis is where an early client’s product proved the method: one answer page brought in more visitors than any other page on the site.
Software and SaaS approachHigh-ticket, trust-based businesses: make your methods, credentials and cases consistent everywhere, so AI can clearly explain how you differ from others.
Business services approachStudents and parents compare again and again: make courses, teachers, prices and who it suits clear, without promising outcomes.
Education approachAI implementation for companies going global is covered here, for e-commerce and manufacturers alike; if you only need AEO for your online store, see our dedicated service, CiteSpot.
Going-global approachAI mentioning you is not the same as someone buying. Contract acceptance looks only at the AIV score on the public rubric, because it comes out the same whoever runs it; the four layers below we review with you every week and every month, and we never rest the case on a single screenshot.
Fix a set of questions buyers ask, put them to each AI every week with the same wording, and record whether you are mentioned.
Whether your products, prices or service scope are described wrongly; for every error, trace which page and which source it came from, and fix it.
In comparison and recommendation questions, where you rank, and whether the page cited is your own.
Forms and inquiries ask how people heard of you, and analytics separates out visits that come from AI. Tracked only, not part of acceptance.
We do not yet have client cases we can publish by name. What we can show you is data from an early client (unnamed), a public leaderboard and an open-source rubric.
chatgpt.com alone sent more visitors than google.com. This is data from an early client (an AI video product for overseas markets), not named here.
See the full data370 well-known sites listed, 324 measured; the list, every score and the raw data are public.
See the public leaderboardOne command scores any website 0–100; every point we give you, you can recompute yourself.
How the rubric scoresStart with a free check to see whether your business, your website and the way your buyers ask are a fit for AEO; if not, we tell you directly, rather than pushing ahead just to close a deal.
Baseline, unified facts, finding the questions, writing answer pages, adding sources, weekly re-tests — what each step delivers is written into the contract.
Mentioned by AI, described correctly, recommended, bringing inquiries: each is recorded separately, and one recommendation is never counted as an order.
No promised rankings, no fake reviews or inflated numbers, no publishing pages on other people’s websites, no undisclosed advertorials, no bought links, no mass-produced pages for every phrasing of a question.
We got results on real products before we taught it: eleven years at multinational tech companies, then engineering and growth work on two overseas products — practitioners, not a decade of talking about AI.
Amazon 5 yrs · Shopee 3 yrs · Coupang 3 yrs, engineer → senior technical expert → technical director.
Worked on engineering and growth for two overseas products, one of which passed 10,000 sign-ups — that is the work the CiteSpot GEO method came out of.
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (alumnus and entrepreneurship mentor) · master's degree, Georgia Institute of Technology · Certified AI Trainer (Advanced) · Shopify Partner · AWS and Google Cloud AI certifications · Google Speaker · digital marketing advisor to several well-known companies
Content operations and design at ZTE, Huawei and other large companies. Now runs AI video editing and social content, and builds the AI image workflows and the content factory hands-on.
Delivered in-house, never outsourced: AI imagery and the content factory are the two things clients selling overseas ask about most, and our own team runs both. Faster to change, cheaper to run.
Not listed here? One conversation usually covers it.
Businesses whose buyers compare carefully and ask AI before they order or sign are the best place to start: business services, software, B2B exporters, brands going overseas, high-ticket local services, education and training. If your product cannot yet be delivered reliably, your core facts cannot be made public, or you only want a “guaranteed ranking”, it is not a fit right now. If you are unsure, start with a free check.
There are three cases. One, gate problems — crawlers blocked, pages that are only scripts — are a few days of technical work; rerun the rubric the same day and you can confirm whether the gate is cleared. When AI engines come back to recrawl is up to them, not us. Two, a page answering one question AI is asked often has to wait to be indexed and crawled; it takes a few weeks before you can tell whether AI cites it. Three, competing through search rankings for a category’s biggest keyword is measured in months, often six months to a year. Acceptance is written only in terms of the AIV baseline and the lift. We track traffic, leads and inquiries with you, but they are not acceptance criteria — there is no attribution baseline at the start, and writing business metrics into acceptance is irresponsible for both sides. Nor do we promise rankings or vanity traffic.
No, and nobody can. AI answers change with the model, the time, the region and the wording; ask the same question twice and you may get two different answers. The contract states the deliverables and the score measured on the open-source rubric, from where it starts to where it should reach; recommendations and rankings we review with you every week, but they are not written into the contract.
They're half right. Google's own documentation does say that SEO practices still apply to its AI search results, with no special files or extra markup required. But that document governs Google alone. In the full-year data from one of our early clients, chatgpt.com as a single referrer already sends more visitors than google.com — the engine that matters most to exporters isn't covered by that document. The other half: whether you call it GEO or SEO is a naming question; the work is the same work. We tested 324 well-known websites, and AI crawlers can't read about a quarter of them — crawlers blocked, script-only pages, outright errors. Sites aimed at the Chinese market score a median of 36, 22 points below the rest. Those sites need fixing whatever you call it. So we don't argue about names; we argue with things you can check: an open-source rubric, a public 324-site leaderboard, a rule that any re-run within ±5 points is noise, and a promise of measurable readiness rather than traffic. If you doubt GEO, the fastest test is to run the open rubric on your own site — the score comes out of your machine, not ours.
Because the rubric produces numbers, not judgment. The score you get from running it yourself is the same one we get — that is the whole point of open-sourcing it: every point we give you can be checked. The snapshot adds three things the rubric cannot do. One, reading the result: a rerun drifts by ±5 naturally, and gate checks flip with a site's bot-blocking policy, so someone has to tell real gaps from noise. Two, putting it back into your business: which of the nine stages to fix first — the rubric has no idea what you sell. Three, saying whether a fix is worth it and how much work it takes — the scoring is open, the fixing is our job. If you can run a command, run it. If you cannot, or you ran it and do not know what to do next, ask us. No charge.
Start with a free snapshot. For a formal diagnostic, the AEO diagnostic starts at US$1,190, and the fee is credited toward your first quarter; the quarterly AEO scenario pack starts at US$2,990 per quarter, and the AEO delivery system at US$7,790 per quarter. Local businesses without a website pay an extra US$1,190 for a site build. See full pricing
Send us your website. We run the open-source AIV rubric, put a few questions buyers would ask to several AI assistants, and then do the part the rubric cannot: which gaps are real for your business and which you can ignore, what to fix first, and whether it is worth fixing. No website? Tell us what your business does and which city you are in, and we will start by looking at what AI says about you now. Reply within 48 hours; if we are not the right fit, we say so.
example.com AIV 46 / 100 · Getting started Three biggest gaps +9 opening passage cannot stand alone +6 no freshness signal +5 no llms.txt Start with: AI search visibility Verdict: all three are a few days of work — worth fixing first