Plain answers to the questions people ask about being cited by AI engines, what the tools cost, and how Seenbot works.
Facts checked 8 November 2026.
Entry prices run from $29 to $250 a month, and enterprise tools publish no price. Limits on prompts and engines differ more than the headline price, so compare what a plan includes. Checked on each vendor's site on 8 November 2026.
Each plan is a monthly credit package equal to its price, spent on articles and measurements at the rates shown in the app. Unused credit does not roll over.
An AI visibility tool asks AI engines a fixed set of questions on a schedule and records which brands and sources each answer names. From that it reports how often you appear, where, and who appears instead. Most stop at that report. A smaller group, Seenbot among them, also writes the content meant to close the gaps.
Start with whether AI crawlers can read the site at all: robots.txt rules, schema, sitemap, headings and titles. The free check at seenbot.cc/verify reports these with no account. Then ask the engines. Run the same ten or twenty buyer questions several times, because answers vary between runs, and count how often you are named.
Seenbot runs a blog for you so that AI answers have something of yours to cite. It reads your site, builds the questions your buyers ask, writes an article for each gap in one of seven formats, fact-checks it against a second model and ships it to your GitHub repo as a pull request. Then it checks whether ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews name you.
ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews. A scheduled check asks each of them your tracked questions and keeps the answer, its sources and the brands it named. If an engine fails to answer, the run is marked unmeasured and never counted as a zero.
There is no free plan. Two checks are free and need no account: the readiness check and a five-question citation sample.
By default, yes. Every account starts with articles waiting for your approval. You can switch on automatic publishing in Settings, and the scheduler reads that switch before every write. Articles reach your GitHub repo as pull requests.
Yes. Articles are committed to your own repo, so they stay there when you cancel.
Yes, from the billing page. Unspent credit of the current period is refundable in proportion, as set out in the Terms.
Delivery today is to a GitHub repo, as a pull request. If your blog runs somewhere else, write to hello@seenbot.cc before you buy and we will tell you honestly whether it fits.
AEO, answer engine optimization, is the work of making your site the source an AI answer quotes or names: the answers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews write. In practice it means pages that crawlers can read, questions answered in plain self-contained passages, and facts other sites confirm.
GEO, generative engine optimization, is another name for the same work. The term comes from a 2023 research paper that measured which content changes raise a source's visibility in AI-written answers. Vendors use AEO and GEO almost interchangeably, so judge a tool by what it does.
SEO earns a position in search results; AEO earns a mention or citation inside a generated answer. They overlap more than the labels suggest. Google says SEO best practices remain relevant for its AI features, and a page must be indexed to appear in them. What AEO adds is the measurement: you track how often answers name you across a fixed set of questions, because there is no rank to read.
No. Answer engines read the web through search indexes and their own crawlers, so GEO depends on the basics SEO already covers: crawlable pages, clear structure, and links from other sites. Treat GEO as a layer on top of SEO. It changes how you write and what you measure, and it leaves the technical groundwork in place.
Make your pages reachable by OAI-SearchBot, the crawler OpenAI uses for ChatGPT search, then publish direct answers to the questions your buyers ask. Allow the bot in robots.txt, keep the answer in the HTML the server sends, and put the answer in the first lines of a section. Mentions on other respected sites help too. No one can guarantee a citation, so measure it over repeated questions.
There is no separate ranking to win. Google says a page must be indexed and eligible to show a snippet, that there are no additional technical requirements, and that SEO best practices still apply. So fix indexing first, then write pages that answer a specific question well enough to be used as a supporting link.
You do not need one to appear in AI answers. llms.txt is a proposed convention from 2024, and Google says you do not need new machine-readable files or AI text files to appear in its AI features. It takes about fifteen minutes to write, so publishing one is harmless, and it earns no citations by itself.
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