The field guide to AEO, now an instrument
One query run is an anecdote. A census is a measurement. AEO Radar runs your recommendation races hundreds of times a month across five answer engines, scores your readiness, and flags the breach while it is still shallow.
It is not a sales call. It is your baseline, and your early-warning system.
The scoreboard changed
You did not lose your rankings. They lost their monopoly on the outcome. Your buyer now asks a question and gets a few names. Either you are one of them, or as far as that buyer will ever know, you do not exist.
The new podium
The seven deadly sins of AEO
Why the record is the asset
Every race you win deepens a record. Years deep, machine readable, a standing log of third-party corroboration that sits in public where any buyer's diligence team can verify it. A competitor can get lucky in tomorrow's race. No one fakes years of corroboration on demand. Every race you win starts compounding that record.
Acquirers underwrite durable demand that does not depend on the founder, and a years-deep evidence record is how they tell the difference. That is why deep recommendation equity tends to show up in pricing power and the multiple a buyer pays. The thesis is simple: a buyer can discount what looks invisible, and tends to pursue what looks inevitable. That is the thesis behind the score, not an outcome it promises.
Same financials
Priced as a bet on the founder
Founder-dependent and hard to verify, so a buyer discounts the number. The demand walks out the door with the owner.
Same financials
Priced as a transferable asset
Durable, diligence-verifiable demand that transfers with the company. It is what buyers tend to pay up for, and it can support a higher multiple. Any multiple is illustrative.
Same financials can be priced very differently. The difference a buyer tends to pay for is the asset you built. At that point you are not doing marketing anymore. You are doing estate planning for your enterprise value.
AEO Radar measures it: your AGS, and the evidence record across the races a buyer's diligence team can verify. The score is the readout. The record is the asset.
AEO Radar measures recommendation readiness and surfaces the evidence record. It does not guarantee a sale, a valuation, or a buyer. Any multiple language is illustrative.
Pricing
Run a free scan to see your baseline across all five engines. Become a founding member to put your races on a monthly census and watch the record compound.
Free scan
Your baseline. A measurement, not a sales call.
Founding member
Founding priceThe full instrument, running your census every month.
The free scan is a single-window baseline. The four-column board, the moats, and breach detection need two or more monthly windows to be honest, so they live in the founding tier with the recurring census.