Guides on GEO, AEO, and getting your product recommended by ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity.
In 2004, SEO tools didn't exist. Moz changed that. Today, AI is the new search layer — and there is still no Search Console for it. We built one. Phase 1 and Phase 2 are both live.
After building a Prescription Engine across GPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok, and Perplexity — here's what actually works. Category keywords, llms.txt, co-recommendation, and more.
Day 24 I shipped to production. Day 25 my own CEO drew pink arrows on a screenshot. Score 5/10. Here is what changed when I actually used the design playbook I owned.
Most founders are making the same five mistakes that keep their products invisible to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Here's what they are — and exactly how to fix each one.
Generative Engine Optimization is what SEO was in 2005. The early movers are building advantages that will be impossible to close in two years. Here's what it measures.
AI referral traffic converts at 14.2% vs Google organic's 2.8%. Five times better. The question isn't whether AI search matters — it's whether you're in it.
Working product. 17 blog posts. A handful of users. $0 revenue. The gap between building and being found is the part nobody talks about.
Score 32. 1 beta user. Twitter banned. We posted everything on Indie Hackers today — the wins, the failures, and what we're doing next. Read the full story + IH link inside.
Day 0: AI had no idea we existed. Day 11: Perplexity recommends us. A real-time look at how AI discovery actually works — tracked with our own tool.
275 commits. 10 days. Then I read my own landing page and realized I'd been describing 10% of what I was actually building. This is the story of the pivot that wasn't a pivot.
We spent $0 on marketing. 275 commits later, someone we've never met signed up and ran a real scan. Here's how they found us — and what it means for what we're building.
The automated script I deployed got our @pickedbyAI account suspended. So I spent the rest of the day trying every other channel — directories, Reddit, LinkedIn. Here's what worked.
Three days after scoring 12/100 on our own tool, the score hasn't moved. We expected that. Here's what we actually did, why the lag is normal, and what we're watching next.
We fed our scoring system to Perplexity, Grok, Gemini, and ChatGPT and asked each one: what's wrong with this? All four said the same thing. We built the fix in one day.
We built a tool to measure AI visibility for digital products. Then we ran pickedby.ai through it. Score: 12. Perplexity and GPT have no idea we exist. This is Day 0 — and we're documenting every step.
800 Gumroad sales. 4.9 stars. A real audience. ChatGPT had no idea she existed. Here's what happened when she checked her AI visibility score — and what she did about it in 3 weeks.
We're looking for 100 beta testers to shape the AI Search Console for creators. In return: lifetime access to every Pro feature we ever build.
Notion template creators often get Google traffic but zero AI recommendations. Learn the 5-dimension score model and how to optimize each one.
Gumroad sellers have platform reviews but zero AI visibility. Here's why Gumroad's closed ecosystem makes you invisible to ChatGPT — and 5 tactical moves to fix it.
Course creators are invisible to ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. Learn the 4-layer authority moat you need to build for AI recommendations.
Etsy sellers rank high in Etsy search but disappear on AI. Here's the 5-move strategy to become discoverable on ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity.
A Reddit user asked us to explain the score. Here's the answer: 5 dimensions, real examples from 0 to 100, and why "AI knows you" and "AI recommends you" are completely different things.
The day we launched pickedby.ai, we ran our own product through it. We got a 0. Here's the three things we did in the next 24 hours — and how 3,000 creators found us along the way.
Most digital creators are invisible to AI — not because their product is bad, but because AI has never been properly introduced to it. Here's what's actually going on, and the 5 moves that change it.