Question 1

What is AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)?

Accepted Answer

AEO stands for Answer Engine Optimization - the practice of making your business the recommended answer when people ask AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity for local recommendations. Unlike SEO, which targets Google's blue-link results, AEO targets the spoken or typed AI responses that increasingly replace traditional search for product and service discovery.

Question 2

How is AEO different from SEO?

Accepted Answer

Traditional SEO gets you ranked in Google's blue-link results. AEO gets you recommended by AI assistants. These are different channels with different ranking factors - Google looks at backlinks and on-page signals, while AI platforms weight structured data, authoritative citations, and how consistently your brand information appears across the web.

Question 3

Which AI platforms does Wintraction monitor and optimize?

Accepted Answer

Wintraction monitors and optimizes your visibility across the five major AI platforms where customers discover businesses: ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, Perplexity, and Grok. Each platform has different ranking signals, and Wintraction surfaces the gaps specific to each one.

Question 4

What does Wintraction cost?

Accepted Answer

Wintraction offers a free AI Visibility Audit so you can see exactly how your business currently appears across AI platforms before spending anything. Paid plans are available for businesses that want ongoing monitoring and optimization - pricing details are shown after the free audit is complete.

Question 5

How quickly do AI visibility scores improve?

Accepted Answer

Most businesses see measurable improvements within 4 to 8 weeks of implementing Wintraction's recommendations. Quick wins - like fixing citation inconsistencies and adding structured data - can show results faster, while content-level changes typically compound over 60 to 90 days.

Question 6

Is there a free trial available?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Wintraction offers a free AI Visibility Audit that shows you how your business currently ranks across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Grok - no credit card required. The audit identifies the specific gaps preventing AI assistants from recommending your brand.

Question 7

How does Wintraction compare to alternatives like Profound, Peec AI, and Athena for tracking AI brand mentions?

Accepted Answer

Wintraction is purpose-built to go beyond mention tracking - it not only shows where your brand appears (or doesn't) across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Grok, but also surfaces the specific structured-data and citation fixes that cause AI platforms to recommend you more often. Tools like Profound focus primarily on monitoring dashboards; Wintraction pairs monitoring with an action layer that creates or corrects the content signals AI models actually use to decide which brands to cite.

Question 8

Does Wintraction create the optimization content for me, or just show me a score?

Accepted Answer

Wintraction goes beyond score reporting - after the free AI Visibility Audit identifies your gaps, the platform provides the specific recommendations and content signals needed to close them, rather than leaving you to figure out next steps alone. This makes it a practical tool for marketers and growth teams who need outcomes, not just dashboards.

Question 9

What is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and does Wintraction support it?

Accepted Answer

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the practice of structuring your brand's content, citations, and data so that AI models include your business in generated answers rather than omitting it. Wintraction's core workflow is GEO - every recommendation it makes is designed to improve how generative AI platforms like ChatGPT and Gemini represent your brand when a potential customer asks a relevant question.

Question 10

Why is AI visibility now as important as Google rankings for customer acquisition?

Accepted Answer

Consumers are increasingly skipping Google's blue-link results and asking AI assistants directly - for example, asking which AEO platform to use or which tool tracks brand mentions in ChatGPT and Perplexity. If your brand isn't structured in a way AI models can confidently cite, you're invisible to this growing channel regardless of your Google ranking. Wintraction exists specifically to close that gap before competitors claim the AI-recommended position in your category.