Founder & CEO, Engagemii
New York, NY
Greg founded Engagemii in 2024 to solve the problem that brands were becoming invisible to AI search. While SEO had a decade of practice, AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) didn't exist as a category. Engagemii built one.
Today, Engagemii has scored over 13,000,000 brands across 6 AEO categories (structured data, content structure, entity clarity, E-E-A-T signals, technical AEO, and AI discoverability). The platform serves brands that need to be cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and other AI assistants.
Everyone optimizes for ChatGPT. Our server logs say that is the wrong target. Across nearly 19 million verified AI crawler visits, ChatGPT's bot is a distant third. Claude's crawler does about 70% of the reading - roughly seven visits for every one from GPTBot - and Apple's crawler quietly out-reads OpenAI's too. If you only think about one AI, you are probably thinking about the wrong one.
We expanded our citation research 11-fold: 17,800 real AI answers across hundreds of buying questions, every cited business traced back to its profile. The clearest lesson yet: real-world authority out-predicts on-page polish. The businesses AI names are the ones the web already talks about - and that is something you can build, not something you have to be born with.
Strip away the tooling and the jargon and an AI engine reading your website is trying to answer three questions: who is this business, what does it offer, and where does it operate. Sites that answer all three in plain machine-readable text get used in answers. Sites that make the machine guess get skipped. After deep-reading 14 million business sites, here is how businesses fail each question, and how to stop.
We pulled the businesses AI answer engines actually name in their answers and looked up how each one scores on AI visibility. Companies scoring 6 or higher were about 8 times more likely to be cited than average. And they are not the giants: 72% of them are mid-sized companies that earned it on their own pages, not on fame.
We took 30,000 businesses that AI crawlers read and 30,000 they skipped, matched them on industry and site age, and measured what actually separates the two groups. The answer lives mostly off the website: domain trust doubles the odds, an active Reddit presence adds half again, a mobile app adds a third. The engines decide whether to visit you based on your footprint. What they understand once they arrive is a different battle, fought on your pages.
We count AI crawler visits server-side across millions of business pages, over 15 million visits logged so far. Matched against our directory of 14 million US businesses, the picture is blunt: about 7 in 10 have already been read by an AI crawler. The reading has largely happened. The open question for most businesses is not whether AI will look, it is what the machines understood when they did.
When an AI engine answers a question with web search on, it quietly pulls up a set of pages, reads them, and then names only some of them in its answer. Almost nobody records that middle step. We started logging both sides of it, and the first batch of answer runs surfaced 1,537 businesses that were read while an answer was being written and never got mentioned in one. Being on the reading list is not the prize. It is the audition.
We count every AI crawler visit across millions of business pages, then went looking for what actually predicts whether the bots bother to read you. One signal surprised us and it has nothing to do with your website: businesses with a mobile app were 1.4 times more likely to be read by AI crawlers than near-identical businesses without one. Same industries, same site age. The engines are reading your whole footprint, not just your homepage.
Most tools that grade a website for AI count tags: does it have schema, does it have a meta description, does it have an llms.txt file. We rebuilt ours to read the way an engine does, parsing the actual words on the page to ask a harder question: can a machine tell who this business is, what it sells, and where it operates? We ran it across 14 million sites. Most of them fail that test, and not for the reason you would guess.
The 2026 midterms are the first American election where a real share of voters ask ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity who is running and who to trust. So we scored every verified candidate website from both parties on how visible it is to those engines. Republicans average 4.3 out of 10. Democrats average 4.4. A statistical tie, and a failing grade for both.
Everyone talks about AI crawlers like they are one thing. They are not. We count every AI bot visit, server-side, across 12.9 million business pages we operate, and the census surprised us: three quarters of all AI reading comes from a single crawler, Apple quietly out-reads OpenAI three to one, and the bot from the most citation-happy answer engine barely shows up at all.
The 2026 midterms will be the first American election where a real slice of voters ask ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity who is running, who to trust, and how to vote. So we did something nobody has: scored every 2026 federal candidate we could resolve a website for, plus 11,032 live government sites, on how visible and readable they are to AI answer engines. Most of them are not ready.
Ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini for a recommendation and the same short list of brands comes back, category after category. We spent months scoring 12.8 million websites, mapping billions of public web signals, and verifying 16,757 real AI recommendations to crack why. The answer: seven scores, two sides, one system. Half of it we can fix for you today. The other half you have to earn, and for the first time, data can tell you exactly where your effort pays off most.
Search is moving from Google's ten blue links to a single AI answer. So we asked a simple question at scale: when ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini writes that answer, whose website can it actually read? We scored 11.7 million US business sites to find out. The average is 4.53 out of 10, only 3% are AI-ready, and just 27 sites scored a perfect 10.
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot don't run JavaScript, so Google Analytics never sees them. But what they read on your site decides whether ChatGPT recommends you or your competitor. We just crossed 10 million US brands scored for AI visibility, and we made the tools to see this problem free: your score, a fix kit, and live AI bot monitoring.
We scored 1.7 million business websites for AI visibility. The median came back at 4 out of 10. Most of the brands we audit have never heard of AEO and have no idea where they sit on the curve. The cost of not knowing has gotten higher this year, and is going to get higher next year. Here is what the data looks like.
441 teams across the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, F1, IPL, AFL, NCAA D1, and global esports. The top AEO score in the dataset is 6/10. The NBA caps at 5. Eight NBA teams literally do not have their own website.
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AI doesn't spread citations evenly. It concentrates them. A handful of brands dominate every category -- and they all have one thing in common.
AI Overviews don't link to your site. They answer the question instead. Clicks that used to be yours are now zero-click answers -- and it's accelerating.
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The About page is the single most important AEO page on your site. Most brands treat it like an afterthought -- and pay for it in AI invisibility.
You've spent years earning great reviews. ChatGPT can't read most of them. The fix takes about an hour.
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