# AEO Mantis > AEO Mantis is an AI visibility monitoring platform. It tracks when and how > AI platforms (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI > Mode, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Grok) cite or mention a brand, measures > share of voice against competitors, and generates source-backed content. - [Home](https://www.aeomantis.com) - [Pricing](https://www.aeomantis.com/pricing) - [About](https://www.aeomantis.com/about) - [FAQ](https://www.aeomantis.com/faq) - [Free AI Visibility Checker](https://www.aeomantis.com/tools/ai-visibility-checker): Check crawler access, extractability, and entity signals for AI citation readiness. ## Features - [AI Citation Monitoring](https://www.aeomantis.com/features/citation-monitoring): Scheduled monitoring of the prompts your buyers actually ask AI platforms — citation rate, sources, sentiment, and drift over time, per platform. - [AI Competitor Analysis](https://www.aeomantis.com/features/competitor-analysis): See which competitors AI platforms cite instead of you, with share of voice, sentiment, and the exact answers and sources behind every mention. - [Source-Backed Content Generation](https://www.aeomantis.com/features/content-generation): Generate articles grounded in real research and citations — built to close the specific visibility gaps your AI monitoring uncovers. - [AI Readability Site Audit](https://www.aeomantis.com/features/site-audit): Audit whether AI crawlers can read your site: rendering, structure, metadata, and the fixes that make your pages citable by AI engines. ## AI Visibility Glossary - [What is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)?](https://www.aeomantis.com/glossary/generative-engine-optimization): GEO is the practice of making a brand more likely to be cited and recommended by AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity. Definition and how to measure it. - [What is AI Visibility?](https://www.aeomantis.com/glossary/ai-visibility): AI visibility is how often and how favorably AI platforms mention or cite a brand in their answers. Definition, metrics, and how to track it. - [What is Share of Voice in AI Search?](https://www.aeomantis.com/glossary/share-of-voice): Share of voice in AI search is the percentage of AI answers in a prompt set that feature your brand versus competitors. Definition and formula. - [What is Citation Rate?](https://www.aeomantis.com/glossary/citation-rate): Citation rate is the share of monitored AI answers that link your domain as a source. Definition, formula, and how it differs from brand mentions. - [What are Google AI Overviews?](https://www.aeomantis.com/glossary/ai-overviews): AI Overviews are Google’s AI-generated answers at the top of search results. What they are, how they cite sources, and why they change SEO. - [What is Prompt Monitoring?](https://www.aeomantis.com/glossary/prompt-monitoring): Prompt monitoring is repeatedly asking AI platforms the questions your buyers ask, and tracking how answers, citations, and sentiment change. - [What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?](https://www.aeomantis.com/glossary/answer-engine-optimization): AEO is optimizing content to be selected and quoted by answer engines like Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. Definition and how it differs from GEO and SEO. - [What is a Brand Mention in AI Search?](https://www.aeomantis.com/glossary/brand-mention): A brand mention is when an AI answer names your brand, with or without a link. Definition, how it differs from a citation, and why both matter. - [What are AI Crawlers?](https://www.aeomantis.com/glossary/ai-crawlers): AI crawlers fetch web pages for answer engines and model training. What they are, how they differ from Googlebot, and how to decide whether to allow them. - [What is llms.txt?](https://www.aeomantis.com/glossary/llms-txt): llms.txt is a proposed plain-text index of a site for LLM crawlers, the markdown counterpart to robots.txt. What it is, what it does, and its limits. - [What is Entity Consistency?](https://www.aeomantis.com/glossary/entity-consistency): Entity consistency keeps brand facts aligned across your site and the wider web so AI engines resolve one stable identity. Definition and why it matters. - [What are AI Brand Hallucinations?](https://www.aeomantis.com/glossary/ai-brand-hallucinations): AI brand hallucinations are false or conflated facts an answer engine states about a brand. What they are, why they happen, and how monitoring catches them. ## Blog - [Which Sites Block AI Crawlers? A 28-Domain Access Benchmark](https://www.aeomantis.com/blog/ai-crawler-access-benchmark): A reproducible test of five AI crawlers across 28 domains, with a full results table, per-crawler statistics, and llms.txt adoption. - [How to Choose an AI Visibility Tool: 8 Capabilities](https://www.aeomantis.com/blog/best-ai-visibility-tools-2026): Learn how to choose an AI visibility tool using eight essential capabilities: prompt control, answer evidence, monitoring, audits, and action workflows. - [How to Improve Brand Visibility in AI Search Engines](https://www.aeomantis.com/blog/improve-brand-visibility-ai-search): How to improve brand visibility in AI search: choose buyer prompts, make pages citable, strengthen entity signals, and measure mentions and citations. - [What Is AEO? Answer Engine Optimization Explained](https://www.aeomantis.com/blog/what-is-aeo): What AEO means, how answer engines choose passages to quote, what makes a block liftable, and a five-minute category test. - [LLM SEO: Make Large Language Models Cite Your Brand](https://www.aeomantis.com/blog/llm-seo): How LLM SEO relates to GEO and AEO, how models choose citations, the six factors that shape visibility, and a four-week operating plan. - [How AI Engines Resolve Brands and Choose Citations](https://www.aeomantis.com/blog/entity-consistency-ai-citations): How identity consistency, third-party corroboration, structured data, and one canonical home help AI engines resolve and cite your brand. - [How to Get Cited by ChatGPT](https://www.aeomantis.com/blog/how-to-get-cited-by-chatgpt): An evidence-backed guide to ChatGPT citations: crawler access, search intent, citable passages, entity clarity, and prompt-level measurement. - [AI Visibility Metrics That Actually Matter](https://www.aeomantis.com/blog/ai-visibility-metrics): Calculate mention rate, citation rate, share of voice, and sentiment, then turn metric combinations into specific actions. - [How to Find the Buyer Prompts Your Customers Ask AI](https://www.aeomantis.com/blog/choosing-prompts-to-monitor): Build an AI visibility prompt set from real buyer language using a practical method for sourcing, scoring, balancing, and localizing questions. - [GEO vs SEO: What Changes and Where to Spend](https://www.aeomantis.com/blog/geo-vs-seo): What GEO adds to SEO, which foundations still carry over, what changes for AI citations, and how to budget effort without doubling the work. - [How to Write Content That AI Engines Actually Cite](https://www.aeomantis.com/blog/writing-content-ai-engines-cite): Seven concrete rules for writing passages AI engines can extract, attribute, and cite, from answer-first structure to fact density. ## Use Cases - [AEO Mantis for SEO Agencies](https://www.aeomantis.com/use-cases/seo-agencies): How agencies use AEO Mantis to deliver AI visibility monitoring across client brands — per-client prompt sets, share of voice, and evidence-backed reports. - [AEO Mantis for Marketing Teams](https://www.aeomantis.com/use-cases/marketing-teams): How in-house marketing teams track AI visibility as a KPI — citation rate, competitor share of voice, and content that closes prompt gaps. - [AEO Mantis for Startups](https://www.aeomantis.com/use-cases/startups): How startups start free with 5 ChatGPT prompts, baseline AI visibility, and expand monitoring as the brand and budget grow. - [AEO Mantis for Multi-Market Brands](https://www.aeomantis.com/use-cases/multi-market-brands): How brands operating across regions use market-specific prompt sets to measure AI visibility the way local buyers experience it.