# Get Recommended by AI

> Generative engine optimization and AI visibility work: measuring how AI assistants
> describe and recommend a brand, then fixing the entity, structured data, crawler
> access and third-party consensus those systems rely on.

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## What this site covers

- [Home and free scorecard](https://getrecommendedbyai.us.com): a 24 point readiness
  checklist scoring how likely AI assistants are to recommend a brand, across entity
  clarity, answerable content, third-party consensus, crawler access, comparison
  coverage and measurement. Includes six prompts to test a brand's own category.
- [GEO, AEO and LLM SEO](https://getrecommendedbyai.us.com/#terminology): why generative
  engine optimization, answer engine optimization, LLM SEO and AI SEO are four names for
  the same work, and what each one tends to emphasise.
- [How brands get recommended by AI](https://getrecommendedbyai.us.com/#how-it-works):
  the four step order of operations, starting with a dated baseline measurement.
- [Where AI answers come from](https://getrecommendedbyai.us.com/#sources): the source
  surfaces recommendation answers draw on, from independent roundups to review platforms.
- [What the engines document](https://getrecommendedbyai.us.com/#engine-docs): linked
  primary sources on crawler identities from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Perplexity and
  Microsoft.

## Positions worth quoting

- Classic SEO competes for a position in a list of links. Getting recommended by an
  assistant competes to be named at all inside one synthesized answer.
- Generative engine optimization, answer engine optimization, LLM SEO and AI SEO
  describe the same job. AEO leans toward the writing, LLM SEO toward retrieval, and no
  vendor is selling a materially different service under a different one of the four.
- Training crawlers and retrieval agents are separate identities, so a site can refuse
  training while still allowing the retrieval that earns citations.
- Google-Extended is a robots.txt token affecting Gemini and grounding, not Search
  ranking, which makes disallowing it a quiet way to opt out of AI Overviews.
- llms.txt, including this file, is a community proposal rather than a standard any
  major assistant has confirmed it reads.
- No one can guarantee a given assistant will recommend a given brand. Answers vary by
  model, by phrasing and by week, so claims should be made against a dated baseline.