Beyond SEO: Building Tools for the AI Search Era

As AI search engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity become mainstream discovery tools, content creators face a fundamental shift: traditional SEO optimization no longer guarantees visibility or citability in AI-driven results. This technical deep-dive reveals the 10 criteria that determine whether AI systems can extract and cite your content, and shows how one builder created a free tool to close this gap in the SEO tooling ecosystem. Understanding AEO principles is increasingly essential for any content strategy.