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Why AI never mentions your product (yet)

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews do not reward a pretty landing page or an llms.txt file alone. They cite entities they can retrieve, trust, and quote. Launchfiles treats GEO and AEO as a measured readiness problem — not a magic publish switch.

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GEO vs AEO in plain language

AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) — structure content so answer boxes and AI overviews can extract a clean, citable answer.
GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) — become a preferred source when models compose answers (entity clarity, third-party corroboration, consistent claims).
Classic SEO still matters: crawlability, indexation, titles, internal links, and Search Console evidence.

What must be true before “AI mentions us” is fair

Discovery — robots, sitemap, and llms.txt live on the production domain (not only a preview URL).
Answer shape — money pages state a job, proof, claim ceiling, and FAQ-style blocks models can quote.
Entity consistency — same product name, domain, and category across schema, about, llms, and third-party mentions.
Third-party footprint — independent pages restating your claims (reviews, directories, docs, press). Zero mentions is common for cold products.
Citation sampling — a fixed prompt set, models, locales, and target URLs; rate only when the sampling contract is complete. Incomplete samples do not invent a percentage.

Claim ceiling

This page does not claim that fixing llms.txt, shipping schema, or running a Launchfiles mission will make ChatGPT cite you. Presence of discovery files is necessary and insufficient. Launchfiles will not invent ranking lift or citation rates without attributable samples.

What Launchfiles already does

SEO / GEO audit capability (marketing_seo_geo_audit) with honest citation sampling contracts
Portfolio bottleneck board — rank routes before random page missions
SERP-first content production with claim ceilings and receipts
Public discovery for this product: /llms.txt, /sitemap.xml, robots

Recommended next mission — surgical loop

For one product: portfolio bottleneck board → GEO readiness on money paths → propose exactly one geo_surgical_fix_spec (answer block or claim ceiling) → stop for founder approval → draft only after approve. publish_allowed stays false. No invented citation rates.

Prefer a mission inside Launchfiles over a new standalone GEO SaaS until free probes show repeated demand. Search Repair and Deployment Trust already prove the free-full radar pattern if you later productize AI-visibility.

Copy-paste for /today (replace product slug)

geo audit to surgical content for [citadel|dungchua|launchfile].
Phase 1: portfolio bottleneck board + GEO readiness on production money paths.
Propose exactly one geo_surgical_fix_spec (answer block or claim ceiling) — no draft yet.
Stop for my approval. Only after I approve, draft the surgical fix for that route.
publish_allowed false. No inventing citation rates.

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Docs: SEO / GEO missions
Search Repair Radar — high impression, low CTR on owned search
Deployment Trust Radar — first AI integration scope