Zelva

Observing the shift from search to answers.

Building @aeolens

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@shariar_design We help brands understand why AI engines cite them - and why they don’t.

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@abhy_thpk @rdbuilds7 Good one

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@BuildWithZyron @rdbuilds7 Looks interesting

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@rdbuilds7 We help brands understand why AI engines cite them - and why they don’t.

@AEOlens

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@seonatia Most founders should probably spend more time getting mentioned on Reddit, YouTube, and review platforms than submitting to another directory site.

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@vibeonX69 Because “disable ads and trackers” shouldn’t require installing 7 extensions.

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@Oblivious9021 Multi-cloud sounds great until you realize you’re now operating two clouds instead of one.
The operational complexity can become a bigger risk than the outage you’re trying to avoid.

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@codewith55 Nobody pays $200/month to ask questions.

They pay to save hours of work, reduce mistakes, and avoid building the tooling themselves.

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@Joi2James We help brands understand why AI engines cite them - and why they don’t.

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Spent the week testing what makes AI engines cite a page.

One thing surprised me:
Schema markup seems to matter a lot more for Grok and Perplexity than it does for ChatGPT or Gemini.

Which means there probably isn’t a universal “AI SEO” checklist.

The signals that earn citations depend on which model you’re trying to influence.

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Exactly. Traffic from AI is becoming easier to attribute over time.

But understanding why a brand is cited in the first place still feels like the bigger challenge. Citation visibility exists before the click, and I think the industry is still very early in understanding and measuring it.

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@hridoyreh Plot twist: the SEO team was protecting the traffic all along.

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@AICommerceGuy_ Exactly. Traffic tells you what happened. Visibility data helps explain why it happened. Feels like AI search needs both layers.

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@bloggersarvesh @MasculineEgo_ We’re entering a weird phase where creating content is almost free, but earning citations and mentions is becoming the scarce resource.

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@Oblivious9021 Most teams look at cost per token. I’d start with cost per successful task.

Once you measure that, you quickly find a lot of prompts are carrying unnecessary context and duplicate retrieval data.

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@glenngabe @kmadhavan77 We’ve been talking about AI visibility, but measurement has always been the missing piece. Intents + Topics + Citation Share seems much more actionable than raw citation counts alone.

Curious to see how teams start using this data to guide content strategy.

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@vidyamadhavan2 I actually know a few people who use Perplexity daily, but you’re right - nobody talks about it the way they talk about ChatGPT.

Feels like a distribution problem more than a product problem.