Four pillars decide how AI tells your story.

01

Content

Pages that answer the questions your buyers ask, written in your voice and kept fresh.

02

Technical

A fast, secure site with the structure answer engines read: schema, llms.txt, sitemaps and open crawler access.

03

Authority

Proof that others trust you. Mentions, reviews, citations and a consistent story about who you are.

04

Measurement

Knowing when AI sends you visitors, what it says about you, and how that shifts month to month.

From found to recommended.

Level 1

Found

AI knows your name, but only brings you up when someone asks for you directly.

Level 2

Understood

Your pages answer real buyer questions, so AI can describe what you do accurately.

Level 3

Structured

Schema, llms.txt and clean page structure make your site easy for machines to read.

Level 4

Cited

Answer engines quote you as a source when buyers ask about your category.

Level 5

Recommended

You're the answer. AI names you first when buyers ask who to work with.

A report you can act on today.

Inside your report

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Your AEO score out of 100, with a level for each pillar
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What AI answer engines say about your brand today, and whether it's accurate
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Whether GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google's AI crawlers can reach your site
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Schema, llms.txt, sitemap and metadata checks
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Page speed and Core Web Vitals on mobile
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Your top five fixes, ranked by the impact they'll have

Fixes, ranked by impact.

Every report ends with the changes that will move you furthest, in the order to make them. A few we see most often:

01
Open your robots.txt to AI crawlers
02
Add Organization and FAQ schema
03
Publish an llms.txt that tells your story
04
Answer your buyers' top questions on the page
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Questions about AEO, answered.

What is AEO?

Answer engine optimisation is how you make sure AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity understand your brand, describe it accurately and recommend it when buyers ask. It's the next step on from SEO.

How is AEO different from SEO?

SEO earns you a place on a results page. AEO earns you a place inside the answer itself. Both matter, and a site that's fast, well structured and useful to read does well at both.

How does the assessment work?

We crawl your homepage and key pages, check what AI crawlers can see, test your structure and speed, and ask the major answer engines about your brand. Then we score each pillar and write up the fixes that will move you furthest.

Is the assessment free?

Yes. Enter your business email and website and the full report arrives in your inbox within the hour.

Do I need a Webflow site?

No, the assessment works on any website. If you're on Webflow, that's where we build every day, so most fixes can go live quickly.

What happens after I get my report?

The report is yours to act on however you like. If you'd like hydro to make the changes for you, reply to the email or contact us and we'll walk you through it.

How do we get recommended by ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity?

Answer the questions your buyers ask on your pages, in your voice. Give machines the structure they read: schema, an llms.txt file, a clean sitemap and open crawler access. Build proof elsewhere: reviews, mentions and a consistent story about who you are. Then measure what AI says about you and fix the gaps. The report scores you on all four.

What is llms.txt?

A plain text file at yoursite.com/llms.txt that tells AI assistants what your company is, what it offers and where to read more, in one place they can parse. It is one of the checks in the report, and one of the first fixes we ship.

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hydro takes your report and puts every fix live, from structured content to schema and speed, so AI recommends you with confidence.