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AI GEO & AI SEO. Your category moves faster than the models describing it.

AI companies face a problem unique to their sector: assistants recommend competitors based on training data that is months out of date, describe products you have since rebuilt, and miss launches entirely. Staleness is the enemy.

The prompts that decide it

A category where the answer is usually out of date

AI tooling turns over faster than any model's training cycle. The result is assistants confidently recommending yesterday's leader - which is either your biggest problem or your biggest opportunity.

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What's the best AI tool for [task] right now?A recency prompt where models frequently answer from stale knowledge unless retrieval sources say otherwise.

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Best open-source alternative to [product]High-intent displacement, decided by documentation, benchmarks and repository signals.

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How does [your product] compare to [competitor] on accuracy?A benchmark prompt where published, methodologically sound evidence is the deciding factor.

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Is [product] still the best option, or has something replaced it?The staleness question itself - and the clearest opening for a newer entrant.

We build your prompt set from your own category and run it against live models - these are illustrative.

What makes it different

Fighting the training cutoff

Every model has a knowledge cutoff and your category outruns it. Winning here means being present in the retrieval sources models reach for when they need current information, not just in the data they were trained on.

recency

Retrieval beats training data

When a model searches rather than recalls, current, well-structured sources decide the answer. That is where the leverage is.

benchmarks

Evidence must be reproducible

Published methodology and reproducible benchmarks get cited. Marketing performance claims get discounted.

ecosystem

Repos, docs and papers count

Technical sources carry weight in this category that no landing page will ever match.

Services

What AI-sector GEO involves

audit

Recency & accuracy audit

We test what models currently say about your product and category, and document exactly where their knowledge is stale or wrong.

retrieval

Retrieval source strategy

Ensuring current, structured, authoritative sources exist wherever a model looks when it needs up-to-date category information.

evidence

Benchmark & methodology publishing

Reproducible evaluation evidence published in the form models and technical readers both trust.

ecosystem

Docs, repos & technical presence

Documentation, repository and technical-community signals that establish current capability.

What wins

Reproducibility over claims

This is the most technically literate audience in any category, and models mirror that scepticism. Unsupported performance claims fail with both.

Methodology

Benchmarks without published methodology are treated as marketing. With it, they become citable evidence.

Honest limitations

Stating what your model or tool does not do well builds the credibility that makes the rest citable.

Dated everything

Version numbers, release dates and evaluation dates let a model reason about currency instead of guessing.

What we measure

How we measure AI-sector GEO

  • Recency and accuracy of model-stated product capability
  • Citation share on category and alternatives prompts
  • Benchmark and methodology citation frequency
  • Displacement of stale competitor recommendations
  • Documentation and repository citation signals
  • AI referral traffic, trials and signups in GA4
  • Before/after prompt testing on live models
  • Time from launch to reflection in model answers
FAQ

AI-sector GEO questions

What is GEO for AI companies?
It (also called AI SEO) is Generative Engine Optimisation applied to the AI sector itself: making sure assistants describe your product accurately and currently, and name it when users ask for the best tool in your category.
Why do AI assistants describe our product incorrectly?
Usually because they are recalling training data from before your last significant release, or drawing on third-party sources that were never updated. Both are fixable, and the second is usually the bigger culprit.
Can you influence what a model says when it isn't searching the web?
Not directly for a given trained model. What we can influence is the retrieval layer models increasingly use for current questions, and the third-party sources that feed future training. Both matter, and only one is fast.
How do we handle competitors being recommended from outdated data?
By making current, structured, credible information available where models look when they check, and by publishing reproducible evidence that supports a change in the answer. We test this on live models before and after.
Do benchmarks actually help?
When methodology is published and results are reproducible, yes - they are among the most citable assets in the category. Benchmark claims without methodology are treated as marketing and largely ignored.
Isn't it strange to optimise AI products for AI discovery?
It is the same problem every other category has, arriving earlier and moving faster. The sector's own pace of change simply makes the staleness problem more acute.

See what AI currently says about your product

We'll document where model knowledge of your product and category is stale or wrong, and show you what it takes to correct it.