Forward deployed AEO.

Magnent is an AI Search Visibility and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) company that helps brands become discoverable and recommended by AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity. We do it through forward deployed AEO: a working system set up in your own Notion and website that improves the technical, content, and authority signals AI systems use to cite and recommend businesses.

Forward deployed AEO is Magnent's model for answer engine optimization. Instead of handing you a report, we deploy a working AEO system into your own tools: your company context, strategy, and review queue live in your Notion, our research and writing agents produce the articles, and approved articles publish to your website. Every month we re-measure how AI engines answer your buyers' questions and re-aim the strategy.

Fill in a short onboarding form, connect your Notion and your website, then review articles as they arrive. Each one gets a status from you: approved, rejected, or needs work with your comments. Everything else is run by Magnent.

No. Over a 3-month project we train our research and writing agents on your tone and language and deploy the system in your own Notion and website. After that, you choose: we monitor and tune it monthly, or you run it in-house. The controls stay with you, and nothing goes live without your approval.

Yes. Every approved article is turned into a post for your LinkedIn company page that links back to the article, building engagement, presence, and the signals AI engines pick up. It arrives in the same Notion review queue as your articles, and nothing is posted without your approval.

SEO gets you found on Google. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) makes your website readable and citable by AI models, through structured data, schema, and content architecture. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is the broader strategy of making sure AI assistants recommend your brand when buyers ask questions. Most brands need all three working together.

Quick wins from schema and structured data implementation typically show up within a few weeks. Measurable citation rate improvement usually takes 60 to 90 days. The compounding effect tends to kick in at the 6-month mark, when clients typically see 3 to 5x lift.

Yes, and this is one of the most common situations we see. Strong Google rankings don't translate to AI citations. AI engines look for structured data, clear entity definitions, FAQ-format content, and external authority signals. A brand that dominates SEO can still be completely absent from AI-generated answers.

We run your brand across 30+ targeted prompts on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude. You get a citation score out of 100, platform-by-platform breakdown, sentiment analysis, and a prioritised list of the gaps to fix first. No cost, no commitment.

SEO tools are built to track keyword rankings - they weren't designed for AI citation. Magnent tracks how AI engines actually talk about your brand, builds the content and authority signals those engines need to cite you, and executes the strategy end to end. You don't get a dashboard and a to-do list - you get the work done.

Yes, this is exactly what our Positioning Strategy service addresses. AI models form their understanding of your brand from across the web. We identify where the wrong signals are coming from and systematically replace them with accurate, current ones.