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AEO

Agent Experience Optimization

The infrastructure layer that makes websites
visible, fast, and monetizable for AI agents

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THE CRISIS

Organic Traffic Is Collapsing.
Search Is No Longer the Only Door.

Search engines are deindexing sites, AI Overviews eat clicks, and 25% of organic traffic is shifting to AI chatbots by end of 2026.

Organic Traffic Loss

-35%
Avg traffic drop even with same rankings

Zero-Click Searches

60%
Of all searches end without a click
ClicksZero-click

AI Overview CTR Kill

-61%
Organic CTR drops when AI Overviews appear
1.76%
→
0.61%

Google Deindexing

40-60%
Of sites affected by March 2026 core update
IndexedGone
The New Reality
Search engines are no longer the only organic traffic door. 25% of organic traffic is shifting to AI chatbots and voice assistants. Brands cited in AI responses earn 35% more clicks. The new SEO is Agent Experience Optimization.
●Google Publisher traffic -38% YoY
●Small publishers -60% search referrals
●AI-cited brands +35% organic clicks
●AI-cited brands +91% paid clicks
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THE OPPORTUNITY

New Traffic Doors Are Opening.
But Brands Can't Walk Through.

ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Claude — they're sending real users to websites. But only if they know your content exists.

New Organic Traffic Sources

🔵
Bing Copilot / AI
Crawls pages, cites in answers, sends users
3.6x crawl growth
🟢
ChatGPT / SearchGPT
Live web browsing, citations with links
500M+ users
🔷
Google Gemini / AI Overviews
48% of searches now show AI answers
Billions of queries
🟣
Perplexity
Best crawl-to-refer ratio: 111:1
100M+ queries/day
🟠
Claude, Meta AI, Apple Intelligence
All crawling, all citing, all sending traffic
Growing fast

The Unmanaged Gap

✗
Agents visit but sites don't know
No tracking, no classification, no visibility
✗
Slow sites get crawled less
Agents spend 60% less time on >3s sites
✗
No AI content policy (llms.txt)
Agents don't know what they can cite
✗
No attribution: crawl → citation → visit
Traffic arrives but no one knows it's AI-driven
✗
Zero revenue from agent access
Agents consume pages for free, give nothing back
Result: Brands are missing the biggest traffic shift since mobile.
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THE NUMBERS DON'T LIE

AI Search Is Massive.
And It's Just Getting Started.

The Scale
810M
ChatGPT daily users
80% AI chatbot market share
1.5B
Google AI Overview monthly users
48% of queries show AI answers
56%
Of search sessions use AI tools
Majority of discovery now AI-assisted
1.13B
AI referral visits in one month
+357% YoY growth
The Bot Takeover
52%
Of all web traffic is now bots
4x
AI crawler traffic in 8 months
Human 48% | Bots 52%
By 2027, bot traffic will exceed human traffic on most websites
The Opportunity
+35%
More organic clicks for AI-cited brands
+91%
More paid clicks for AI-cited brands
●Top 50 brands get 28.9% of all AI mentions
●Top 25% web presence = 10x more AI visibility
●80% of AI-cited URLs don't rank in Google top 100
AI picks different winners than Google — AEO is the new SEO
Bots consume 70% of your server resources. They send 1.13B visits/month. But most brands have zero strategy to manage, optimize, or monetize them.
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THE SOLUTION

Add AEO to Take Control of
AI-Driven Organic Traffic

One DNS change. AEO sits at the edge between every AI agent and your website — making every interaction fast, trackable, and monetizable.

🤖
AI Agents
ChatGPT · Gemini · Copilot · Perplexity · Claude · Meta
→
⚡
AEO
200-400ms agent-friendly response · optimized HTML
→
🌐
Your Website
No code changes needed

Acquire

Get Found by AI Agents
  • → 73% faster edge response
  • → Schema & FAQ auto-injection
  • → llms.txt served at edge
  • → Clean HTML for AI extraction

Engage

Turn Crawls into Citations
  • → Track every agent by intent
  • → Measure citations & queries
  • → Attribute: crawl → visit
  • → Agent happiness scoring

Monetize & Protect

Control Access & Revenue
  • → Per-agent rate limiting
  • → Page-level access pricing
  • → Block scrapers & bad bots
  • → Smart protection rules
Agents find you
→
They cite your content
→
Users click through
→
Organic traffic recovered
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THE RECOVERY

How You Gain Organic Traffic
Back From New Search Doors

AEO optimizes every layer of how AI agents discover, understand, and cite your content.

Edge Speed
~240ms response. Agents crawl 4x more pages when your site is fast.
Auto Schema Injection
JSON-LD, FAQ markup, entity data injected at edge. 3x better AI extraction.
llms.txt Policy
Tells AI: "cite my content." Without it, cautious models skip you.
AI-Clean HTML
Strips ads & scripts for agents. Pure content they can understand and cite.
Behaviour Intelligence
Know which agents index, live-check, or train. Optimize for each intent.
Full Attribution
Track every crawl → citation → referral. Prove ROI per AI platform.
Search engine organic
declining
+
Bing AI + Gemini
new traffic
+
ChatGPT + Perplexity
new traffic
+
Claude + Meta AI
new traffic
=
Total organic
recovered + growing ↑
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PERFORMANCE IMPACT

73% Faster. All Vitals Green.

Average across AEO-proxied client sites

TTFB Reduction

73%
~900ms → ~240ms avg
900
→
240

Cache Hit Rate

90%
Served from edge CDN

CrUX Status

ALL ✓
Official field data
LCP CLS FCP TTFB INP

Agent Happiness

83
/100 live score
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CASE STUDY BENCHMARKS

850K+ AI Citations
in 90 Days

A mental well-being space home brand · Verified via Bing Webmaster Console AI Performance Report

January

15K
Baseline · 133 pages

February

55K
+267% growth

March

481K
+766% · 418 pages

April (partial)

299K
655 pages cited
Jan Feb Mar Apr
Top query: "mindfulness meditation techniques" — 254,680 citations · 800+ unique queries

Estimated Traffic Value

$425K+
850K citations × avg $0.50 CPC equivalent = organic traffic value you'd pay for in paid search ads

Ranking Impact

+35%
Brands cited in AI answers earn 35% more organic clicks even in traditional search results
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TRAFFIC ATTRIBUTION — CASE STUDY BENCHMARKS

Full Funnel Tracked.
Every Referral Attributed.

A mental well-being space home brand · Real data from AEO dashboard

Weekly Agent Crawls

67K+
From 64 unique AI agents

AI Referrals

27K+
Humans via AI platforms

Human Visits

135K+
20% AI-attributed

Crawl-to-Refer Ratio vs Industry Benchmarks

Bing AI

2:1
AEO Ratio
vs
3:1
Industry
BETTER

ChatGPT

23:1
AEO Ratio
vs
1,276:1
Industry
55x BETTER

Claude

200:1
AEO Ratio
vs
23,951:1
Industry
120x BETTER
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THE DASHBOARD

Everything Your Brand Website Needs

AGENT ACQUISITION

  • Real-Time Analytics Live
  • Traffic Intelligence Human + Agent
  • Core Web Vitals CrUX + RUM
  • Agents Reception Happiness Score

AGENT ENGAGEMENT

  • Attribution Crawl → Refer
  • Funnel Analysis 6-stage funnel
  • Agent Behaviour Intent classification

AGENT ENGAGEMENT (cont.)

  • AEO Impact Audit + Config
  • Citations Bing verified

MONETIZATION & DEFENSE

  • Agent Monetization Per-page pricing
  • Smart Protection Block · Rate-limit

INFRASTRUCTURE

  • Site Management Multi-domain
  • Reports & Integrations
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BEFORE & AFTER

What Changes on Day One

The moment you add AEO, every AI interaction with your site becomes visible, fast, and monetizable.

❌ Without AEO

  • 📉Organic traffic declining — Search engines are the only door
  • 🐌~900ms TTFB — agents crawl less, index less
  • 🔇Zero visibility into which AI agents visit
  • ❓No idea if cited by ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot
  • 🚫Can't manage, block, or rate-limit agents
  • 🚪AI traffic doors exist but you can't walk through
  • 💸Agents consume resources, give nothing back

✅ With AEO

  • 🚀New organic traffic from ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, Claude
  • ⚡~240ms TTFB — agents crawl deeper, cite more
  • 👁️64 agents classified — know exactly who visits
  • 📊850K+ citations tracked — proof of AI visibility
  • 🔗Full attribution: agent crawl → citation → referral → visit
  • 🚪Every AI platform becomes a new organic traffic door
  • 💰Monetize agent access — charge per page beyond quota
Net result: Search engine traffic declining is offset by new organic traffic from 6+ AI platforms — tracked, attributed, and growing.
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DEPLOYMENT

5-Minute Setup. Zero Code.

Works with any origin — WordPress, Shopify, custom, headless CMS

1
Add Domain

Enter client domain and origin address in the dashboard

2
DNS Switch

Point DNS to AEO edge network. Zero downtime cutover

3
Instant Intelligence

Agent tracking, caching, citations, protection — all live immediately

Infrastructure
Global Edge Network · 300+ PoPs · Real-Time Database · Edge Cache
Requirements
No code changes. No plugins. No scripts to install. Just DNS.
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