u/pbhuvan

I spent 5+ years in content and SEO. worked across B2B and B2C SaaS. I know how to structure content, I know how search works, I've written for enough brands to know what "good" looks like.

So when AEO and GEO is getting the hype, I spent the last two weeks testing whatever tool I could find, at least 20 of them.

and here's the thing:

every single tool gives me a different visibility score for the same brand. Not slightly different. Wildly different. :D

One tool says 67, another says 23, another says I'm not being cited at all.

I don't know what they're measuring. I don't know how they're generating the questions they send to LLMs. I don't know if they're running one query or ten. I don't know which models they're actually hitting.

and if I don't know that, how am I supposed to trust the number?

if you've been following me here, you'll know I've been playing with AEO/GEO for a while. Every Redditor, like me, found inconsistent scores, no transparency on methodology, no actionable output. Just a number that means nothing.

At this point I'm genuinely wondering: Should I just build the tool myself?

I know what I want from it. I know what questions matter. I know what actionable output looks like for a content team and after reading this community's feedback for weeks, I think a lot of you know exactly what's missing too.

What's the one thing you hate most about the AI visibility tools you've tried?

Is it because the AI visibility didn't fetch the data properly?

or was the website's content was not good?

What do you guys think of AI visibilty tool and its credibility?

Off late, I am seeing a lot of AI visibility tools everywhere, sometimes there's a launch on Product hunt every day. And even I thought to build an AI visibility tool if there's so much market for it.

Will there be so much demand for AEO tools after a year or two?

Sometimes I feel 16 days is too slow when I see people shipping in 1-2 days. But I'm from a non-technical background with zero prior coding experience. I vibecoded my way through it and shipped a working product.

Honestly, the build part was easier than I expected. The GTM part is where I'm stuck now.

So I just wanted to ask fellow builders one specific question.

What actually got you your first paying user?

The first person who paid. What did you do, say, or build that made that happen?

This is my first product. Would love to hear what worked for you, even if it small one.

Sometimes I feel like 16 days is too much while others are building in 1-2 days.

It's fine, I am from a non-technical background. No prior coding background.

I vibecoded and shipped a working product.

Being a non-tech person, I got the build part easily, still figuring out the GTM part. Now I am just doing GTM.

I just wanted to know this from fellow builders: For founders who've shipped something, what actually got you your first paying user?

Not your first signup, not your first waitlist entry. The first person who paid.

btw, this is my first product.

Two and a half weeks.

That's how long it took for Anthropic's most restricted models to go from 'national security risk' to cleared for global release again.

What do you think happened behind closed doors?

I have been seeing this recommendation everywhere as a default AEO/GEO checklist item, but I haven't found anyone who's actually A/B tested on it.

Just wanted to know if anyone here has actual before/after data.

Has it done anything measurable, or is everyone just adding it because everyone says to?

Is it still effective in 2026?

I have written many blogs, but the schema part is taken care of the SEO team. Never looked into it.

I did Google and learn about it, but having a hands on experience would have helped me.

I am wondering how important it is for AEO/GEO and how to add it in blogs in the backend?

Is it because of API integration?

Most of them are priced at $200-500/month just for basic tracking. (atleast they start with 100$)

Compare that to Ahrefs or Semrush, which do way more (keywords, backlinks, audits, content gaps) for $99-200/month.

Is it because:

• Pulling data from LLM outputs is just harder/more expensive to run?
• It's new enough that nobody's competing on price yet?
• They're going after enterprise budgets?
• Or is this just early pricing before the market settles down?

Has anyone here actually paid for one of these tools? What are you using, and does it actually feel worth it?

If I get it wrong, your customers probably will too.

I'll review it from the perspective of your ICP (different personas as well) who has never seen it before:

• First impression
• Biggest confusion point
• Trust concerns
• Questions I'd ask before signing up
• Whether I'd continue exploring or leave

SEOs spent the last decade obsessing over get to Page 1, get to Position 1, own the SERP. And it worked. Rankings meant traffic. Traffic meant revenue.

But now it's all about GEO/AEO

I was using Perplexity the other day to research something for a client brief. I didn't click a single link anywhere else. I got my answer and closed the tab.

And then I thought, if I were the brand being researched, I wouldn't even know I was invisible.

With SEO, the feedback loop was clear:

Write → rank → get traffic → see it in GA

With GEO, I don't even know:

1. How do you know if an AI engine is citing your content?

2. Can you even intentionally optimize for this or is it mostly about domain authority and content quality?