AEO lite

About AEO lite

Stop guessing and start winning in the AI-powered search era. AEO Lite is the no-fluff, instant-checker that's blowing up among savvy marketers, founders, and SEOs who are tired of agency jargon and need actionable answers now. Forget complex audits; this tool is your direct line to understanding exactly how "answer-ready" your content is for Google's AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, and every other answer engine stealing traditional search traffic. Just paste a URL. In seconds, you get a crystal-clear score out of 100 and a prioritized breakdown of what's working, what's missing, and which fixes will actually move the needle. Built from real-world AEO projects with SaaS, fintech, and ecommerce teams, it cuts through the hype to deliver simple inputs and concrete recommendations that even non-technical teams can execute. Use it to benchmark your key pages, brief your writers and developers with precision, and finally integrate AEO strategy seamlessly into your existing SEO roadmap. In 2025, if you're not optimized for AI, you're invisible. AEO Lite is your first step back into the light.

Features of AEO lite

Instant, Comprehensive AEO Score

Get an immediate, holistic score out of 100 that tells you exactly where you stand in the answer engine race. This isn't a vague metric; it's a rigorous analysis across six critical categories like Answer Readiness, Schema Essentials, and Trust & Author signals. The scoring system, trusted by hundreds of growth teams, instantly highlights your strengths and exposes dangerous gaps that could be making your content invisible to AI crawlers and LLMs.

Actionable, Priority-Based Fix Plan

No more overwhelming lists of 100+ issues. AEO Lite delivers a tailored fix plan that tells you what to do first. The analysis breaks down recommendations by impact, so you know whether to focus on adding missing FAQPage schema, fixing robot.txt blocks, or improving your question-form headers. This lets you allocate resources efficiently and get quick wins that boost your visibility in AI Overviews fast.

Hard-Fail Detection & Alerts

Discover the critical errors that give your content a score of ZERO in answer engines. The tool automatically flags hard-fail rules like pages blocking LLM crawlers, using 'noindex' tags, having insufficient content (under 150 words), or lacking any schema markup. This feature alone has saved countless teams from wasting effort on pages that AI simply cannot process or cite.

Non-Technical, Team-Friendly Reporting

Finally, an SEO tool that everyone on your team can understand. AEO Lite translates complex technical concepts like entity alignment and JSON-LD validation into plain language. The clear breakdowns and visual scoring make it effortless to brief writers, developers, and stakeholders, ensuring everyone is aligned on the AEO strategy without needing a decoder ring.

Use Cases of AEO lite

Pre-Publish Content Audits for Writers

Content teams are using AEO Lite as a final check before hitting "publish." Writers paste their draft URL, run the analysis, and instantly see if their article has the required question headers, concise 40-60 word answers, and proper schema structure to rank in AI Overviews. This ensures every new piece is engineered for answer engine success from day one.

SEO Roadmap Prioritization

SEO managers and founders are leveraging the tool to audit their entire key page inventory. By scoring multiple cornerstone pages, they can objectively prioritize which pages to optimize first based on their AEO score and fix plan complexity. This data-driven approach integrates AEO seamlessly into quarterly SEO roadmaps, maximizing resource impact.

Agency & Freelancer Client Reporting

Agencies and freelance consultants are adopting AEO Lite to provide tangible, value-packed audits for their clients. Instead of vague promises about "AI optimization," they deliver a clear score and a step-by-step fix plan. This builds immense trust and positions them as forward-thinking experts capitalizing on the latest search trend, leading to more retainers and upsells.

Technical Development Briefing

Developers no longer need to interpret lengthy, confusing SEO requests. Marketers simply share the AEO Lite report for a specific URL, which clearly outlines needed schema implementations (like FAQPage or HowTo), technical fixes in robots.txt, and internal linking recommendations. This cuts briefing time in half and ensures technical changes directly impact answer engine visibility.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do the different scoring buckets mean?

Your total score out of 100 is broken down into six weighted categories. "Answer Readiness" (25 pts) checks for question-based headers and concise answers. "Schema Essentials" (20 pts) validates your critical JSON-LD markup. "Entity & Links" (15 pts) looks at topic authority signals. "FAQ/HowTo Surfaceability" (15 pts) ensures your structured content is visible. "Tech Basics" (15 pts) covers crawlability, and "Trust & Author" (10 pts) verifies authorship and dates. Each category's detailed breakdown shows you exactly what you got points for and what you missed.

How are the tool's recommendations generated?

The recommendations are not generic! They are generated based on a proprietary framework built from successful, real-world AEO campaigns for SaaS, fintech, and ecommerce companies. The system cross-references your page's specific failures against a database of known fixes that have proven to move the needle in AI Overviews and answer engines. It then prioritizes them by impact, so you tackle high-value, low-effort items first.

What schema is absolutely essential for AEO?

Based on analysis of cited content, you cannot skip FAQPage, HowTo, Article, and Organization schema. These are the fundamental building blocks that help answer engines like Google's AI Overviews parse, understand, and confidently cite your content. BreadcrumbList schema is also highly recommended for providing site hierarchy context. AEO Lite checks for the validity and proper implementation of these specific types.

Why does my page score a zero?

A score of zero is a "hard-fail," meaning your page has a critical flaw that completely blocks answer engines. The most common reasons are: your robots.txt file is blocking AI crawlers (like ChatGPT's or Google's Gemini), the page has a 'noindex' meta tag, the content is too thin (under 150 words), or there is absolutely no schema markup present. The tool will clearly identify which hard-fail rule applies to your URL.