Correlation study · Updated hourly
Every AEO tool claims its score "correlates with AI visibility." We publish the actual correlation. For every site Aeonic monitors that has at least two baselines, we match score changes against real citation-rate changes across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini. No cherry-picked case studies. No simulated data.
Every site monitored by Aeonic receives an AI-Readiness Score based on 13 technical factors: content depth, brand clarity, schema markup, FAQ structure, heading hierarchy, link authority, entity definition, source credibility, AI crawl access, response formatting, freshness signals, topic coverage, and multi-format publishing. We then track actual citation rates across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini for the same sites over time.
Below 40
Rarely cited by AI — major structural gaps
40-60
Occasionally cited — fixable issues
60-80
Regularly cited — fine-tuning stage
Above 80
Consistently cited — optimization mode
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How to read this
The 13-factor AI-Readiness score is the headline product. The honest question is: does moving the score up actually cause AI engines to cite you more? This page is the public answer.
We're measuring correlation, not causation. Sites that improve their score tend to be doing other things right too — fixing broken links, updating content, adding FAQ blocks. The correlation tells us the score is a useful proxy for "things that drive citations," not that it magically causes them.
What this page is not: a single dramatic case study of one customer. We think those are cherry-picked by definition. Real evidence is what the population looks like, including the sites where nothing happened.
If the numbers on this page ever stop supporting the product claim, we'll say so here first. That's the deal.
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