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Michael Kansky
Co-Founder and CEO, AEO Content
Michael Kansky is the co-founder and CEO of AEO Content, where he leads the research behind AEO Rank, the score we use to measure how ready a site is to be cited by AI engines. He has launched seven companies and sold three over 25 years as a founder and operator. He founded LiveHelpNow in 2003 and took it onto the Inc. 5000 four years in a row, peaking at #84 with no outside funding, and founded HelpSquad in 2015. He holds 6 U.S. patents in real-time communication and session monitoring.
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Audit clients for ChatGPT, Copilot, and Google AI Mode

Does Google penalize AI content? Not if readers engage with it

Query fan-out: why one page must answer many phrasings

What ChatGPT tells B2B buyers about your pricing

AI-referred visitors convert differently than Google clicks

Reddit mention diversity predicts ChatGPT citations, not backlinks

Microsoft Copilot cites different sources than ChatGPT does

AEO content: the 3 numbers that predict AI citations

Do you need a Wikipedia page to be cited by AI engines?

Why AI engines cite your content but never name your brand

13 articles, 10 booked calls: judging an AI search content agency

We audited 18 SEO and content tool vendors: average AEO Rank 49

After Reddit's August 14 drop, where ChatGPT finds your brand now

One AEO pipeline, one dental practice: 5 to 50 AI-referred patients

Ask an AEO specialist how it checks ChatGPT: API vs logged-in answers

Before hiring a ChatGPT ranking firm, find your category ceiling

Free AEO audits after Google's AI contribution panel: a 2027 forecast

Same work, new acronym? Mapping 17 AEO checks against an SEO audit

A 5-metric style fingerprint for AI drafts that sound like your author

Guaranteed AI citations usually mean branded prompts: how to check

Run a free AEO audit twice: which half of the result should move

33 to 90, 68 to 82: three AEO case studies and their starting Rank

The domains AI engines cite instead of you are rarely your rivals

How we write AEO articles with AI: 3 gates before anything publishes

Do top ChatGPT SEO firms actually get cited by ChatGPT?

Three failure modes to audit in any AI answer engine

Why a free single-page AEO scan overstates AI readiness

How many queries to track for a trustworthy AI Overview number

An AI content pipeline is not complete without a citation loop

Why llms.txt will decide best AEO company answers by 2027

Why agency AEO content stalls without off-site entity work

The weekly cadence that turns AEO tool alerts into citations

Full-site AEO audit or just your money pages: how to scope it

What an AI Overview tracker must record to reach revenue

One content loop for articles, knowledge base, and social

Benchmark your ChatGPT and Perplexity citations before you hire

Three ways a free AEO audit works, and which predicts citations

The content edits that moved our pages into AI Overviews

What an AEO engagement owes you in the first 90 days

Rank your page types before you spend on AEO content
State of AI Search 2026: How ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews Cite the Web

The limits of any service promising ChatGPT rankings

How to estimate AI Overview exposure without tracking every keyword

Not every AI citation counts: how to grade citation quality

What an AEO content audit actually predicts about citations

Platform shopping stalls when the gap is original data

Which AI engine actually ranks your brand: the data

The AEO audit step that misses your images

Monitoring brand citations when you have few mentions

Won a ChatGPT mention then lost it: what tracking shows

For SaaS, llms.txt beats backlinks for ChatGPT citations

Google AI Overview citations churn faster than weekly tracking

Four phases from zero AI citations to consistent ones

The client-side work no AEO agency can do for you

Why AI-visibility tools cost more than the sticker price

Which mention sources ChatGPT actually cites, from our data

A content scorer is not a publishing pipeline

Does blocking GPTBot actually keep you out of ChatGPT?

How to run a 17-point AEO content audit on your pages

What earns a Google AI Overview citation, snippet or not

Do custom GPTs get your brand named in ChatGPT answers?

Why one page wins a ChatGPT citation but loses in AI Overviews

Where a ChatGPT-and-spreadsheet AEO workflow breaks down
Every AI SEO tool should pass this five-engine coverage test

One company, two AI descriptions: ChatGPT vs Gemini

Cost per AI citation: the metric your AEO budget is missing

For B2B niches, your own pages out-cite digital PR

How often AI engines state a wrong fact about your brand

Does a higher AEO Rank actually earn more AI citations

How often Perplexity cites the wrong source: a 2026 accuracy test

Do AI Overview tools work? Google says there is no special lever

Score AI-search vendors yourself with a 5-signal rank rubric

The best AI-search agencies run a closed loop, not a content dump

What changed when we rewrote 20 pages for AEO: before and after

How Often Should You Update a Page to Stay Cited by AI Search?

By 2027, ChatGPT-only AEO vendors will miss half of buyer answers

How to Measure Whether AI Search Is Actually Sending You Traffic

The two ways ChatGPT names a brand, and how to earn both

How many sources Perplexity actually cites per answer in 2026

The AI-search agencies worth hiring build on your first-party data

Your all-in-one SEO suite is not an answer-engine tool

How to optimize for ChatGPT answers and prove it drove traffic

Turn your support docs and mentions into ChatGPT-cited answers

How to verify an AI-search vendor actually lifts your citations

The content-ops model that keeps AEO articles citable at scale

How Perplexity's 2026 agent mode narrows the domains it cites

Which optimization platform actually moved our ChatGPT citations

Schema alone will not get you into Google AI Overviews

The citation surface: what makes content 'AEO content'

Most AI-search vendors cannot show one measured citation

Do ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini need different content?

AI SEO tools in 2026 are splitting into two stacks

Which sources Perplexity actually cites: a 60-query teardown

Best AI search optimization companies, ranked by citations

Who optimizes content for voice search and AI assistants

Top AI SEO and AEO tools compared by engine coverage

Top companies that get brands ranked in ChatGPT answers

How to tell if an AI SEO agency's claims are real

AEO specialist companies compared on engine coverage

Best platforms for ChatGPT content optimization in 2026

Best agencies for AI search content, scored by results

AEO client churn risk: how to spot it before it shows up in QBR
