AEO lite

About AEO lite

Stop playing the guessing game with AI. AEO Lite is your no-BS, instant spotlight on whether your content is built for the new internet. Forget traditional SEO checkers that are stuck in 2010; this tool is engineered for the age of ChatGPT, Claude, and Google's AI Overviews. It's a practical, punchy Answer Engine Optimization checker built for hustlers—marketers, founders, and SEOs who need to know if their pages are "answer-ready" without dropping thousands on a fancy agency. You just paste a URL, and in seconds, AEO Lite runs a ruthless, focused audit. It tears into your schema, dissects your headings, judges your content structure, and sizes up your FAQ game. It hunts for the exact entity signals that make AI sit up and take notice. You don't get a vague report; you get a crystal-clear score out of 100 and a brutal breakdown of what's winning, what's missing, and which fixes will actually move the needle—fast. Built from real-world AEO battles with SaaS, fintech, and ecommerce teams, it cuts the fluff and delivers simple inputs, concrete recommendations, and language even your non-technical crew can understand and act on. Use it to benchmark your key pages, brief your writers and devs with precision, and finally prioritize AEO work that matters right alongside your existing SEO roadmap.

Features of AEO lite

Instant Answer-Engine Scorecard

Get a merciless, comprehensive score out of 100 that tells you exactly where you stand in the AI arena. This isn't a pat on the back; it's a data-driven diagnosis across six critical categories like Answer Readiness, Schema Essentials, and Trust & Author signals. The scoring system is based on hard-fail rules—if you're blocking AI crawlers or have no schema, you get a big, fat zero. It's the reality check you need to stop wasting time and start fixing what actually matters for visibility in AI Overviews and answer engines.

Tailored, Actionable Fix Plan

No more drowning in generic advice. AEO Lite serves up a prioritized, tailored fix plan that tells your team exactly what to do next. The analysis breaks down each scoring category, highlighting what you're already nailing and, more importantly, exposing the glaring gaps. It translates complex AEO concepts into clear, actionable tasks—like "add FAQPage schema here" or "rewrite this header as a question"—so marketers, writers, and developers know precisely how to execute and boost that score.

6-Point AEO Health Analysis

We go deep, not wide. The tool performs a surgical analysis across six core pillars that answer engines crave. It checks your Answer Readiness for Q&A headers and concise answers, audits your Schema Essentials for valid JSON-LD, evaluates Entity & Link authority, assesses FAQ/HowTo Surfaceability, verifies Tech Basics like indexability, and scrutinizes Trust & Author signals. This structured approach ensures you're not just optimizing for one thing but building a holistic, AI-friendly content fortress.

No-Fluff, Real-World Framework

Built from the trenches, not a textbook. AEO Lite is powered by insights from actual AEO projects with real SaaS, fintech, and ecommerce teams. This means every recommendation, every scoring criterion, is battle-tested. The interface is brutally simple: paste a URL, get the analysis. The output is designed for speed and clarity, stripping away jargon to give you concrete steps that non-technical teams can immediately understand and implement to win in the answer engine landscape.

Use Cases of AEO lite

Pre-Publish Content Audits

Before you hit "publish" on that big blog post or product page, run it through AEO Lite. Get an instant gut-check on its answer-engine readiness. See if your headers are phrased as questions, if your schema is on point, and if your FAQ coverage is solid. This proactive audit ensures your new content is born optimized, giving it the best possible shot at being featured and cited by AI assistants from day one, maximizing its impact.

Benchmarking & Competitor Spying

Curious why your competitor keeps popping up in AI Overviews? Paste their URL into AEO Lite and get their secret sauce decoded. Benchmark their score against yours to identify your relative weaknesses and strengths. Use their high-scoring pages as a blueprint for your own strategy. This competitive intelligence allows you to reverse-engineer winning AEO tactics and close the gap fast, turning their success into your actionable playbook.

Briefing Writers & Developers

Tired of vague briefs that lead to misaligned work? Use AEO Lite's concrete output as the ultimate briefing document. Share the specific fix list with your content team to show exactly which headers need rewrites or where to insert step-by-step instructions. Hand the schema gaps directly to your developers for implementation. It translates strategy into clear, delegated tasks, eliminating confusion and ensuring everyone builds toward the same AEO goal.

Prioritizing Your SEO/AEO Roadmap

Struggling to decide what to fix first in your vast content library? AEO Lite acts as your triage nurse. Run your top-performing or most important pages through the tool. The clear score and prioritized recommendations instantly show you which pages have the lowest-hanging fruit and the highest potential for quick wins. This lets you strategically prioritize AEO work that delivers the biggest ROI, integrating it seamlessly with your existing SEO initiatives.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does my AEO score actually mean?

Your score out of 100 is a direct measure of how "answer-ready" your page is for AI systems like ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews. It's calculated across six weighted categories, including Answer Readiness and Schema. A high score (e.g., 80+) means your page is well-structured for AI parsing and citation. A low score highlights critical gaps. A score of 0 means a "hard-fail" like blocked AI crawlers or a noindex tag, making your page invisible to answer engines entirely.

How is this different from a normal SEO tool?

Traditional SEO tools are built for Google's classic search algorithm—focused on keywords, backlinks, and page speed. AEO Lite is built for the new wave of AI answer engines. It analyzes specifically what AI models need: structured data (schema), clear Q&A formats, entity alignment, and trust signals. It's about optimizing for the machines that generate answers, not just the one that ranks links.

What if I get a score of zero?

A score of zero is a major red flag, but it's also a clear call to action. It means your page has a critical "hard-fail" issue that completely blocks answer engines. This is typically due to: your robots.txt file blocking AI crawlers (like ChatGPT's), using a 'noindex' meta tag, having severely insufficient content (under 150 words), or having zero schema markup. The report will identify which fail is present, so you can fix it and get back in the game.

Do I need to be a technical expert to use this?

Absolutely not. That's the whole point. AEO Lite is designed for marketers, founders, and content strategists. The analysis and recommendations are presented in plain, actionable language. While some fixes (like adding schema) may require a developer, the tool clearly outlines what needs to be done, so you can easily brief your tech team without needing to understand the code yourself.