AEO Audit is a free tool that scores B2B SaaS websites for AI search visibility — how likely they are to be cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews when B2B buyers search.

What is AI Engine Optimization (AEO)?

AI Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of structuring content, entity signals, and technical infrastructure so that AI engines cite your brand in generated answers. It extends traditional SEO to cover ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.

Yes. AEO Audit is free. Enter any B2B SaaS brand and receive a full AI visibility score with prioritised recommendations.

How does AEO Audit score websites?

AEO Audit scores across six pillars: AI Visibility (22%), Brand Authority (23%), Content Quality (18%), Platform Optimization (15%), Structured Data (12%), and Technical AEO (10%). Each pillar reflects specific signals that AI engines use when deciding which sources to cite.

Subcategory · AI Citation Index

Image Generation

Image generation shows clear market stratification: Midjourney leads at 78% shortlisting despite being prompt-based and closed, Adobe and Canva leverage existing creative ecosystems at 74-72%, and Stability AI's open-source approach captures only 49% despite appearing across all four model perspectives. The 4-way model diversity across top brands signals genuine cross-paradigm utility rather than model bias. Amazon's 23% presence suggests cloud infrastructure plays in generative AI, while Leonardo AI's 39% indicates viable mid-tier competition exists between proprietary leaders and open alternatives.

155 discovery queries · 189 head-to-heads · refreshed Jun 1, 2026

Discovery stage

The shortlist

Across 155 buyer-style "Image Generation" queries

Most cited · Image GenerationLive

Midjourney

midjourney.com

Cited in 121 of 155 buyer questions for Image Generation — surfaced by 3 of 3 AI engines.

ChatGPTGeminiClaude

Citation rate

78%

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X = coverage across discovery prompts · Y = engine diversity · Bubble size = total mentions

Tracked acrossChatGPT,Gemini,Claude

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Signal by intent

By topic

Top 5 most-cited brands per intent cluster. Brands with zero citations in a topic are not shown.

Midjourney

7/8

Adobe

6/8

Canva

6/8

Designer

4/8

Stable Diffusion

4/8

Adobe

8/8

Canva

8/8

Midjourney

7/8

Designer

6/8

Microsoft

6/8

Midjourney

6/6

Adobe

5/6

Canva

5/6

Designer

4/6

Stable Diffusion

4/6

Adobe

6/6

Midjourney

6/6

Canva

6/6

Designer

6/6

DALL·E

6/6

Background Removal

5/5

Adobe

5/5

Midjourney

5/5

Photoroom

5/5

Canva

4/5

Midjourney

4/4

Canva

4/4

Agency

4/4

Adobe

4/4

Leonardo AI

4/4

Midjourney

4/4

Ideogram

4/4

Adobe

4/4

Canva

4/4

Stable Diffusion

4/4

Midjourney

4/4

Designer

4/4

Adobe

4/4

Agency

4/4

Canva

4/4

≥50% cited

25–49%

<25%

Topics are discovery-stage prompt clusters · image-generation

Evaluation stage

Head-to-head

How often AI cites each brand across uniform category evaluation prompts · median 17/100

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X = evaluation citation rate · Y = evaluation prompts cited in · Bubble size = citation exposure

Median citation rate 17/100

Each brand's score is the share of category evaluation prompts where AI cited them across all four engines — the same prompt pool for every brand. Brands above the median citation rate have stronger presence in evaluation-stage queries.

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