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HVAC AEO • Field Operations The Diagnostic Form Is Your Best Salesperson Why the contractors winning trust in 2026 stopped writing recommendations on the back of a service ticket — and what they’re using instead. Here’s the uncomfortable truth about residential HVAC: the customer doesn’t trust your tech. Not specifically yours. The whole category. You … Read more
AEO Analysis — The Retailer Citation Problem When AI Engines Cite Your Resellers Instead of You Retailer page citations account for 10% of ChatGPT’s sources, 8% of Gemini’s, and 4% of Perplexity’s. For product brands, that is citation authority flowing to your resellers instead of your brand domain. The retailers are winning because their pages … Read more
AEO Research — Cross-Engine Analysis Three AI Engines, Three Completely Different Citation Strategies Across 546 citations spanning 15 verticals, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini disagree on what counts as an authoritative source. The overlap between them is smaller than the AEO industry assumes. Optimizing for one engine leaves two-thirds of your citation surface untouched. Based on … Read more
AEO Case Study — Industrial IoT How Distributors Absorb AI Citations Meant for Industrial Brands A study of 42 AI citations for a single ABB product — the Ability Smart Sensor — shows a pattern B2B industrial brands rarely recognize. Only 29% of citations go to ABB-owned domains. A third go to distributors mirroring ABB’s … Read more
AEO Research — Content Type Analysis The Content Types That Actually Earn AI Citations Across 546 scored AI citations, technical PDFs, journals, and press releases consistently outscore blog content by 20 to 30 points on the Page Structure Score rubric. The B2B AEO playbook that works is not content marketing as most agencies practice it … Read more
AEO Case Study — Work Boots What AI Search Actually Cites When People Ask About Work Boots Across 126 AI citations spanning nine brands and three engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini — the winners are not who you would expect. Retailer pages punch above brand pages. Amazon appears where it does not elsewhere. And … Read more
For Publishers How Trade Publications Can Win More AI Citations (And Why Most Are Losing Them) Our 550-citation study found trade publications are only 6.5% of AI citations and score lower on extractability than every other content type. That’s not a trade press problem — that’s a solvable publishing problem. Here’s what the data says … Read more
AEO Tactics — Google AI Overviews What Gemini Citation Data Tells Us About Winning Google AI Overviews AI Overviews — the AI answer boxes at the top of Google Search — are powered by the same Gemini models we analyzed across 190 standalone Gemini citations. The citation patterns look nothing like ChatGPT and only partially … Read more
AEO Case Study — HVAC How Carrier Dominated HVAC AI Citations Around a Single Product Launch When Carrier announced a generative AI feature in its Abound building management platform in early 2026, three AI search engines cited 21 distinct URLs about the event. Nine of those 21 citations went to Carrier-owned properties. This is what … Read more
AEO Tactics — ChatGPT How to Dominate ChatGPT AI Search ChatGPT is the brand-domain engine. 95% of its citations go to brand and trade sources, and when it reaches for quality, it reaches for pages scoring 75-80+ on the Page Structure Score. If you want ChatGPT visibility, the work is almost entirely on your own … Read more