What is AEO and GEO optimization software?
Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the practice of helping a product or brand appear in AI answer results. Generative engine optimization (GEO) is the practice of helping a product or brand appear in AI-generated responses. For commerce teams, the software that supports this work monitors visibility, classifies appearances, fixes the catalog or content gaps behind those appearances, distributes product information to supported destinations, and measures AI-referred traffic.
The capabilities below give commerce teams a practical software selection checklist and show where Paz.ai fits in the workflow.
The capabilities commerce teams should evaluate
Use these capabilities as an evaluation checklist for any AEO or GEO platform built for ecommerce.
Monitor product and brand visibility
Run configured shopper queries across Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews and record what each engine surfaces.
Classify product cards, mentions, and source citations
Separate product cards, product mentions, brand mentions, and source citations so a merchant can distinguish being shown from being cited.
Turn visibility gaps into catalog improvements
Import a catalog, compute quality scores, and generate human-in-the-loop optimization proposals tied to the gaps visibility monitoring surfaces.
Distribute product information to supported destinations
Configure Google Merchant Center, the OpenAI Commerce product feed, a UCP destination, and the Enterprise ChatGPT App or MCP surface.
Measure AI-referred traffic and purchases
Attribute visits and purchase events from supported AI referrers with the Paz pixel and traffic-attribution APIs on Growth and Enterprise.
Where Paz.ai fits
Paz.ai is built for the commerce workflow above. It monitors shopping visibility across Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews; classifies product cards, product mentions, brand mentions, and source citations; imports a catalog and generates human-in-the-loop optimization proposals; distributes to Google Merchant Center, the OpenAI Commerce product feed, a UCP destination, and the Enterprise ChatGPT App or MCP surface; and attributes AI-referred traffic and purchases on Growth and Enterprise.
See the AI shopping visibility platform page for what Paz measures and the methodology page for how it measures it.
Paz workflow coverage
| Surface | Scope | Plans |
|---|---|---|
| Google AI Mode | Monitored and reported | All plans |
| ChatGPT | Monitored and reported | All plans |
| Perplexity | Monitored and reported | All plans |
| Google AI Overviews | Diagnostic; reported separately | All plans |
| Google Merchant Center | Distribution destination | Growth, Enterprise |
| OpenAI Commerce product feed | Distribution destination | Growth, Enterprise |
| Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) | Distribution destination when the product surface is enabled | Growth, Enterprise |
| ChatGPT App / MCP surface | Catalog-backed MCP and ChatGPT App | Enterprise |
| AI traffic attribution | Paz pixel and traffic-attribution APIs | Growth, Enterprise |
Methodology and product evidence
How Paz measures visibility is documented on the methodology page and held to the standards in the editorial policy. Public partnership evidence is on the press page.
Frequently asked questions
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Related
- Answer engine optimization (AEO) : definition
- Generative engine optimization (GEO) : definition
- AI visibility for commerce : definition
- AI shopping visibility platform : what Paz measures
- How to optimize a product feed for AI search : eight-step checklist
- AI Readiness : evaluate a product URL
- Pricing : current plan details
- Press : partner evidence
- Methodology : how Paz measures visibility