# Elite Answers

> Elite Answers is the AEO platform for agencies: track how every client shows up in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI, find out why competitors get cited instead, and ship the fixes — with white-label reports clients actually read.

Elite Answers tracks how brands appear in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, audits websites for answer-engine readiness, recommends fixes and produces white-label reports for agencies. Plans: Studio $249/mo, Growth $1,199/mo, Agency $3,999/mo, Enterprise custom pricing. Access is invite-only through Elite Digital (https://elitedigitalagency.com/contact).

## Product

- [AI visibility tracking](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/product/tracking): prompts × engines, share of voice, position, sentiment and citations
- [AEO site audit](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/product/audit): crawler access, llms.txt, structured data, answerability, authority and technical checks
- [Actions & content briefs](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/product/content): ranked fix list tied to lost prompts, answer-first content briefs
- [White-label reports](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/product/reports): frozen client report links, PDFs and scheduled client emails
- [For agencies](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/for-agencies): client workspaces, pooled prompts, roles and white-label
- [For in-house teams](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/for-brands): AI visibility for one brand across SEO, content and PR
- [Pricing](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/pricing): published plans and limits
- [Security](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/security): access model, data handling and retention

## Guides

- [What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/learn/what-is-aeo): Answer engine optimization (AEO) gets your brand named and cited in AI answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google. What it is and where to start.
- [AEO vs SEO: What's Different and What Isn't](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/learn/aeo-vs-seo): AEO vs SEO: how answer engine optimization differs from classic SEO in goals, signals and metrics, what carries over, and how to run both as one program.
- [How to Get Cited by ChatGPT](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/learn/how-to-get-cited-by-chatgpt): How to get cited by ChatGPT: how ChatGPT search finds sources, which OpenAI crawler to allow, and the content and authority work that earns citations.
- [AI Crawlers and robots.txt: Which Bots to Allow or Block](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/learn/ai-crawlers-robots-txt): AI crawlers explained: search bots vs training bots vs user-triggered fetchers, how to allow or block each in robots.txt, and why your CDN may block them.
- [What Is llms.txt, and Do AI Engines Use It?](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/learn/llms-txt): llms.txt explained: what the proposed file is, an example of the format, how it differs from robots.txt and sitemaps, and whether AI engines use it.
- [How to Measure AI Visibility](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/learn/measuring-ai-visibility): How to measure AI visibility: build a prompt set, track mentions, share of voice, position, citations and sentiment across engines, and report real trends.
- [AEO for Agencies: How to Package, Price and Report It](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/learn/aeo-for-agencies): AEO for agencies: how to package answer engine optimization as a service, structure retainers, run the onboarding audit and report AI visibility to clients.

## Answer engines

- [ChatGPT](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/engines/chatgpt): Track how ChatGPT mentions, ranks and cites your brand. See which sources it trusts, which rivals it names, and how to win more ChatGPT answers.
- [Perplexity](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/engines/perplexity): See how Perplexity cites and ranks your brand. Track answers, sources and competitors on a schedule, and learn what earns citations in Perplexity.
- [Gemini](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/engines/gemini): Track how Google Gemini mentions and cites your brand. See how Search grounding shapes its answers, which rivals it names, and how to earn citations.
- [Claude](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/engines/claude): Track how Anthropic's Claude mentions and cites your brand. Learn how Claude's web search picks sources, which crawlers to allow, and how to get cited.
- [Google AI Overviews](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/engines/google-ai-overviews): Track whether Google AI Overviews mention and link your brand. See which pages Google cites, which rivals it names, and how to earn a supporting link.
- [Google AI Mode](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/engines/google-ai-mode): Track how Google AI Mode mentions and links your brand. See which sources it cites, how query fan-out finds pages, and which rivals take the answer.

## Glossary

- [AI crawler](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/ai-crawler): An automated bot run by an AI company that fetches web pages to train models, build a search index, or answer a user's question in real time.
- [AI Mode](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/ai-mode): Google's conversational search mode, where a Gemini-based model answers complex questions with a cited, multi-part response and supports follow-up questions.
- [AI Overviews](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/ai-overviews): AI-generated summaries that Google shows at the top of some search results, built from its index and linking to supporting web pages.
- [AI Visibility Score](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/ai-visibility-score): A 0–100 score summarizing how prominently AI engines mention and cite a brand across a set of tracked prompts.
- [Answer engine optimization (AEO)](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/answer-engine-optimization): The practice of making a brand easy for AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews to find, understand, mention and cite.
- [Answer-first content](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/answer-first-content): Writing that states the direct answer in the opening sentences, then adds supporting detail, so readers and AI engines can lift it cleanly.
- [Average position](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/average-position): The average rank of a brand's first mention among tracked brands in AI answers that mention it, where 1 means named first.
- [Citation](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/citation): A link an AI engine attaches to its answer to show which web page supports a statement, usually shown inline or in a sources list.
- [Citation share](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/citation-share): The share of all sources cited in AI answers for your tracked prompts that link to your brand's own domain.
- [Entity](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/entity): A distinct, identifiable thing such as a company, product, person or place that search and AI systems recognize and connect to facts about it.
- [FAQPage schema](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/faqpage-schema): Schema.org structured data that marks up a page's list of questions and answers so machines can read each pair explicitly.
- [Generative engine optimization (GEO)](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/generative-engine-optimization): Optimizing content and brand presence to appear in answers written by generative AI systems; in practice, a near-synonym for answer engine optimization.
- [Google-Extended](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/google-extended): A robots.txt product token that lets site owners control whether Google uses their content to train Gemini models and to ground answers in Gemini Apps.
- [GPTBot](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/gptbot): OpenAI's web crawler for collecting content that may be used to train its generative AI models, controlled with the GPTBot user agent in robots.txt.
- [Grounding](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/grounding): Connecting an AI model's answer to external sources, such as live search results, so its claims rest on retrieved evidence rather than memory alone.
- [llms.txt](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/llms-txt): A proposed Markdown file at a site's root that gives AI systems a concise summary of the site and links to its most useful pages.
- [Mention rate](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/mention-rate): The share of AI answers for your tracked prompts that mention your brand at least once.
- [Net sentiment](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/net-sentiment): The percentage of a brand's AI mentions that are positive minus the percentage that are negative, on a scale from −100 to 100.
- [PerplexityBot](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/perplexitybot): Perplexity's web crawler, which indexes pages so they can be surfaced and linked in Perplexity's answers; Perplexity says it isn't used for model training.
- [Prompt set](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/prompt-set): A curated group of tracked prompts, usually organized by topic, that represents the questions a brand's buyers ask AI engines.
- [Query fan-out](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/query-fan-out): An AI search technique that splits one question into many related sub-queries, runs them in parallel and merges the results into a single answer.
- [Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/retrieval-augmented-generation): An AI architecture that retrieves relevant documents from an index or the web and feeds them to a language model before it writes an answer.
- [Share of voice](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/share-of-voice): A brand's mentioned answers as a share of all mentioned answers across the brands you track, showing how often engines name you versus competitors.
- [Structured data](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/structured-data): Machine-readable markup, usually schema.org vocabulary in JSON-LD, that labels what a page is about: the organization, product, article, author or FAQ it describes.
- [Tracked prompt](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/tracked-prompt): A specific question you monitor on a schedule across AI engines, recording each answer to measure whether and how your brand appears.
- [Zero-click search](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/glossary/zero-click-search): A search where the user gets what they need from the results page or AI answer itself and never clicks through to a website.

## Docs

- [Methodology](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/docs/methodology): data sources and exact metric definitions (AI Visibility Score, share of voice, average position, citation share, net sentiment)
- [Getting started](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/docs#getting-started)

## Tools

- [Free AI Visibility Snapshot](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/grader): score how ChatGPT and Perplexity answer your buyers' questions

## Comparisons

- [Elite Answers vs Profound](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/compare/profound)
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- [Elite Answers vs AthenaHQ](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/compare/athenahq)
- [Elite Answers vs Semrush AI Visibility](https://elite-answerfield.vercel.app/compare/semrush)

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