Day 1· Wed, Oct 7, 2026
30-day AEO foundation
Today's mission
145 min 0 of 4 doneDay 1 — Foundation
- DonePut your price on /pricing as text + Offer schema60 min
- DoneLet AI search crawlers reach your pages30 min
- DoneClaim G2 seller page40 min
- DoneBing Webmaster Tools verification15 min
Decision points
- Day7Technical baseline complete?Day 76 days
- Day14Cross-platform entity graph live?Day 1413 days
- Day30UVI delta ≥ +5?Day 3029 days
Phase progress
- 30-day AEO foundation
KPI
| Metric | Now | Target | Progress | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brand AEO score | 0/10 | ≥ 2/10 | — | |
| ChatGPT mentions | 0/3 | 1/3 | — | |
| Perplexity mentions | 1/3 | 2/3 | — | |
| Gemini mentions (slow burn) | 0/3 | 0/3 (slow burn) | — | |
| Citation share | 0% | 4% | — |
Sample data for demo. Real KPIs come from your aeo-platform run.
Article queue
| Date / Day | Channel | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
Day 3 D3 | acme-blog | How AI booking widgets compare in 2026 (comparison post) | Ready |
Day 7 D7 | Acme Booking week-1 challenge update | Planned | |
Day 12 D12 | acme-blog | AI booking vs traditional scheduling — which converts better? | Planned |
Day 18 D18 | devto | Building a booking widget with conversational UX (dev.to cross-post) | Planned |
Day 24 D24 | acme-blog | Acme Booking week-3 challenge update | Planned |
Day 28 D28 | Show r/SaaS: built an AI booking widget — feedback please | Planned |
Quick links
- AI citation count flat 7+ days→
diagnostics/citation-flat.md - Onboarding first paid customer→
playbooks/first-lead-response.md - Lead asks «too expensive»→
playbooks/pricing-objection.md - Competitor named in AI answer instead of us→
playbooks/competitor-displacement.md - Behind on content schedule→
playbooks/content-backlog.md
Risk indicators
- AI citation velocityAfter Day 7, if zero engines moved 0→1+ mentions, your basket of test queries may be too narrow, or the new pages aren't indexed yet. Re-run aeo-platform with --queries=10 --add-queries to expand the basket additively.
- Schema gapYour /pricing page gives no machine-readable price (no Service+Offer schema). That doesn't stop an engine from reading the text, but it makes the price harder to extract. Day 1 task #1 adds it; the next measurement shows whether it changed anything.
- Authority signals weakG2 not yet claimed, no Crunchbase entry, no AlternativeTo presence. In Acme's baseline run, the engines cited third-party pages like these when asked for alternatives or comparisons — and Acme has no presence on any of them yet.