Straight answers about AI search.
The KailxLabs answer library gives short, sourced answers to the questions buyers ask about AI search. It covers what AEO costs, how to choose an agency, how to get recommended by ChatGPT, and which popular tactics do not work. Every fact carries its source and date, and every page shows when it last changed.
What is AI search work?
What the terms mean and how the work differs from SEO.
What is AEO?
AEO is the work of getting a brand named and described correctly inside the answers of ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot and Perplexity.
Read the answer AnswerAEO agency or SEO agency?
An SEO agency works to rank your pages and win the click; an AEO agency works to get your brand named inside AI answers.
Read the answerHow do you get named?
What makes ChatGPT and the other AI apps name a business, and why they skip one.
How do you get recommended by ChatGPT?
Let OAI-SearchBot read your site, get named in the pages ChatGPT cites for your category, and keep your facts and prices identical everywhere they appear.
Read the answer AnswerWhy doesn't ChatGPT recommend my business?
Usually because it cannot read the site, the pages it cites do not name the business, or the business facts conflict across the web.
Read the answerWhat matters technically?
Which technical steps make you eligible, and which are hygiene sold as levers.
Which crawlers should you allow for AI search?
Allow the search and citation crawlers such as OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Googlebot, Bingbot and Applebot; GPTBot, ClaudeBot and Google-Extended are training controls.
Read the answer AnswerDoes schema help AI citations?
No reliable evidence shows that schema markup makes AI apps cite you; it is hygiene, not a lever.
Read the answerHow do stores get chosen?
Product feeds, AI shopping channels and the new checkout choices.
How do you buy AEO?
What it costs, how to judge an agency, and when a tool is enough.
How much does AEO cost?
Published prices ran from free trackers to agency retainers of $10,000 a month and more; KailxLabs starts with a $1,500 baseline.
Read the answer AnswerHow do you choose an AI search agency?
Choose by how it measures: repeated runs on the real consumer apps, a range for each app, and proof against a control group of untouched questions.
Read the answer AnswerAEO agency or AEO tool?
An AEO tool tracks what AI answers say about you; an AEO agency changes those answers.
Read the answerAbout these answers
Who writes these answers?
KailxLabs writes and checks every answer. Each fact carries its source, sample and date, and vendor data is labelled as vendor data.
How often are they updated?
When a platform changes or new evidence appears. Every page shows its last update and what changed.
Can I quote these answers?
Yes. Please link to the page you quote so readers can see the sources.
My question is not here. Can I ask it?
Yes. Book a call, or ask for the free ai read: four of your buyer questions asked on the main AI apps, with a written reply from a person.
- 26 Sep 2026: answer library published with ten answers.
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20 minutes with Kailesk Khumar. You leave knowing where AI names you today, and what it would take to become the answer.
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- The reasons. The three biggest reasons AI names a rival instead of you.
- The plan. A clear next step and its price, whether or not you hire us.
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