A tactical checklist for getting AI assistants to recommend your product by name — the mentions, structure, and consistency that make a model reach for you.
Boost your product's visibility and credibility
To get named by AI assistants, you need three things working together: credible mentions of your product on sources the models trust, facts about it that are easy to extract and quote, and the same details stated consistently everywhere. When a user asks ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Gemini "what's the best tool for X?", those signals are what make a model reach for your name. This is the tactical companion to our complete GEO/AIEO guide.
There are two paths, and you want both (covered in depth in the pillar guide):
The checklist below feeds both.
A mention on a high-authority directory or documentation site counts far more than a dozen low-quality ones. A permanent dofollow listing on a relevant, already-indexed directory is the highest-leverage first move — it's both a training-data signal and a retrievable page. That's what the aat.ee directory & GEO tiers are built to provide.
Decide on a single one-line description of what your product does and who it's for — concrete, jargon-free, under ~20 words. Use it verbatim on your site, your directory listings, and your profiles. Models quote clean, self-contained sentences; a vague or shifting pitch gives them nothing to lift.
Same product name, same category, same URL, same one-liner across the web. Inconsistent facts lower a model's confidence — and a less-confident model names someone else.
On any page you control: put the answer first, use plain declarative sentences, add a comparison table and an FAQ. "X is a [category] tool that [does Y] for [audience]" is the kind of line a model can drop straight into an answer.
"X vs Y" and "best [category] tools" pages map directly onto how people phrase questions to assistants, so they get cited disproportionately. Make sure pages like these mention you accurately — ideally be the page the model quotes.
A page no crawler has seen can't be retrieved or learned. Publish through an already-crawled network to get indexed in days, and keep your key pages and listings current — retrieval favors recently-updated sources.
You can't manage what you don't measure, and there's no dashboard for this yet — so test by hand. Once a month, run the 5–10 prompts a real buyer would type:
Run each across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini, and record three things: are you named, is what the model says accurate, and which sources it cites. Those cited sources are your roadmap — get mentioned on the ones that keep coming up.
How is this different from SEO? SEO aims to rank in a list of links; this aims to be named in a single AI-generated answer. The inputs overlap (authority, indexing, structure) but the target is different. See the pillar guide.
How fast can it work? Retrieval can reflect new indexed pages within days; training-data associations build over months — so start now.
Can I just pay to be recommended? No. There's no placement to buy. It's earned through credible mentions, consistent facts, and extractable content.
Want the fastest path to a credible, indexed, dofollow mention? List your product on aat.ee or see the directory & GEO tiers.