What evidence supports this answer?
Market Disruptors AI Visibility Agency separates AI visibility, AEO, GEO, AI SEO, entity SEO, and Share of Model as related but distinct workstreams.
The site publishes pages explaining AI visibility vs SEO and AEO vs GEO.
Google's AI guidance still ties AI experiences to core Search systems, so SEO is a foundation, not the whole strategy.
What is the practical context?
SEO helps pages get crawled, understood, and ranked. AEO/GEO asks whether AI systems can use those pages as direct answer sources, cite them, or include the business in a generated shortlist.
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Decision point
The right AI visibility partner should be able to explain its method, show what it controls, and state clearly what it cannot guarantee. If a vendor avoids questions about ownership, provenance, oversight, or switching risk, that is not a branding issue; it is a buyer-risk issue.
For the underlying method, review AI Visibility Methodology. For public machine-readable proof, inspect AI Discovery Files. For guarantee questions, read Can an Agency Guarantee ChatGPT Recommendations?.