The short answer
AEO Rank is a single score that summarizes how visible your brand is to AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Instead of reading citation rate, share of model, and sentiment separately for each engine, AEO Rank rolls them into one number so you can track overall AI visibility at a glance and watch it move as you make changes. It reflects both whether engines can reach and extract your pages and whether they actually cite you in answers.
What it rolls up
AEO Rank sits on top of the underlying measurements rather than replacing them. Behind the single score are the per-engine numbers that drive AI visibility: how often each engine cites you (citation rate), how much of the category you own versus competitors (share of model), and how you are described (sentiment). Rolling these into one figure gives you a headline you can report and trend, while the detail stays available underneath when you need to diagnose a specific engine.
How to use it
Treat AEO Rank as your tracking line, not the whole story. A rising score tells you your AEO work is landing across engines; a flat or falling one is a prompt to drop into the per-engine detail and find where you are losing ground. Because it combines reachability with actual citations, it also catches problems a single metric would miss, such as pages that are cited well but newly blocked to a crawler.
See the AI citation tracking methodology for how the underlying numbers are measured, or what is AEO for the wider practice. To get your current standing, run the free AI visibility scan.