Short answer: when your customers ask ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity “where should I buy this?”, you currently have no idea whether your store appears in the reply. Angeo AEO Brand Visibility is a free, open-source Magento 2 module that measures exactly that: it runs brand-probing prompts across the five major AI models and scores your real-world AI brand visibility from 0 to 100.
Search no longer means only Google. More buying research now starts inside an AI assistant that returns one synthesized answer naming a few stores. AI Engine Optimization (AEO) is the work of making sure your brand is one of those names — and this module tells you, in minutes, whether it is.
Why AI brand visibility matters for Magento merchants
AI answers are winner-takes-most. Where a search results page lists ten links, an AI assistant usually names two or three stores. If you are not in that shortlist, you are invisible to that buyer — there is no “page two”. Traditional SEO tools can’t see this: they measure rankings, backlinks and crawl health, not what a model actually says when prompted. That blind spot is what AEO Brand Visibility closes.
How Magento AI brand visibility tracking works
You set your brand name, domain, category and a few top products. The module sends natural shopping prompts — “What are the best online stores to buy {category}?”, “Tell me about {brand}”, “Compare {brand} with similar stores” — to every enabled AI provider. Each response is analysed for five signals, scored, cached and saved to a history log so you can watch the trend over time.
Supported AI providers
| Provider | Why it’s included | Free tier? |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT (OpenAI) | The most-used assistant; the default benchmark for AI recall. | No |
| Claude (Anthropic) | Strong reasoning; common for research-style queries. | No |
| Perplexity | Live web search — the best signal for what the internet says about you right now. | No |
| Gemini (Google) | Tied into Google’s ecosystem; generous free tier. | Yes |
| Groq | Fast, free Llama hosting — ideal for zero-cost testing. | Yes |
Enable any combination. Start with the free providers (Gemini and Groq) to validate your setup at zero cost, then add paid providers for the most commercially relevant picture.
The five visibility signals
- Mentioned — your brand or a configured alias appears anywhere in the answer.
- Recommended — the model actively suggests you (recommendation language near your mention, or you appear in a ranked list).
- URL cited — your domain is referenced in the response, the strongest trust signal.
- First result — you appear in the first quarter of the answer, i.e. top-of-mind.
- Positive sentiment — favourable language sits close to your mention.
Each signal is weighted and combined into a single 0–100 score with an A–F grade, so a non-technical stakeholder can read the result at a glance while your team digs into the per-provider breakdown.
What you get in the Magento admin
- Run Audit — one click queries every enabled model and shows live scores, per-provider chips and signal rates.
- Statistics & trend chart — average, best and worst scores plus a score-over-time graph from your fresh (non-cached) runs.
- Audit History — your recent runs, each expandable to the full prompt-by-prompt detail.
- Action Plan — a prioritised, time-bounded roadmap of what to fix first to lift your score.
- Single Query Tester — send one prompt to one provider and inspect the raw response for debugging.
Automate it: CLI, cron and CI gates
AI brand visibility drifts as content, reviews and the web change, so the module ships a CLI command and a cron job to track it continuously — and it can even fail a CI build if your score drops below a threshold.
# Run a full audit across all enabled providers
bin/magento angeo:aeo:brand-visibility
# Force fresh queries (bypass the cache)
bin/magento angeo:aeo:brand-visibility --refresh
# Test a single provider / prompt
bin/magento angeo:aeo:brand-visibility --provider=perplexity --prompt=brand_direct
# Machine-readable output for dashboards
bin/magento angeo:aeo:brand-visibility --format=json
# Gate a pipeline: exit 1 if the score falls below 60
bin/magento angeo:aeo:brand-visibility --fail-on=60
Built to extend angeo/module-aeo-audit
AEO Brand Visibility plugs into angeo/module-aeo-audit as a live-signal checker, sitting alongside the 15 built-in technical checks (robots.txt, llms.txt, structured data and more). Your brand-recall score becomes part of the same unified AEO report your team already runs — one command, one dashboard, technical and real-world signals together.
Security & privacy
Provider API keys are stored with Magento’s encrypted backend model and never written to logs. Outbound calls are HTTPS-only and don’t follow redirects, admin endpoints are protected by ACL and form keys, and all AI-provider text is escaped before rendering in the admin UI. Serialization uses Magento’s SerializerInterface throughout. In short, it behaves like a Magento module should.
Installation
composer require angeo/module-aeo-brand-visibility
bin/magento setup:upgrade
bin/magento setup:di:compile
bin/magento cache:flush
Then open Stores → Configuration → Angeo AEO → Brand Visibility, add at least one provider API key, set your brand name and domain, and hit Run Audit.
How to improve your AI brand visibility score
- Low mention rate? Publish an
llms.txtfile (see angeo/module-llms-txt) and keep your store name consistent across every page. - Domain not cited? Strengthen your backlink profile and reference your canonical URL explicitly in structured data and
llms.txt. - Not being recommended? Improve product content quality and implement review schema so models have reasons to vouch for you.
- Appearing late in answers? Build topical authority with category-focused content so you become the default association for your niche.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. The module is open source under the MIT license. You only pay for the AI provider usage you choose — and you can run it entirely free using the Gemini and Groq free tiers.
ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic), Perplexity, Gemini (Google) and Groq. You can enable any combination and configure the model, token limit and timeout per provider.
No, if configured sensibly. Results are cached for a configurable time-to-live, you control how many prompts run, and you can stick to the free Gemini and Groq tiers. Total queries equal enabled providers multiplied by active prompts, so keep that product modest for routine monitoring.
Magento 2.4.6, 2.4.7 and 2.4.8 (Adobe Commerce and Mage-OS), on PHP 8.2, 8.3 or 8.4. It requires angeo/module-aeo-audit v3.0 or newer.
SEO tools measure search rankings and crawlability. This module measures what AI assistants actually say when asked shopping questions — whether you are mentioned, cited and recommended in the generated answer itself.
Start measuring your AI visibility today
AI assistants are already recommending stores in your category. The only question is whether they’re recommending you. Install angeo/module-aeo-brand-visibility, run your first audit, and find out in minutes.
Related Angeo modules: aeo-audit (the 15-signal technical AEO audit), llms-txt (publish llms.txt), rich-data (Organization & Product schema), and ai-description-updater (AI-written product content).