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Spotlight's AEO Accelerator combines Profound's AI visibility platform, G2's customer intelligence, and Spotlight's strategy and execution into one engagement — helping B2B brands measure, influence, and win AI-generated answers across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Copilot.
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How B2B technology vendors should evaluate influence orchestration agencies in 2026 — covering analyst relations, customer advocacy, AI trust signals, HITL governance, pilots, and KPIs that drive shortlist inclusion.
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An honest 2026 buyer's guide to AI visibility tools — what they actually measure, how they compare, and why Profound (with Spotlight as its largest agency partner) is the platform B2B brands trust to win citations inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.
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The AEO Glossary
Plain-English definitions of every term in Answer Engine Optimization — AEO, GEO, citation rate, retrieval-augmented generation, llms.txt, GPTBot, and more.
AEO Statistics 2025-2026
20+ citable statistics on AI search adoption, ChatGPT and Perplexity citation rates, AI-influenced B2B pipeline, and the shift from search to answer engines.