analysis
Agent task testing remains the category's clearest capability gap
Across ten platforms we track, only one documents having an agent attempt real tasks on a site and report where it fails.
Source: AEO Landscape analysis
News
Developments and analysis
Short pieces on what is changing in AI search. Items marked analysis are our own assessment; items marked news carry an external source.
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analysis
Self-serve AEO pricing has clustered into three bands
A 17x spread between entry tiers, and a mid-market band where price has stopped predicting capability.
Source: AEO Landscape analysis
analysis
llms.txt adoption by major engines remains unconfirmed
Vendor marketing increasingly treats llms.txt as a ranking factor. No major engine provider has publicly confirmed using it as a retrieval input.
Source: AEO Landscape analysis
news
Cloudflare and the Astro team launch EmDash CMS
An Astro-native, Cloudflare-deployed CMS with sandboxed plugins and a built-in MCP server. Relevant to AEO for a specific reason: server-rendered content by default.
Source: Cloudflare