The 2026 AEO Framework
Your buyers are asking AI. Are you in the answer?
A founder’s guide to getting your SME named inside AI-generated answers, the new top of the funnel for B2B discovery. Twelve parts, a five-pillar method, and an honest account of what you can and can’t measure. Free, no strings.
12
Parts, one read
5
Pillars to run
2026
Answer-engine shift
- UK B2B founders, CEOs & MDs
- 2025–2026 benchmark data
- No jargon
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What you’ll be able to answer
Six questions most owners can’t answer cleanly today
Your next customer might never visit your website. They’ll ask an AI for a recommendation and act on whatever it returns. This guide gives you the lens to see whether you’re in that answer, and what to do if you’re not.
- Do I appear when my buyers ask AI for a recommendation?
- Who shows up instead of me, and why them?
- Which engines actually matter for who I sell to?
- What can I change on my own site versus off it?
- What’s genuinely measurable here, and what’s hype?
- What should I fix first?
The method
A repeatable loop across five pillars
The framework gives you a simple, repeatable method across the five areas that decide whether you show up in AI answers, so you can move from invisible to recommended without guessing.
01
Define
The real questions your buyers put to an AI. Your new keywords.
02
Monitor
Run them across the engines. See who’s in the answer, and who isn’t.
03
Onsite
Fix what you control. Answer-first pages, built to be lifted.
04
Offsite
Build presence where AI looks. Citations, consistency, entity recognition.
05
Re-measure
The loop that compounds. Where the real moat is built.
Who it’s for
Written for the person who carries the decision
Not marketers. You don’t need to run campaigns after reading it. You need to see where your business stands in the AI answer, and judge what’s worth doing about it.
- Founders
- Owners
- CEOs
- Managing Directors
A free founder’s guide from broden.ai to getting your SME named inside AI-generated answers. It has twelve parts, a five-pillar method (define, monitor, onsite, offsite, re-measure) and an honest account of what you can and can’t measure.
Founders, owners, CEOs and managing directors of UK B2B businesses. It is written for the person who carries the decision, not for marketers, so you can judge where your business stands in AI answers and what is worth doing about it.
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