The Tallyvox Ledger
No. 011 · Oct 2026
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Cover story · AEO/GEO

The 5 questions AI buyers ask before choosing a provider

Buyers don’t ask AI for your homepage — they ask it five predictable questions. Each one is decided by different evidence, and each is winnable on purpose.

Aug 2026 · 2 min
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AEO/GEO

What “AI citations” are and why they decide who gets named

Behind every AI recommendation is a set of sources the engine trusted. Those citations are the currency of AI visibility — here’s where they come from and how to earn more.

Aug 2026 · 3 min
Leaderboard

How to claim and improve your spot on the AI leaderboard

Your business may already be ranked on a board you’ve never seen. Claiming your listing is free, verified, and never changes your number — here’s the walkthrough, and the path up.

Aug 2026 · 3 min
Playbook

The AI visibility playbook for MSPs

When a business owner asks AI “who should manage our IT?”, a handful of MSPs get named and the rest never hear about the deal. Here’s the playbook for being one of the names.

Aug 2026 · 4 min
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011AEO/GEO · Aug 2026

The 5 questions AI buyers ask before choosing a provider

Buyers don’t ask AI for your homepage — they ask it five predictable questions. Each one is decided by different evidence, and each is winnable on purpose.

2 minaeo/geo
010AEO/GEO · Aug 2026

What “AI citations” are and why they decide who gets named

Behind every AI recommendation is a set of sources the engine trusted. Those citations are the currency of AI visibility — here’s where they come from and how to earn more.

3 minaeo/geo
009Leaderboard · Aug 2026

How to claim and improve your spot on the AI leaderboard

Your business may already be ranked on a board you’ve never seen. Claiming your listing is free, verified, and never changes your number — here’s the walkthrough, and the path up.

3 minleaderboard
008Playbook · Aug 2026

The AI visibility playbook for MSPs

When a business owner asks AI “who should manage our IT?”, a handful of MSPs get named and the rest never hear about the deal. Here’s the playbook for being one of the names.

4 minplaybook
007Playbook · Aug 2026

Is your business invisible in AI answers? How to check

Absence from AI answers makes no sound — no lost ranking, no traffic dip, no alert. Here’s how to find out where you stand, and why one ChatGPT session can’t tell you.

3 minplaybook
006AEO/GEO · Aug 2026

GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) explained

New fields sprout names faster than definitions. This page pins down GEO, AEO, and the rest of the alphabet — so “GEO” stops sounding like something separate you also need to buy.

3 minaeo/geo
005AEO/GEO · Aug 2026

AEO vs SEO: what’s the difference and why it matters now

One discipline earns you a ranking; the other earns you a mention. They share most of their inputs — and are scored on completely different outputs. Here’s the honest comparison.

4 minaeo/geo
004AEO/GEO · Aug 2026

How AI engines decide who to recommend

When ChatGPT names three providers and stops, it isn’t consulting a league table. It’s assembling a sentence from three layers of evidence — and each layer is something you can work on.

4 minaeo/geo
003Playbook · Aug 2026

How to get your business recommended by ChatGPT

You can’t buy your way into a ChatGPT recommendation, and you can’t trick your way in for long. But the work that earns mentions is knowable — six moves, in order of leverage.

5 minplaybook
002AEO/GEO · Aug 2026

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO): the complete guide

AI assistants now answer “who should I hire?” with a handful of names and no page two. AEO is the work of being one of those names — here is the whole discipline, honestly.

5 minaeo/geo
001Method · Aug 2026

Why we run every prompt ten times

The same question, asked twice, disagrees with itself. What that means for anyone selling — or buying — AI visibility.

2 minmethod
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