# AI Hacked

> The teardown library for AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. We open the answer box and show you the trick. Sister site to Marketing Hacked and Sales Hacked, from the High Caliber AI network.

## Foundational

- [About](/about): Manifesto and how to use the site.
- [Glossary](/glossary): Definitions for AIO, GEO, AEO, ASO, llms.txt, atomic facts, citation share, and more.
- [Surfaces](/surfaces): The 8 AI answer engines we grade.
- [Network](/network): Sister sites in the High Caliber AI constellation.

## Teardowns

- [How Stripe owns the AI Overview for 'best payment processor for startups'](/teardowns/stripe-owns-payment-processing-aio): It's not the brand. It's the docs page Stripe pretends is marketing.
- [Why ChatGPT cites Reddit instead of your product page](/teardowns/chatgpt-cites-reddit-over-the-brand): The model trusts the consensus, not the brochure. Here's the loophole.
- [The press release engineered to be cited by Perplexity (not read by humans)](/teardowns/press-release-engineered-for-perplexity): 70% of news queries get LLM-answered. So Sequoia stopped writing for journalists.

## Tactics

- [Atomic Facts](/tactics/atomic-facts): Write one fact per sentence. LLMs extract sentences, not paragraphs.
- [JSON-LD Coverage](/tactics/jsonld-coverage): If it's not in schema, the model has to guess.
- [llms.txt](/tactics/llms-txt): robots.txt for the LLM age. A curated map of your most citeable content.
- [Citeable Quotes](/tactics/citeable-quotes): Named, attributable quotes are the highest-weighted text type in LLM citations.
- [Named Entity Density](/tactics/named-entity-density): Name people, products, places, and competitors. Vague pages don't rank as anything.
- [Consensus Engineering](/tactics/consensus-engineering): LLMs cite Reddit, YouTube, and HN for consideration-stage queries. Show up there honestly.

## Glossary terms

- AIO (AI Optimization): The discipline of making content discoverable, citeable, and faithfully represented by AI answer engines.
- GEO (Generative Engine Optimization): SEO for generative engines: optimizing for citation and inclusion in AI-generated answers.
- AEO (Answer Engine Optimization): Optimizing specifically to be the answer — not just to be cited.
- ASO (AI Summary Optimization): Optimizing for the 1–2 sentence summary surfaces of Apple Intelligence and Gmail Gemini.
- AI Overview: Google's generative answer block at the top of a search results page.
- AI Mode: Google's dedicated conversational search experience, built on Gemini.
- Citation Share: The percentage of relevant AI answers that cite your brand vs. competitors.
- llms.txt: A root-level file telling LLM crawlers which pages on your site to read first.
- Atomic Facts: One self-contained claim per sentence, optimized for retrieval-chunk extraction.
- Citeable Quote: A named, attributed quote in semantic markup that LLMs prefer to surface.
- JSON-LD: The structured data format Google and every LLM crawler prefers.
- RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation): The architecture behind every AI answer engine: retrieve relevant docs, then generate.
- Share of Voice (AI): Your brand's relative presence in AI answers vs. competitors for a defined prompt set.
- Answer Box Autopsy: A teardown of why a specific page won (or lost) a specific AI answer.
- Agent as Audience: Designing content for an AI agent reader, not a human reader.

## Sister sites

- [BrandReceipts](https://brandreceipts.com/): Brand audits across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.
- [Take One Glance](https://takeoneglance.com/): AI Summary Optimization for Apple Intelligence and Gmail Gemini.
- [The AI Press Release](https://theaipressrelease.com/): Press release grader for the agent-as-audience era.
- [Marketing Hacked](https://marketinghacked.com/): Ad and landing page teardowns.
- [Sales Hacked](https://saleshacked.com/): Cold email, deck, and demo teardowns.
- [High Caliber AI](https://highcaliberai.com/): Parent hub and full portfolio.