# ❓ Frequently Asked Questions – AIVO Standard™

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### 🧠 What is AIVO?

**AIVO** stands for **AI Visibility Optimization** — a modern visibility strategy designed for AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity.

Traditional SEO focuses on search engine rankings.  
AIVO focuses on **getting cited, recommended, and trusted inside AI conversations**.

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### 🤖 Why don’t traditional SEO tactics work with AI?

Because LLMs:
- Don’t index websites like Google
- Use structured knowledge (Wikidata, GitHub, metadata) and citations
- Prioritize context, clarity, and authority over keywords
- Pull from trusted tools, public datasets, and structured summaries

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### 🧩 How does AIVO help my business?

By applying the AIVO Framework, your business can:
- Appear in prompt-based recommendations like:
  > “Best productivity tools for solo founders”  
  > “AI tools for social media marketing”  
- Be cited in assistant answers when users ask about your niche
- Build a machine-readable profile that AI models can trust

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### 🔍 What are the 6 Pillars of AIVO?

1. **Foundational Presence** (Wikidata, Schema, factual listings)  
2. **Knowledge & Mention Graphs** (G2, Crunchbase, AlternativeTo)  
3. **Prompt Visibility** (Natural language prompt match)  
4. **Publishing & Presence** (GitHub, Medium, Substack)  
5. **Submission & Indexing** (Bing, Yandex, Perplexity tools)  
6. **LLM Profile Building** (Spaces, CustomGPTs, metadata-rich summaries)

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### 🌐 Is this useful for personal brands or only companies?

Both.  
AIVO can help:
- **Tools**
- **Startups**
- **Experts**
- **Authors**
- **Coaches**
- **Projects**
...anyone who wants to be **discovered by AI**.

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### 📄 What is the AIVO Standard™?

The AIVO Standard™ is a public framework and methodology (available [here](./README.md)) that outlines exactly how to implement each AIVO stage.

It includes:
- The 6 Pillars
- Prompt libraries
- Toolkits
- Real-world use cases
- GitHub and Hugging Face templates

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### 🚀 Where can I learn more or apply the framework?

Visit:
- [GitHub Repo](https://github.com/PJSheals/AIVO-Standard)
- [GetFoundOnAI GPT](https://chat.openai.com/g/g-6853c5f66b908191a08d607e10605a6b-ai-visibility-report)
- [Medium Article – Coming Soon]

You can also adopt the AIVO Standard in your own Spaces, GPTs, or platforms.

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