Seed Stage • Founded 2026

We’re building the
AI brand intelligence layer
for the answer engine era.

VibecodeAEO is an early-stage company on a mission to give every brand the data and strategy it needs to be cited, trusted, and recommended by AI — before competitors figure out that matters.

2026
Founded
Seed
Funding stage
100%
Remote-first
New
Category we’re defining
Why we exist

The web changed. Brand visibility didn’t keep up.

When ChatGPT crossed 100 million users in two months, it became clear that the way people find information — and make purchasing decisions — had fundamentally shifted. AI assistants were becoming the first stop, not Google.

But the tools brands used to manage their visibility were built for a world of blue links and page rankings. No platform was tracking whether a brand appeared in AI responses. No one was measuring citation rate, AI sentiment, or answer engine authority.

We saw that gap and decided to build the intelligence layer the market needed. VibecodeAEO started as an experiment to answer one question: “How visible is your brand when AI answers a question about your category?”

That experiment turned into a product. And that product is now in the hands of marketing teams who previously had no visibility into the AI search landscape at all.

“In five years, every CMO will have an AEO score on their dashboard. We’re building the platform that gives them that — and tells them exactly what to do about it.”
— VibecodeAEO founding team
Seed stage — growing with intention
We are early and deliberate about it. We are not chasing vanity metrics or premature scale. We are building the right foundation — the right product, the right data model, the right team — so that when we grow, we grow in a way that actually serves our customers.
Our journey

Honest about where we are. Clear about where we’re going.

We believe the best startups are honest about their stage. Here’s ours. We are seed-stage. We have early customers. We have a working product that delivers real AI visibility data. And we have a clear vision for the category we are building.

We are not yet at scale. We are finding product-market fit, listening to every customer conversation obsessively, and shipping fast. If you want the comfort of a 500-person company, this is not that. If you want to shape something from the ground up in a category that will matter for the next decade — read on.

Completed • Q1 2026
Core platform built
AI visibility scoring, Ranky AI consultant, PPTX reporting, and multi-website monitoring — all live.
Completed • Q1 2026
First customers onboarded
Enterprise marketing teams using VibecodeAEO for weekly AI citation tracking and quarterly board reporting.
Now • Q2 2026
Building the commercial team
Hiring the first growth and strategy leaders to take VibecodeAEO to market at scale. This is where you come in.
Next • Q3 2026
Agency partner network
White-label platform for SEO and digital marketing agencies to offer AEO tracking to their own clients.
Future • Q4 2026
Series A
Raise our Series A with strong unit economics and a repeatable enterprise GTM motion already in place.
The opportunity

AEO is where SEO was in 2004.

The market shift is already underway. Brands and agencies that move early will own the category. Here’s the context that makes this urgent.

40%+
of online searches now start with an AI assistant, not a search engine — and growing
0
established platforms measuring AI brand citation rate before VibecodeAEO
$2.4T
in enterprise B2B purchasing influenced by AI-generated research annually
Early
The window to become the definitive AEO platform is open now — not in two years
What we believe

The principles that drive every decision.

Transparency builds trust
We show our work. Our scoring models, our data sources, our limitations — all visible. No black boxes, no vague scores. Real data, real methodology.
Outcomes over outputs
We don’t celebrate activity. We celebrate the moment a customer’s brand starts getting cited in AI responses it never appeared in before. That’s the only result that matters.
Move fast, but not reckless
We ship quickly because the market won’t wait. But we don’t sacrifice quality for speed. Every feature we ship has to actually work — no half-baked launches that erode customer trust.
Small team, high trust
We hire people we trust completely and then actually trust them. No micromanagement. No approval chains for reasonable decisions. You own your domain and you are accountable for it.
Customer obsession
At seed stage, you can still talk to every customer personally. We do. Every piece of feedback, every frustration, every “it would be great if” goes directly into the product roadmap.
Remote-first, async by default
Our team spans time zones. We write clearly, document decisions, and don’t require anyone to be available at a specific time. Good work doesn’t happen on a schedule.
The team

Small team. Serious mission.

We are early. The founding team built the platform and the data model. Now we are looking for the first commercial leaders who will define how AEO is sold, delivered, and understood by the market.

F
Founder
CEO • Product • Vision
T
Technical Lead
Platform • AI Systems • Data
Growth & Partnership Lead
Open role
Head of AEO Strategy
Open role

Ready to be part of this?

We are at the most exciting and uncertain stage of building a company. If that sounds like an opportunity rather than a warning — we want to meet you.