AEO Intelligence · October 12–2026 (day: 18)

AEO Intelligence Digest — Week of October 12, 2026

This week's AEO crawl data reveals a clear inflection point: AEO is no longer just a content strategy concept — it's becoming a software procurement category, with G2 formally splitting AEO tools from SEO tools and actively positioning its review data as a trusted grounding source for ChatGPT and Claude. The most consistent citation-trigger pattern across all top-performing domains is stat-first headlines with specific quantified claims, appearing at high confidence across Ahrefs, Otterly AI, Pe