# The AI discovery gap: we analyzed 2,000 websites, and almost nobody is ready for answer engines

DevFeed: [The AI discovery gap: we analyzed 2,000 websites, and almost nobody is ready for answer engines](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-ai-discovery-gap-we-analyzed-2-000-websites-and-almost-nobody-is-ready-for-answer-engines-9165.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://webflowmarketingmain.com/blog/aeo-maturity-index>)

Author: Guy Yalif

Published: 2026-07-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Webflow Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/webflow-blog.md>)

Topics: [Search engine optimization (SEO)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/seo.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [content](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/content.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [marketing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/marketing.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>), [search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/search.md>), [seo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/seo.md>), [strategy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/strategy.md>)

## AI overview

The article presents AEO as an emerging, company-wide counterpart to SEO, driven by the growing use of LLM-powered answer engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. It reports that companies have limited visibility in answer-engine responses, are cited infrequently, and are often represented inaccurately or without their distinctive messaging.

## Source excerpt

In this report, we explore what's holding companies back from showing up more in LLMs, the companies and industries winning in AEO, and how much of a team sport AEO really is.