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Methodology & Trust

How we measure — and what we won't pretend.

Most AI-visibility tools sell certainty they can't deliver. We show our work and name what doesn't move the needle. That honesty is the product.

AEOX
01 · How measurement works

Real questions, asked to real engines

No scraped rankings, no black-box score. We ask the actual answer engines the actual questions your buyers ask, then read what comes back — brand by brand, source by source.

“best CRM for D2C” ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini Claude + 5 more Cited source /best-crm-guide
1 · Buyer promptThe real question a customer types — not a vanity keyword.
2 · Nine engines, liveChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Bing.
3 · Source tracedThe exact page the engine cited — so you know what to earn.

Nine surfaces, in real time

Each provider's own API, queried live — no single-engine guesswork.

Buyer intent, not keywords

We model buying questions and measure how you're described.

Sources traced

When a rival is cited, we find the exact page it came from.

Metered at real cost

Billed for engine calls that actually ran — never an invented number.

02 · The honesty ledger

What we've verified — and what's hype

We ran the tests (or read the controlled ones) and we'll tell you plainly what holds up. We would rather lose a feature than oversell one.

HOLDS UP
Raw-HTML readability. ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity don't run JavaScript — client-rendered content is invisible to them. The biggest, most fixable, measurable lever.
HOLDS UP
Being allowed in. A robots.txt that blocks an AI crawler guarantees it can never cite you. We check every bot, per page.
HOLDS UP
Earned third-party sources. AI leans on pages it trusts — reviews, round-ups, directories. Getting cited there is real, durable work.
OVERSOLD
Schema as a citation lever. Controlled tests show ~zero direct lift (AI Overviews is the mild exception). Keep JSON-LD for classic SEO — we won't call it AI magic.
HYPE
llms.txt. In large studies the file gets almost no crawler requests. We don't build features around it or charge you to make one.
UNPROVEN
Crawl frequency → citations. More crawling isn't proven to mean more citations. We report crawl activity as hygiene, never a promise.
03 · Transparency of method

A score you can reconstruct

The AI-readiness grade is a published, weighted rubric — no mystery index. Raw-HTML readability carries the most weight because it's the lever that actually decides whether an engine can read you at all.

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25%
35%
Raw-HTML readability — can non-JS crawlers read it
Crawler access — robots.txt allows AI bots
Extractability — title, headings, indexable, sitemap

Where a limit is our best current read (platforms change), we label it approximate — in the product and our data. You always know how much weight a recommendation can bear.

04 · Data & security posture

Your data, handled with care

Built by StarvoxLabs Pvt. Ltd. in Mumbai and designed to align with India's DPDP Act, 2023 — stated plainly, without claiming certifications we don't hold.

Credentials encrypted at rest

CMS & Search Console tokens stored with AES-256-GCM. Search Console access is read-only — we read impressions, never write.

Encrypted in transit

HTTPS everywhere, workspace isolation between customers. Disconnect any integration to revoke future access.

We don't sell your data

Used only to run the service you asked for. No resale, no ad targeting, no cross-customer mixing.

Built for Indian compliance

DPDP-aligned handling, GST tax invoices, India-resident data path — with a named Grievance Officer.

"Designed to align" means we follow the requirements; we do not claim third-party certification (ISO / SOC 2 / VAPT) unless independently audited. Full detail in our Privacy Policy.

05 · The white-hat pledge

How we act on your behalf

  • We never auto-post. Every outreach move is drafted for a human to review, approve and send.
  • We disclose. Honest, transparent outreach — no impersonation, no spam, no fake reviews.
  • We don't fabricate AI answers. You see what the engines actually returned — never a mock-up naming a real brand.
  • We publish with an undo. Every change to your site is snapshotted and reversible.

AEOX is a product of StarvoxLabs Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, India. Methodology current as of July 2026 — the AI-search landscape moves fast, and so do we; we revise this page as the evidence changes.

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