Direct answers to the questions buyers ask before signing up.

TrendsCoded reads ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity as four distinct surfaces — same prompt set, four separate answer streams — because each model retrieves and weights brand signals differently. The Signal Desk shows you what each engine names, which rivals it co-mentions, and where you sit by model.

Signal Desk runs reads daily on the prompts configured for your enterprise category — across ChatGPT and Gemini on the Pilot tier, all four engines (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity) on Growth and above. Position Score refreshes daily. The AEO Strategic Plan ships every Friday.

The Signal Pilot is $500, fixed price, no subscription. You get a founder-configured kickoff (7 prompts scoped to your enterprise category), 5 days of Signal Desk reads across ChatGPT and Gemini, one Product Position snapshot, and one AEO Strategic Plan delivered Friday — three ranked moves with the named artifact and the buyer the proof targets.

Position Score is a 0–100 composite that combines five sub-scores: mention share, answer share, rival co-mentions, evidence quality, and rival proximity — read across each AI engine and target organization type. It's refreshed daily and viewable per buyer × rival × model, so you can see which slice you're winning and which you're losing.

SEO optimizes for blue-link rankings on Google; AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) optimizes for being named inside the answer that ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity gives a buyer. Different surfaces, different signals, different proof structures — and increasingly, AEO is where the enterprise shortlist forms before sales is in the room.