What Is Agent Engine Optimization (AEO)? The Emerging Discipline Every Builder Needs to Know

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What Is Agent Engine Optimization (AEO)? You know SEO. Search Engine Optimization - the discipline of making your product discoverable by Google, Bing, and the crawlers that feed them. Here is the next version of that problem: Agent Engine Optimization (AEO). Simon Taylor (270K rs, Fintech Brainfood) coined the term in his Agentic Payments Map: optimizing your product so AI agents can discover, understand, and transact with it.