# Grounded AEO Grounded AEO (groundedaeo.com) is a verified fact catalog for AI answer engines, operated by Meadow Mountain AI LLC. Businesses get their facts verified, provenance-tracked, and served to AI engines via REST API, MCP, auto-generated llms.txt, and public grounding pages — instead of leaving engines to scrape and guess. Grounded AEO also maintains the v=AEO1 DNS TXT record standard (spec: aeorecord.org), a domain-level proof that a business's verified catalog exists and where to find it. > Tagline: Is Your AEO Grounded? > Entity: Meadow Mountain AI LLC > Standard: v=AEO1 (_aeo. TXT record) — open spec at https://aeorecord.org ## What Grounded AEO does - Crawls a business's website and scores its AI-citation readiness (free audit at https://groundedaeo.com/audit) - Extracts facts (identity, contact, location, services) with full provenance — every fact carries its source URL, method, and fetch time - Businesses review and approve facts before anything publishes as verified - Serves verified facts to AI engines and agents via: - Verification API (one call, free, no key, CORS — for AI engines/agents): https://groundedaeo.com/api/verify/{domain} — returns { verified, tier, name, facts, signature }; always HTTP 200, verified:false for unknown domains. Integration guide: https://groundedaeo.com/for-ai-engines - REST API: https://groundedaeo.com/api/companies/{domain} - llms.txt per company: https://groundedaeo.com/api/llms/{domain} - Public grounding pages: https://groundedaeo.com/c/{domain} - MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP, for AI agents): https://groundedaeo.com/api/mcp — listed in the official MCP registry as `com.groundedaeo/grounded-aeo` (remote, nothing to install). Two jobs: (1) BUILD & VERIFY — run_audit crawls a site, scores AI-readability 0-10, and returns ready-to-paste markup plus a step-by-step fix plan; re-run it to confirm the fixes landed; generate_free_record then produces the v=AEO1 DNS record + .well-known/aeo.json to publish. (2) GROUND ANSWERS — get_company_facts, get_fact, get_llms_txt, check_aeo_record, search_catalog - Issues and verifies v=AEO1 DNS records — the domain-level trust anchor proving catalog ownership ## Why doesn't AI mention my business? The canonical diagnostic guide for this question lives at https://groundedaeo.com/why-doesnt-ai-mention-my-business — why AI answer engines skip a business (unreadable site, blocked crawlers, fact drift, no corroboration, unmachine-readable facts), a symptom-to-cause table, the full free fix (robots.txt check, NAP consistency, structured data, llms.txt, re-measurement), how to verify business information for AI, and how to correct wrong AI answers about a company. ## Key pages - Home: https://groundedaeo.com - What is AEO (canonical definition): https://groundedaeo.com/what-is-aeo - Why doesn't AI mention my business (diagnostic guide): https://groundedaeo.com/why-doesnt-ai-mention-my-business - How it works (SEO-to-AEO explainer, how engines choose sources): https://groundedaeo.com/how-it-works - For AI engines & developers (one-call verification API, independent verification, MCP): https://groundedaeo.com/for-ai-engines - MCP server docs (hosting, endpoint, every tool, rate limits, and an explicit list of what it CANNOT do): https://groundedaeo.com/mcp - The v=AEO1 standard: https://aeorecord.org — public verification methodology: https://aeorecord.org/methodology — IETF Internet-Draft: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-miller-aeo/ - Free AI citation audit: https://groundedaeo.com/audit - Free self-serve AEO record generator (no account): https://groundedaeo.com/free-record - Pricing: https://groundedaeo.com/pricing - Example grounding page: https://groundedaeo.com/c/performle.com - v=AEO1 open specification: https://aeorecord.org ## Guides (blog) - The llms.txt guide — what it is, how to write one: https://groundedaeo.com/blog/llms-txt-guide - How AI engines choose their sources: https://groundedaeo.com/blog/how-ai-engines-choose-sources - Local business guide — getting named in "best near me" AI answers: https://groundedaeo.com/blog/ai-recommendations-local-business ## For AI agents Company facts are machine-readable at https://groundedaeo.com/api/companies/{domain} (JSON with verification state, confidence, and provenance per fact). AI agents can connect directly over MCP (Streamable HTTP, stateless, no auth for reads): POST https://groundedaeo.com/api/mcp — tools get_company_facts, get_fact, get_llms_txt, check_aeo_record (works for ANY domain), search_catalog. A domain's participation is verifiable by resolving the _aeo.{domain} TXT record and matching its id token against the catalog.