Get your book
recommended by AI.
Readers have stopped browsing. They ask ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity for a book on their topic, and they buy the one the AI names. We build the authority that makes that book yours, fully managed, every week.
AEO for Books is AI Engine Optimisation for authors. It has almost nothing to do with your Amazon keyword rank, and almost no author is doing it yet.
What is AEO for Books?
AEO for Books is the practice of getting your book recommended when a reader asks an AI assistant for one. Someone types "what should I read to understand X" or "books like Y" into ChatGPT, and the AI answers with three or four titles. AEO for Books is the work that makes yours one of them.
It is not Amazon SEO. The AI is not searching Amazon. It builds its answer from the web content it trusts about your topic, and it recommends the books that content keeps citing as the ones to read.
So the work is building that trusted content: authoritative, citable articles about your topic that name your book, backed by genuine links, published every week until the models start surfacing you.
It is a real, ongoing job, and we run all of it for you. You do not touch a thing. You keep writing books.
What we run for you
Does AI recommend your book right now?
Find out before you spend a cent. Our free checker generates the real questions readers ask an AI to find a book like yours, runs them, and shows you in a table whether you appear or a competitor owns every answer. Most authors are surprised, and not in a good way.
Run it right now in your own ChatGPT or Claude. It opens with the checker ready to go, you just fill in your book's title and topic. Free, no download, no card.
Your Amazon rank and your AI shelf are two different things.
You can rank well in Amazon search and still be invisible when a reader asks an AI for a book on your subject. The two are decided by completely different things, and the AI shelf is the one growing.
Getting cited by AI is real, ongoing work: publishing authoritative content on your topic, making it easy for the models to read and extract, and earning the links that make them trust it. It is a full job, and it never stops.
Your competitors here are often not your Amazon competitors. They are the three books the AI keeps naming, and they get named because the content the models read keeps pointing at them. That position compounds. Every week you are not building it, they get further ahead.
We run the whole engine so you never touch it. You keep writing. We make sure that when a reader asks an AI what to read, your book is the answer.
We measured this. Across 100 highly rated nonfiction books, 23 were never named once. See the AI Bookshelf Index.
The whole engine. None of your time.
Content
Weekly authority content on your subject, written for you
Every week we publish content built around the questions readers ask an AI to find a book like yours. Each piece establishes you as the authority on your subject and creates citable pages the models read when they decide which titles to name. On your author site, or on a blog we host for you if you do not have one.
- Weekly articles written and published
- On your author site, or a blog we host
- Unlimited updates to your existing pages
- Human QA review before anything goes live
- Built around real reader questions, not keywords
- Structured for AI extraction and citation
- Royalty-free images included
- Written in your voice, at your word count
Optimization
An author site the models can actually read
We audit your site, fix what is broken, then rescan every month so nothing slips back. This is the unglamorous half of the job: the work that makes your pages easy for Google and the AI engines to read and trust.
- Meta titles and descriptions
- Page speed and Core Web Vitals
- Technical code fixes
- Site structure and internal linking
- Full audit in month one
- Monthly rescans for new issues
- Underperforming pages reworked
- Image and alt-text optimization
Backlinks
Real links from sites that already cover your subject
Authority comes from earning links, not buying them. We pitch sites that write about your subject already, so the pages naming your book sit inside the same conversation the models read when they pick what to recommend.
- Custom outreach for every link
- Placements on sites that cover your subject
- Do-follow links only
- Quality over quantity
- No spam, no PBNs, no shortcuts
- Easy-to-understand backlink reporting
Portal
Watch your AI visibility climb
Every plan includes your reporting portal: topic tracking, site audits, and AI visibility monitoring across 8 AI engines. A human specialist manages the account, with fast replies when you need them.
- Daily topic tracking (web and AI)
- AI search visibility across 8 engines
- Site audits and competitor tracking
- Detailed backlink tracking
- Connect Google Search Console and Analytics
- Configurable reports with scheduling
Up and running within days, not months.
01
Onboarding
We get access to your author site, or set up a blog if you do not have one, run a full audit, and map the questions readers ask an AI when they want a book like yours.
02
Scheduling
Weekly content, optimization tasks, and backlink outreach are all scheduled and begin immediately. Nothing waits on you.
03
Deliverables
Content goes live weekly. On-page and technical fixes land in the first month. Backlinks begin going live as outreach converts.
04
Reporting
Monthly reports show your AI visibility, rankings, content published, and links earned, in plain English.
Priced by how fast you want to climb.
Weekly billing, because the work ships weekly. No long-term contracts. Cancel renewal any time.
Bestseller
- 4 authority articles per week
- Up to 100 target topics
- Unlimited updates to your pages
- On-page and technical fixes
- Genuine outreach backlinks
- AI visibility tracking across 8 engines
- Topic tracking and site audits
- Cancel renewal any time
Midlist
- 2 authority articles per week
- Up to 50 target topics
- Unlimited updates to your pages
- On-page and technical fixes
- Genuine outreach backlinks
- AI visibility tracking across 8 engines
- Topic tracking and site audits
- Cancel renewal any time
Debut
- 1 authority article per week
- Up to 25 target topics
- Unlimited updates to your pages
- On-page and technical fixes
- Genuine outreach backlinks
- AI visibility tracking across 8 engines
- Topic tracking and site audits
- Cancel renewal any time
Trial checkout runs through our secure Stripe billing. Cancel renewal any time before the week ends and you pay nothing.
Reviews are the other half of the shelf.
When an AI decides which books to recommend, your review count and rating are one of the strongest signals it reads. Content gets you cited. Reviews make you credible. We run managed review campaigns that put advance copies in the hands of real readers and bring their honest reviews back to your book pages, fully managed by us.
Add it to any plan above, or run a one-off sprint around a launch.
Launch Review Sprint
A concentrated review push around your launch.
- One managed pre and post-launch campaign
- Distribution to a vetted reviewer community
- Automatic review copy delivery and reminders
- Honest, unincentivised reviews only
- Reviews land on your live Amazon and other retailer pages
- Post-campaign review report
Ongoing Review Velocity
Keep reviews building across your books.
- Up to 5 active books, one flat weekly price
- Rolling review copy drops, week after week
- Keeps your review count and recency climbing
- Bolts onto any plan above
- Same weekly billing, cancel renewal any time
- Honest, unincentivised reviews only
- Included in your monthly report
Reviewers receive a free advance copy only. We never pay for reviews or offer anything in exchange for a positive one. Every review is the reader's honest opinion, in line with retailer guidelines.
When a reader asks an AI what to read, be the answer.
Run the free checker to see where you stand, or start your free week and let us build the authority that gets you recommended.