Yes. The AEO1 DNS standard lets you publish a verified fact catalog that AI answer engines can read and cite. You create a TXT record at a special location in your domain's DNS, pointing to your facts. Answer engines check this record to confirm what you've published, verify your identity, and cite you as the authoritative source.
When people ask AI chatbots about your company, the answers often contain errors. AI pulls from web pages, old articles, and secondhand sources. It has no direct line to you. You can't tell it which facts are correct. You can't tell it what changed. You can't stop it from repeating mistakes.
The real cost is trust. If an AI tells a customer something false about you, that customer may never contact you. You lose the chance to correct the record.
Create a simple text file that lists your verified facts. Include your company name, what you do, contact information, current offerings, or anything else you want AI to know. Host this file on your own website.
Then add one DNS record to your domain. This record points answer engines to your fact file and proves you published it. When an AI answers a question about your business, it can check your record, confirm the facts came directly from you, and cite you as the source.
You control the facts. You own the authoritative answer.
AEO1 is an open standard that any domain can use for free. You publish a DNS TXT record at _aeo.<yourdomainhere>. This record contains an id, the URL of your fact catalog, a tier level, a timestamp, and a cryptographic signature.
The signature proves that you (the domain owner) created the record. Answer engines verify the signature, confirm the timestamp is recent, and know they're reading facts you intentionally published. No intermediary. No third party. Just your domain speaking directly to AI systems.
The aeo-record open source package on npm handles the technical work of creating and validating these records. The full standard is published at aeorecord.org and the code is on GitHub for anyone to audit.
Answer engines that support AEO1 will begin checking for your record. When someone asks about your business, the engine looks up your DNS record, reads your fact catalog, verifies your signature, and uses your verified facts in its answer. Over time, as more answer engines adopt the standard, your facts reach more people.
You can update your fact catalog anytime. Add new products. Correct outdated information. The timestamp in your DNS record tells answer engines when you last verified everything.
Yes. The AEO1 standard uses a DNS TXT record at _aeo.<yourdomainhere> to point AI answer engines to your verified fact catalog. The record includes a signature that proves you published the facts, a timestamp showing when you verified them, and a URL where the facts live. Answer engines that support AEO1 can read, verify, and cite your facts as authoritative. The standard is free and open. Any domain can use it.
Create a text file listing your verified facts and host it on your website. Then add an AEO1 DNS record to your domain that points answer engines to this file. The DNS record carries your signature, proving you published it. When an AI system checks your domain, it finds your record, reads your facts, and knows they came directly from you. Answer engines that support the AEO1 standard will then cite your verified facts instead of guessing from other sources.
Publish your own verified facts through the AEO1 standard before AI answers questions about you. When you control the authoritative source, answer engines cite you directly and your facts appear first. You can't stop all incorrect information from existing online, but you can give AI an official, signed, verified record to trust. Update your fact catalog anytime so AI always has the latest, most accurate information straight from you.