MaxAEO
The AI search brand visibility monitoring and optimization platform under Zengshi Intelligence states on its official website that it conducts real-user tests on 9 AI platforms such as Doubao, DeepSeek, Yuanbao, and Kimi every day, tracking mentions, rankings, and citation sources.
Updated: 2026-10-26
What is MaxAEO?
MaxAEO is a product under Zengshi Intelligence (zengshi.ai). Its official website positions it as "AI Search Brand Visibility Monitoring and Optimization". It answers a straightforward question – "Your competitors are already in AI's answers, how about you?" The approach is to act as a real user, ask AI questions every day, archive the original answers and cited sources, then tell you how many times your brand is mentioned, its ranking, sentiment, and who cited it.
Who is it for?
- Brand and marketing teams who need to understand how their own products are portrayed in responses from domestic AI models
- Growth leaders in e-commerce, DTC and SaaS who want to capture the new traffic outlet of AI search
- Operators who have invested a lot in content but are unsure if AI is useful and need a basis for acceptance evaluation
- Service providers and channel parties who want to compare agency solutions with in-house solutions
Key features
6Covers 9 major mainstream AI platforms
The official website lists Doubao, DeepSeek, Yuanbao, Kimi, Tongyi Qianwen, Ernie Bot, Zhipu Qingyan, iFlytek Spark, and Metasearch.
Query Monitoring
Daily tracking of the queries you care about. In an official website example, a brand ranked first by AI in 3 queries, while only 17% of responses mentioned it in another query, which was labeled as "the biggest gap of the week".
Competitor Comparison & Ranking
Provides mention rate, competitive ranking and average position. The official website example lists the rankings of 9 brands in one go.
Sentiment Analysis
Classify responses into positive, neutral, and negative categories and calculate their proportions.
Citation Sources & Original Text Playback
The official website states that "every conclusion can be traced back to the exact original sentence and the websites it cites", and it can distinguish the number of citations from official websites and third-party sources respectively.
Optimization Engine
It does not just generate reports; the official website states that it will "identify gaps in mentions, citations, and narrative content, provide content that should be published every week," and track whether published content has been cited by AI.
How to use MaxAEO
- The official website states that you can start using it immediately upon registration, and the initial data will be available in about 3 minutes.
- Run the free diagnosis first to understand the baseline before deciding whether to pay for the service.
- the official website also provides an online experience with real monitoring data, allowing you to see what the data looks like without logging in.
- A single diagnosis is just a snapshot.
- The official website emphasizes that "trends are the conclusion" – you should look at the continuous mention rate curve instead of dwelling on the score of a single day.
- The official website lists manual services and prices, including the free "AI Visibility Audit (Manual Version)" and "GEO Accompaniment Camp ¥9,800 / 3 months".
- The prices and benefits are subject to the real-time page of the official website.
- For those doing overseas markets, the official website also provides an overseas version entry, which mainly focuses on letting overseas AIs such as ChatGPT and Perplexity recommend brands.
- Domestic and overseas monitoring should be carried out separately.
- It falls into the GEO and AEO track, where effect evaluation is strongly correlated with content quality.
- the official website's "Ten Questions and Answers on GEO/AEO" discusses evaluation and charging, and it is worthwhile to read it before taking action.
Traffic & popularity
Data month Sep 2026
MaxAEO receives about 274.6K visits per month.
Monthly visits
8 monthsEstimated from third-party traffic data.
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