AEO Launch Checklist for Vibe-Coded Sites

Getting your site to rank on Google is no longer enough.

In 2026, most people start their search inside an AI LLM like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews or Claude. These tools don’t serve a list of blue links. They synthesize an answer and cite a handful of sources. If your site isn’t structured for extraction, you won’t be one of them, regardless of where you rank in traditional search.

AEO — Answer Engine Optimization — is the layer on top of your technical SEO that makes your content easy for AI systems to find, understand, and cite. We ran this process on 5fourdigital.com after building it in Lovable. This SOP gives you the exact checklist to do the same.