About
Who built AEOForged?
Updated July 2026
Founder
Ryan Kings
Founder & CTO — AEOForged
Stratford-upon-Avon, UK · Est. 2026
Technical background
- DeFi systems engineering — automated arbitrage bots deployed to Polygon mainnet, with live monitoring, gas optimization, and incident response
- Full-stack product architecture — building a large-scale Web3 social platform solo end to end (Next.js, Sui blockchain smart contracts, zkLogin auth, AI-generated content, hundreds of API routes)
- AI agent development — daily hands-on work building and directing AI agents, applied to every system above and to AEOForged itself
Methodology
How does the AEO scoring system work?
AEOForged scores content across 8 dimensions that map to how AI answer engines evaluate and select content for citation. Each dimension is scored independently, and the total gives a 0–100 measure of how extractable and citable your content is by engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
Structure
Heading hierarchy, question-format sections, lists
Direct Answer
Concise answers immediately following each heading
Schema
JSON-LD structured data (Article, FAQ, HowTo)
Entity
Named entities and topical authority signals
E-E-A-T
Source citations, author credentials, trust signals
Recency
Date markers and freshness indicators
Readability
Sentence length, passive voice, vocabulary
Extractability
Declarative statements, data density, definitions
The scoring methodology draws on Google's structured data guidelines, E-E-A-T quality frameworks, and analysis of how AI models select and cite sources in their responses. Every deliverable AEOForged produces includes before-and-after scores so improvements are quantifiable, not subjective.
The platform
What does AEOForged do?
AEOForged is an answer engine optimization platform with 29 tools covering the full content lifecycle. The platform provides research, scoring, auditing, content creation, and citation monitoring — all designed to make your content as extractable and citable as possible for AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Claude.
Research & audit
Algorithmic research synthesis across live sources, 8-dimension scoring, competitor benchmarking, and AI crawlability testing across 11 bots.
Create & optimise
Source-verified content creation with citation guardrails, section-level analysis, and production-ready JSON-LD schema generation.
Monitor & measure
Citation tracking across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews — with share-of-voice analysis and score trend monitoring.
Under the hood
How do AEOForged's algorithms work?
AEOForged uses proprietary algorithmic analysis to evaluate content against the same criteria AI answer engines use when selecting sources to cite. The system operates across 8 scoring dimensions simultaneously, producing a composite 0–100 score that quantifies publish-readiness with transparent, dimension-level feedback.
The research layer pulls live data from multiple sources, synthesises entities, claims, and competitive positioning, then feeds that intelligence into the scoring and content pipelines. Each dimension uses specialised heuristics — measuring structural patterns, declarative sentence density, entity coverage ratios, schema type completeness, and trust signal distribution — to produce scores that quantify publish-readiness. Measured citations are tracked separately in the proof harness.
The audit pipeline goes further: it crawls entire sites, evaluates every discoverable page, benchmarks against competitors, and generates prioritised improvement plans ranked by projected score impact. The scoring feedback loop means clients can measure before-and-after improvements with the same algorithmic precision used by the audit itself.
The underlying methodology draws on Google's structured data documentation, E-E-A-T quality guidelines, and extensive analysis of how large language models retrieve and rank source material.
Summary
Key takeaways
- AEOForged was founded by Ryan Kings in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK in 2026.
- Ryan is self-taught over 8+ years, with deployed DeFi trading systems, a large-scale Web3 social platform in active development, and daily hands-on AI agent development behind AEOForged's architecture.
- The 8-dimension AEO scoring system evaluates structure, direct answers, schema, entities, E-E-A-T, recency, readability, and extractability.
- Every AEOForged deliverable includes before-and-after scores so results are measurable.
- The platform includes 29 tools covering research, scoring, content creation, and citation monitoring across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Claude.
Where to go next
Public product hubs — packages, agent setup, measured research, and sector reports.
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