Research-grounded articles
Research the web. Ground the draft. Score what you write.
Research-grounded articles are a prescribed, sourced, scored writing loop: we research the named gap; your agent or your team writes; we score extractability; citations in the draft must match retrieved or verified primary sources.
It unlocks with Grow at $695/mo — two publish→social cycles per month. Dominate raises that to four. We research and score; your agent writes. We do not become your writing desk.
An article is grounded only when inline citations point at research-retrieved URLs or live-verified primary sources. Ungrounded “finished” saves are refused. Scoring is free and does not invent sources.
After you publish a live URL, we package a distribution kit. You post. Outcomes are joined later: cited N times on a tracked question, or honestly not yet cited.
Unlocks with Grow at $695/mo (two cycles). Dominate is $995/mo (four cycles) and includes sector intelligence. Site Care and Monitor are included on both.
What ships
Concrete artifacts in the client room — not a slogan.
A prescribed topic
Picks come from measured demand — gap battlecards, sector open ground, corroborated Search Console — not a keyword brainstorm. Already-covered clusters are excluded.
Grounded research
Entities, claims, and an allow-list of source URLs. Hallucinated citations are stripped. Statistical claims can be fact-checked against those sources.
A score loop
Eight AEO dimensions, page-type aware. The bar on submit-for-review is 80 unless a human records an override. Score is feedback, not the reason to wreck the prose.
Publish then kit
When the live URL exists, the cycle continues into a distribution kit. Posting is your task. Grow includes two of these cycles per month; extras are a $495 article-kit add-on.
How it works
We research the named gap and retrieve sources.
We score the draft for extractability.
Your agent or your team writes.
After you publish a live URL, we package social kits — we package, you post.
What we measure
- Grounding gate
- Finished boundaries (submit-for-review, final saves, hosted write without research) refuse ungrounded markdown. Default saves of real copy warn loudly.
- Extractability score
- Direct answer, structure, schema opportunities, and the rest of the eight dimensions. We will not tell you to stack FAQ mirrors just to move a number.
- After publish
- The live URL is watched against the same engine checks as the citation board. Zero is an outcome.
What this is not
- Not AEOForged writing your article. Your agent or your team writes.
- Not a citation guarantee for the published URL.
- Not ungrounded AI copy with decorative footnotes.
- Not posting. We never take social credentials.
Teams that already have an agent in Cursor or Claude Code and want the research and score bar done properly — and researchers testing whether “AEO content” is grounded or generated.
How to test it
For buyers and researchers. Every step is something you can do without taking our word.
- 01
Read How AEOForged operates — the public article was produced on this loop.
- 02
Ask a vendor where citations in the draft are allowed to come from. If the answer is “the model,” walk away.
- 03
Score a URL on the free AEO Score Checker, then compare the dimensions to the ones named here. Same instrument family.
- 04
Grow is $695/mo with a three-month minimum (or month-to-month at +20%). An agent connected to AEOForge is required before researched articles start. Subscribe can happen first.
What it looks like
Live page — not your site.
LAYER 04 · Content & distribution
Philosophy: write for gaps the board (or strategy) already named; ground the draft in retrieved research; score for publish-readiness; ship a canonical URL; package socials for clients to post. We do not take social logins and we do not promise reach.
In product terms (Grow/Dominate): gap-tied content picks → platform web research (citations limited to retrieved URLs) → client agent or human writes → score / improve loop → publish live URL → distribution kit (LinkedIn / X / newsletter checklists). House split: we research and score; your agent writes (unless a human editor owns the draft). We package; you post. Scores are feedback, not a promise engines will cite the page.
Answer engines we check
- ChatGPT
- Perplexity
- Google AI
Questions we get
- Who writes the article?
- Your agent or your team. We prescribe the topic, run grounded research, and score. That split is the product.
- What if we do not have an agent yet?
- You can subscribe. Researched-article start waits until an agent is connected to AEOForge. Strong reasoning is recommended. Codebase access is optional unless you want the agent editing the live site.
- Do you guarantee the piece will be cited?
- No. We measure whether the published URL later appears in engine answers for tracked questions, including when it does not.
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