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Intermediate6 lessons · ~3h · Practitioner tier

AEO Tools Mastery

Master the AI visibility tooling stack — choosing, running, and getting value from trackers across budgets and team sizes. A Practitioner-tier course that turns the Tools library into a working measurement operation and earns a stackable Tier 2 badge.

By Burke Atkerson, Founder & Principal AEO Strategist

What you'll learn

  • Choose the right AI visibility tracker for your size and budget.
  • Run team- and enterprise-grade trackers effectively.
  • Fold AI tracking into an existing SEO suite.
  • Assemble a free or low-cost AEO toolstack.
  • Evaluate any tool on a fixed prompt set, not feature lists.

Syllabus

  1. Choosing Your AI Visibility StackEvery AI visibility tool does the same core job — track how engines cite you. This lesson is how to choose by scale, engines covered, and budget rather than feature lists.
  2. Team-Scale Tracking with Peec AIPeec AI targets marketing teams and agencies with daily multi-engine tracking. This lesson covers when it is the right fit and how to get value from it.
  3. Enterprise Tracking with ProfoundProfound is an enterprise-grade answer-engine analytics platform covering many engines with content workflows. This lesson covers what it adds at scale.
  4. AI Tracking Inside Your SEO SuiteSE Ranking folds AI visibility tracking into an existing SEO platform. This lesson covers when an integrated suite beats a standalone tool.
  5. Content Optimization ToolsOptimization tools help you shape content to be extractable and citable. This lesson covers what they do and where they stop.
  6. The Free AEO ToolstackYou can start AEO measurement for free. This lesson assembles a no-budget toolstack and the manual method behind it.

Practitioner tier · Tier 2 Certificate

Finish all 6 lessons to earn your Tier 2 Certificate.

Complete every lesson and pass the knowledge checks to claim a shareable Tier 2 Certificate — proof you've mastered AEO Tools Mastery. Practitioner certificates stack toward full AEO mastery.