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Learn AI visibility from the published record.

A course, a book, a glossary, and a shelf of original research, all built on the AI Index’s frozen monthly editions. No opinions without receipts, no login, no jargon wall.

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7 lessons · 50 min · Free

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Courses

Start with the Fundamentals.

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Course · 7 lessons · 50 min · Free

AI Visibility Fundamentals

The complete grounding for site owners: what AI models say about your business, how those answers form, and how to change them. One lesson per chapter of the Beginner’s Guide.

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GEO Plays

Short recipes that end in a button.

A play names one symptom you can already see, gives you the steps that fix it, and points at the screen where you run it on your own data. This is the part most academies leave as homework.

All 6 plays →
Play · 15 minFix a lost promptYou know which prompt you lost, who was recommended instead, and which page you need to earn back.Play · 20 minWin a source gapYou have picked one cited source you are absent from and started the work to get listed on it.Play · 20 minReclaim a Brave rankingYou have one page targeted at a prompt where a Brave ranking is standing between you and the answer.
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2026 Edition

The Beginner’s Guide to GEO

The guide

The book of the whole subject.

Seven chapters written for site owners, not practitioners. What AI says about your business, how the answers form, and what to do about them. Versioned annually, like the Index.

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Research

Studies built on a public corpus.

Every CiteHawk study is computed from the AI Index’s frozen editions: every ranking, every verbatim answer, reproducible by anyone. Most academies teach opinions. This one can cite its sources.

The research shelf →
RESEARCH STUDY · August 2026The Coverage IllusionResearch study No. 1: track one AI model and the number one you see is wrong in 61.4% of categories, measured from the frozen August 2026 edition.MECHANISM · July 2026How AI Actually Chooses What to RecommendThe mechanism behind every AI recommendation: two memories, chunk-level retrieval, and the answer-versus-citation split.FRAMEWORK · July 2026The AI Visibility Audit: The Complete FrameworkThe published six-layer framework for auditing AI visibility. Use it to grade any vendor, including us.

Certification · In the works

Prove you know this ground.

An exam over the Fundamentals course, with a public verification page for every credential. Coming to the academy.

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Glossary · 24 terms

The language of AI answers.

Every term this field uses, defined precisely enough to quote, each with a plain-language explanation and where to see it live.

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Learned it. Now see it on your own brand.

The free report runs your business through 50 real buyer questions on all 8 AI models and shows you every answer, verbatim.

Run my free reportBrowse the AI Index

Free AI visibility report · No credit card · 50 prompts · 8 engines