Assistive Agent Optimization: when ranking on Google isn't enough for AI agents
LuxnarrAi · reddit · 2026-10-11
A Reddit user proposes "Assistive Agent Optimization (AAO)"—making your website and business information easy for AI agents to find, understand, verify, and use when they help people make decisions. As agents move from answering questions to completing tasks, being visible in results no longer means being understood.
The basics aren't new—clear product descriptions, accurate info, structured data, straightforward differentiation—but their weight grows in agent-mediated decisions. He admits AAO may just fold into SEO and AI visibility; the name matters less than the question: are we optimizing to be found, or to be understood by machines?
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