Visibility Mesh · Glossary
The vocabulary of AI visibility.
The terms behind AI search, defined plainly. Start anywhere.
This is the plain language behind AI visibility. Each term below is one idea an answer engine has to understand before it can read, trust, and quote your store. Definitions are short on purpose, so a machine can lift them whole.
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Answer engine
A system that answers a shopper directly instead of returning a list of links.
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Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)
Making your store readable, trustworthy, and quotable to the systems that answer shoppers.
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AI legibility
How cleanly a machine can read, parse, and trust your store.
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Entity recognition
How AI identifies your brand as a known, consistent thing it can cite with confidence.
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The mesh
The connected layer of signals that tells AI who you are and what you sell.
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Agentic commerce
When AI agents shop, compare, and buy on behalf of a shopper.