Winin · AI RECOMMENDATION INTELLIGENCE

Your customers are already asking AI.

When customers ask AI, are you in the answer?

Winin reveals how AI discovers, understands and recommends your brands and products—then turns each gap into evidence-led work your team can approve, publish and retest.

The monitored model roster includes ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok, Copilot, Kimi, Qwen, GLM, Doubao, MiniMax and ERNIE Bot.

01 · The Problem

Before customers make a purchase decision,
AI may already be recommending a competitor.

These conversations happen every day — you simply aren’t there.

CUSTOMER ASKS“What home espresso machines are actually worth buying?”One question · four possible outcomes ↓
01ABSENTCUSTOMER GETSA competitor list
AI: “I’d recommend these three brands…” — you're not in it.

Each absence can reduce the chance that customers include your brand in their consideration set.

02WRONGCUSTOMER GETSA wrong version of you
AI: “Their flagship sells for ¥199 (stale price)…”

Stale or incorrect information may reach an answer before your correction and appear under your brand name.

03NOT RECOMMENDEDCUSTOMER GETSReasons for competitors
AI: “It’s also decent. But as for reasons —” every one listed belongs to competitors.

Being mentioned is not being chosen. What customers remember are someone else’s reasons.

04BLIND SPOTYOU GETNothing
These answers are generated every day — yet none of them reaches you.

Without visibility there is no response; budget spent, with no way to verify the effect.

02 · The Gates

An AI recommendation
is not a switch.

Across three stages, a brand can be discovered, enter consideration and receive an accurate recommendation. Winin identifies where the gap occurs and prioritizes work supported by evidence.

Reach solves “can you be seen”;
Shortlist solves “are you considered”;
Accurate & recommended solves “do they trust you, do they pick you”.
GATE 01

REACH

Can AI read your information?
0/ 9 surfaces returned valid answersobserved ✓
GATE 02

SHORTLIST

Will it put you on the candidate list?
0/ 9 answers shortlisted you-5 · picked competitors, not you
GATE 03

ACCURATE & RECOMMENDED

Is your brand described accurately — and recommended?
0/ 9 answers were accurate and recommended you-2 · mentioned-not-recommended / stale price / discontinued
03 · The Loop

From spotting the gap to continuous improvement.

The right order: see clearly first, then act; act on evidence; verify after acting.

Edith
OBSERVE

Find the gap

Pin down where the brand is absent, less competitive or misrepresented in AI answers.

Homer
ALIGN

Build the case

Establish an approved, verifiable factual basis.

Friday
ACT

Close the gap

Close information gaps one by one.

Edith
PROVE

Retest

What changed? Retest under the same conditions.

Edith · Friday
OPERATE

Operate

Turn the full loop into a repeatable capability.

04 · The Strategy

Every confirmed gap
gets a matching optimization playbook.

Winin compares the question, model answers and visible sources to identify where the gap occurs, then turns that finding into executable work.

L1

Fact governance

Conflicts in identity, product facts, price and policy: first pin down source, owner and validity to form a usable version — before touching public content.

→ Homer fact charter
L2

Site & product pages

For confirmed gaps, prescribe fact pages, product pages, FAQs, comparison content and structured data.

→ Page & data tasks
L3

Enterprise channels

Locate the official stores, distributors, catalogs, partner profiles and product data that need correcting — as channel governance tasks.

→ Channel correction list
L4

Independent sources

Where independent evidence is missing, plan first-party research, test evidence, media materials, expert views or partner collateral.

→ External credibility plan
05 · The Products

Find the gap. Govern the facts. Advance the work.

Homer is the enterprise knowledge foundation: approved facts with their sources, versions and public permissions. Edith finds the gaps, Homer governs the facts, and Friday advances authorized optimization work.

06 · Services

From diagnosis to execution,
every step has a matching service.

Measure & Diagnose

AI recommendation diagnostics

See where you’re considered, recommended, or absent — every answer keeps its raw content, reasons and cited sources.

Managed monitoring & retesting

Continuously track changes across models, competitors, facts and sources; same-conditions retesting keeps before-and-after changes on record.

Knowledge Foundation

Enterprise knowledge foundation building

Unify brand info scattered across site, e-commerce, press and internal docs — single source of truth, owner, version control.

Encode the foundation for AI

Turn approved facts into structured public content that machines can parse and teams can trace; diagnosis and optimization share the same factual source.

Execute & Verify

Brand GEO

Using facts approved in Homer, improve how the brand is understood, considered and recommended across site content, channels and external sources.

Product GEO

For category, comparison and buying questions, close the gaps in product facts and recommendation reasons.

07 · The Outcomes

After the work, your brand gains four operating capabilities.

These interfaces illustrate product capabilities. Formal results depend on retained answers, verified publication and comparable retesting.

Answer evidenceVISIBLE
Answer record · archived
Your brand
Answer · reasons · sources

Retain the answer; trace omissions, errors and source changes.

ConsiderationTRACKED
Candidate position · monitored
BrewMasterAromayour brand ✓Peak

Track the questions where the brand enters consideration.

Approved factsGROUNDED
Approved facts · version 4
Flagship price ¥199 · current
✓ ERP source✓ Marketing owner✓ Valid to Dec 31

Source, owner, version and validity stay linked.

Comparable changeRETESTED
Recommendation retest · illustrative
Before
11%
After
37%
Baseline → retest · comparable conditions

Retest after verified publication on the same basis.

08 · Client Cases

Winin completed 14 tasks.
You made the final decision.

Three anonymized scenarios show how Winin moves from monitoring to approved action and comparable retesting.

The following are anonymized client cases. Client names are not disclosed; the work, measurement scope and project outcomes are shown within the delivery record.

Consumer brand90 daysshare 11% → 37%
Cross-border e-commerce120 daystracked to the 3.8% conversion cell
B2B60 daysreasons 2 → 7
Scope, metric definitions, delivery and fees are governed by the signed agreement.
Formal conclusions require retained answers, verified releases and comparable retesting.
Agreed data and knowledge assets remain transferable at handoff.
Consumer brandSmall appliances · Espresso machines90 days

From “AI doesn’t know you” to category first-candidate

Starting point: 7 of 9 models never mentioned the brand in “espresso recommendations”; the flagship quoted at a stale price by 2.

11% → 37%
Share of recommendation
14
wrong facts corrected
+210%
AI-referred inquiries
Friday · Week-one work log
Mon 09:12Doubao quoted the flagship at stale ¥199 — source-correction task preparedapproval required
Tue 08:00Competitor's new product picked up by DeepSeek — counter-positioning content draftedAwaiting confirmation
Tue 14:30No you in “category picks” — 2 scenario articles preparedreview and authorization
Wed 10:05Review: price corrected, cited sources swappedverified
Fri 18:00Week wrap: visibility 2/9 → 5/9, weekly report generatedreport
“Our team used to spend two days a week watching AI recommendations shift. Now on Monday the platform already tells me what it did this week — and which item needs my sign-off.” —— Brand e-commerce lead
Cross-border e-commercePortable power stations120 days

Measuring from “mentioned” all the way to “bought”

AI platforms already show product cards in answers. We build the full chain: how much drops at each cell, why, and how to fix it.

Mentioned
61%
Product card shown
34%
Click-through to store
12%
Attributed conversion
3.8%
New-customer acquisition cost 38% below paid search · retestable on same basis
“Earlier GEO vendors only told me whether AI mentioned us. What I need to know is: once mentioned, did anyone click through — did anyone order.” —— Head of overseas business
B2BIndustrial inspection SaaS60 days

Winning the reasons back in “vendor comparisons”

Buyers ask AI first “which vendor is reliable”. Before: AI knew the name, but every recommendation reason went to competitors.

2 → 7
comparison-question reason coverage
+64%
demo bookings
0 → 6
models shortlisting you
“B2B buying journeys are long, but they often start with a single AI recommendation. We used to be completely absent at that moment.” —— VP Marketing
09 · The Difference

Pure monitoring tools stop at the first cell.

Monitoring toolsWinin
See the problemmonitors brand performance in AI answers
Locate the cause23 checks locate “why not recommended”
Prepare and advance workFriday automates preparation and advances work within the approved scope
Retestsame-conditions comparison before/after
Keep operatingsubscription-based monitoring & iteration
Metrics drill downEvery number traces back to question · model · raw answer · time · source · denominator.
Facts confirmed firstFriday only uses facts approved in Homer, within validity, traceable to source.
External sources verifiableExternal evidence links to real research, media, experts or partners — no spam, no black-hat.
Same-conditions retestRetest with identical questions and conditions; state what changed and what remains uncertain.
WHAT YOU BUYgrowth · pipeline · sales conversion
Winin's pathmonitor → align → execute → retest → operate
Winin's bottom lineFacts checkable · Evidence traceable · Attribution restrained
10 · Pricing

See the problem clearly, then decide how much to invest.

Free Check

¥0

5 fixed questions · one sample per question · up to 3 active model APIs; an initial signal, not a formal baseline.

Start the free check →

Formal Baseline

Scoped quote

Custom questions, models and cadence; a complete retestable baseline.

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CORE

Brand · Product GEO

Scoped quote

Optimization strategy, site/content/channel execution, and same-conditions retesting.

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Continuous Monitoring

Subscription

Ongoing tracking of AI recommendation shifts, competitor moves and new growth openings.

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11 · FAQ

First the concepts, then the work.

The most-asked questions about GEO and AEO — including the uncomfortable ones.

What is GEO?+

GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) improves the conditions for accurate interpretation, consideration and citation through approved facts and publicly verifiable expressions; measured change still requires retesting. SEO focuses on discovery and clicks in search results, while GEO focuses on how generative answers understand and represent you.

What is AEO, and how does it differ from GEO?+

AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) focuses on making direct answers easy to retrieve and support. GEO overlaps with AEO but also examines how generative systems understand, compare, consider and recommend a brand or product. Both depend on clear facts, accessible content and comparable measurement.

How is GEO different from SEO — do we still need SEO?+

Yes. SEO improves how content is crawled, indexed and discovered in search; GEO examines how generative systems understand and use that information. Clear fact pages, product information and structured data can support both, but search performance and changes in AI answers should be measured separately.

Does AI actually read our website?+

AI may draw on training data, third-party media, marketplace pages, user content and your site. Homer organizes scattered information into approved facts with clear, traceable expressions; whether a model uses them, and how it responds, still has to be observed.

Why do AI answers keep changing?+

Training data, retrieval paths and generation strategies are all updated continuously, so the same question can get different answers on different days — that is normal. What matters is having a stable baseline to measure the direction of change, not drawing conclusions from a single answer.

What is structured data, and what does it do for AI?+

Structured data is a set of machine-readable annotations (such as Schema or JSON-LD) that states what something is, its price and whether it is available. It makes explicit facts easier to identify; whether AI or search systems use them, and how they express them, still has to be observed.