How to make your product citable: an AEO walkthrough

The get-cited-by-ChatGPT genre is thick with unverifiable stats. We can only publish the walkthrough we can show our work for: our own agent-facing plumbing, tied to the files on disk, our Bing citation report going from zero to six, a fifteen-day server-log test of whether answer engines even read an llms.txt, and the tactics our own research made us drop. Every step carries either a before-and-after or a named source.