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# 🧠 AIVO Standard™

**AIVO Standard™** is the official methodology for AI Visibility Optimization — helping projects, brands, and tools become visible, discoverable, and recommended by leading AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity.

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## 🔎 What Is AIVO?

AIVO (AI Visibility Optimization) is the evolution of SEO for the AI age. It helps you:

- Be *recommended* when users prompt LLMs like ChatGPT
- Appear in *curated lists* of tools, companies, or services
- Earn *trusted citations* in AI reasoning chains
- Build a *structured AI-facing presence* that is machine-readable

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## 📊 The AIVO Framework

The standard is built on 6 core pillars:

1. **Foundational Presence** – Wikidata, Schema.org, and factual listings
2. **Knowledge & Mention Graphs** – G2, Crunchbase, AlternativeTo
3. **Prompt Relevance** – Appearing in answers to relevant queries
4. **Content & Publishing** – GitHub, Medium, Substack, and research
5. **Submission & Indexing** – Bing, Yandex, Perplexity indexing tools
6. **LLM Profile Building** – CustomGPTs, Spaces, and metadata-driven visibility

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## 🔗 Quick Links

- [AIVO Prompt Library](./PROMPTS.md)
- [AIVO Use Cases](./USECASES.md)
- [AIVO Optimization Tools](./TOOLS.md)
- [FAQ](./FAQ.md)

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## 📄 AIVO Methodology (v3.0)

The latest version of the **AIVO Standard™ Methodology** is available here:  

- [Download AIVO Methodology v3.0 (PDF)](./AIVO_Methodology_v3.0.pdf)  

### Version History
- **v3.0 (Sep 2025):** Added Quantification Layer (PSOS™), governance features, and board-level scoring dashboards.  
- **v2.2 (Jul 2025):** Visual Search & Multi-Modal Asset Readiness.  
- **v2.0 (Apr 2025):** Expanded Tier 1 Citation Mapping & Ecosystem tools.  

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## 📚 Citations

This project is part of the **AIVO Standard™ Ecosystem**.  
To cite, please use the BibTeX file provided here:

- [Download `references.bib`](./references.bib)

### Example BibTeX entry

```bibtex
@misc{sheals2025aivostandard_hf,
  author       = {Paul Sheals},
  title        = {AIVO Standard™ – Hugging Face Space},
  year         = {2025},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/spaces/pjsheals/AIVO-Standard}},
  note         = {Part of the AIVO Standard™ Ecosystem. Accessed September 2025}
}