Field Notes — vAEOStrategic Diagnostician memos from the AI Visibility audit floor. Cross-published к LinkedIn + Substack.https://vaeo.ai/en«AI doesn't inherit your brand recognition.»https://vaeo.ai/field-notes/ai-doesnt-inherit-brand-recognition/https://vaeo.ai/field-notes/ai-doesnt-inherit-brand-recognition/Twenty years of Google brand equity · zero authority signal to a fresh AI engine that doesn't know you exist. The entity graph is the new domain authority. Three failure modes from 2026-Q1 audits — brand confusion · category misclassification · pure invisibility.Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAEO FundamentalsBrand EquityCategory Framingvlad@vaeo.ai (Vladyslav Rovnianskyi)«The interpretation gap.»https://vaeo.ai/field-notes/interpretation-gap/https://vaeo.ai/field-notes/interpretation-gap/Your content says X. AI engine interprets it as Y. Buyer reads Y as fact. The gap is not a content problem — it's a structural problem. Counterintuitive finding from 12 2026-Q1 audits — L2 Structure fixes outperform L3 Semantics content rebuild.Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTCitation StackMethodologyL2 Structurevlad@vaeo.ai (Vladyslav Rovnianskyi)«AI engines rank · they don't recommend.»https://vaeo.ai/field-notes/ranking-not-recommendation/https://vaeo.ai/field-notes/ranking-not-recommendation/The most expensive misunderstanding in AI Visibility is treating ChatGPT like Google's #1 result. Ranking lists order options for the reader to choose from. Recommendations select for the reader — the engine does the choosing. AI engines do the second · and the optimization mechanics flip when that's true.Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAEO FundamentalsCategory Framingvlad@vaeo.ai (Vladyslav Rovnianskyi)«Three losses Google Analytics doesn't show you.»https://vaeo.ai/field-notes/three-losses-invisible-in-analytics/https://vaeo.ai/field-notes/three-losses-invisible-in-analytics/AI Visibility introduces three failure modes traditional analytics can't measure: Invisibility (brand cited zero times) · Misrepresentation (AI describes brand wrong) · Substitution (competitor named in your category). None surface in Google Analytics. Each has measurable downstream cost.Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI VisibilityAnalyticsCategory Framingvlad@vaeo.ai (Vladyslav Rovnianskyi)«We audited our own site before launching it.»https://vaeo.ai/field-notes/we-audited-our-own-site/https://vaeo.ai/field-notes/we-audited-our-own-site/The cobbler's son problem in AEO consulting is real and unsolved across the category. Most AEO vendors sell what they don't apply. We applied vAEO methodology к vaeo.ai before launch — seven first-pass misses disclosed honestly (three caught in initial audit · four caught while writing the dogfood case page itself) · 35% aggregated Share of Model at Gate C pre-launch probe.Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTDogfoodSelf-AEOMethodologyvlad@vaeo.ai (Vladyslav Rovnianskyi)