Recomaze – AI Chat Agent, AEO & GEO

Description

Recomaze does two things for a WordPress site, and they feed each other.

An AI chat agent on the site. A conversational agent that answers visitor questions from your own catalog, policies and knowledge base – not generic AI answers – recommends the right product, and carries the visitor toward checkout.

AEO and GEO. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) are two names for the same discipline: getting a site retrieved, understood and cited by AI assistants when they generate an answer. Recomaze tracks whether AI actually mentions you, fixes the reasons it does not, and publishes the content and machine-readable signals that make you quotable.

The loop between them is the point. The chat agent sees every question your visitors ask, including the ones it could not answer. Those failures become a work list for the AEO side – and content published for AEO comes back as knowledge the agent can answer from.

Traditional SEO competes for a position on a page of links. AEO competes to be inside the generated answer. A page can rank well in Google and never be quoted by an AI assistant, usually because nothing on it can be parsed into a clear, checkable claim.

The AI chat agent

• Answers from your own content – the agent replies from your catalog, knowledge base and policies, in your brand voice, instead of improvising.
• Recommends products in conversation – it surfaces the right item as part of the answer and links the visitor to it.
• Your styling – colors, placement, wording and the launcher are yours to set, so the agent looks like part of the site.
• Preview mode – turn the agent on for administrators only and try it on the live site before any visitor sees it.
• Conversation analytics – conversations, visitor journeys, KPIs and insights, so you can read what people actually ask.
• Campaigns – run targeted on-site campaigns through the agent.

Gaps: what the agent could not answer

Every conversation the agent handles badly is recorded as a gap and sorted into four buckets: information missing, feature or product missing, cannot guide, and out of scope. A gap is not a report you read and forget – each one carries a fix, and the fix is a button:

• Missing information becomes a knowledge base article the agent can answer from next time.
• A losing topic becomes an AI Visibility article drafted on that exact question.
• A vague product becomes a product rewrite in the Content Generator, focused on the attributes the visitor asked about.
• A policy question becomes a policy update in your knowledge base.

You can mark a gap resolved or dismiss it. The list is filtered by period, so you can see whether last month’s holes actually got closed.

AI Visibility

• Visibility scans – ask the buying questions that matter in your niche and record which brands the AI names in the answer.
• Tracked prompts – keep a set of questions under continuous tracking and watch each one trend over time.
• Competitor tracking – see which brands take the mentions you do not, add competitors deliberately, and exclude ones that are not really rivals.
• Cited sources – see which pages an AI actually pulled from when it answered.
• Mentioned vs cited – being named and being used as a source are different results, and they are reported separately.
• Funnel coverage – see which stage of the buying journey your content covers and where it stops.
• Scan history and wins/losses – what moved since the last scan, in both directions.
• Trending in your chat – questions rising in your own visitor conversations, promoted into tracked prompts.

Content that answers the question

• Content Generator – draft articles against the questions you are losing, then publish them straight into WordPress posts.
• Page templates – reusable structures for the page types that earn answers, run across topics.
• Content Checker – check a draft against what answer engines can actually extract from it, and apply the fixes.
• Optimized text pages and product content – rewrite titles, descriptions and Q&A so an AI can lift a fact instead of guessing at marketing copy.
• Prompt templates – reusable generation prompts, so output stays consistent with how you write.
• Scheduling and images – schedule a publish, and get image suggestions with the draft.
• Multi-language – generate the same content in several languages.

Catalog and context

• Catalog Quality – scan products, score how AI-ready each one is, and fix them individually or in bulk.
• Import – bulk upload products and content.
• Knowledge Base – the source of truth the agent answers from: policies, shipping, returns, anything a visitor asks.
• AI Company ID – what you sell, who you sell to and how you talk, built once and pushed to everything the agent and the content generator produce.
• Connectors and integrations – connect the site so Recomaze can publish back to it, and plug into the rest of your stack.
• llms.txt – served automatically at /llms.txt and /llm.txt, the emerging convention for telling AI crawlers what a site is and what it offers. No file to write by hand.
• AI crawler log – every fetch of your llms.txt is recorded, so you can see which AI crawlers came, how often, and when they started.
• Answer schema – Article and FAQPage JSON-LD published in the page head, so an answer engine can lift a question and its answer directly. If Yoast or Rank Math already emits the Article, Recomaze steps aside and publishes only the FAQ, so the page never carries two.
• SEO fields filled in for you – articles published by Recomaze arrive with the focus keyphrase, SEO title and meta description already written into the plugin’s own SEO fields, and into Yoast SEO’s and Rank Math’s fields when one of them runs the site.
• AI copilot in the admin – ask it to do the work and it runs the steps for you.
• Dashboard – one AI-readiness score, the setup steps still open, and the latest articles, gaps and insights.

SEO

The SEO module is the on-page and technical side of the same work, built to replace a separate SEO plugin rather than sit next to one. Every part is a switch on the SEO dashboard.

• Titles, meta and robots – templates with variables per post type, taxonomy and archive, canonical URLs, noindex rules, Open Graph and X cards, webmaster verification, and an SEO box in the block editor, the classic editor, WooCommerce products, terms and author profiles with a Google preview, a content analysis and a score.
• Schema – one JSON-LD graph per page (Organization or Person, WebSite, WebPage, breadcrumbs, Article, Product with offers and reviews), FAQ, How-to and table of contents blocks, and a schema builder with 17 types per post plus custom JSON-LD.
• Sitemaps and indexing – XML sitemaps for posts, terms, authors, images, video and news, an HTML sitemap, IndexNow, robots.txt and .htaccess editors, breadcrumbs, RSS text, image SEO and llms.txt built from settings.
• Redirects, 404s and links – a redirect manager with automatic redirects on slug changes, a 404 monitor, a link counter with orphan pages and a broken link checker.
• Local SEO – LocalBusiness schema, a contact shortcode with a map, several locations with their own pages and a store locator. The pieces take the theme’s look, can be previewed inside the theme from the settings, and accept your own CSS.
• Catalog fix from the product – a “Fix title & description” button in the SEO box of every WooCommerce product asks Recomaze for a title with the brand, model and type, a description grounded in the product data, a short description, tags, SEO title and meta description, shows what would change word by word, and writes only the fields you keep – journaled, with Undo.
• Checkup – about sixty checks over the whole site (indexing, settings, content, links, media, the home page as a crawler receives it, speed, the server, security) with a score, a fix button where the plugin can do it itself, a hand-off to the Copilot for the rest, and a journal of every automatic change with a way back; the open items show as counts in the menu. The Automation tab runs the SEO Medic: the Recomaze agent repeats the checkup on a schedule, writes the fixes you allow it to write (meta descriptions, focus keywords, alt texts, redirects for repeated 404s) and puts the rest up for your approval, every write journaled with Undo.
• Analytics – clicks, impressions, CTR and positions from Google Search Console, by query and by page, once the site is connected from the plugin (the connection and the data live in the Recomaze API, see External Services).
• Switching is one click – the settings and per-post fields of Rank Math and Yoast SEO import in one go; while one of them is active, Recomaze prints nothing that would double theirs.

Where your site can appear

Recomaze prepares content for the assistants people actually ask, including ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Microsoft Copilot. These are independent services; Recomaze is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them, and no plugin can guarantee a mention in a generated answer. What Recomaze does is remove the reasons a site gets skipped: thin content, no machine-readable summary, no structured answers, nothing published against the question being asked.

How it works

1. Install, activate, and connect the site to Recomaze from the WordPress admin.
2. Recomaze reads your site and builds your AI Company ID: what you offer, who for, in what voice.
3. It scans AI assistants for the questions in your niche and reports where you stand against your competitors.
4. It fixes what it can – content, product text, knowledge base, llms.txt, schema – and drafts what is missing.
5. The chat agent goes live, and every question it cannot answer comes back as a gap with a fix attached.

WooCommerce optional

Recomaze runs on any WordPress site. A content site that wants the chat agent and the AEO work installs it and never touches a product. When WooCommerce is active, the catalog features switch on as well: product scanning and scoring, bulk product rewrites, product recommendations in chat and order tracking.

External Services

This plugin connects to the following external services:

1. Recomaze API

   • Domain(s):
     • https://api.recomaze.ai
     • https://stagingapi.recomaze.ai (for testing and staging environments)
   • Purpose:
     The API is used to retrieve user-specific product recommendations, update user preferences, and refresh authentication tokens. Once a day, and when the plugin page opens after an hour, the plugin asks it which features the account has (for example the SEO module, which runs only where Recomaze has opened it); the request carries the plugin token and nothing else. When the site owner connects Google Search Console from SEO → Analytics, the API also holds the Google connection (the owner signs in with Google and grants read-only access; no Google credentials are stored in WordPress) and keeps a copy of the site’s Search Console rows (date, query, page, country, device, clicks, impressions, position) that it refreshes daily and serves to the plugin’s Analytics page; disconnecting deletes the copy.
   • Data Sent:
     • Plugin token (used for authentication)
     • Store domain (to identify the WooCommerce store)
     • Interaction events such as user preferences or clicks
     • Product details from orders, including:
     • Product names
     • Product characteristics (e.g., categories, attributes)
     • Product prices
   • Terms of Use: https://recomaze.ai/terms-of-service/
   • Privacy Policy: https://recomaze.ai/privacy-policy/

2. Recomaze Tracking UI

   • Domain(s):
     • https://trackui.recomaze.ai
     • https://stagingtrackui.recomaze.ai (for testing and staging environments)
   • Purpose:
     The tracking service is used to display UI components such as recommendation popups and gather anonymous usage metrics to optimize recommendations.
   • Data Sent:
     • Client ID associated with the WooCommerce store.

3. Recomaze Collector Service

   • Domain(s):
     • https://collector.recomaze.ai
   • Purpose:
     The collector service is used to retrieve reports for analytics and recommendations.
   • Data Received:
     • Analytics reports and performance insights.

4. Recomaze Agent

   • Domain(s):
     • https://agent.recomaze.ai
   • Purpose:
     The AI features of the admin dashboard (AI visibility scans, content generation and checks, catalog quality, the copilot chat, article publishing back to this site) and, once the site is connected, the SEO agent that reads the site’s content and SEO fields and writes optimizations back through the plugin’s own REST endpoints, authenticated with the plugin token. No language-model or Google API key is stored in WordPress; the agent holds them.
   • Data Sent:
     • The account token, the site domain, the product and page content selected for analysis or generation, and the prompts typed in the dashboard.
     • For “Fix title & description” in the SEO box of a product: the product’s title, its description as text, its short description, SKU, categories and attributes, sent from the server with the account token when you press the button; the rewrite is shown first and written only when you apply it.
     • For “Fix with AI” in the SEO box of a post: the title, the content (as text, and as HTML when you ask for the rewrite), the excerpt, the address and slug, the focus keyword, the failing tests of the content analysis and, for the rewrite, the titles and addresses of up to 20 published pages of the site it may link to, as they stand in the editor, sent from the server with the account token when you press the button; the suggested SEO title, meta description, focus keyword, slug and content are shown first and go into the editor only when you apply them.
     • For the internal links and the FAQ in the SEO box of a post: the title, the content as text, the address and the focus keyword of the post being written, plus the titles, addresses and a line of the text of up to 40 published pages of the site, sent from the server with the account token when you press the button; the suggestions and the questions come back and go into the content only when you insert or add them.
     • For the alt text of images: the address of each image (Recomaze fetches the picture to look at it), its file name, its media library title and caption and the title of the page it was uploaded to, sent from the server with the account token when you press the button in SEO → General settings → Image SEO, or when an upload arrives and that option is on; the alt text comes back and is written to the media library, journaled with Undo.
     • For the SEO agent: the titles, slugs, URLs, excerpts, text content, …

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