Akii: SEO & AI Search Optimizer vs. HubSpot AEO

Akii: SEO & AI Search Optimizer is a free, open-source plugin for Claude Code. It helps site owners, developers and content teams improve how websites are found in search and AI answers. Use it to audit sites, find broken links, compare competitors, improve pages, generate JSON-LD structured data, strengthen internal links and plan content. It also supports content briefs, keyword clusters, llms.txt files and localization. The plugin includes 12 skills, five agents and three commands. It runs inside your Claude Code session and can use optional connected services for additional data.

HubSpot AEO gives marketers instant visibility into how their brand appears across every major answer engine, a clear strategy for improving that visibility, and specific recommendations for what to do next, available on its own for $50/mo. Core Value Proposition: HubSpot AEO addresses a critical and growing gap in how brands get discovered. Buyers who used to click through search results are now getting direct answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. If your brand isn't being cited in those answers, you're losing customers before they ever reach your website.