I spent 3 months building a GEO tool. Here's what I learned about how AI picks brands.

I spent 3 months building a GEO tool. Here's what I learned about how AI actually picks brands. I'm a solo founder. I built GEOmind (geomind.app) because I was frustrated with the GEO tools available — they all tell you "you're losing in AI search" and charge $300/month for that privilege. None of them tell you HOW to win. So I built the tools that do. Here's what I shipped this week and what I learned about how AI models actually decide which brands to recommend. The uncomfortable truth about AI recommendations I built a feature called Conversational Resilience Testing. It simulates a multi-turn buying conversation — a stubborn shopper vs an AI recommender — and measures how hard the AI fights for your brand. What I found surprised me: AI models don't recommend brands based on quality or popularity. They recommend brands based on how their website content is structured. Specifically: Authority signals matter more than you think. Words like "trusted," "certified," "#1 rated" in your pa