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AI Visibility Scorecard
Surplus
surplus.dev · Technology
Borderline visible. AI bots can crawl Surplus, but the structured-data signals are thin - you are at real risk of being skipped when buyers ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity for a recommendation.
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Claude
#979,173 of 2,702,614 in Technology for AI visibility
5
AEO Visibility
iBorderline · 4.8/10
0
Muse Index Score
iAI agent readiness
Not agent-ready · 0/100
12
AI Adoption
iBasic · 12/100
About Surplus
from our crawl and measurement
"A software incubator for massive public good in the age of transformative AI. Organized by Manifund & Mox. $100k on a SAFE · 3 months · starting early August in San Francisco." That is how Surplus introduces itself. To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, though, it is barely visible: it scores 4.5 out of 10.
On the page itself the strengths are clear: a clear heading structure and sitemaps and entity links AI can follow. It is passable on basic crawler access. What holds it back is a clearly stated business identity, credibility markers like credentials or reviews and structured data describing the business.
Off the page there is only faint evidence that the domain is only lightly established and there is little discussion of it. Beyond that, almost no other sites link to it, AI engines do not yet recognise it as a distinct business, there is no press coverage to draw on and it does not come up on Reddit. Those are earned elsewhere on the web, not fixed on the site itself.
The site links to no social profiles, so there is nothing tying the brand to a wider presence.
The 6 signals AI reads
Strong · Good · Fair · Weak
Structured Data
Weak
Organization / LocalBusiness JSON-LD that AI can read.
Content Structure
Strong
Clear headings and answer-style content.
Entity Clarity
Weak
How clearly your brand identity reads to AI.
E-E-A-T Signals
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust
Weak
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust markers.
Technical AEO
Fair
robots.txt, llms.txt, and AI-bot crawl access.
AI Discoverability
Good
Sitemaps and entity links AI can follow.
Off-page authority
How the web signals your brand to AI
Backlinks
Weak
No inbound links found yet.
Domain Authority
Weak
Little domain authority yet.
Reference Presence
Weak
Not in AI knowledge graphs yet.
News & Press
Weak
No press coverage found yet.
Community
Weak
No community discussion yet.
Social Mentions
Weak
No social discussion found yet.
What this score means
Your AEO score measures whether AI search engines - ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini - can actually read your site and cite it in answers. Roughly two-thirds of sites are invisible to them. At 4.8/10, Surplus is crawlable but under-signaled - fixable, and the signals above are where to start.
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Source & Attribution
Scored by Engagemii on July 31, 2026. Methodology: engagemii.com/aeo/methodology
Source URL: https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/surplus-dev
Cite this score: Engagemii (2026). "AEO Score for Surplus." Retrieved from https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/surplus-dev
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