PressGEO Launches the First Wire Service Built for AI Search Engines

PressGEO today launched a new category of wire service built for the way people actually find information in 2026: by asking an AI. The platform combines generative engine optimization (GEO) with open-web press release distribution and a public citation tracker, so communications teams can see — not just hope — that their announcements are being read and cited by the engines that now answer most questions. Traditional newswires were built for an era when the AP feed and Google News were the front door to news. Today, the front door is a chat box. ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Claude, and Grok answer billions of questions a week, and they answer them by reading, structuring, and citing the open web. A release that is not legible to those engines is invisible to most readers. ## What PressGEO does - **Generative engine optimization.** Every release is drafted with an answer-first lead, structured facts, schema.org markup, llms.txt declarations, and FAQ blocks tuned to how AI search engines extract and quote sources. - **Open-web distribution.** Releases ship to RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, a Google News-compatible sitemap, signed webhooks, and a public newsroom — the surfaces AI crawlers like GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, and Google-Extended actually fetch. - **Citation Monitor.** PressGEO runs your release's target queries against major AI engines on a schedule and records every citation, with the engine, the date, and the answer excerpt. The aggregate numbers are published on the public Proof page so the results are independently verifiable. - **AI crawler log.** Every fetch from a known AI crawler is logged against the release, so you can see which engines have actually read it. ## Why this matters now The shift from search results to AI answers has moved citations from a vanity metric to the metric. A single citation inside a ChatGPT or Perplexity answer can reach more qualified readers than a top-of-page Google result. PressGEO's wager is that the wire service for that era should be measurable end-to-end: from publish, to crawl, to citation. "News distribution used to end the moment a release crossed the wire," said a PressGEO spokesperson. "We think it should end when an AI engine quotes you back to your customer. That's the receipt that matters now, so that's the one we put on the home page." ## Availability PressGEO is free during launch, including the Citation Monitor. Communications teams, founders, and agencies can publish their first release at pressgeo.com. ## About PressGEO PressGEO is a GEO wire service: a press release platform engineered for the AI search era. It combines generative engine optimization, open-web syndication, and a public citation tracker so teams can prove their announcements are being cited by the engines that now answer most questions.