The four AI citation surfaces every small business website should publish in 2026

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Llms.txt, aeo.json, entity.json, brand.json: the four AI citation surfaces for a small business In 2026, search engines and AI engines see your site differently. Google indexes HTML. ChatGPT crawls for citations. Claude probes for entity facts. Perplexity wants structured answers. Each of these engines reads different files.