diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ It includes:
 ### Service Domains
 
 1. **Customer Path Integrity** — customers can find, trust, contact, book, visit, or otherwise engage without preventable digital friction.
-2. **AI Visibility Integrity / AEO** — search engines and AI systems can find, understand, and accurately represent the business.
+2. **AI Visibility Integrity (AEO + GEO)** — search engines and AI systems can find, understand, and accurately represent the business.
+   - **AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)**: make facts extractable and correctly parseable by answer engines (structure, schema, direct-answer blocks, llms.txt, NAP/entity consistency).
+   - **GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)**: make the business a preferred, accurately represented source inside generative narratives (entity authority, tier-1 citations, cross-web consistency, brand-mention density).
 3. **Local Competitive Awareness** — local market context via competitor visibility, positioning, review movement, and AI-answer comparison.
 
 ### Evidence Model
@@ -64,7 +66,7 @@ Field states:
 ```
 Intake
 → evidence capture (website, GBP, NAP, schema, listings)
-→ AI representation test (buyer-intent queries across models)
+→ AI representation test (buyer-intent queries across models — covers both extraction surfaces and generative citation/accuracy)
 → Silent Customer Loss Map
 → evidence classification (tier + source independence)
 → draft canonical business record
@@ -93,6 +95,7 @@ Core philosophy and architectural decisions are recorded in `docs/decisions/`. S
 | Scope narrowed: VeriPath first, GeoLocal deferred | `docs/decisions/2026-08-13-narrowing-scope-veripath-first.md` |
 | VeriPath owns canonical truth | `docs/decisions/2026-08-12-veripath-system-of-record-boundary.md` |
 | Execution roadmap v0.1 | `docs/roadmap/execution-roadmap-v0.1.md` |
+| AEO + GEO ingested into AI Visibility Integrity | `docs/decisions/2026-08-17-aeo-geo-ingestion-into-veripath-model.md` |
 
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