Creates the site's AEO project and starts activation. Activation runs in the background and takes several minutes, so the call returns 202 Accepted with an empty body. Poll Get AEO project status until status is ACTIVATION_COMPLETED.

• country_code is required and sets the project's primary market.
• The site's own brand is named from brand_name, or from the site's domain when it is omitted.
• brands adds up to 5 competitor brands, and cities up to 5 target cities.
• New projects track ChatGPT and Gemini. Change this with Update AI models.

The site counts toward the plan's site allowance. On custom (contract) plans, it reserves one full scan per billing cycle from the plan's run pool instead.

If the site already has a project, the call returns 202 again and ignores the request body.

{
  "brand_name": "My Brand",
  "brands": [
    {
      "domains": [
        "acme.com"
      ],
      "name": "Acme"
    }
  ],
  "cities": [
    "Austin",
    "Denver"
  ],
  "country_code": "US"
}