GEO GUIDES

Practical GEO guides

Turn a technical idea into an RFC: problem, design, trade-offs, alternatives, risks, and open questions. No invented benchmarks or performance figures; anything unmeasured is marked as needing a test. The guides in this section are free to read, with no expiry.

Writing an RFC: Preserving Decision Context

The value of an RFC is preserving decision context — a year later, the answer to “why did we choose X” lives in the document, not in someone's memory. Five parts: background and problem, options and comparison, trade-offs and risks, impact, and open questions.

Methodology source: Aggarwal et al., GEO: Generative Engine Optimization (KDD 2024, arXiv:2311.09735) — evidence and cited sources work, keyword stuffing is negative; benchmark results vary by content, no outcome promises.