AQA Guide: Make Your FAQs Visible to AI in 5 Minutes

Your FAQs may have existed for years, but AI systems don't know if your answers are current, verifiable or maintained. The AQA (AI Question Answer) standard solves this by adding metadata that AI models understand.

Why Your FAQs Are Invisible to AI

Standard FAQ markup (FAQPage Schema.org) tells search engines a page contains Q&A. But it says nothing about when each answer was last verified, where the information comes from, whether content is actively maintained, or who is responsible for each answer.

AQA: 3 Levels for 3 Profiles

Basic — 5 minutes

• dateCreated and dateModified on each question
• At least one citation (source URL) per answer
• author and inLanguage at document level

Standard — 15 minutes

• updateFrequency, changelog, questionVersion
• Sector classification via NACE codes

Full — 30 minutes

• monitoringSources (2+ external sources)
• Per-question author with verifiable credentials

AQA Shield

• aiUsagePolicy — declare what AI can do (cite, summarize, train)
• contentSignature — SHA-256 hash proving content integrity

Full specification: aqa-spec.org

About the author

Davy Abderrahman

Founder & CEO at AI Labs Audit

Specialist in AI visibility (AEO/GEO/LLMO), I help agencies and consultants measure and optimize their clients' presence on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and other AI answer engines. Pioneer in AI visibility auditing since 2024.

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