August's roundup is led by Surfer MCP (Beta) — you can now use Surfer inside any AI agent that speaks MCP, so it can plan, write, score, and optimize content with live Surfer data.

Recommendations now pull signals from AI Tracker to tell you which mentions to earn first, what sentiment to fix, and which topics to own.

A reminder that the AI SEO Content Score covers Google rankings and AI citations in one bar, fixable in a single Auto-Optimize click.

Backing it all: new research across 650,000+ AI answers and 100,000 citation placements showing your first paragraph decides most of your AI visibility and 4 more data studies about how leading AI models work.

Bonus: the updated "How to Use Surfer" walkthrough is live on our YouTube channel!