---
title: "Founding cohort"
description: "A permanent public record of the founders who joined AEO.express from the beginning — and made their companies easier for answer engines to understand and recommend."
canonical: "https://aeo.express/founders"
dateModified: "2026-08-24"
---

# Founding cohort

A permanent public record of the founders who joined AEO.express from the beginning — and made their companies easier for answer engines to understand and recommend.

## How the cohort is ordered

By founder number, in the order founders joined: #001, then #002, then #003. A founder number is permanent and is never resold.

## Publication is opt-in

A founder profile appears here only if that founder chose to publish it. That is why the individual profile URLs are not enumerated in the sitemap or in this mirror: listing them would eventually advertise a company that never agreed to be listed.

## Sitemap

- [Markdown sitemap](https://aeo.express/sitemap.md) — every public page, grouped.
- [llms.txt](https://aeo.express/llms.txt) — the same list in llmstxt.org form.
- [XML sitemap](https://aeo.express/sitemap.xml) — for classic crawlers.