Conductor introduced a suite of answer engine optimization (AEO) tools at its C3 conference on November 3, 2026, in New York, built around a new metric called Recommendation Share that tracks how strongly AI systems recommend a brand against competitors. Chief executive Wei Zheng said “Being mentioned by AI is no longer enough,” addressing the gap between a brand appearing in an AI answer and being suggested as a suitable purchase. Three complementary capabilities support the workflow: Custom Market Index aims to define the relevant market of questions using search demand, Conductor Actions is meant to prioritize what marketers should fix, and AgentStack provides Model Context Protocol and API connectivity to bring this intelligence into automated work. The announcement does not provide an independently verified case establishing that a higher recommendation score causes incremental revenue, and marketers must validate prompt coverage, measurement stability and downstream conversions before treating AI recommendation improvements as proof of revenue impact.