New AEO capabilities within the Siteimprove.ai Search solution enable enterprises to track AI citations, prompts, share of voice, and sentiment across answer engines in a single, unified platform

LAS VEGAS, April 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ADOBE SUMMIT — Siteimprove, a leader in agentic content intelligence, today announced a major advancement in Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) with the launch of deeper AEO insights within Siteimprove.ai Search solution for AI Visibility. This new capability enables enterprise teams to measure, understand, and optimize how their brand appears across answer engines and generative search experiences. 

As AI fundamentally reshapes the digital landscape, traditional search is no longer the sole gateway to discovery. According to IDC Research, 79% of buyers will use AI tools to navigate complex purchasing decisions, make informed decisions, and rely less on salespeople by 2028*. In this new environment, visibility is defined not by rankings alone, but by presence within AI-generated answers.  

The Siteimprove.ai Search solution addresses this shift by ensuring enterprise content is structured, accurate, trustworthy, and accessible—the essential foundation for discoverability and performance across both traditional and AI-driven search. 

The new AEO capabilities provide customers with a comprehensive understanding of how their content performs across AI-driven platforms, including Google’s AI experiences and emerging answer engines. With this intelligence, organizations can improve visibility, increase engagement, enhance customer experiences, and drive measurable business outcomes. 

“Answer engines are rapidly becoming the first point of engagement for buyers, and visibility in these AI channels is no longer optional,” said Nayaki Nayyar, CEO of Siteimprove. “With deeper AEO capabilities embedded into our Siteimprove.ai platform, we’re giving customers the clarity and control to shape how they are discovered, trusted, and chosen—across both AI-driven and traditional search environments.” 

Within the AI Visibility dashboard, customers can now track and analyze key AEO performance metrics across answer engines, including: 

AI citations and frequency of citations  

Share of answers (share of voice)  

Brand sentiment within AI-generated responses  

Competitive positioning and insights  

Revenue attribution tied to AI visibility  

Content performance across AI-driven channels  

The Siteimprove.ai Search solution now gives teams a holistic view of traditional SEO and AEO under a single enterprise experience for brand visibility in a dynamic search landscape. 

Siteimprove is a recognized Representative Vendor in the 2026 Gartner® Market Guide for Answer Engine Optimization. According to Gartner, “Organizations need new approaches to measure visibility, including presence in AI-generated answers, citations, and conversational interfaces.” 

This launch builds on the recent expansion of Siteimprove.ai, a unified agentic content intelligence platform with new conversational analytics agent and keyword intelligence agent, advancing the company’s broader vision to optimize the entire digital content lifecycle. From accessibility and search to content strategy and analytics, Siteimprove.ai delivers a single, agentic platform designed for enterprise scale. 

For more information, please visit https://www.siteimprove.com/aeo-visibility/. 

*Source: IDC, Redefining B2B Tech Buying: The Rise of Digital and AI and the Changing Role of Human Touch, doc #US53195725, November 2025 

About Siteimprove
Founded in 2003, Siteimprove transforms access to the digital world by providing an agentic content intelligence platform that unifies accessibility, analytics, SEO/AEO, and content strategy. Today, Global 2000 customers across manufacturing, government, higher education, financial services, and healthcare rely on Siteimprove.ai platform to deliver both content that performs and that is compliant. Based in Copenhagen, Bellevue, Minneapolis and London, Siteimprove is a single, actionable source of truth for digital content and development teams across many of the largest global enterprises, government entities and learning institutions. Siteimprove is majority-owned by Nordic Capital.

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Live data from Coco’s delivery robots powers BlindSquare alerts, helping blind, visually impaired, and mobility-limited users navigate sidewalk hazards

LOS ANGELES, April 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Coco Robotics, the world’s largest urban robot delivery platform, and BlindSquare, the world’s most widely used accessible GPS app for the blind, deafblind, and partially sighted, today announced a partnership. The two companies will share real-time sidewalk obstacle data across their platforms. As Coco’s robots navigate city sidewalks, they detect and log hazards including misparked e-scooters, construction sites, and other obstructions and feed that information directly to BlindSquare’s self-voicing app, which then alerts users audibly before they reach the obstacle. The integration is designed to deploy across all markets where Coco currently operates, including Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, Jersey City, Helsinki and Turku in Finland.

Coco and BlindSquare bring together two platforms that operate in the same spaces but serve very different purposes. Coco’s robots navigate city sidewalks to power last-mile delivery, collecting rich, real-time data about the sidewalks and obstacles they encounter. BlindSquare exists to make those same sidewalks navigable for blind, deafblind, partially sighted, and mobility-limited pedestrians. By putting the data Coco already collects to work for BlindSquare users, the partnership turns this shared environment into a tool that actively enhances safety and independence for people with mobility or vision challenges.

“This partnership reflects exactly the kind of responsible deployment we believe in,” said Carl Hansen, Vice President of Government Relations at Coco Robotics. “Coco’s robots are already collecting real-time data about city sidewalks. With this integration, that data can directly improve safety for some of the most vulnerable pedestrians. We see this as a model for how autonomous systems and accessibility tools can work together to create smarter, safer cities.”

When a Coco robot encounters an obstacle, the system logs the hazard including its category and estimated duration and that data is transmitted to BlindSquare. BlindSquare’s self-voicing app then converts the information into spoken alerts delivered to users through the app’s text-to-speech engine, which supports 26 languages. A user approaching a blocked stretch of sidewalk will receive an audio warning approximately 10 meters in advance, giving them time to navigate around the hazard. The two companies are also exploring a two-way data flow, where BlindSquare users could confirm when an obstacle has been cleared, helping keep Coco’s maps current.

“Autonomous delivery robots are becoming an increasingly common presence in our cities, sharing sidewalks with people who are visually impaired or have mobility disabilities,” said Ilkka Pirttimaa, Founder of BlindSquare. “As these robots proliferate, the accessibility community has raised questions about what that means for pedestrians. Coco is leading the way, using the data their robots collect on obstacles and sidewalk conditions to turn those concerns into action. This partnership demonstrates how real-world insights combined with technology can make sidewalks safer and more accessible for everyone.”

The partnership is partially funded by a European Union grant awarded to Coco Robotics’ European subsidiary. It began with Forum Virium Helsinki, the City of Helsinki’s innovation arm, building on BlindSquare’s work mapping construction sites and guiding blind and partially sighted pedestrians in real time. This work is now expanding across all of Coco’s operating markets.

“We are excited to partner with Coco to explore how real-time data from delivery robots can help improve sidewalk conditions and accessibility,” said Sami Sahala, Senior Expert at Forum Virium Helsinki. “By enabling this data to also support applications like BlindSquare, it demonstrates how cities can both enhance infrastructure and improve navigation for residents, particularly those who are blind, visually impaired, or have mobility challenges. Access to real-time, street-level data from autonomous systems like Coco Robotics gives cities new visibility into what’s happening on sidewalks and opens up opportunities to create safer, more responsive public infrastructure and more efficient traffic management in the City of Helsinki.”

About Coco Robotics

Coco Robotics is the world’s largest urban robotics platform, combining autonomous robots, real-world operations data, and advanced AI to power smarter, more efficient city logistics. Founded in 2020, Coco has completed over 500,000 zero-emission deliveries across the U.S. and Europe. The fleet continuously learns from millions of miles of real-world operations, giving Coco rapid adaptability to new cities and environments. This data-driven intelligence allows Coco to expand rapidly while maintaining safe, reliable, and efficient operations. Coco’s mission is to create more sustainable, reliable, and affordable last-mile logistics solutions in cities around the world. For more information, visit www.cocodelivery.com.

About BlindSquare

BlindSquare is the world’s most widely used accessible GPS-app developed for the blind, deafblind, and partially sighted. Paired with third-party navigation apps, BlindSquare’s self-voicing app delivers detailed points of interest and intersections for safe, reliable travel both outside and inside, opening the doors to enhanced independence for users around the world. Available in 26 languages and developed in close collaboration with the blind community, BlindSquare provides real-time audio descriptions of the surrounding environment and navigation guidance. For more information, visit www.blindsquare.com.

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Collaboration brings together Canary’s proven active implant technology and NanoHive’s advanced spinal implant design to unlock next-generation data-driven spinal care Global spinal fusion market estimated at ~$6-9 billion today and projected to grow to ~$1316 billion over the next decade

VANCOUVER, BC and WOBURN, Mass., April 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Canary Medical, a medical technology company pioneering active implantable platforms and AI-driven analytics, and NanoHive Medical, a leading innovative 3D printed spinal implant technology company, today announced an exclusive partnership to jointly develop next-generation smart spinal cages that integrate Canary Medical’s proprietary implantable sensing technology with NanoHive’s proprietary Hive™ Soft Titanium® spinal implant design capabilities.

The partnership unites two organizations focused on advancing spine care through intelligent implant technology. By integrating smart sensing capabilities into spinal interbody fusion cages, the companies aim to deliver objective, actionable data that enhances visibility into patient recovery, biomechanics, and fusion progression. This approach is designed to support more informed clinical decision-making and strengthen outcomes across the continuum of care.

Spinal fusion outcomes remain variable, with published data suggesting that nearly 50 percent of patients report some degree of dissatisfaction following their procedure, driven by persistent pain, functional limitations, and uncertainty around fusion progression. Today, recovery is assessed primarily through periodic imaging and patient-reported symptoms, offering only episodic snapshots rather than continuous insight. Smart spinal cages offer a new paradigm by embedding sensing technology directly into the implant to generate objective, longitudinal data on fusion progression, segment mobility, and patient activity, thereby enabling earlier identification of recovery deviations, more personalized rehabilitation, and data-informed intervention. Building on Canary Medical’s proven FDA-cleared smart knee platform, the partnership with NanoHive extends validated active implant architecture into spine to address a  large market with significant unmet need.     

The global spinal fusion market, driven primarily by lumbar procedures, is estimated at $6–$9 billion today and projected to exceed $13–$16 billion over the next decade, supported by an aging population and rising rates of degenerative spine disease. With more than one million procedures performed globally each year, the companies believe data-enabled spinal cages can establish a differentiated, premium segment within a large and established implant market, aligning with the healthcare system’s increasing emphasis on measurable outcomes and valuebased care.

“Canary Medical was founded on the belief that medical devices should do more than provide structural support, they should be interconnected and collect real-time data from the patient,” said Dr. Bill Hunter, Founding Member, CEO & CMO of Canary Medical. “NanoHive has developed an impressive portfolio of innovative spinal implants that are a perfect fit for our technology, with the design allowing space for our smart implant while maintaining the porous structure and ideal modulus that promotes bone growth and stability. By combining our proven smart implant platform with NanoHive’s design expertise, we have a unique opportunity to redefine what spinal implants can deliver for surgeons and patients.”

NanoHive Medical has built its reputation on advanced engineering, porous structures, and implant designs that support bone integration and stability. Through this collaboration, the company will accelerate its smart technology development efforts by integrating Canary Medical’s smart technology into its spinal cage platforms, creating a differentiated category of implants that support both mechanical and clinical performance.

“NanoHive’s mission is to leverage the success of our Soft Titanium platform technology to become a leader in spinal fusion personalization,” said Patrick O’Donnell, President & CEO of NanoHive Medical. “Canary Medical’s leadership in implantable sensing technology makes them the ideal partner as we move into the era of intelligent spine implants. This collaboration is an important milestone in delivering patients, surgeons and other spinal fusion stakeholders a tool that generates meaningful – ultimately predictable – clinical data to guide better outcomes. In addition, the partnership allows us to substantially reduce development and regulatory risks and costs.”  

Joint development efforts will begin immediately, focusing on design integration, engineering validation, and defining key clinical applications. Additional updates regarding development milestones and future clinical plans will be announced as progress continues.

About Canary Medical  
Canary Medical is a medical technology company pioneering active implantable platforms and AI-driven analytics to build a future where connected devices continuously inform treatment and lower the overall cost of healthcare. Its patented canturio®te technology powers the world’s first FDA-approved smart knee that autonomously collects and transmits objective mobility and joint performance data from inside the body. Canary has built one of the largest real-world datasets in total joint arthroplasty, supporting more informed clinical decisions and measurable improvements in patient recovery. The company is leveraging its core sensing, power, and data architecture to expand intelligent implants across additional therapeutic categories.

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About NanoHive Medical
NanoHive Medical, LLC is a commercial-stage innovation pioneer in 3D printed spinal interbody fusion implants and instrumentation. The company’s mission is to be the leader in spinal fusion personalization by leveraging its Hive™ Soft Titanium® interbody fusion lattice technology in the $3.2B spinal interbody fusion device market. The Hive™ portfolio of interbody fusion devices provide surgeons and their patients ideal biomechanical elastic modulus properties, clear and precise diagnostic imaging capability, osteoblast cell attraction and integration – all features that lead to consistently strong fusion constructs and efficacious clinical experiences.

NanoHive Medical is located in Woburn, Massachusetts U.S.A.

Website: www.nanohive.com

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Chief Communications Officer
mkendrick@canarymedical.com 

NanoHive Medical Investor & Media Contact 
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CEO & President
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