
Query Fan Out: How AI Search Expands One Prompt Into Many
Query fan-out turns one AI search prompt into many sub-queries. Learn how ChatGPT and AI Mode retrieve sources and how to optimize for it in 2026.

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Ricardo is one of the founders and engineers behind its SERP and AI-search scraping infrastructure. Before cloro he scaled a financial comparison site to $7M ARR and ran the full-country operations of a unicorn to $65M ARR, then went back to building. He writes about search engine scraping, generative-engine optimization, and turning live search and AI-answer data into something teams can act on.

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