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ACI 55 · Brand Report

Nike

nike.com · Sporting Equipment & Athletic Apparel (indoor & outdoor) · Measured July 12, 2026 · Rubric V2.9
69
Above Average AI Citability Score
AEO — Answer Engines52
GEO — Generative AI88
SEO — Search68

Priority opportunity: AEO

Nike's lowest engine is AEO at 52 — a 48-point gap to a perfect score. That is where citability is won or lost first.

Summary

Nike (nike.com) is a structurally well-established entity with confirmed Wikidata (Q483915), a standalone Wikipedia article, a Crunchbase profile, an active LinkedIn company page, and dense authoritative editorial coverage across Fortune, Forbes, CNBC, BusinessWire, and Britannica — giving it strong GEO entity signals. However, verifiable structural gaps exist in answer-first content architecture on nike.com, incomplete Product schema coverage on SKU pages confirmed in this run, and a declining NIKE Direct digital channel (down 12% YoY in FY2026) that signals an underperforming owned-web experience relative to the brand's scale and Sport Offense ambitions.

The gap, closed.

This report shows the score layer. The full Reflection for Nike — 9 prioritized findings across AEO, GEO, and SEO, a foundational discoverability checklist, and a sequenced action plan — comes with an engagement.

Mirror measures the gap. Mirror Studio closes it — the studio's delivery arm, run by Daniels AI. Five departments, each a seat staffed by people or agents:

Cite as: Daniels AI Design Studio. The ACI 55, 2026 Edition — Nike Brand Report. July 12, 2026.
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