About VGO

The VGO Framework is an open methodology for growing trusted visibility across search, generative AI, answer engines, agents, and emerging discovery interfaces.

It was initiated by Omseek in 2026 and is maintained in public. Documentation may be reused with attribution. Brand rights remain separate.

Why this work exists

Discovery is no longer concentrated in one search box. People and machines now find organizations through search results, generated answers, citations, assistants, and other interfaces.

Optimizing each surface on its own fragments strategy and measurement. VGO provides a shared layer for how an entity is discovered, understood, cited, represented, and trusted over time.

The north star is trusted visibility — not visibility at any cost.

How the framework is maintained

The versioned source of record is the public GitHub repository. Proposals, research, corrections, and extensions are welcome through Issues and Pull Requests.

Maintainers remain responsible for release coherence, definitions, governance, and framework integrity. A contribution does not imply automatic acceptance.

Read Governance and Contributing before proposing framework-level changes.

Open methodology and Omseek

VGO is the methodology. Omseek is its initiator, founding maintainer, and an implementation platform.

The open framework is intentionally distinguishable from any specific Omseek product. Proprietary product behavior is not a universal VGO requirement.

License and citation

Documentation is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Brand rights are reserved separately. See the trademark policy.

Citation:

VGO Framework. Visibility Growth Optimization (VGO) Framework. Version 1.0 Draft, 2026. Initiated by Omseek. https://vgoframework.org