Research found that 44.2% of AI citations are extracted from the first 30% of an article.
Tracks with what I've seen — AI doesn't read your page top to bottom like a person. It scans, grabs, and moves on.
So put your most important takeaway up front. Don't write like an academic paper with the conclusion buried at the end.
In AI search, if the answer isn't at the top, it doesn't exist.