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The AI Visibility Audit: find out exactly where you stand in AI answers
The AI Visibility Audit is a fixed-scope engagement, $1,500–3,000, delivered in two weeks. You get your baseline mention rate and citation share across six AI engines, the specific gaps that keep you out of answers, and a fix roadmap prioritized by expected movement. Numbers first, then the plan.
We'll run your market's prompts live on the call.
Fixed scope: $1,500–3,000, quoted exactly before we start
Who this is for
- You rank on Google but AI answers never name you
- A customer mentioned that ChatGPT recommended a competitor
- You want numbers before committing to a monthly retainer
What you get
Baseline mention rate, per engine
Your prompt set run across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews and Meta AI, with every answer logged: who was named, who wasn't.
Citation share against named competitors
Who owns the cited sources behind your market's answers today, and what share of them is yours.
Crawler access report
Which AI search bots can reach your site, which are blocked, and exactly what to change in robots.txt — the cheapest fix with the hardest consequences.
Page extraction review
Your key pages scored for extractable answers, evidence density, schema coverage and freshness signals — the properties engines actually lift.
Off-site footprint map
Where engines look in your market — review sites, references, communities — and where you're present, thin, or absent.
A prioritized fix roadmap
Every gap ranked by expected movement and effort, split into on-site (AEO) and off-site (GEO) work, priced if you want us to execute it.
Method
- 01
Build the prompt set
We draft 20–50 buyer-intent prompts from your market's language and your own sales conversations, then agree the final set with you. The set stays fixed, so every later number is comparable.
- 02
Run the baseline
The full set goes to six engines. We log every answer: who was named, who was cited, where you appeared and where you didn't. This baseline is the number all later work is judged against.
- 03
Diagnose the gaps
We trace each miss to its cause — blocked crawlers, pages without extractable answers, missing schema, a thin third-party footprint — and attach the evidence to every finding.
- 04
Deliver the roadmap
You get the report and a working session to walk through it. Execute it with us, with your own team, or with your existing agency — the roadmap is yours either way.
Evidence and timeline
5x
growth in ChatGPT's citation rate in one year
6.8% of answers now cite a web source, up from 1.6% in June 2025; 23% in travel, under 4% in professional services
Source: Similarweb~27%
of verified bot traffic is AI-related
Cloudflare, May 2026: AI crawlers 20.3% plus AI-search bots 6.5%
Source: Digital Applied (Cloudflare data)What the audit is not
It is not a teaser for a retainer. The roadmap is complete and executable without us — some clients take it to their existing SEO vendor, and that's fine. It is also not a tool export: every finding is checked by the person who will be on your call.
WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN
Delivered in two weeks from prompt-set sign-off.
The roadmap is prioritized by expected movement, so you know what to do in month one and what can wait.
Straight answers
How do you measure AI visibility?
We build a fixed set of buyer-intent prompts for your market, run it on a schedule across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews and Meta AI, and log two numbers per engine: mention rate, how often you're named, and citation share, your share of cited sources versus competitors. You see both trend monthly.
Both metrics are defined in plain language in the glossary, and the monthly report format is shown — with clearly labeled demonstration data — on the how it works page.
What is a prompt set and how do you choose the prompts?
A prompt set is the fixed basket of questions we track your visibility against — the questions your buyers actually ask an AI, like 'best [your service] in [your city]' or 'is [your product] worth it.' We build it from your sales conversations, search data and market language, agree it with you, then freeze it so month-over-month numbers stay comparable.
How long until I see results?
First movement typically shows in four to eight weeks on retrieval-based surfaces like Perplexity, ChatGPT search and Google AI Overviews, because on-site answer fixes register on the next crawl. Authority-driven visibility, where engines recommend you from synthesis, builds over three to six months. We report both monthly, so you watch the trajectory rather than wait on a promise.
Can you guarantee my business shows up in ChatGPT?
No, and you should walk away from anyone who says yes. Engines change source selection without notice, and only 11% of domains cited by ChatGPT are also cited by Perplexity — nobody controls that. What we guarantee: a defined prompt set, measured monthly, the scoped work delivered, and honest reporting of what moved and what didn't.
The 11% overlap figure is from AuthorityTech's 2026 per-engine citation audit. It's also why we track six engines separately rather than selling a single blended score.
Find out where you stand.
We'll run your market's prompts live on the call.