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SEO & AEO
SEO + AEO Audit: See Where You Rank — and Where AI Cites You
A paid audit that pays for itself: fixed scope, delivered in about two weeks (≈10 working days), fee credited toward your first project. You leave with data and a 90-day roadmap — whether we ever work together or not.
What the audit covers
The audit covers two surfaces: search and AI answers. Search means technical SEO, content and rankings, and your link profile. AI visibility means a prompt panel across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews — your share of answer, and the citation gaps where engines quote competitors instead of you.
Technical SEO — structure, indexation, speed, schema, redirects
Content & rankings — what ranks, what's decaying, what's missing against your clusters
Links & authority — profile health and the gaps that cap your ceiling
Prompt panel — buyer questions across five categories (broad industry → branded), sampled repeatedly over the audit window
Share of answer — how often you're cited vs named competitors, reported directionally
Citation gaps — the prompts where engines recommend someone else, mapped to fixes
Fan-out coverage — how many of the sub-queries AI engines generate around your topic your pages actually answer
Listicle backfire check — whether your own comparison content ends up recommending competitors
What you get
You get four deliverables: a written report (a 10–15 page PDF, not a slide dump), the full prompt-set results by engine, a prioritized 90-day roadmap ordered by impact and effort, and a one-hour walkthrough call with the founder. Everything is built to be actionable by your team — whether or not you hire us again.
The report
A 10–15 page PDF in plain English, severity-ranked, no filler screenshots
Prompt-set results
The raw data: every prompt, every engine, every citation
Founder walkthrough
A one-hour call, with the questions answered live
How it works
Three steps: you share access (analytics, Search Console) and we define the prompt panel together; we run the analysis over roughly ten working days; you get the report, the data, and a one-hour walkthrough call. Fixed scope, fixed price, fixed timeline — stated up front on the scoping call.
Access + prompt panel defined together
Analysis over ≈10 working days
Report, data, and a one-hour walkthrough
Why paid, not free?
Because a free audit is a sales pitch with a checklist attached, and a paid one is work. Free audits are generated to create urgency; ours is scoped to produce decisions. And the fee is credited toward your first project with us — so if we work together, the audit effectively costs nothing.
Sample findings
Three anonymized examples of what audits surface:
Last reviewed: July 2026
Frequently asked questions
What's included in an SEO/AEO audit?+
Technical SEO review (structure, indexation, speed, schema), content and ranking analysis, link profile, plus the AI layer: a custom prompt panel measuring your share of answer across major engines against named competitors. Deliverables: the report, raw prompt data, a prioritized 90-day roadmap, and a one-hour founder walkthrough call.
How is this different from a free SEO audit?+
Free audits are automated crawls with a sales call attached — useful for finding broken links, useless for strategy. This is senior time: manual review, a prompt panel built for your buyers, competitor citation analysis, and a roadmap ordered by impact. That's why it's paid — and why it's credited toward a project.
How do you measure AI visibility?+
Share of answer over a fixed prompt panel: buyer questions across five categories, sampled repeatedly across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI search during the audit window, aggregated to control for session variance. You see where you're cited, where competitors are, and where nobody is — full methodology on our AEO page.
How long does the audit take?+
About two weeks — roughly ten working days from access to walkthrough, fixed at kickoff. The prompt panel runs across the full window rather than a single day — AI answers vary between sessions, and sampling over time is what makes the findings defensible instead of anecdotal.
Is the audit fee credited toward a project?+
Yes — 100% of the fee is credited toward your first project or retainer month with us. It removes the either/or: you're not choosing between paying for an audit and funding the work, you're sequencing them. If you don't continue, you keep everything: report, data, roadmap.
Do we need an audit before a redesign or migration?+
If the goal is keeping and compounding your organic equity — yes. The audit maps what currently ranks and gets cited, which becomes the URL plan and redirect map for the redesign or migration. Skipping it means redesigning blind, and "we lost rankings after the redesign" stories usually start exactly there.
Order the audit
Book the scoping call — we'll confirm scope, price, and the delivery date before you commit a dollar.