AI engines now answer the questions your buyers used to type into Google, and they answer with names. Our GEO Audit measures whether yours is one of them, testing how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews surface, describe, and cite your brand next to the competitors they currently push. You get a ranked list of fixes, not a vague report. Fixed pricing from $99, one-time, ordered online with your brief uploaded at checkout. Work starts the moment you order.
- ✓ Prompt-level visibility testing across leading AI search engines
- ✓ Competitor citation benchmarking plus entity and schema gap analysis
- ✓ One-time fixed pricing from $99. Fully self-serve. No contracts.
📋 On This Page
- 1. The Cost of AI Search Invisibility
- 2. What is a GEO Audit?
- 3. What’s Included in the Audit
- 4. What Deliverables You Receive
- 5. Fixed-Tier Pricing Tiers
- 6. Why Choose Our Agency
- 7. GEO Audit vs Traditional SEO Audit
- 8. How the Process Works
- 9. Who the AI Citation Audit is For
- 10. Frequently Asked Questions
What Invisibility in AI Search Is Quietly Costing You
Here’s the uncomfortable part of generative search: when an engine leaves you out of an answer, nothing on your dashboard tells you. No alert fires. The buyer asks, receives a tidy short list of brands, picks one, and you never knew the conversation happened. Multiply that across thousands of daily prompts and the leak becomes a serious revenue problem hiding in plain sight.
It tends to surface in four ways:
- Someone already owns your category’s prompts. Ask any engine to name the best option in your space and it responds without hesitation. If a competitor’s name comes back, that position is being reinforced every single day.
- Ranking on Google guarantees nothing here. Generative models pick sources for entity clarity, extractability, and valid structured data. Plenty of page-one URLs never make it into a single AI answer.
- Your usual tools are blind to it. Rank trackers and analytics platforms measure links and sessions. None of them report how often an AI engine quotes you instead of a rival.
- Waiting makes it worse. Engines lean on sources they’ve already learned to trust, so an early lead by a competitor only grows more entrenched over time.
A GEO Audit drags that invisible loss into the light and turns it into a number you can move.
What Is a Generative Engine Optimization Audit?
A Generative Engine Optimization audit is a structured diagnosis of how AI engines locate, understand, and cite your brand in response to genuine buyer questions. It trades keyword-rank thinking for the metrics that actually govern AI visibility: your citation frequency, the entities engines tie to your name, and how you stack up inside the answers themselves.
Unlike traditional search engines that rely on static database queries and ranked indexing, generative search platforms dynamically assemble answers using advanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). This means that a standard optimization checklist—such as stuffing keywords or adjusting meta titles—is no longer effective. An LLM parses content semantically, looking for direct, authoritative answers to user queries, backed by clear entity associations. A GEO Audit evaluates your content against these exact LLM parser requirements, identifying where your semantic signals are weak and where your formatting prevents engines from extracting your data.
Think of it as the groundwork every serious AI search optimization effort should start from. Rather than rewriting pages on a hunch or chasing links blindly, you begin with proof: which prompts carry weight, who’s winning them now, and the precise structural reasons your content keeps getting passed over. Guesswork out, evidence in.
What’s Included in Our AI Visibility Audit
Every audit is run and hand-checked by specialists in semantic SEO, entity optimization, and LLM retrieval behavior, never an automated export dressed up as analysis. Five components are standard:
Each of these five pillars represents a critical aspect of how modern LLMs index and recommend information. Traditional SEO audits focus heavily on technical performance (such as page speed and crawl errors) and keyword density. While technical accessibility remains important, an AI search engine is more concerned with information architecture and trust signals. By evaluating these five distinct areas, our audit provides a comprehensive map of your semantic footprint, showing you exactly how to structure your brand’s data so that AI models can ingest, process, and cite it without ambiguity.
AI Search Visibility Analysis
We examine how your brand shows up across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini, and other AI-assisted search surfaces, logging exactly where you appear, where you’re absent, and where you trail competitors.
Content & Citation Readiness Audit
We dig into your existing pages for AI readability, semantic relevance, heading structure, contextual depth, answer formatting, and citation-friendliness—the reasons engines either quote a page or skip it.
Entity SEO & Brand Authority Review
Because entity clarity drives recommendations, we review brand-name consistency, entity associations, topical alignment, authority mentions, and the overall reach of your digital footprint.
AI Citation Opportunity Analysis
We surface the winnable gaps: prompts you should rank in but don’t, thin authority pages, competitor citation advantages, and underused content assets ready for optimization.
Topical Authority & Technical Review
We map your content clusters, semantic coverage, and topic gaps, then run a technical sweep across structured data, crawlability, AI content accessibility, page architecture, and indexing signals—the machine-side foundations that let an LLM trust and cite you.
What You Receive From Your AI Search Audit
Your deliverables are built to be used, not filed away:
- A complete AI search visibility report
- A citation and visibility assessment across every engine in your tier
- Competitor comparison and share-of-voice insight
- An entity and brand authority breakdown
- Recommendations ordered by impact, quick wins up top
- AI content optimization guidance ready to pass to your team
- A prioritized action plan with concrete next steps
- Loom video explainers on the Pro tier, walking through each finding on screen
- Turnaround: 3 business days (Starter) or 5 business days (Pro)
- Pricing: fixed, from $99, no hidden fees, no minimum commitment
Our GEO Audit Pricing: Two Fixed Tiers
A GEO Audit is $99 for the Starter tier or $290 for the Pro tier, each a one-time, upfront price ordered entirely online, no discovery call required. Choose your tier, upload your brief at checkout, and work begins right away. Fast-track delivery is available at checkout if you need it sooner.
Ideal for smaller brands and local businesses establishing a first visibility baseline.
- 10 custom prompts audited
- 3 AI search engines checked: ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews
- Competitor gap PDF report
- 5 quick-win content fixes
- Self-serve brief upload at checkout
- Turnaround: 3 business days
A deep technical audit built for high-growth brands and larger businesses.
- Everything in Starter, plus:
- 30 custom prompts audited
- All 5 AI engines checked, including Microsoft Copilot and Gemini
- Full entity and schema walkthrough
- Loom video explainers from our lead GEO consultant
- 5 to 10 ranked quick-win optimizations
- Turnaround: 5 business days
Why Choose AI Search Optimization Agency
- Built For AI: Our audit framework is engineered around how generative engines select and trust sources, not a recycled SEO checklist.
- Action-Ready Findings: Every audit ends in a ranked, impact-scored fix-list your team can start applying the same day.
- Fully Self-Serve: Transparent fixed pricing and briefs at checkout mean work begins the moment you order, no sales calls.
- Human-Reviewed Quality: Real specialists run your prompts and inspect your entities by hand, so every recommendation fits your site.
- A Clear Next Step: Findings map straight onto optimization and content work, so you always know exactly what to do next.
GEO Audit vs Traditional SEO Audit
| Feature | GEO Audit | Traditional SEO Audit |
|---|---|---|
| Prompt-Level Citation Testing | Yes | No |
| Share-of-Voice vs Competitors | Yes | No |
| Entity & Knowledge-Signal Review | Yes | Limited |
| Schema Validation for LLMs | Yes | Sometimes |
| Answer Extractability Analysis | Yes | No |
The fundamental shift between these two methodologies lies in the target retrieval environment. While a traditional SEO audit evaluates signals for a web crawler looking to index a page for keyword matching, a GEO audit evaluates how an LLM retrieves, synthesizes, and attributes information to form a direct conversational response. This shift makes old checklist audits obsolete.
How the Self-Serve Audit Process Works
- Order online. Pick Starter or Pro and submit your site, competitors, and target topics at checkout. No calls, no proposals.
- We test and crawl. Your custom prompt set runs across the engines in your tier while we inspect your entity, schema, and structural signals.
- We score the findings. Each issue is ranked by impact and effort so your priorities are obvious.
- You get your report. Your prioritized gap analysis arrives in 3 business days (Starter) or 5 (Pro), with Loom walkthroughs on Pro. Fast-track is available at checkout.
The final PDF audit report is accompanied by actionable, code-level changes you can implement immediately. For Pro tier clients, the Loom video walkthrough from our lead strategist provides step-by-step guidance on how to fix schema and structure. This ensures your development or marketing team can start making updates on day one without wasting time on interpretation.
Who Our AI Citation Audit Is For
- Growing brands wanting their category’s buying prompts measured before a competitor locks them down.
- E-commerce stores checking how AI engines portray their products inside generated shopping research.
- SaaS companies monitoring whether they appear in software comparison and “best alternative” answers.
- In-house marketing teams that need an evidence-backed AI visibility baseline to take to leadership.
See How AI Engines Describe Your Brand Today
Within days you can know which prompts your buyers are asking, which competitors own the answers, and the fastest route to taking those citations for yourself. One-time pricing from $99, brief uploaded at checkout, results in 3 to 5 business days. No calls, no contracts, no guesswork.
Our diagnostic process is completely non-intrusive. We do not require admin access to your search console or analytics accounts to perform the analysis. We simulate search prompts externally, exactly as your prospects do, providing a clean outside-in assessment of your brand’s AI search footprint.
Frequently Asked Questions