Free AI Visibility Audit: See What AI Says About Your Business

Your buyers are already asking machines the question you used to win on Google. When someone types "best [what you do] near [where you are]" into ChatGPT or reads a Google AI Overview, one answer comes back — a short list of names — and most people never scroll past it.

The click is disappearing into that answer. Pew Research tracked 900 U.S. adults across nearly 69,000 Google searches and found that when an AI summary appeared, users clicked a traditional result link in just 8% of visits, versus 15% without one — and only 1% of visits included a click on a source cited inside the summary itself (Pew Research Center, 2025). If the AI answer doesn't name you, you were never in the running — the user got what they needed and left.

And your Google ranking no longer guarantees you a seat in that answer. Ahrefs found that only 38% of AI Overview citations now come from pages ranking in Google's top 10 — down sharply from 76% a year earlier (Ahrefs, 2026). The signals that decide AI visibility are different signals.

What decides it is being talked about. In a study of 75,000 brands, Ahrefs found that branded web mentions were the single strongest correlate of AI Overview visibility (0.664) — roughly three times stronger than backlinks (0.218) (Ahrefs, 2026). AI engines recommend the brands the web keeps mentioning consistently. That is what makes brand citations and clean entity presence the currency of AI search — and exactly what most businesses have never measured.

"Every owner we show this to has the same reaction: 'I had no idea that's what it says about us.' The good news is that AI visibility is winnable — but only once you can see the gap. That's all the audit does: it makes the invisible visible." — Thomas, Founder of AISEO USA

The free AI visibility audit checks four things, and every finding comes with evidence you can see — not a black-box grade. This is the same AI visibility checker methodology we run before any paid engagement.

1. AI engine mentions. We query ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Perplexity with the buying-intent prompts your customers actually use, and record every mention, recommendation, and citation — yours and your competitors' — with screenshots.
2. Brand citations and entity presence. Whether your business name, services, locations, and core facts are consistent across your website, your schema markup, and the third-party sources AI engines cross-check. Fragmented entity presence is the quiet reason engines "aren't sure who you are" and default to a competitor.
3. AI crawler access. Whether GPTBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot, and ClaudeBot can actually reach your pages — plus your Bing indexation, since several assistants lean on Bing's index to answer live queries. If the crawlers are blocked, nothing else matters.
4. Answer-block readiness. Whether your key pages are structured for extraction — direct answers, question-style headings, comparison tables, FAQ markup — the fundamentals of answer engine optimization that let a model lift and cite you.

Because the four major engines source answers differently, we check them the way each one actually behaves:

That last distinction matters more than it sounds. Semrush's 2026 AI Visibility Index — built on 126 million U.S. AI search prompts — found that on Gemini the overlap between the brands mentioned and the domains cited can be as low as 30% (Semrush, 2026). A brand can be named in an answer without its own site ever being the source. The audit separates the two, because they call for different fixes.

You don't get a number and a sales call. You get a real AI visibility report tool deliverable — a documented artifact you can act on with or without us.

The fix list is genuinely self-serve. Plenty of businesses take it and run — that's fine, and it's the point of publishing our playbooks openly, from generative engine optimization to AI Overview optimization. The report is written to be understood by a business owner, not decoded by a consultant.

1. Submit two fields. Your website URL and your email, in the form on this page. Nothing else.
2. We run the checks. A structured prompt set across the four major engines, plus the crawler-access and entity scans described above.
3. A human reviews it. A strategist reads the engine outputs, confirms the findings, and writes your fix list — this is not an auto-generated PDF spat out in seconds.
4. You get the report. Delivered to your inbox, with screenshots and the prioritized fixes.
5. Optional walkthrough. If you want it explained, we'll walk it through. If not, no one chases you.

Because ChatGPT is where most buyers now start, every audit includes a free ChatGPT visibility check as its own section: whether ChatGPT names you for your money prompts, which competitors it recommends instead, and which sources it leaned on to build the answer. ChatGPT cites roughly 15 sources per response (Semrush, 2026) — so there are 15 seats at the table for every question, and the audit shows whether you hold one. If you don't, the deeper mechanics live on our ChatGPT SEO services page.

The audit is the diagnosis; it is deliberately not the treatment. If the report shows a gap you'd rather have us close, the next step is a scoped engagement — not a bigger version of this page. Depending on what the audit surfaces, that's usually AI SEO services for the full program, focused AI search optimization to fix how engines read and cite you, or an entity and mentions push through our LLM SEO work. Local businesses get local prompts included automatically and, where it fits, a hand-off to our local SEO services playbook. Everything is quoted in writing after you've seen the findings — never before.

Honestly? Because it's the most persuasive thing we can hand you, and it costs you nothing to find out whether we're right. Some businesses see their AI visibility gap and hire us to close it. Others take the fix list and do it themselves. Both outcomes are fine — the second group still tells people the report was useful, and that's how good work compounds.

There's no bait-and-switch and no fabricated urgency. No one can guarantee AI citations — anyone who does is selling you a fantasy — so the report shows you probabilities, evidence, and fixes, not promises. What you see is your real standing today and the shortest honest path to improving it.

Find out what ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews tell your buyers — and exactly what to fix. Enter your website and email in the form on this page to run your free AI visibility audit. Two fields, one honest report.