What an AEO audit is
An AEO audit measures whether AI answer engines can find, understand, trust and quote your brand. It is not an SEO audit with AI words added.
It tests the specific things that decide whether ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot cite you, cite a competitor, or describe you incorrectly.
Most brands discover two things in the first week. First, that AI engines are already being asked about their category dozens of times a day. Second, that the engines are answering with somebody else’s content.
We are pricing ours below the market on purpose, because most brands have never seen what AI engines actually say about them.
Crawl cleanup drove $599.56K in organic revenue in 6 months
Internal no-response URLs resolved
Organic clicks, up to 4.00M
Organic revenue, verified in GSC and GA
Seven checks, run by hand
Every check below is run by hand on your site, not a template.
1. Citation baseline
Where your brand is cited, mentioned, misrepresented or entirely invisible across AI engines, measured against competitors you name. This is the number everything else is judged against.
2. Entity clarity
Whether your Organization schema, on-site copy and off-site descriptions agree on who you are, what you sell and who you serve. If your entity is ambiguous, you do not get quoted.
3. Answer readiness
Whether a model can lift a clean, self-contained answer from your pages. Direct response first, supporting detail after, claims attached to evidence.
4. Structured data
Organization, Service, FAQPage and Article coverage, and whether what is there is correct rather than merely present.
5. AI crawler access
Whether GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot and Google-Extended can reach your content, and whether robots.txt and llms.txt help or quietly exclude you.
6. Technical foundations
Crawl depth, indexation, canonicals and speed. AEO sits on top of SEO. If the foundations are broken, no amount of answer formatting gets you cited.
7. Competitor citation gap
Which sources the engines quote instead of you, and what those sources do that you do not.
$495, delivered in 5 working days
One off payment. No subscription, no lock in. Payment taken on booking.
Claim the auditA fix list, not a 90-page PDF
If you would rather we implemented it, the audit rolls into our AEO agency engagement and the audit fee comes off the first month.
In the report
- A prioritized fix list, ordered by effort against likely citation impact
- Per-URL specifications your developer or editor can implement directly
- Your citation baseline, so movement is measurable rather than asserted
- Ready-to-implement schema and llms.txt, written for your business
With the audit
- Every check above, run by hand on your site
- A 30 minute walkthrough call when it lands
- Delivered in 5 working days
- $495 credited to month 1 if an SEO or AEO retainer follows
One off payment. No subscription, no lock in.
Claim the $495 auditThe audit is worth running if any of these are true
It is not worth running if your site is not yet indexed or has no meaningful content. Start with SEO fundamentals first, and we will tell you if that is the case rather than sell you an audit.
- Your category is one people ask AI tools about, and you do not know what the answer says about you.
- Your organic traffic is flat or falling while your rankings have not moved, which often means answers are absorbing the clicks.
- You are being described inaccurately by an AI engine and want it corrected.
- You are about to invest in content and want it built to be quotable rather than merely ranked.
Free tool
Not sure you need an audit yet? See where you stand first.
Run the free AI Citation Check. It asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews who they recommend in your category, and shows you where you stand.
Case Studies
Regional Moving Company Grew Leads 7.8x in 10 Months With Local SEO
A moving company grew monthly leads 7.8x, from 17 to 133, in 10 months with local SEO, new
Crawl and Canonical Cleanup Drove $599.56K in Organic Revenue in 6 Months
A technology-focused e-commerce retailer managing more than 71,000 URLs aimed to improve crawl efficiency, indexation, and organic visibility.
Premium Hair Extensions Brand Grew Organic Revenue 108% in 8 Months
The premium hair extensions client is a beauty and education brand specializing in premium hair extension products and
AEO Audit FAQs
What is an AEO audit?
An AEO audit is an assessment of whether AI answer engines can find, understand, trust and quote your brand. It measures your current citation rate across engines such as ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot, identifies why you are or are not being cited, and produces a prioritised list of fixes.
How is an AEO audit different from an SEO audit?
An SEO audit asks whether search engines can crawl, index and rank your pages. An AEO audit asks whether AI systems can retrieve, understand and quote your content in a generated answer. The two overlap on technical foundations, but AEO adds entity clarity, answer-ready content structure, AI crawler access and citation measurement, none of which a standard SEO audit covers.
Do I still need an AEO audit if my SEO is already strong?
Usually yes. Strong rankings do not guarantee citations. AI engines select sources based on entity clarity, answer structure and corroboration across the web, not ranking position alone. Brands ranking in the top three are routinely absent from the AI answer for the same query.
Which AI engines do you check?
ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini and Microsoft Copilot as standard. Additional engines can be added on request.
How long does an AEO audit take?
A standard AEO audit is delivered in 5 working days from receiving access, followed by a 30 minute walkthrough call.
What happens after the audit?
You receive the prioritised fix list and per-URL specifications, and your team can implement them. If you would prefer Kadima to implement, the audit rolls into an ongoing AEO engagement and the audit fee is credited against the first month.
Book an AEO audit
Tell us your category and the competitors you want benchmarked against, and we will tell you whether an audit is worth running before you pay for one.
Talk to usMore proof
DTC dental ecommerce brand: technical SEO, on-page, content and link building over ten months. Organic revenue up 18.8%, 11,574 new customers, and the brand crossed $1 million in annual sales.
