AI visibility audit
An AI Visibility Audit of Every Engine Your Buyers Ask
Funded AI startups use our AI visibility audit to find out how every AI engine answers their category, who gets cited instead and why. It's a scoped piece of work quoted after a free consultation, and it ends in a findings grid and a ranked fix list, not a pitch deck. HeyOz started with zero AI citations and now has 91.
Led by the former Senior SEO Manager at Invideo AI. Trusted by Viggle AI, HeyOz, Wisemonk and Monk.
Measured against a fixed baseline on every engagement.
- Viggle AI
- HeyOz
- Wisemonk
- Monk
- Zivoke
- TryScent
How do I check if AI engines recommend us?
Ask a few engines yourself; it's a good start. But answers shift with wording, account history and the day, so a handful of screenshots won't show your real position. An audit runs a fixed prompt set across every engine and records what comes back, so the picture holds up when you show it to someone else.
What the AI visibility audit checks, and what you receive
The audit makes four checks and produces two outputs. Every finding comes with the evidence behind it, in plain language, and it's yours to keep whether or not you hire us afterwards.
Covered on every engine your buyers use
- ChatGPT
- Perplexity
- Claude
- Gemini
- Google AI Overviews
- Google AI Mode
- Copilot
- Bing
ChatGPT search and Copilot draw on Bing's index, so Bing rankings feed AI answers. We work on search and AI engines as one program.
How it works
The same four steps on every engagement, with a clear view of what to expect at 30, 60 and 90 days.
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Understand
Map your product, buyers, competitors and the prompts and searches that decide your category.
Days 1 to 30. A fixed baseline across every engine and the prompts that matter.
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Prioritize
Pick the few moves that will get you recommended fastest and turn them into a focused roadmap.
Days 1 to 30. A focused roadmap agreed, with the first fixes already shipping.
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Execute
Do the technical, content, authority and AI visibility work ourselves.
Days 30 to 60. Content, technical and authority work shipping every week.
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Improve
Track citations, rankings and conversions against the baseline and keep refining.
Days 60 to 90. A first read against the baseline, then the next quarter planned.
Results we can show you
Every engagement is measured against a fixed baseline set before the work started, so the before and after can be checked rather than taken on trust.
Who this is for, and who it is not for
A good fit
Funded AI startups, seed to Series B, deciding what to fix before choosing who fixes it
- Founders who want to know where they stand on each engine
- Teams who heard a buyer was steered to a rival
- Startups fresh from a repositioning or rebrand
- In-house teams that need a list to work from
Not a fit yet
- Teams after a quick automated score
- Pre-launch products engines can't know about yet
- Anyone who wants one engine checked in isolation
Ways to check your AI visibility, compared
| SearchAxe | Asking engines yourself | Tracking tool trial | Automated visibility score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prompt set | Fixed, built from your buying questions | Whatever you think to ask | Tool defaults or your own list | A generic list, not yours |
| Engines covered | All seven, plus Google and Bing | The ones you use | Depends on the plan | Varies by vendor |
| Explains why rivals win | Traces the cited sources | No | Shows sources, rarely causes | No |
| Finds crawler and indexing blocks | Yes | No | No | Rarely |
| What you walk away with | Findings grid and ranked fix list | Screenshots | A dashboard login | A single number |
| Cost | Quoted after a free consultation | Your time | A subscription | An email signup or subscription |
What you get each month
- Baseline report Where you stand on every engine and in search before any work starts.
- Monthly AI citation and ranking report Citations by engine, rankings and referring domains, read against the baseline.
- Signups and demos attributed The pipeline that search and AI answers drove that month.
- Slack access A shared channel with the people doing the work.
- Rolling roadmap What shipped, what is next and why, updated every month.
- Competitor movement Which competitors gained or lost ground in AI answers and search, and why.
How we get started
From first call to work in progress in three steps.
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Book a free consultation
A call about your product, your market and where you stand in AI answers and search today.
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Get a plan and a quote
We send a plan for what we would do first, with a clear quote for the work.
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Work starts right away
Once the plan and quote are approved, the work starts immediately.
What clients say
We had thousands of pages going nowhere. Amit cleaned that up and rebuilt our landing pages. Our top three rankings are up 362% and our citations across AI engines have grown more than a hundred times.
Nan Ha
Product Growth Lead, Viggle AI
Read the Viggle AI case study
We came to Amit with a good product and almost no search presence. He gave our team a plan we could actually follow. Referring domains are up 183% and our first page rankings have more than tripled.
George Kurdin
Co-Founder, Monk
Read the Monk case study
Our content was getting published but not landing anywhere. Amit reworked how we format it for AI engines and our citations across all seven engines are up over 400%. The Reddit community he built now brings us leads weekly.
Aditya Nagpal
Founder, Wisemonk
Read the Wisemonk case study
We launched with a homepage and nothing else. Amit built the search foundation, the landing pages, the blog, the schema. Our domain rating is up 70% and we went from zero AI citations to being quoted by six of the seven AI engines.
Ahad Shams
Founder, HeyOz
Read the HeyOz case study
We had multiple pages fighting each other for the same terms. Amit mapped it all out, consolidated what needed consolidating, and rebuilt our service pages. Organic traffic is up 147% and our top three rankings have more than doubled.
Manjunath Thandu
CEO, Zivoke
Read the Zivoke case study
Who's behind SearchAxe
Amit Malvi spent four and a half years at Invideo AI, rising from SEO Executive to Senior SEO Manager. He built and led a 20-person link building team and owned the company's GEO and AEO programs. Today he works hands-on with a small number of AI startups.
Questions buyers ask us
Why isn't the AI visibility audit free?
Because a free one tends to be built to sell the next contract, and this one has to stand on its own. The consultation is free; the audit is a scoped piece of work. On the call we agree how many prompts, competitors and engines it should cover, then send a quote you approve before anything runs.
Which part of checking takes the time?
Running the prompts is the quick part. Tracing why each rival gets cited, and checking crawler access, rendering and indexing behind your own pages, is what takes time. The overall timing depends on how many prompts and competitors are in scope, and the quote states it before you approve. Fixing what the audit finds is a separate and longer piece of work.
What does a misdescription finding look like?
A row in the grid showing the prompt, the engine, the exact wording the answer used, what's wrong with it, such as a dropped feature or the wrong category, and the page or listing it most likely came from. The source is the useful part, because that's what gets corrected. You can't edit an answer, only what it reads.
Can we run the check ourselves?
Partly. You can ask engines your category questions and note who's named. What's harder is holding the prompt set fixed, running it across all seven engines, tracing the sources behind each answer and spotting crawler or rendering blocks. If someone on your team has the time and technical SEO skills, a self-check is a fair start.
Which prompts does the audit use?
Ones built from how your buyers ask, not generic templates. We draft them from your positioning, your competitors and the questions your sales team hears, grouped into best-tool, alternatives, use-case and pricing intent. You review the list before anything runs, because the audit is only as useful as the prompts behind it.
Will the results change if we run the audit again?
Some will, which is why the prompt set is fixed. Answers vary with wording, user and day, so the audit runs each prompt more than once and records how often you appear, not one screenshot. Rerun the same set later and the comparison is fair. If you go on to work with us, that set becomes the baseline we report against.
What did HeyOz's starting point look like?
HeyOz launched with a single homepage and no AI citations. Read against that baseline, it now has 91 AI citations, is cited by 6 of 7 major AI answer engines and reached page-one positions ten months after launch. The starting measurement is what makes those figures checkable, which is the whole reason to measure before you fix.
Will you pitch us at the end?
No. The audit ends with findings and a ranked fix list. If you ask what working together would look like, we'll send a separate plan and quote. If you don't ask, we won't chase you with a deck or a string of follow-up calls. Findings first, and a proposal only when you want one.
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