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Audit III · AI Search & Growth · NEW

Find out what AI says about you — across all five engines.

Live tests across Claude · ChatGPT · Perplexity · Gemini · Google AI Overviews with 25 real prospect queries. The deliverable: a 100-point GEO score, sample AI responses verbatim, the competitive landscape AI sees, and a 12-month path-to-citation plan with lead-lift estimates per failure mode.

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Live on up to 5 AI engines · including Google AI Overviews
Delivered in ~2 minutes
Founding rate (was $3,500)
AI Visibility Matrix
SAMPLE
Query Cl GP Px Gm AO
Best acupuncturist Middletown NY No Pa Y No No
Acupuncture in Middletown No No No No No
Dr Huang Clinic reviews Y Y Y Pa Pa
Bilingual TCM Middletown Pa No No No No
38
/100 GEO
25
queries
9%
cite rate
~30-page report · 5 verbatim AI samples · 12-month plan
Live tests · up to 5 AI engines (incl. Google AI Overviews) · 25 prospect queries × up to 5 engines = up to 125 test results
CClaude· Anthropic GChatGPT· OpenAI PPerplexity· Sonar MGemini· Google AAI Overviews· Google
Why this matters — and why now

AI search isn't the next Google. It's already here.

Eight reasons every local business needs a GEO foundation in place this year.

1

Search is moving from "10 blue links" to one synthesized answer

~60% of Google searches now end without a click — Google AI Overviews give the answer up front. If your business isn't named, you don't get the click.

2

AI is already where prospects start

A growing share of buyers open ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, or land in a Google AI Overview before they ever see a blue link. For local services and YMYL categories the chat-first behavior is meaningful and accelerating.

3

AI search lives in more than search engines

Apple Intelligence, Bing Copilot, voice assistants, customer-facing AI assistants — they all retrieve and cite. Same signals.

4

GBP / SEO playbooks don't directly transfer

AI engines reward different things: schema completeness, named author bylines, inline citations, llms.txt, FAQ density. A site that ranks #1 on Google can be invisible in an AI answer.

5

AI engines weight trust heavily, especially YMYL

Health, legal, financial categories get downranked when sources lack named experts, credentials, or inline citations. Princeton GEO research shows citations + stats lift citation rate 30-40%.

6

Once a competitor is the default, it compounds

AI engines train on what they recommended yesterday. The earlier a competitor establishes the off-site signal stack, the harder it becomes to unseat them. Today's invisibility = 2027's permanent silver-medal position.

7

Lead quality from AI is high — buyers arrive pre-qualified

Prospects who first encounter your brand inside an AI answer arrive with the answer to "is this business credible?" already in hand. Conversion rates run 2-3× organic SEO baseline.

8

The window is now — and most businesses haven't started

About 90% of local businesses have zero AI optimization in place. The opportunity to be the default cited source for your category exists today and closes as competitors catch on.

The lead time

Trust signals and entity schema move AI rankings in 2-4 weeks. Off-site authority — reviews, press, citations, Reddit presence — takes 4-6 months to register because AI engines re-crawl those sources on slow cycles. Businesses that wait until competitors dominate AI face an 18-24 month rebuild path. Businesses that start now will be the default recommendation in their category by month 6.

What's inside

10 sections. The audit no other agency can deliver.

Live tests across up to 5 AI engines including Google AI Overviews · 100-point scorecard · sample responses verbatim · path-to-citation per failure mode · 12-month plan.

1
Why AI Search Matters
8-card urgency block framing the lead time and the competitive window. The "why now."
2
Target AI Answer (SOP §0.3)
The paragraph AI should produce about your business after the 12-month plan. Anchor for every fix.
3
Score Breakdown
100-point GEO scorecard across 10 weighted categories, each with verdict + evidence.
4
Top Priority Fixes
Top 6 ranked by severity × impact, each with effort estimate. Real audit findings flagged ahead of templates.
5
Local Presence (GBP)
Live Google Business Profile snapshot — rating, reviews, photos, hours, sample reviews. Cross-references against website.
6
AI Visibility Matrix
25 queries × up to 5 engines = up to 125 cells, including Google AI Overviews. Cited / Partial / No per cell, with a dedicated AI Overviews breakdown showing how often Google rendered an Overview and whether you were cited.
6a
What AI Says About You — analyst commentary
LLM-generated 4-section analyst narrative: current state, engine differences, where alternatives win, path to citation.
6b
Sample AI Responses (verbatim)
5 representative engine responses preserved exactly as written. Includes "what this means" analyst note + cited domains.
6c
Competitive Landscape
Auto-detected competitors AI cites instead of you, with what they likely have that you don't.
7
Path to Citation
4-5 ranked items per failure mode (silent / mentioned-only / competitors-win) with concrete fix sequences and lead-lift ranges.
+
12-month Action Plan + Foundation Audit Detail
Four sprints (30/90/180/365) with results-driven copy. Plus appendix with robots, llms.txt, schema completeness audit for your developer.
Sample report

This is exactly what you get.

A real audit delivered to a Middletown TCM clinic. Three signature sections shown.

AI Search & Growth Audit · No. 042-C · April 2026
Dr. Huang Clinic
Acupuncture & TCM · Middletown, NY · Engines: Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews
On the query "acupuncture in Middletown", AI surfaced Forest City Chiropractic and Acupuncture, Middlesex Health Integrative Medicine, The Acupuncture Studio — not Dr Huang Clinic. Score: 38/100. The 12-month plan can lift to 82.
38/100
GEO Score
Not GEO-ready
6

AI Visibility Matrix — 4 of 25 queries shown

125 test results total
Query
C
Claude Anthropic
G
ChatGPT OpenAI
P
Perplexity Sonar
M
Gemini Google
A
AI Overviews Google
Best acupuncturist in Middletown NYservice_location No Partial Cited No No
Acupuncture in Middletownservice_location No No No No No
Dr Huang Clinic reviewsbrand_direct Cited Cited Cited Partial Partial
Bilingual TCM Middletown English Mandarinaudience_specific Partial No No No No
6b

Sample AI Response — verbatim

1 of 5 picked across the matrix
C
Claude
Q: acupuncture in Middletown
SILENT · AI declined to answer
Based on your search for acupuncture in Middletown, here are several options depending on which Middletown you're looking for:

## Middletown, CT:
- Forest City Chiropractic and Acupuncture — Dr. Jacob Calder
- Middlesex Health Integrative Medicine — full-service practice
- The Acupuncture Studio — Donna Faulkner, MS

Could you clarify which Middletown you're looking for?
Why this matters: The engine literally asked the user to disambiguate. Dr Huang Clinic was absent because the site doesn't provide enough structured signal to break the "Middletown CT vs NY" tie. This is the most damning failure mode in the audit — and the most fixable.
7

Path to Citation — 1 of 5 items

Sequenced 0-365 days · result-driven
COMPETITORS WIN
"Acupuncture in Middletown" returns Connecticut chiropractors instead of Dr Huang Clinic.

Today: Across the engines tested, 6 alternative businesses surfaced as the recommended options. Dr Huang Clinic did not appear at all. The gap isn't the brand being weak — it's specific competitors holding the schema, review velocity, and off-site signals AI engines reward.

Estimated lead lift · 12 months
If you fix the “competitors win” failure on “[service] in [city]” queries
200–600
monthly searches
3% → 50%
capture rate
4–11
extra leads / mo
48–132
extra leads / yr
Customer wins

What AI visibility unlocks.

After 6 weeks we started showing up in ChatGPT recommendations. We went from invisible to getting 12 new patient inquiries a month from AI search alone.
DR
Dr R., Acupuncturist
TCM Clinic, Hudson Valley
↑ +12 inquiries/mo
Worth every dollar. We got cited as the top recommendation in Perplexity for our niche within 60 days. Online consultation requests doubled.
MC
M. Chen, Owner
Real Estate Brokerage, Queens
↑ 2× consultations
The "Why this matters" section convinced our partners to fund the 12-month plan. The forecast on lead lift was the only thing they wanted to talk about.
JL
J. Liu, Partner
Immigration Law, Flushing
↑ Score 32 → 78
Pricing

Founding-customer rate. The cheapest this audit will ever be.

List price is $3,500. Pre-launch pricing locked at $899 through 2026 for the founding cohort.

AI Search & Growth Audit
For businesses serious about being recommended by AI engines.
$3,500 Save $2,601 · founding rate
$899
One-time · Delivered in ~2 minutes · Magic-link sign in
What's included
  • Live API tests · Claude · ChatGPT · Perplexity · Gemini · Google AI Overviews
  • 25 prospect queries × up to 5 engines (incl. Google AI Overviews via DataForSEO) = up to 125 test results
  • 100-point GEO scorecard across 10 weighted categories
  • 5 verbatim AI response samples with analyst notes
  • Competitive landscape — auto-detected competitors
  • Path to Citation — 4-5 ranked items with lead-lift ranges
  • 12-month action plan in 4 sprints
  • Foundation Audit appendix (robots, llms.txt, schema)
  • 1-hour strategy call · PDF export · dashboard access
  • Re-test in 90 days included to measure lift
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Common questions

Frequently asked.

How does this differ from regular SEO?
Traditional SEO optimizes for ranking on Google's blue-link results. GEO optimizes for being cited by AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews — which 60% of searches now end with. The two overlap, but GEO requires specific structures (schema, named authors, inline citations, llms.txt) that most SEO consultants don't audit for.
Why is the audit only ~2 minutes?
Because it's automated. The pipeline runs Google Places API + sitemap fetch + GEO foundation analyzers + up to 125 live AI engine calls (25 queries × up to 5 engines including Google AI Overviews, batched in parallel) + LLM-generated narrative + path-to-citation synthesis — all in 60-90 seconds. The depth is in the analysis, not the hand-typing.
Is the founding rate going away?
Yes. The $899 founding rate is locked in through 2026 for the first cohort. The list price ($3,500) takes effect once we hit our founding-customer cap. If you're considering it, this is the cheapest it'll be.
What if my competitor list is wrong?
We auto-extract competitors from real engine responses — businesses AI named when answering prospect queries about your category. You'll see the actual list. You can also supply known competitors at intake, which gets cross-referenced against the matrix.
How long until I see results?
Trust signals (Days 1-30) often show up in AI answers within 2-4 weeks of fixes shipping. Full visibility lift (across all 5 engines including Google AI Overviews, multiple query types) typically takes 8-12 weeks for trust signals + 16-24 weeks for off-site authority. Our customer cohort sees 3-4× citation increase by week 12.
What if I'm in a non-English market?
We audit bilingual sites natively. Each language is treated as its own audit because Chinese search behavior, for example, is structurally different from English (different keywords, different platforms). We've delivered audits for English/Mandarin clinics, English/Spanish legal firms, and trilingual restaurants.
Do you implement the fixes?
The audit is the deliverable — we identify what to fix and how. Implementation is separate. Most clients implement using their existing developer or web agency. For clients on the BAAM platform, implementation happens automatically.
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