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Understand how visible your brand is in AI-powered search

Customers aren't just searching on Google anymore. They're asking ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and AI-powered search tools for recommendations, comparisons, advice, and product suggestions.

The challenge is understanding whether your brand is appearing in those conversations - and if not, why.

Our AI search audits help identify how discoverable, understandable, and recommendable your business is across emerging search experiences, providing a clear roadmap for improving visibility where customers are increasingly searching.

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AI Search Audits
If customers ask AI about your brand, what happens next?

AI visibility

If customers ask AI about your brand, what happens next?

AI-powered search works differently to traditional search engines. Instead of returning a list of links, AI platforms often provide direct answers, recommendations, summaries, and comparisons.

That changes how brands earn visibility.

Strong rankings still matter, but so do content quality, structured information, authority signals, entity recognition, citations, and how easily AI systems can retrieve and interpret information about your business.

Many brands don't realise they have visibility gaps until they start investigating. An AI search audit helps uncover those gaps and identify real opportunities for improvement.

What AI systems look for

AI doesn't rank information the same way traditional search engines do. AI surfaces what it can understand, trust, and explain clearly.

That's why visibility in AI-powered search often comes down to how consistently your business communicates information across the web. When important details are easy to find, verify, and interpret, your chances of being cited and recommended improve.

Clarity

Clear product information, straightforward answers, strong page structure, and information that's easy to extract and interpret.

Trust

Reviews, reputation signals, transparent policies, contact information, and evidence that your business is credible.

Consistency

Consistent information across your website, feeds, product data, and third-party platforms.

Structured Signals

Schema markup, merchant data, machine-readable content, and signals that help AI understand context.

Understanding AI visibility requires a broader view than rankings alone.

What an AI Search Audit looks at

Traditional SEO tools are excellent at measuring rankings, traffic, and search performance. AI visibility introduces a different set of questions.

  • Can AI systems accurately describe your business?
  • Are your products, services, and expertise being referenced?
  • How often do competitors appear instead?
  • Are important topics, categories, or customer questions being addressed effectively?

Our audits combine technical analysis, content reviews, entity assessments, competitive benchmarking, and real-world testing across AI platforms to provide a clearer picture of where opportunities exist.

The goal isn't simply to measure visibility - it's to understand how that visibility can be improved.

Areas we investigate

Every business is different, but these are some of the most common factors influencing AI visibility.

Brand Visibility

Assess how frequently your business appears in AI-generated responses across relevant topics and queries.

Entity Understanding

Review how clearly AI systems understand your business, products, services, expertise, and market position.

Content Coverage

Identify gaps in content that may limit retrieval, citation, recommendation, or topic authority.

Competitive Benchmarking

Understand which competitors are being referenced and why.

Technical Foundations

Review site structure, accessibility, schema, indexing, and other factors that support AI comprehension.

Recommendation Opportunities

Identify practical actions that can improve discoverability, citation frequency, and recommendation potential.

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Organic Search Clicks Delivered

AI visibility doesn't happen in isolation

Many of the factors influencing AI search performance are closely connected to broader SEO and content strategies.

AI Optimisation

AI Optimisation

An audit identifies where opportunities exist. AI Optimisation focuses on implementing the changes needed to improve visibility.

Technical SEO

Technical SEO

Strong technical foundations help AI systems retrieve, understand, and interpret information more effectively.

Common questions about AI Search Audits

An AI Search Audit evaluates how visible and understandable your business is across AI-powered search experiences such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and Google's AI Overviews.

SEO audits primarily focus on rankings, crawlability, indexing, and search engine visibility. AI Search Audits assess how AI systems retrieve, interpret, cite, and recommend information about your business.

Depending on your market and objectives, audits may include ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews, and other emerging AI-powered search experiences.

The audit itself identifies opportunities and barriers. The findings create a roadmap for improving visibility, citation frequency, recommendation potential, and overall AI discoverability.

Absolutely. Many AI systems rely on information sourced from websites that already demonstrate strong authority, relevance, and search visibility. Traditional SEO remains an important part of the equation.

AI search is evolving rapidly. Most businesses benefit from ongoing monitoring as platforms, retrieval methods, and customer search behaviour continue to change.

Want to understand how AI sees your business?

The future of search is already here. Let's identify how visible your brand is today and where the biggest opportunities for improvement exist.

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