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Sample AI Search Visibility Audit

This is a redacted version of the artifact every paid audit client receives. Names and URLs are replaced with acme.com to protect the real engagement; scoring, structure, and fix list format are identical to what you would get.

1. Executive summary

Site audited: acme.com (post-PMF B2B SaaS, ~180K monthly organic visits) Audit date: 2026-03-14 Composite AI Search Readiness score: 54 / 100 (invisible-to-AI band, below 60)

Dimension Score Max Verdict
Technical SEO 16 20 Strong base, 1 canonical leak
On-Page SEO 11 15 Title tags thin on programmatic pages
Schema / Structured Data 6 20 No Organization, no Person, no FAQ
GEO / LLM Optimization 9 25 No /llms.txt, implicit crawler allow
AEO / Answer Engine 5 10 No answer-first blocks, no Speakable
E-E-A-T 7 10 Author bios present, no schema backing
Total 54 100

The three highest-impact fixes (below) recover an estimated 28 composite points in roughly 6 hours of dev time.

2. Competitor benchmark (same rubric, same day)

Rank Site Composite Biggest gap
1 competitor-a.com 81 Thin FAQ schema
2 acme.com 54 No schema, no llms.txt
3 competitor-b.com 48 No Organization schema
4 competitor-c.com 42 Blocks GPTBot in robots

Competitor A is the only one in the top band. They beat you on schema depth and entity consolidation, not content. The gap closes inside one Implementation Sprint.

3. Top 10 ranked fixes

Each fix lists impact (composite points), effort (developer hours), and risk (low / med / high). Sorted by points per hour.

# Fix Impact Effort Risk Points / hr
1 Publish /llms.txt + /llms-full.txt at root +10 1h low 10.0
2 Add Organization + Person JSON-LD on homepage + about +8 2h low 4.0
3 Explicit AI-crawler allow block in robots.txt (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended) +4 0.5h low 8.0
4 Add FAQPage schema to top-10 docs pages +6 3h low 2.0
5 Fix duplicate canonical on paginated blog archives +3 2h med 1.5
6 Rewrite 12 programmatic title tags (>65 chars, no H1 match) +3 3h low 1.0
7 Add sameAs array pointing to LinkedIn, Crunchbase, GitHub +3 1h low 3.0
8 Add answer-first 40-60 word blocks at top of 8 pillar pages +4 6h low 0.67
9 Add SpeakableSpecification to top 5 ranking posts +2 2h low 1.0
10 Compress hero image (LCP regression on mobile) +2 1h low 2.0

Ship 1-3 first. Combined: +22 composite points in ~3.5 hours. New projected score: 76 / 100.

4. Before / after diff (fix #2 example)

This is what a single fix looks like in the delivered report. Every fix includes the exact code diff.

Before - acme.com/ has no Organization JSON-LD:

<head>
  <title>Acme - The faster way to ship</title>
  <meta name="description" content="...">
</head>

After - paste before </head>:

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Organization",
  "name": "Acme",
  "url": "https://acme.com",
  "logo": "https://acme.com/logo.png",
  "sameAs": [
    "https://linkedin.com/company/acme",
    "https://twitter.com/acme",
    "https://github.com/acme"
  ],
  "foundingDate": "2019",
  "founder": {
    "@type": "Person",
    "name": "{founder name}",
    "sameAs": "https://linkedin.com/in/{founder}"
  }
}
</script>

Validation: paste the rendered page into validator.schema.org. Should return 0 errors, 0 warnings.

5. Implementation plan (30-day ship window)

Week Work Owner
1 Fixes 1-3 shipped to production. Rescore. Dev (4h)
2 Fixes 4-7. Fix #4 needs content team on FAQ answers. Dev + content
3 Fixes 8-10. Validate CWV on production. Dev + perf
4 Final rescore + 30-day citation delta report (Perplexity, ChatGPT Search, Google AI Overview) Me

Target end-state score: 82-86 / 100. Target citation lift: measurable presence in at least 2 AI answer sets for brand-name + category queries within 30 days.

6. What this audit does not do

  • It does not write your content. Audit the structural layer, then your team (or mine, in the sprint) ships the code.
  • It does not guarantee a ranking change in Google classic search. Organic ranking movement takes 6-12 weeks. AI citation movement is typically faster (first fetch cycle).
  • It cannot unblock a domain your WAF blocks to AI crawlers. If Cloudflare or a security plugin blocks GPTBot, the audit flags it; unblocking is a manual step.

7. How to apply

Apply for an AI Search Visibility Audit at yanivgoldenberg.com/contact. Post-PMF SaaS, B2B, and e-commerce brands only. Fee is quoted after application and is credited in full if you continue into the Implementation Sprint.