Strategic AEO Audit & Improvement Roadmap

Strategic AEO Audit & Improvement Roadmap

As buyer search behavior shifts toward AI-powered platforms and tools—beyond traditional Google queries—brands must evolve their digital strategies to maintain visibility and authority. Our Strategic AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) Audit & Improvement Roadmap is designed to ensure your brand is not only present but prominent across emerging AI search ecosystems, including LLM-driven responses and Google AI Overviews.


We apply a streamlined, persona-driven process to align your content strategy and SEO efforts with how modern users search and how AI models retrieve, evaluate, and cite information—ensuring long-term search dominance in the AI era.


Key Features

Key Features

Key Features

AIO & LLM Visibility

  • Persona-based prompt development aligned with each stage of the buyer journey

  • Adaptation of content paths to reflect key buyer personas

  • Analysis of competitive visibility and positioning

AIO & LLM Benchmarking

  • Assessment of current AIO/LLM traffic to your website

  • Sentiment and content ownership scoring

  • Competitive ranking and performance benchmarking

  • Evaluation of citation presence and source authority

  • Technical audit for AI bot accessibility (robots.txt, llms.txt, crawl structure, schema.org mark-up)

AEO Strategy & Activation

  • Research-backed AEO strategy, tailored to business priorities and integrated into current marketing frameworks

  • Detailed roadmap including: PR, outreach and content optimization for AI discoverability

  • High-impact AIO opportunities

  • Page-level priority matrix with actionable recommendations (e.g., internal linking, structured data, metadata)

Our Approach

Our Approach

Our Approach

This in-depth audit evaluates your digital readiness for AI-driven discovery and citation, measuring visibility across leading LLMs such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, as well as Google AI Overviews. We assess not only your current presence but also the technical, structural, and strategic elements influencing discoverability in AI-generated answers.

Audit Components:

  1. Topical Coverage & Prompt Alignment – Analyzes how your content aligns with real-world AI prompts used by buyers.

  2. Content Structure & Citation Readiness – Scores how quotable, extractable, and reliable your content is for AI use.

  3. LLM & AI Overview Visibility – Measures brand presence and performance across top AI platforms.

  4. Entity Strength & NLP Frequency – Evaluates the semantic presence of key brand and category terms using NLP techniques.

  5. Technical Accessibility for AI Bots – Reviews accessibility, schema, crawl depth, and proper bot directives (schema.org mark-up, llms.txt).

  6. Citation Presence & Training Data Inclusion – Identifies if your brand is indexed in LLM training sets or referenced by trusted third-party domains.

  7. Competitor Benchmarking – Compares your AI search visibility and optimization metrics against industry competitors to highlight strategic gaps and advantages.

Benefits

Benefits

Benefits

Maximize AI Search Visibility Before Your Competitors Do

By optimizing for AI search now, your brand secures top positioning in the next generation of search—a space where early visibility creates long-term authority and trust.

Maximize AI Search Visibility Before Your Competitors Do

By optimizing for AI search now, your brand secures top positioning in the next generation of search—a space where early visibility creates long-term authority and trust.

Maximize AI Search Visibility Before Your Competitors Do

By optimizing for AI search now, your brand secures top positioning in the next generation of search—a space where early visibility creates long-term authority and trust.

Gain Unmatched Competitive Insights

Our benchmarking process reveals not just where your brand stands—but how to overtake your competitors in emerging AI search landscapes through tailored actions and strategic content adaptation.

Actionable Roadmap, Not Just Recommendations

You’ll receive a fully-integrated strategy that includes specific improvements across technical SEO, content structure, internal linking, and outreach—ready for implementation by your internal team or partners.

Future-Proof Your SEO Strategy

This audit bridges the gap between traditional SEO and AI-era optimization, ensuring your content is structured, cited, and surfaced in LLM responses, AI Overviews, and future AI-powered search tools.

Improve Content ROI and Discoverability

Ensure your high-value content is not only seen but used by AI systems. From PR mentions, review websites (i.e. g2, captera, ect), community driven content (i.e. reddit, quora, ect), youtube and others; we help transform your existing assets into AI-optimized brand advocates.