AI visibility audit and AI SEO services: get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews
AI SEO, also called answer engine optimization or AEO, is how you get cited in AI answers instead of skipped over. It starts with knowing where you stand: we run 50 manual searches across ChatGPT and Perplexity, pull your own AI citation numbers from Google Search Console and Bing, document every mention of you and your competitors, and hand you a 90-day roadmap to start showing up where buyers now actually search.
What is an AI visibility (AEO) audit?
An AI visibility audit: also called an Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) audit: tests whether AI search engines cite your brand when users ask about your category. Where a traditional SEO audit checks if Google ranks your pages, an AEO audit checks if engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Claude, and Gemini retrieve your content as a source in their answers.
It documents your citation rate versus competitors, then analyzes the underlying signals AI engines rely on: entity clarity (Knowledge Graph, Wikipedia, Wikidata), structured data, and comparison content. The output is a prioritized roadmap to improve how often you get cited.
SEORevive runs this as a fixed-price, one-time audit: 25 prompts agreed with you and run in both ChatGPT and Perplexity, so 50 manual searches, each captured with a screenshot and citation list, plus your own first-party AI citation data, an entity gap analysis, schema audit, and a 90-day fix roadmap. It is diagnostic by design, we hand you the roadmap rather than gatekeep it, and everything is delivered 100% async into a shared folder you keep. No automated scraping, no calls required.
By Nabin Thakur · SEO & Growth Specialist · Last updated
Why this audit exists
In 2023, your customers Googled. In 2026, half of them ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google's AI Overviews first, and only click through to a website if the AI answer isn't enough. If your brand isn't in the AI's answer, you don't exist in that consideration window.
The catch: nobody's checking. Most businesses have no idea whether ChatGPT mentions them at all. Their SEO agency tracks Google rankings, not citation rates in AI answers. So they keep losing buyers to competitors who do get cited, without knowing why.
This audit closes that blind spot. It is the first step of answer engine optimization (AEO): we test your category in ChatGPT and Perplexity, read your own Search Console and Bing data for Google AI Overviews and Copilot, document every citation, and tell you exactly why competitors get picked over you (or vice versa). New to this? Start with our Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) guide or the 2026 answer engine optimization guide.
What you get
- 50-search visibility scan. We agree 25 prompts with you and run each in ChatGPT and Perplexity. 50 manual searches, every one captured with a screenshot and the list of sites cited.
- Your own AI citation numbers. Google Search Console reports how often your pages appear inside AI Overviews and AI Mode. Bing Webmaster Tools reports citations from Microsoft Copilot. Both are first-party, both are free, and almost nobody uses them. We pull yours, by page and by country, so the audit ends with numbers from Google and Microsoft, not with our opinion.
- Brand citation rate. Out of 50 searches, how many cite you? How many cite a competitor in your space? Broken down per engine.
- Competitor citation map. Which competitors are getting cited where you're not. What signals they have that you don't.
- Entity gap analysis. Is Google’s Knowledge Graph aware of your brand? Does Wikipedia link to you? Does Wikidata recognize you? These are the underlying signals AI engines use to decide who counts as authoritative.
- Schema audit. Which JSON-LD schemas your site has, which are missing, which are malformed. Schema is the #1 controllable signal for AI search retrieval.
- Comparison content audit. "X vs Y" pages, alternatives pages, best-of listicles where you should appear. We tell you which ones to write and which to pitch for inclusion.
- Geo + language layer. For Indian businesses: do AI engines surface English content from India for Indian queries? Or do they default to US results? We identify what's missing.
- 90-day fix roadmap. The 10 highest-leverage fixes ranked by effort, impact, and dependency order. You can implement yourself or hand to us.
- Live shared deliverable. Everything goes into a shared Google Drive folder you keep forever: full screenshot library, the report PDF, the roadmap spreadsheet, the prompt list.
The 5-day audit process
Day 1: Intake & prompt design. You send: domain, top 5 competitors, top 10 keywords/services you care about. We design 25 prompts covering: direct brand mentions, category leadership ("best X in India"), comparison ("X vs Y"), buyer intent ("how to choose X"), and edge cases ("X that doesn't suck", "alternative to X").
Day 2-3: Running the searches. 50 manual searches: 25 prompts in ChatGPT with browsing on, and the same 25 in Perplexity. Each captured with screenshot, prompt, output, and citation list. No automation, because AI answers vary too much for a script. In parallel we export your AI Overviews and AI Mode impressions from Search Console, and your Copilot citations from Bing Webmaster Tools.
Day 3-4: Gap analysis. We look at every search where a competitor got cited and you didn't (the method is written up in full in our AEO citation gap analysis guide). We check: their schema, their entity signals (Wikipedia, Knowledge Graph, structured citations), their published comparison content, their domain age, their backlink profile to that page. Pattern recognition reveals which 2-3 factors actually decide citation.
Day 4-5: Roadmap + delivery. Custom roadmap ranking the 10 fixes by impact, effort, and dependency order. You get a Google Drive folder with: 12-page PDF report, 50-screenshot library (organised by engine and prompt), prompt CSV, roadmap spreadsheet, your Search Console and Bing AI exports, and the raw citation dataset.
AI Visibility Audit
One-time. 5–7 working days. Full deliverable on completion.
Not sure yet? Book a 20-minute call and send your URL when you book.
Already need implementation, not just diagnosis? See the AEO Booster Pack (₹29,999): audit + top-10 fixes implemented.
Who this is for
D2C brands, premium service businesses, healthcare providers, EdTech platforms, B2B SaaS, law firms, CA firms, and any business where buyers research before deciding. If your prospects compare options before buying, even unconsciously, they're now doing some of that comparison through AI engines.
This audit is especially high-leverage for businesses in high-consideration verticals: education, healthcare, financial services, legal, B2B SaaS, premium hospitality, and luxury goods. Categories where the buyer asks "best X" or "how to choose X" before buying.
Geographically: works for India-focused businesses, India-to-international businesses (export, tourism), and US/Canada/UK businesses serving Indian markets.
Related: Read our AEO Guide for Indian Businesses 2026: the full methodology this audit applies →
Who this isn’t for
- Pre-launch businesses with no live website (we need real content to audit)
- Local-only businesses where AI engines aren't yet relevant (single-location service businesses serving only a 5-km radius)
- Categories where AI engines are still 12+ months from being a meaningful traffic source (very few in 2026; we'll tell you on intake if yours is one)
- Businesses looking for "guaranteed citation" in AI engines (nobody can guarantee that. We tell you what increases probability, not certainty)
What we won’t do
- No "AI prompt engineering" service. This audit is about how AI engines see your brand, not about writing prompts for you.
- No AI-generated content shipped to your site. Post-HCU, scaled AI content gets penalized. We won't risk your existing rankings.
- No fake Wikipedia entries. Wikipedia notability rules exist for a reason. Manipulation gets your page deleted + can harm domain trust.
- No "guaranteed first AI citation." Anyone promising this is lying. AI engines are non-deterministic; we improve probability, not certainty.
- No automated scraping of AI engines. Manual searches only. Automated AI search scraping violates ToS and gives unreliable data.
We ran this audit on seorevive.in itself (eat your own dogfood). Result: cited by Perplexity for 4 of 25 prompts, by Google AI Overviews for 2 of 25, zero by ChatGPT (browsing was off for the prompt category). Identified gaps: missing Organization-to-Person schema chain, no Wikipedia entry yet, weak comparison content. Read the full breakdown: I Audited My Own SEO Site for AI Visibility →
Brands we work with. Verifiable in Google & AI.
Every brand below is a real live client. Click any logo to verify their site: same brands whose AEO work we do month after month.
AI Visibility Audit FAQ
An AI SEO audit, also called an AI visibility or AEO audit, tests whether your brand appears when people ask AI search engines about your category. We run 25 agreed prompts in ChatGPT and Perplexity, document every citation (yours and your competitors’), and produce a 90-day roadmap to improve your citation rate.
A regular SEO audit checks if Google ranks your pages. An AI Visibility Audit checks if AI engines retrieve your content as a source when answering user questions. The signals overlap (schema, entity clarity, authoritative content) but the optimization targets are different. Most agencies still don’t test for this. See our Technical SEO Audit for traditional Google-focused work.
We run the prompts manually in ChatGPT (with web browsing) and Perplexity. For Google AI Overviews and AI Mode we use your own Search Console AI features report, and for Microsoft Copilot we use your Bing Webmaster Tools data, because first-party numbers beat spot checks. Together that shows which engines cite you, which cite competitors instead, and which do not surface your category at all. It also means the measurement can be repeated every month. Which engines don’t surface your category at all.
We test that first. If your category is genuinely absent from AI search results (rare in 2026, most B2C and B2B verticals are covered), we tell you and refund the audit. We don’t sell audits where the market doesn’t exist yet.
5 to 7 working days. Day 1-2: prompt design and competitor mapping. Day 3-4: running the 25 prompts in ChatGPT and Perplexity, recording every output, and pulling your Search Console and Bing citation data. Day 5-6: gap analysis and report writing. Day 7: delivery via shared Google Drive folder.
The audit itself is diagnostic. We identify gaps and give you the roadmap. For implementation we offer two paths: a one-time AEO Booster Pack (₹29,999) that implements the top 10 fixes, or full retainer engagements that include ongoing AEO work. You can also implement the roadmap yourself. We don’t gatekeep the fix instructions.
Cheap audits run an automated tool against your site and rebrand the output. Our audit involves 50 manual searches (25 agreed prompts, run in ChatGPT and Perplexity) plus your own Search Console and Bing AI citation data, each documented with screenshots and citation analysis. Plus competitor citation tracking, entity gap analysis, schema audit, and a custom 90-day roadmap. That’s 8-10 hours of senior practitioner work.
After the audit, what’s next?
Traditional Google-focused audit. Crawl, schema, Core Web Vitals, GSC errors. Run alongside or before the AI audit.
We implement the top 10 fixes from your audit roadmap. Schema deployment, entity signal building, comparison content.