A 100-point diagnostic across the six signals AI answer engines use to decide who to recommend. Built for any business that depends on being found online — local service trades, e-commerce, healthcare, professional services, B2B, and local shops. Delivered in 7 days.
Starts at $497 · 7-day delivery · Includes 30-minute strategy call
LeadDock is a digital marketing agency for local service contractors. The AEO Audit is one of our products — available to any business with a website, not just contractors. Not affiliated with LeadDocket (legal intake software) or leaddock.de.
If your business doesn't surface in those answers, you're losing high-intent buyers to whichever competitor the AI engine does name. Most business owners have no idea whether they're cited or not.
Asks: "Will Google rank this page on page one?" Optimizes for blue links and search-result clicks. Still useful, but increasingly downstream of where buyers start.
AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is getting your business named when someone asks an AI for a recommendation. Asks: "Will ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, or Google AI Overviews actually name this business when a customer asks?" Optimizes for being the source the AI lifts and quotes.
AEO weighs three things more than classic SEO: extractable question-shaped content, entity authority (how many trusted places recognize your business as real) across many independent sources, and specific verifiable claims (numbers, names, dates). Our audit measures all three.
Think of an AI like a fast neighborhood scout: when someone asks "who's the best near me?", it recommends the business it can find the clearest, most trustworthy clues about. This audit checks your clues.
We walk through the six rooms of your AI presence the way you'd inspect a house — clipboard, checklist, scored at the end. No fluff. No "growth strategy" talk.
We run 10 real customer queries in ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, and Google web search — and log whether your business gets named.
Can the AI bots crawl your site? Schema markup (little code labels that tell AI what your business is) present? HTTPS, sitemap, llms.txt (a welcome sign for AI bots), canonical tags (signs saying "this is the official version of this page"), no accidental noindex.
Does your first paragraph pass the Four-Question Test? Are your H2s shaped like customer questions? Can an AI lift a clean answer?
Specific numbers, license, insurance, certifications, named owner, real photos of finished work, on-site reviews with names.
GBP (your Google Business Profile listing), Bing Places, Yelp, Angi, BBB, LinkedIn, Reddit, local press, niche directories — the corroboration AI engines actually use to decide if you're real and trusted.
Visible last-updated dates, recent content, active GBP — is anyone home, or is the place dusty?
A 60-second self-check tool. Get your headline score and 3 visible findings.
The full 100-point diagnostic. Written report + 30-minute strategy call.
30-day engagement. We fix every Priority Action item and re-score on Day 30.
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Book the AEO Audit. We'll deliver your 100-point score and prioritized fix list in 7 days.
Book your AEO AuditAEO is the practice of optimizing your website and online presence so AI answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews — cite your business when potential customers ask questions. Unlike traditional SEO, which targets page-one rankings, AEO targets being named directly in AI-generated answers.
Traditional SEO asks: will Google rank this page on page one? AEO asks: will the AI engine actually say this business's name when a customer asks? AEO weighs three things more heavily than classic SEO — extractable question-shaped content, entity authority across many independent sources, and specific verifiable claims (numbers, names, dates).
Your customers increasingly ask AI assistants questions before they ever open Google — "best [your category] near me," "who fixes [the problem you solve]," "is [your brand] reputable." If your business doesn't surface in those answers, you're losing high-intent buyers to whichever competitor the AI does name. AEO applies to local service trades, e-commerce stores, healthcare practices, professional services, B2B companies, and local shops — anyone whose customers find them online.
Six sections totaling 100 points: AI Visibility Baseline (15), Technical Foundation (20), Content Extractability (20), Authority Signals (15), Third-Party Presence (20), and Freshness & Monitoring (10). Each section ends with a prioritized fix list.
We deliver the full written report within 7 business days of intake, followed by a 30-minute strategy call to walk through findings and the priority action plan.
The 60-second Free Score is completely free. The full 100-point AEO Audit starts at $497 and includes the written report plus a 30-minute strategy call. If you'd rather we implement the fixes for you, the Implementation Sprint starts at $3,500.
Both, but they are separate engagements. The audit is the diagnostic. The 30-day Implementation Sprint fixes the schema, rewrites the priority pages, builds case studies, claims and completes your Google Business Profile and Bing Places, files directory listings, and re-scores the audit on Day 30.
No one can guarantee specific AI citations because the engines change weekly. What we guarantee is the score movement: our 30-day Implementation Sprint commits to a measurable lift in your AI Visibility Score, with all six section scores documented before and after.