The AO Audit: Answer Optimization Audit

Q: “What does AO stand for?”

AO stands for Answer Optimization. The practice of making your business the answer AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity give when customers ask who to choose. The industry also calls this AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) or GEO (Generative Engine Optimization). Same goal, different names. The AO Audit, based in Napa, CA, measures it: a free scan of your real website produces your AO Score.

Q: “I've been burned by SEO people before. How is this different?”

The audit and your full report are free. You see exactly what we know before spending a cent. No contracts, no retainers, no black box: the report lists every fix in plain English. The playbook is $39 with a 30-day no-questions refund.

Free AI-visibility audit: see what AI actually sees.

The AO Audit is a free 60-second scan that shows how easily Google and AI tools can read your website. That means tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Mode. Enter your website, get your AO Score (0–100) and your biggest gaps. AO stands for Answer Optimization. Making your business the answer AI gives (the industry also calls it AEO or GEO). The goal, in three words: BE THE ANSWER. To your specific customer, at the exact moment they ask. Google says AI Mode passed 1 billion monthly users in its first year, and AI Overviews passed 2.5 billion (Google, May 2026). ChatGPT search names businesses and links to the sites it cites. The scan runs live. It checks classic SEO fundamentals plus schema, AI-crawler access, content signals and agent-readiness.

Most AI marketing runs on stats nobody checked. We checked ours, and published our own failing grade before we sold anyone anything.

Live scan of your real site · 21 automated checks + 6 you confirm · Prioritized fix list

Not ready? See a real sample report first (opens in a new tab). No email needed.

Sixty seconds to the truth

How does the AO Audit work?

We scan your site, live

Your homepage, robots.txt and llms.txt, checked for the 21 machine-readability signals AI engines actually use: schema markup, crawler access, content structure, pricing, booking.

You confirm 6 things robots can't see

Your Google Business Profile, reviews, and two live ChatGPT tests. These are the checks that need a human. Not verified yet? Here's how Google Business Profile verification works. Ours verified instantly.

Get your AO Score & fix list

Your 0–100 AO Score with your gaps in priority order, so you know the exact next move.

Your results

Your AO Score

Every gap above has a step-by-step fix.

Be the Answer: The AI-Search Authority Playbook walks you through all of it: the schema templates to copy-paste, the answer-first content format, the agent-readiness checklist, and a 30-day plan that takes your site from hard to read to easy to read.

Playbook: $39 · 30-day no-questions refund. Prefer done-for-you? The Answer. Every fix in your report implemented and verified, $497, or it's free. Reply ANSWER to your report email, or buy The Answer now → (For scale: a traditional SEO agency runs $3,000+/month.)

Already fixed and want to stay found? AO Care keeps your whole AO Score climbing every month: Google Profile upkeep (posts and review replies), a monthly re-scan so you can watch it hold, and one improvement applied for you. $249/mo, no contract. Reply CARE for the founding rate ($149/mo, first 5 businesses), or start AO Care now at $249/mo →.

Made fixes? Re-scan your site. Scores update in real time.

Still on the fence?

Common questions about AI visibility, answered honestly

“What does AO stand for?”

AO stands for Answer Optimization. The practice of making your business the answer AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity give when customers ask who to choose.
The industry also calls this AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) or GEO (Generative Engine Optimization). Same goal, different names.
The AO Audit, based in Napa, CA, measures it: a free scan of your real website produces your AO Score.

“Is this real, or just AI hype?”

Every claim in your report cites its source: platform documentation and published studies, not our own marketing.
See a real sample report (new tab) before you give us anything.
The scan runs on your actual website, live. Not a template.

“I've been burned by SEO people before. How is this different?”

The audit and your full report are free. You see exactly what we know before spending a cent.
No contracts, no retainers, no black box: the report lists every fix in plain English.
The playbook is $39 with a 30-day no-questions refund.

“I'm not technical. Can I still do this?”

Every fix is copy-paste with step-by-step instructions; most take under an hour with free tools.
Don't want to touch it? The Answer: we implement everything in your report for you. Done right, or it's free.

“I don't have time. Can you just do it for me?”

That's The Answer. Reply ANSWER to your report email and it's handled: every fix implemented and verified, $497, or it's free. Typical turnaround: about two weeks.

“Will this work for my industry?”

If a customer might ever ask an AI “what's the best [what you do] near me,” then yes.
The scan checks for the basics Google and AI tools need to read a site, in any industry.

The scan is free. See where you stand. Scan my website →

Free AI-visibility audit: see what AI actually sees.