AI visibility audit
An AI visibility audit of what the engines say when buyers ask
An AI visibility audit measures how often AI engines name your brand, cite your pages or recommend a competitor, for the questions your buyers ask. Green Flag Digital runs 100 buyer prompts five times each on five AI engines, among them OpenAI, Gemini, Claude and Grok, reads Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode separately, and shows your share next to a competitor's.
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In short
There are two ways in. A free AI snapshot shows where you stand today. The full audit is the AI Visibility Blueprint: the whole prompt panel, the fixes ranked and a 90-day plan, for $15k. The full audit covers Google as well; the AI SEO audit page explains that half.
Source: our audit method as of 2026-10-31. Every readout prints a method card with the panel, the engines and their model versions, the runs, the dates and the smallest change the sample can detect.
AI visibility audit
The free snapshot
A short read of your AI visibility from public data: whether the engines know who you are, what they say, and which competitors they name. It is the usual first step for smaller companies, and there is one per company.
AI visibility audit
How to run an AI visibility audit
You can run a small version yourself. These are the steps our audit follows.
- Write the questions your buyers ask before they buy, not your brand name.
- Run each question several times on each engine. One answer proves little, because AI answers change from run to run, as SparkToro found in 2026.
- Record who is named and which pages are cited, for you and for a competitor.
- Check that AI crawlers can reach your site, at the CDN as well as in robots.txt. OpenAI says sites that opt out of OAI-SearchBot are not shown in ChatGPT search answers.
- Report a share with the number of answers and the dates, then fix what keeps you out.
The free snapshot does a short version of this for you. The full audit does all five steps on 100 prompts.
What's included
The full audit
- Day-0 scoreboard: 100 buyer prompts on 5 AI engines, answer share, citations and competitor share of voice
- AI-era analytics check: GA4 AI channel, crawler access, schema and the fixes ranked
- Entity schema set for the brand and its leaders
- Outlet map: the publications AI engines cite for these prompts, scored and targeted
- 90-day plan with owners, dates and the month-3 check against a held-back set
- Kickoff and a day-0 readout with the principal
How it works
How it works
Ten business days, kickoff to readout.
- Day 0
Kickoff
Your brand, site and top competitor go onto the dashboard. A 30-minute kickoff covers who your buyers are and what they ask AI engines.
- Days 1 to 5
Pull and check
100 buyer prompts run on 5 AI engines, plus the technical check and the outlet map. An analyst checks every number before anyone reads it.
- Days 6 to 8
Read and write
The platform drafts the scoreboard and a ranked list of fixes. A principal reviews the findings and writes the insights.
- Day 10
Readout
A 60-minute readout and your 90-day plan. Your day-0 numbers stay live on the dashboard.
The work, in numbers.
- URLs crawled for moveBuddha's AI visibility baseline
- 10,606
- URLs crawled for moveBuddha's AI visibility baseline
- With a 38-prompt panel, a Brand Radar baseline and a 15-fix pack, ranked.
- as the ranking source when ChatGPT answers "best interstate moving companies"
- Cited
- as the ranking source when ChatGPT answers "best interstate moving companies"
- One stored ChatGPT answer, pulled from Ahrefs Brand Radar on October 21, 2026, says the movers are "ranked highly by moveBuddha".
10,606
Cited
The ChatGPT card is one stored answer, read through Ahrefs Brand Radar on 2026-10-21. It shows the kind of citation the audit looks for. The audit itself reports a share across many runs.
Results and coverage from our client reporting.
Joe RobisonJoe Robison
Founder and principal, Green Flag Digital
Joe sets the strategy on every engagement and makes the final call on what counts as evidence. A principal reviews the findings before any client reads them.
What clients say
“Green Flag consistently delivered high quality PR pieces that got mentions and links from some of the largest media brands on the internet.”
Ryan Carrigan, Owner, moveBuddha · via Clutch
The work
Proof from B2B and consumer brands.
These are clients we can name, with the results they got.
B2B · Cybersecurity16earned stories for an upstart cloud security company, 23.3M potential readersRead the case study
B2B · Ed tech SaaSRustici Software165 to 1,868weekly organic sessions after a three-site relaunchRead the case study
B2B · Business insuranceBizInsure51placements, USA Today, Newsweek and MarketWatch among themRead the case study
Consumer · Moving3,740referring domains from one data-study programRead the case study
Consumer · Health mediamindbodygreen+35%traffic on refreshed articles within weeksRead the case study
Consumer · ToursBucket List+902%organic traffic over four yearsRead the case study
Consumer · BeddingPureCare13Knew monthly visits from 22 articlesRead the case study
Consumer · EducationBrokeScholar15 daysfrom publishing the Ramen Index to a New York Times featureRead the case study
Consumer · TravelReservations.com275+placements across 26 digital PR campaignsRead the case study
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Questions buyers ask
What does an AI visibility audit measure?
It measures how often AI engines mention your brand, cite your pages and name competitors for an agreed set of buyer questions. Ours also checks AI crawler access and analytics, and maps the publications the engines cite.
What is an AI visibility report?
An AI visibility report shows how often AI engines name or cite your brand for a set of buyer questions, next to a competitor. Ours prints the share, the number of answers behind it and the dates, plus a method card with the engines, their model versions and the runs.
Which AI engines do you check?
Five AI engines, read through their APIs with web search on, among them OpenAI (the models behind ChatGPT), Gemini, Claude and Grok, five runs per prompt. API answers can differ from what the consumer apps show, and every readout says which one it is. Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode are read separately through Ahrefs Brand Radar, one stored answer per prompt (Google's AI features guide). We agree the panel with you at kickoff.
Can ChatGPT run an AI visibility audit for me?
It can answer one question once, which proves little: AI answers change from run to run, and ChatGPT cannot tell you what Gemini or Claude say. An audit runs the same questions many times on each engine and reports a share with the sample behind it.
Is a free AI visibility check enough?
For a first look, yes, and our free snapshot is one. The full audit adds the 100-prompt panel on five engines, the analytics and crawler check, the publications to target, and ranked fixes in a 90-day plan.
Do we need to share analytics access?
No. The snapshot and the scoreboard run on public data. Connecting GA4 and Search Console later sharpens the numbers, and you control that access.
How accurate are AI visibility numbers?
AI answers change from one run to the next, so one screenshot proves little. We report a share with the number of answers behind it and the dates, and we watch the trend over weeks.
What does an AI visibility audit cost?
The snapshot is free. The full audit is the AI Visibility Blueprint at $15k, credited in full into a qualifying monthly plan signed within 30 days.
What do you most want from search right now?
Five quick steps, about a minute. Public data only, no logins.