Straight answers.
About the report
What exactly does AEOCheck measure?
We run eight real buyer-intent searches for your service and city (for example "who is the best roofer in Phoenix, AZ") across AI answer engines (ChatGPT/OpenAI, Perplexity, Google Gemini) and Google organic search. For the AI engines we record whether your business is named in the answer and whether your website is cited as a source, and who gets recommended instead. For Google we record where you rank and who ranks above you. We also run an on-page audit of your website. Everything in your report comes from those measurements — nothing is invented.
What do I get for the price?
One report covering the lenses you pick (AI answer engines, Google search, or both). Each lens gets a plain-English standing with the real numbers, the reason behind it, and five specific fixes ordered by impact. Every report also includes an on-page audit, two copy-paste starter files keyed to your business (an llms.txt and a FAQ schema skeleton), and a reviews quick-win. Flat $25, no subscription.
How long does a report take?
Usually a few minutes per lens — the tool makes a lot of real queries on your behalf. You can close the page; the finished report is emailed to you with a permanent link either way.
Why might my score change if I run it again?
AI answers and search rankings genuinely vary — by day, by phrasing, and by the engines' own updates. Your score is a measured snapshot of a sample of real searches, not a fixed rating. That's also why the fixes matter more than the number: they target the underlying reasons you do or don't get named.
Do you guarantee my rankings will improve?
No — and you should be wary of anyone who does. We measure how the engines respond today and hand you the specific, do-able changes that are most likely to move you up. What we claim is only what we measured.
What if my report fails to generate after I pay?
Your purchase is logged the moment payment clears — before the run starts. If a run fails, we run it by hand and email your report. If anything looks wrong, reply to your Stripe receipt and we'll sort it.
What is AEO?
Answer Engine Optimization — being findable and recommendable when customers ask AI engines, not just when they search Google. AEOCheck covers both: the AI lens (sometimes called GEO) and the classic Google organic lens (SEO).
About the work that follows
How long before I see results?
Google ranking movement on specific queries typically appears within 30 days of the technical work going live. AI citation — actually being named when someone asks ChatGPT or Perplexity who to hire — builds over 60 to 90 days as the engines crawl, index, and begin citing the corrected content. The 90-Day Visibility Review included in every engagement measures both scores so you have a before-and-after picture at the point results are most likely to show. Some clients see movement faster, some slower; 90 days is the right window to judge it.
What is the difference between this and regular SEO?
SEO is optimizing for Google's search results. AEO — Answer Engine Optimization — is optimizing for the AI assistants that increasingly answer questions directly instead of returning a list of links. A business can rank number one in Google and still be invisible in ChatGPT and Perplexity, because those engines draw on different signals: structured data, crawlable content, schema markup, and off-site citation presence. SEO and AEO overlap in places but they are not the same score, and most businesses have never addressed the AEO layer at all.
Can I just do this myself?
Yes. The full scan report includes the actual fixes — copy-paste code, content structure, and specific recommendations. You are welcome to take it to your own developer or team. We built it that way on purpose because we would rather show you the real picture than hold information back to force a decision. What most businesses find is that the technical fixes are manageable but the content work — structuring FAQ schema, writing the articles the way engines actually cite, establishing entity presence — takes time and expertise they do not have in-house.
What happens after the work is done?
Every engagement includes a 90-Day Visibility Review — a full rescan at 90 days showing exactly what moved and what did not, using the same measurements as the original scan. After that, a Quarterly Visibility Review is available at $300 per quarter. AI crawlers can be re-blocked by a CDN update, schema can break when a site is redesigned, and citation patterns shift as competitors do more work. The quarterly check catches what has regressed before it becomes a real problem.
Can this make me the go-to expert in my area, not just more visible?
Over time, yes, and this is where the long-term value sits. AI engines do not only cite businesses — they cite sources they have learned to trust on a topic. An owner who publishes consistent, genuinely useful content from real experience — job-site knowledge, the reasoning behind decisions, things only someone who has done the work would know — builds a pattern the engines recognise. Combined with the technical foundation, that is how a local specialist becomes the named answer in their category. It takes longer than the technical fixes and it compounds in a way advertising does not.
Does posting regularly on social media help my AI visibility?
Indirectly. Social posts are not crawled by most AI engines the way a website is, but consistent posting builds brand signal, drives traffic to your site, and contributes over time to the entity recognition engines use when deciding whether a business is real and established. The more valuable play is making sure your website and structured content can be cited in the first place — social amplifies that foundation rather than replacing it.
How does AI decide who the authority is in a category?
From an accumulation of signals rather than any single one: how many credible sources reference the business, whether its own content answers questions the way an expert would, whether structured data accurately describes what it does and where, whether it appears consistently across Google Business Profile, review sites and directories, and whether that content has been crawled and indexed over time. The businesses that become the named authority are almost always the ones that got the foundation right and then kept adding genuine expertise on top of it.
If I keep adding content, does my visibility keep improving?
Yes, with a caveat: the content has to be genuinely useful and structured so an engine can lift it — answer-first, in self-contained chunks, with proper schema. Volume without quality does not compound. A business that publishes one well-structured expert article a month, keeps its technical foundation clean and maintains consistent off-site presence will almost always outperform one that set things up once and stopped. That is why this work is worth more at twelve months than at ninety days.
What kind of content actually gets cited by AI engines?
Content that answers a specific question directly, completely, and in plain language. Structure matters as much as substance: a heading written as the question a buyer would actually ask, the answer in the first sentence beneath it, supporting detail below that, and FAQ schema so the passage can be lifted cleanly. Long keyword-stuffed articles rarely get cited; short, specific, well-structured answers do. The other thing engines cite heavily is genuine expertise — content using real numbers and examples, saying something a person who had not done the work would not know to say.