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Straight answers, no sales talk. What an AI visibility audit covers, what it costs, how you pay, how fast it arrives, what happens if you disagree, and the lines we won't cross — including the one question every honest vendor has to answer: no, we can't promise ChatGPT will recommend you.

Last updated: 2026-10-01

What is an AI visibility audit?

An AI visibility audit tests what AI assistants and web search say about your business for real buying-intent queries, then hands you a prioritized fix list.

It answers one question: when a customer asks AI "who's the best plumber in Denver," does your business come up — and if not, who does, and why. Our $99 audit runs 15–25 buying-intent prompts across GPT, Gemini, and live web search, scores your site against a 20-point checklist, and delivers the findings as a branded PDF within 48 hours of payment. New to the concept? Start with what a GEO audit is, or read exactly how we produce one.

Will this get my business into ChatGPT answers?

No — and no honest vendor can promise that. Nobody controls what a model says.

What we do is measure exactly where you stand today — mentioned? cited? facts correct? — show where competitors beat you, and rank the fixes most likely to improve your odds by expected impact divided by effort. The report describes what the models said, not what they'll say next month. Anyone promising guaranteed placement in AI answers is selling something that doesn't exist.

How is this different from a traditional SEO audit?

A traditional SEO audit checks how your website ranks on Google; an AI visibility audit checks how your business shows up when customers ask AI assistants for recommendations — which increasingly happens without any search engine involved.

They're complementary, not competing: SEO audits look at your site, AI visibility audits look at what AI says about you across the whole web. The $299 Full AI + SEO Audit covers both — the $99 AI visibility test plus a complete Google Search audit (indexation, technical crawl, Core Web Vitals, on-page, schema, local SEO, sampled backlinks, competitor gap).

Should I get the $99 audit or the $299 audit?

Get the $99 AI Visibility Audit if your main question is "do AI assistants recommend me?" Get the $299 Full AI + SEO Audit if you also want your Google Search presence dissected.

The $299 audit adds 9 sections to everything in the $99: indexation and rankings, technical SEO crawl, Core Web Vitals, on-page and content quality, schema/structured data, local SEO and Google Business Profile review, a sampled backlink snapshot, and a two-competitor gap analysis. Both are one-time purchases, both arrive as a branded PDF within 48 hours, and both carry the same 30-day money-back guarantee. Full comparison on the pricing page.

Which AI systems do you test?

GPT, Gemini, and live web search — the systems behind most AI assistants people actually use.

We query model families through official API surfaces and run live web searches; we never claim direct access to the ChatGPT or Perplexity consumer products. The results closely approximate what users of those products see for the same buying-intent queries, but they aren't identical — and we'd rather underclaim than overclaim. We also never scrape consumer chat UIs; scraped outputs would make paid audits indefensible.

Do I need to give you logins or access to anything?

No. Every audit is run from the outside, exactly as a customer or an AI assistant would see your business.

We use public web searches, AI-assistant prompts, and your public website — nothing else. After delivery, we can offer a deeper Phase 2 with about 10 minutes of access to your Search Console, Analytics, or Google Business Profile owner account, but it's optional and never required for the audit itself.

What happens after I order?

You order, we email payment instructions, you pay, and your branded PDF arrives by email within 48 hours of payment.

Order by submitting the form on our homepage or by emailing zetax45@gmail.com with your business name, website, and which audit you want. We reply with payment instructions (USDC on Solana — your wallet approves the payment, so nothing moves without your say-so). Then we run the audit, check every finding against the archived evidence in our pre-delivery QA gate, and deliver. No account, no signup, no card form.

How do I pay?

USDC on Solana.

After you order, we email you payment instructions with a Solana Pay QR code; your wallet approves the payment, so nothing moves without your say-so. There are no card forms and nothing billed automatically — the optional $29/month monitoring is pay-as-you-go and cancels anytime.

How fast will I get my audit?

Within 48 hours of payment.

The data collection itself runs 15–30 minutes, mostly unattended; the rest is synthesis and our pre-delivery QA gate, where every finding is verified against the archived verbatim evidence before anything ships. If we ever can't hit 48 hours, you'll hear it from us before you pay — not after.

What exactly do I receive?

A branded PDF: a 0–100 visibility score with a plain-English verdict, one section per engine with verbatim answers, a competitor comparison, and a prioritized fix list.

Score bands: 70+ "Visible — protect the lead," 40–69 "Patchy — findable, but losing recommendations," below 40 "Invisible — AI sends your customers to competitors." Each engine section (GPT, Gemini, live web search) shows the exact prompts we ran and the answers captured word-for-word, the competitor section names who the models recommended instead of you, and the fix list is ranked by expected impact divided by effort. Every finding cites the exact prompt and date that produced it — see our methodology for the full method.

What if I disagree with a finding?

Every audit includes one revision round for factual errors, free.

If we stated something wrong about your business — wrong hours, wrong service, wrong competitor — we fix it. Scope stays fixed to the published sections; new checks beyond them are follow-up work, not revisions.

What is your refund policy?

30-day money-back guarantee: if your audit contains fewer than three specific, actionable findings, email us within 30 days and we refund every cent.

No forms, no interrogation. Email zetax45@gmail.com with your order details and the refund goes back the way you paid.

Who is this for?

Small and mid-size businesses whose customers ask AI for recommendations — especially local services.

Plumbers, HVAC, dentists, lawyers, contractors, and anyone where the question "who should I hire?" decides revenue. If you already have an in-house SEO team, you probably need a monitoring tool, not a one-time audit — we'd rather say so than sell you one.

Why one-time instead of a subscription?

Because most small businesses need answers, not another dashboard.

The one-time audit tells you exactly where you stand and what to fix, ordered so the highest-impact fixes come first. Monitoring tools charge $99–$495/month for ongoing dashboards; we sell the done-for-you answer for $99 once. The $29/month monitoring exists for businesses that want us to re-test monthly, alert them to visibility changes, and warn when a competitor overtakes them.

I don't have a website. Can I still get an audit?

Yes — the prompt battery still measures your word-of-mouth footprint (reviews, directories, mentions), which is often most of what AI knows about you.

The website-dependent checks are graded honestly as failed with the cause "no website found" — never graded on absence — and the fix list leads with getting a website, costed honestly, rather than with theoretical SEO.

Still have a question?

Email us — a human (and a small AI team) reads every message.

zetax45@gmail.com