An AEO audit measures whether AI assistants — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews — name, cite, and recommend your business when customers ask buying questions. Run on Cited, delivered with a personal walkthrough and a prioritized fix list. Three levels: the free check (one engine, limited questions, instant), the concierge baseline (custom questions, multiple engines, competitor map, methodology, founder walkthrough), and monitoring (scheduled re-runs that prove movement).
What the report shows
How often AI names you across your buyer questions.
How often your website is a source the answer links.
Every competitor AI names instead of you, ranked.
Schema, FAQ structure, titles, canonicals — the citeability layer.
Plus the part clients remember: the actual AI answers, quoted, with your brand highlighted green and competitors amber. Nothing sells the fix like reading the answer that skipped you.
How it runs
- Free check first. Run the 60-second version — headline scores, no email required.
- Full audit. We build your real question set, run the complete audit, map every competitor.
- Walkthrough. Delivered live: where you're invisible, who's winning, and the fix list in priority order.
Follow-ons, only if justified
Readiness fixes
JSON-LD schema, answer-first structure, entity-clear titles, crawl hygiene — the on-page work that makes you citeable.
Fix sprint · weeksAnswer-shaped content
One page per buyer question you're losing, answer up front.
OngoingMonthly monitoring
Re-run the question set, track mentions gained and lost. One number a month: "AI recommends you X% of the time."
Retainer · from $1,500/moHonest limits
The instant tool measures via Perplexity — the most citation-transparent engine — and is labeled as such; multi-engine measurement is part of the full audit workflow. The citeability scan is on-page and can't measure backlinks or authority. We never fabricate a number for a real domain.
Frequently asked questions
What does an AEO audit include?
A full Cited run: real buyer questions through live AI engines, reporting mention rate, citation rate, share of voice versus competitors, the actual AI answer excerpts with brands highlighted, a site-citeability grade, and a prioritized fix list — presented in a personal walkthrough.
How much does an AEO audit cost?
The diagnostic is free — the 60-second check and the audit conversation that follows it. Bnarrativ sells the expertise the diagnosis justifies: fixes, monitoring, and the franchise multi-market program — never an audit priced to sell a retainer.
What happens after the audit?
Only what the findings justify. Technical citeability fixes if the site fails the scan, answer-shaped content if you're losing specific questions, monthly monitoring if you want the trend tracked. If the audit says you're in good shape, that's what you'll hear.
How is this different from an SEO audit?
An SEO audit checks how you rank in a list of links. An AEO audit checks whether AI assistants name you, cite you, and recommend you when buyers ask questions — a different measurement with different fixes. See our AEO vs SEO guide for the full comparison.