For businesses and in-house marketing teams · Free AI search audit

See how AI reads your business.

Enter one public page. Get the score, see the evidence, and know what to fix first.

No email required. Most audits finish in 5 to 15 seconds.

  • 16onsite factors
  • 0–100technical score
  • 1AI scan

How AI SEO works

What AI SEO really means.

Answer Engine Optimization works across four layers: the signals your business publishes, the indexes that discover them, the models that retrieve them, and the monitoring that catches what changed.

A four-layer Answer Engine Optimization diagram. A business publishes digital signals across its website and third-party sources. Search indexes discover that evidence, AI models retrieve and analyze it, and the resulting answer may name and cite the business. Ongoing monitoring tracks citation rate, answer position, share of voice, sentiment, source attribution, and weekly changes.
Your Digital Signals
  • Website + JSON-LD schema
  • Google Business Profile + Maps
  • Reviews (Google, Yelp, Trustpilot, BBB)
  • Wikipedia + Wikidata entity
  • Reddit, Quora + industry forums
  • LinkedIn, X + YouTube
  • News, podcasts + press mentions
  • llms.txt + AI-ready content
Search Indexes
  • Google index
  • Bing index
  • Brave Search index
  • DuckDuckGo
  • Common Crawl corpus
  • Reddit discussions
  • YouTube + Knowledge Graph
  • Live web crawl
AI Models Analyze
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
  • Claude (Anthropic)
  • Gemini (Google)
  • Perplexity
  • Copilot (Microsoft)
  • Grok (xAI)
  • Meta AI
  • DeepSeek
AI Names + Cites You
“Best [your service] for [buyer]?”1. Your Business2. Competitor A3. Competitor B

Ongoing AEO Monitoring

Canonry tracks how answers and citations move across the questions, models, competitors, and markets in your program.

  • Citation ratePer question, per model.
  • Answer positionNamed first, later, or absent.
  • Share of voiceYour business vs. named competitors.
  • SentimentHow models describe the business.
  • Source attributionWhich pages and domains support the answer.
  • Weekly deltasAnswer changes and source movement.

What you receive

A technical baseline you can use.

01

The score

A 0 to 100 baseline across 16 public onsite signals.

02

The evidence

See what passed, what failed, and why.

03

The priorities

Get the three highest-impact fixes first.

04

The AI scan

See what one AI scan can infer from the page.

After the audit

Keep the score. Choose the next step.

Fix the top issues yourself or share the evidence with your developer or marketing team. Structured data is usually the first repair, and the schema markup guide has copy-pasteable JSON-LD for each type.

In-house marketing teams use the score as a dated baseline: something to take to leadership, turn into scoped engineering tickets, or use to brief an existing agency. Canonry Managed can then run the work as an accountable partner rather than another tool your team has to staff.

A detailed visibility report and hands-on AEO work are available only if you want to go deeper. The rest of the sequence, from content structure to entity consistency, is written up in how to get your business cited by AI.

Read the 16-factor methodology

Direct answers

Before you run the audit.

What does the free AEO technical audit check?

The audit scores one public URL across 16 onsite factors tied to AI readability, entity clarity, structured data, content quality, and crawler access. It returns a 0 to 100 score, evidence for each signal, and the three highest-impact fixes.

Is the AEO audit really free?

Yes. The page-level audit is free within fair-use limits, and no email is required for the first check. A detailed visibility report or hands-on implementation is optional.

Does the audit measure visibility across every AI platform?

No. The 16 technical checks are model-independent. Separately, one AI scan reads the page and shows what it can infer. The audit is a technical baseline, not multi-engine prompt tracking.

What can I do with the result?

Use the prioritized fixes yourself, share the evidence with your developer or marketing team, or ask Canonry for a detailed visibility report and execution plan.

Is this useful for an in-house marketing team?

Yes. The audit gives an in-house marketing team a dated, signal-by-signal baseline it can take to leadership, hand to engineering as a scoped ticket list, or use to brief an existing agency. Canonry Managed then runs the technical, content, entity, and off-site work as an accountable partner so the team does not have to staff a new discipline.

We already have an SEO agency. Does Canonry replace them?

Not necessarily. Canonry can act as the independent AI search measurement layer while your agency executes, or run the AEO-specific technical, entity, and monitoring work that sits outside a standard SEO retainer. Agencies that want to own the whole program can bring Canonry in as their white-label delivery team instead.

Free technical baseline

Start with one URL.

No email required for the first check.

Run free AEO technical auditFree within fair-use limits.
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