| Foundation Audit | Gap Analysis | |
|---|---|---|
| Domain Age | Under 24 months | 24+ months |
| Content Volume | Under 20 articles | 20+ articles |
| Off-Site Presence | Minimal or building | Established backlinks/mentions |
| Primary Focus | Build citation infrastructure correctly | Identify gaps in existing architecture |
| Competitive Benchmark | Not included | Shows where competitors capture citations you don’t |
| Price | $199 | $499 |
| Delivery | 3 business days | 5 business days |
Core Focus: Validate your technical foundation before you build a content library
Knowledge graph presence, schema markup, entity relationships.
Which topics to write first and how to structure for AI retrieval.
Crawl setup, sitemap configuration, robots.txt validation.
Buyer questions to target with your first 20 articles.
Step-by-step setup with code examples.
What’s NOT included:
Competitive analysis (not enough content to compare yet) — Existing content audit (you don’t have a library to audit)
Core Focus: Find exactly where you’re losing citations to competitors
Complete validation across entity foundation, content infrastructure, retrieval optimization, and competitive positioning.
Your visibility vs 3 competitors across key buyer queries in your niche.
Every issue preventing citations, ranked by impact with estimated fix time.
Sequenced action plan based on technical dependencies.
Specific queries where you should be cited but competitors are instead.
Detailed fixes with code snippets and validation methods.
Review findings and answer implementation questions.
What Foundation Audit doesn’t include:
Full architecture validation — Competitive benchmark — Content library audit — Walkthrough call
Fill out intake form with your domain, target topics, and competitive set (if applicable).
PDF report delivered via email with step-by-step fixes.
Gap Analysis tier includes 30-minute walkthrough call.
Most companies treat AI citation like SEO circa 2005—throw content at the wall and hope Google (now ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude) notices. But AI citation operates on a different stack entirely. You're not just competing for rankings. You're competing for retrieval, extraction, and accumulation across four interdependent layers.
The problem isn't your content quality. It's your signal architecture.
"We rank on Google but ChatGPT never cites us"
You have SEO but your content isn't structured for AI retrieval and extraction. The audit identifies the specific structural gaps.
"Perplexity cites our competitors, not us"
You lack citation-ready structure. Your content doesn't have extractable, parseable claims that AI systems can confidently reference.
"We don't even know where we stand"
You’re flying blind. No one’s measuring your citation architecture—from entity foundation to content structure to retrieval signals.
The Authority Audit analyzes your complete citation architecture—from entity foundation through content structure—and gives you a prioritized roadmap to fix what’s broken.
Invisible to AI engines right now. Building content but not seeing AI citation. Need to understand why before spending more.
Already producing articles but not appearing in Perplexity or Google AI Overviews. Need a structural diagnosis, not more volume.
Heard about AI Citation Engineering. Not sure if it applies to your category or domain. The audit answers that before you commit to a monthly programme.
Yes. If you purchase either audit tier and sign a Foundation, Growth, or Authority retainer within 60 days of audit delivery, the full audit fee is credited against your first month. The audit becomes the onboarding diagnostic rather than a separate cost.
Still not sure? Email us your domain — we’ll tell you which audit makes sense.