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AI Search & Visibility · AI Readiness Audit

Know exactly how AI sees your brand — and what to do about it.

ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews are deciding whether to cite or skip your brand right now. Our AI Readiness Audit gives you a complete, expert assessment of where you stand across every signal that matters — scored, benchmarked, and delivered in three fixed-price tiers with a prioritized roadmap to win.

Backed by 15+ years engineering search visibility for multi-location brands across Long Island, NYC, Nationally & Internationally.
AI Readiness · scoring your site
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15+ Years in Search / 20+ Industries / Long Island / New York City / Nationwide / One Proprietary Framework
The Problem

You can rank #1 on Google and still be invisible to AI.

AI search is a separate channel with separate rules — a brand can rank well on Google and still never be cited in an AI answer, and most businesses are invisible there without knowing it. As buyers shift to asking AI, that blind spot quietly costs you the decision. You can't fix what you can't see — which is exactly what the audit makes visible.

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Unknown AI visibility.

No idea whether AI cites, skips, or misrepresents you.

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Hidden technical & structural gaps.

Crawl, rendering, schema, and structure issues you can't see are blocking you.

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No prioritized plan.

Effort scattered across tactics instead of aimed at the biggest gaps.

The Service

The AI Readiness Audit, defined.

The AI Readiness Audit is a comprehensive, expert assessment of how prepared your website and brand are for AI-driven search — covering how engines crawl and parse your site, how AI represents your brand, the strength of your entities and authority, and where the highest-impact opportunities are.

At MAXPlaces, the audit is methodology-driven, not automated guesswork. We assess your site across eight dependency-ordered areas (the “AI Readiness Cascade”), benchmark you against the competitors winning AI citations, and deliver a prioritized roadmap mapped to our S.T.A.R.SM framework — so you know exactly what to fix first and why. The audit is fixed-scope and fixed-price — three tiers, published below — and every finding maps to a specific fix, so the roadmap you receive is a work order, not a wish list.

What's Included

What we assess.

01

AI Crawler Access

Whether GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Common Crawl and others can reach your site — including the CDN and firewall settings that block them silently.

02

Rendering Architecture

Whether your content survives without JavaScript — most AI crawlers never run it — and whether embeds and PDFs hide what matters.

03

Page Performance

Speed, stability, and page weight — including the agent-readiness checks Google's own Lighthouse tooling now scores.

04

Schema & Structured Data

Whether AI can parse your meaning and entities — from organization and service markup to the connected schema graph that links it all.

05

Content Structure

Answer-first formatting, question-led headings, extractability, freshness — whether your pages are built to be quoted.

06

Entity Clarity

Whether AI can unambiguously identify and trust your brand — names, Wikidata, Knowledge Panel, and consistency across the web.

07

AI Visibility Monitoring

Whether — and how — AI engines currently mention and represent you, tested across up to six platforms with a fixed query set.

08

Competitive Intelligence

Who's being cited instead of you, on which queries, and the gap to close — benchmarked against your real competitors.

MAXPlaces
Confidential Report
AI Readiness
Audit
Prepared for your brand
68/100
Readiness
score
Scored findings
Crawler access82
Rendering74
Schema58
Entity clarity41
Content structure70
Competitive gap55
Prioritized S.T.A.R.SM roadmap →
1Fix entity markup & sameAs
2Expand FAQ & Article schema
3Close 6 competitor citation gaps
Sample report · illustrative
What You Receive

A clear report. Real scores. A roadmap you can act on.

You don't get a vague "you should do better at AI." You get a documented audit you can take to your team and act on immediately.

01Executive summary — where you stand and what it means for your business, in plain language.
02Scored findings across all 8 areas — a clear readiness score with the specific issues behind each.
03Quick Wins — the fixes your team can implement the same week, pulled to the front.
04In-depth findings, implementation-ready — every finding includes the evidence, step-by-step instructions, code where applicable, and a “done when” check so your team can verify each fix worked.
05Prioritized S.T.A.R.SM roadmap — a ranked action plan, highest-impact first, mapped to the framework.
06Findings review call (Plus and Pro) — we walk through findings and the recommended path on a call.
The Framework

The audit maps to "S" and "R" in S.T.A.R.SM

S
Strategic Planning
T
Technical SEO
A
Authority Building
R
Results Measurement

Every engagement runs on our proprietary S.T.A.R.SM framework. The audit diagnoses across all four pillars — anchored in Strategic Planning and Results Measurement — and produces an S.T.A.R.SM-mapped roadmap that tells you exactly what to fix first and how we'll measure it. On its own it's a diagnostic; inside S.T.A.R.SM it's the first step of a measurable growth engine.

How It Works

How the audit works.

01

Discovery & Goals

Align on your market, competitors, and objectives.

02

Technical & Crawl Analysis

Assess crawler access, rendering, performance, schema, and structure.

03

AI Representation Testing

Check how AI engines currently see, describe, and cite (or skip) you.

04

Competitive Benchmarking

Compare your AI visibility to the brands winning citations.

05

Findings & Roadmap

Score the results and build the prioritized, S.T.A.R.SM-mapped plan.

06

Review & Next Steps

Walk through findings and the recommended path on a call.

What You Get

What you walk away with.

✓A clear, expert picture of how AI sees and represents your brand today.
✓Every technical, structural, entity, and authority gap identified.
✓A competitive benchmark of your AI visibility vs. rivals.
✓A prioritized, S.T.A.R.SM-mapped roadmap of what to fix first.
✓The confidence to invest where it will actually move the needle.
AI Readiness Audit

Want the fixed-price audit with the full scope published?

The dedicated AI Readiness Audit lander has the full tier-by-tier scope, sample report, request form, turnaround rules, and onboarding-waiver details.

Use this service page to understand the discipline; use the audit lander when you are ready to compare Core, Plus, and Pro and request the fixed-price diagnostic.

AI Readiness Audit
Fixed-price diagnostic tiers.
Core
$1,500
Essential diagnostic
Plus
$3,000
Full picture
Pro
$5,000
Deep competitive audit
✓Core: 10 pages / 4 AI platforms
✓Plus: 20 pages / 6 AI platforms
✓Pro: 20+ pages / 6 AI platforms
✓Full scope, sample report, and request form live on the lander.
Proof

What the audit uncovers — and what happens next.

“

Best marketing pros I've ever worked with. Such a pleasure to deal with a team that is knowledgeable, attentive and provides real results as expected. The audit provided gave us a handful of action items that really moved the needle.

Evangelina Kratzhoefer
Owner, EJK Imports
Mini-case
FOUND

JavaScript-rendered content invisible to AI crawlers.

FIXED

Server-rendered the core pages and added entity schema.

+97
AI citations
1 qtr
to first lift
Why MAXPlaces

Future-forward strategy, backed by 15 years in search.

We're not a startup chasing the AI trend, and we're not a legacy shop bolting "AI" onto old playbooks. We built S.T.A.R.SM to carry a decade-plus of search expertise into the answer-engine era.

✓15+ years of real results
✓GEO + AEO + SEO unified
✓Multi-location & enterprise experience
✓Data-driven decisions
✓Transparent reporting
✓Strategists, not ticket-takers
Explore the System

The audit points the way. These services do the work.

Your roadmap maps directly to the engagements that execute it. Explore the natural next steps the audit feeds into.

Questions, Answered

AI Readiness Audit questions, answered.

A structured, expert assessment of whether AI search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews can find, read, trust, and cite your site — across crawler access, rendering, performance, schema, content structure, entity clarity, your current AI visibility, and competitive position — delivered with a prioritized roadmap.

A traditional SEO audit checks rankings, keywords, and traffic. This adds how AI engines crawl, interpret, represent, and cite your brand — a separate channel where strong Google rankings don't guarantee visibility.

A complete, implementation-ready report: an executive summary in plain business language, your scored 8-category report card, a Quick Wins list your team can act on the same week, in-depth findings — each with evidence, step-by-step fix instructions, code where applicable, and a 'done when' verification — and a prioritized S.T.A.R.SM roadmap. Depth scales by tier: 10 findings minimum at Core, 18+ at Plus, 25+ at Pro, with reports typically running 14–65 pages. Pro adds a leadership-ready presentation deck.

Yes — the report is built so your internal team can implement every fix without us. Each finding includes the steps, the code, and how to verify it worked. If you'd rather we handle it, that's what the Accelerator is for.

Core fits smaller sites that need the essential diagnostic. Plus is our recommended tier for most established businesses — full entity analysis, six platforms, competitive benchmark, and a review call. Pro is built for regulated industries (healthcare, legal, financial), aggressive competitive markets, and multi-location brands.

Core is delivered as a documented report, async — that's how we keep it at $1,500. If you want your findings walked through live, Plus includes a 60-minute review call, or you can bring Core findings to a Discovery Call anytime.

No. The Launchpad and our service engagements include their own baseline diagnostics. The audit is for teams that want the complete verified picture — and the roadmap — before committing budget. Many clients start either way.

The audit comes in three fixed-price tiers: Core at $1,500, Plus at $3,000, and Pro at $5,000. The full scope is published on the AI Readiness Audit lander, including pages assessed, platforms tested, deliverables per tier, and the Accelerator onboarding-fee waiver.

Core is delivered in about 5 business days, Plus in about 10 business days, and Pro in about 15 business days. Timing can shift slightly if access, stakeholder input, or competitor lists are delayed.

No. The audit stands on its own and gives you a plan you can execute however you like. Many clients then engage us for GEO, AEO, or technical work — but there's no obligation.

No — AI readiness builds on solid SEO fundamentals. Most fixes (clean structure, schema, performance) help both AI visibility and traditional rankings.

Ready to be the answer AI recommends?

Start with a free AI visibility report. We'll show you exactly where AI is skipping your site — and how the S.T.A.R.SM framework fixes it.

Prefer to talk now? Call 855.629.6584 — or if none of the times work, just reply and we'll find one.