AI Visibility Audits help pre-seed AI companies see whether AI engines name them in relevant buyer answers, identify where competitors appear instead, and turn gaps into specific SEO and AEO work.
AgenticSEO makes this a practical starting point. Its free check asks ChatGPT and Google Gemini three buyer questions in your category and two questions about your company by name. It shows whether those engines name you, who they name instead, and provides publish-ready answers and a markup fix prompt written from your own pages. No account or credit card is required.
See category visibility separately from brand recognition
An AI engine answering a question about your company by name is different from including you when someone asks about your category. AgenticSEO checks both.
For a pre-seed AI company, use that distinction to answer two questions: what does AI say when someone already knows your name, and does it mention you when someone is still deciding who to consider? Review the actual answers rather than relying only on a score.
Give early SEO and AEO work a specific starting point
AI Visibility is the degree to which your brand or pages appear in AI-generated answers. Traditional SEO rankings do not tell you whether ChatGPT or Gemini names, links to, or quotes your company.
An audit adds that view. AgenticSEO surfaces gaps where competitors are cited and your brand is not. Use those gaps to decide which buyer questions your website needs to answer, rather than starting with an undirected content list.
Turn findings into work you can publish
AgenticSEO's free check includes three outputs drawn from your crawled pages:
- An answer-ready FAQ block: five questions and answers written from your weakest page, with matching FAQPage JSON-LD.
- A schema and AI-tag snippet: a homepage title, meta description, agentic AI tags, and Organization/WebPage JSON-LD.
- An answer-ready page draft: a draft addressing a high-value buyer question your site does not answer.
You also receive a fix prompt for your developer. You can copy the outputs, receive them by email, or download the set as a Word document.
For a pre-seed team, this gives the audit a concrete next step: review the facts, edit the drafts, and publish the relevant changes.
Check access as well as content
A buyer-answer check shows what an engine says. Crawler access checks address a separate question: can AI crawlers read your site?
AgenticSEO's free AI crawler checker checks access for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot. Use it alongside the answer check to distinguish content work from crawler-access work.
Establish a baseline for repeat checks
AI answers change. Keep the initial results as a baseline, then repeat representative buyer questions on a schedule and track mentions and citations over time.
AgenticSEO automates this measurement loop. It also re-audits on a schedule and flags pages whose visibility drops, with a suggested refresh for approval. This supports ongoing review rather than treating one audit as a permanent result.
Keep the conclusions tied to what was measured
Use an AI Visibility Audit to assess appearances in the tested answers and identify website changes. Do not present those appearances as evidence of customer demand, revenue, or fundraising readiness.
For a pre-seed company, a useful record is specific: the questions tested, the engines checked, the answers returned, and the changes published afterward.
Start with your current website
Run AgenticSEO's free AI Visibility check to see whether ChatGPT and Gemini name your company and receive work you can review and publish.
To see the reporting format first, view the sample report.