Measure How Answer Engines Represent Your Brand
Free AEO Audit. Measure how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini represent your brand. Get a scored report across five dimensions with actionable recommendations.
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ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini now answer for your brand before a buyer ever reaches your site.
This audit shows you exactly what they say, where you rank, and what to fix.
By the Numbers
- 3 — AI Platforms Analyzed
- 5 — Scoring Dimensions
- 100 — Point Scale
- Free — Full Analysis
What Your AEO Report Covers
Your brand is scored across five dimensions, each contributing to an overall score out of 100.
Sentiment Analysis (up to 40 points)
The highest-weighted dimension. We assess the overall tone AI platforms use when describing your brand: general sentiment, contextual sentiment across topics and use cases, and the credibility of sources influencing your AI representation.
Presence Quality (up to 20 points)
How substantively answer engines discuss your brand beyond surface mentions. We measure mention depth, source authority, and the variety and completeness of information available about your brand in AI training data.
Brand Recognition (up to 20 points)
How widely recognized your brand is across AI training data. A high recognition score means answer engines can discuss your brand with depth and specificity, not just acknowledge that it exists.
Share of Voice (up to 10 points)
Your brand's competitive presence in AI-generated responses relative to your category. We estimate your percentage of category voice and rank you against competitors.
Market Competition (up to 10 points)
How answer engines position your brand competitively: Leader, Challenger, or Niche Player. Plus your innovation perception: Innovator, Disruptor, or Traditionalist.
Actionable Recommendations
Your report includes a written interpretation of what your scores mean and specific next steps for improving your AI visibility through content strategy, schema markup, and answer engine optimization.
What the Full Report Looks Like
The free AEO report is the brand-perception slice of our comprehensive audit. These are real pages from an actual Content Cucumber audit we ran on our own commerce demo: a fast, beautiful store that scores 0% in the AI answer layer. Every score and AI engine result is real and unaltered.
A real audit, start to finish
Every audit opens with the scope and the snapshot it references. This is a genuine deliverable we ran on our own commerce demo, with the client name, domain, and homepage captured exactly as they were the moment we looked. Nothing in the report is hypothetical. Every finding points back to this snapshot, so when we say a tag is missing or a score is low, you can see precisely where and why. The format, the depth, the structure, and the tone are exactly what lands in your inbox when you run an audit on your own site.
Your score, nine categories
An out-of-100 health score with a weighted breakdown across nine categories: crawlability, on-page, schema, performance, Core Web Vitals, social and Open Graph, mobile, content depth, and AI search. AI is split into infrastructure (what is built) and measured outcome (what the engines actually do), because a site can pass every technical check and still be invisible in the answer layer. Live mobile and desktop PageSpeed figures sit right beside the score, so the number is grounded in real measurement, not estimates. You see at a glance where you stand and which single category is dragging the rest of the score down.
The live four-engine AI test
OpenAI, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude are each asked twenty real category queries, the kind your buyers actually type, and scored on how they represent you. You get per-engine gauges, a five-part sub-score breakdown, share-of-voice donuts, and the named competitors the engines hand the buyer instead of you. This is the part most audits never measure and the part that decides whether you exist in the answer layer at all. Each engine is graded out of 100 across five weighted parts. Brand Recognition, worth 20, is whether the engine knows you exist and can describe you without being fed details. Market Score, worth 10, is how it ranks you against the category. Presence Quality, worth 20, is how substantive and accurate the mention is rather than a passing reference. Brand Sentiment, worth 40, is the tone and the credibility of the sources shaping it. Share of Voice, worth 10, is how often you are named against competitors for the category question. Share of Voice is the part that decides everything, because zero there means the buyer never hears your name no matter how well an engine could describe you if it were asked directly. On this demo the result is stark. Zero share of voice on all four engines, with the engines naming Sysco and US Foods instead. That is the gap, quantified.
The verdict and what to do
A plain-language verdict, a 90-day roadmap, and the exact production model that earns AI share of voice over time. This sample is a fast, well-built, beautifully written store, and it still scores zero with the AI engines, because the technical fixes are an afternoon and the authority that earns citation is content built over months. That split is the whole lesson. You leave knowing which half of your own gap is a quick fix and which half is the real work, and exactly what the work is. No vague next steps, no upsell maze, just the model and the sequence.
How It Works
How It Works
Four steps from submission to actionable insights.
Enter Your Brand Information
Tell us your company name, location, industry, and product or service. You can analyze your own company or evaluate a competitor's AI positioning.
Cross-Platform AI Analysis
We send your brand information to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini and evaluate how each model characterizes your brand based on its training data.
Composite Score Calculation
Your results are calculated across all five dimensions, producing a total score out of 100 with validated, consistent scoring.
Full Brand Assessment Report
You receive your composite score, a breakdown across all five scoring dimensions, and a written interpretation of what your scores mean for your brand's current AI representation.
Why This Matters
Traditional SEO metrics don't reflect how answer engines represent your brand.
The Zero-Click Funnel
900 million people use ChatGPT weekly. Perplexity handles 500 million queries per month. Google AI Overviews appear on over 50% of searches. Your buyers are getting answers without visiting your website.
Beyond Traffic Metrics
Click-through rates and organic traffic don't tell you what AI platforms say about your brand. You need a measurement tool built specifically for answer engine visibility.
Control Your Narrative
Answer engines are defining your brand narrative whether you participate or not. Understanding how they represent you is the first step to influencing it.
Benchmark Against Competitors
Your competitors are already showing up in AI-generated answers. Knowing where you rank in share of voice and how AI platforms position you relative to alternatives gives you a concrete starting point.
Common Questions
Is this really free?
Yes, completely free with no obligation. We believe in showing value first. The audit gives you actionable insights whether or not you ever work with us.
How long does it take to get my report?
Your report will be ready within one business day. We run a thorough cross-platform analysis and include written interpretation of your results, not just raw scores.
Can I analyze a competitor's brand?
Yes. Enter any company name, industry, and product/service. The audit works for any brand, not just your own. Use it to benchmark against competitors.
What AI platforms do you analyze?
We evaluate your brand across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. These three platforms represent the largest share of AI-powered search and answer engine usage.
What can I do with the results?
Your report identifies specific areas where your brand's AI representation is strong and where it needs improvement. We include actionable recommendations for improving your scores through content, schema markup, and AI optimization strategies.
Find Out How AI Sees Your Brand
Answer engines are shaping buyer perception right now. Get your free AEO audit and see exactly how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini represent your brand across five scored dimensions.