Enterprise AEO audit

Enterprise AEO Audit that shows where AI splits your brand.

An enterprise AEO audit (Answer Engine Optimization audit) shows how search engines and AI tools describe a company with several websites, locations, or product lines. We compare your brand facts across every website, location, and product line, find where they conflict, and give your teams one governed record to correct them.

  • Scope confirmed in writing first
  • No citation guarantees
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Illustration of an AI search report with clear findings and recommended next steps.

The same work supports visibility across these AI search experiences

  • ChatGPT logoChatGPT
  • Google AI Overviews logoGoogle AI Overviews
  • Google AI Mode logoGoogle AI Mode
  • Perplexity logoPerplexity
  • Microsoft Copilot logoMicrosoft Copilot
  • Grok logoGrok

The platform mix and monitoring coverage are confirmed for your market during onboarding.

Key takeaways

  • A company with several websites, locations, or product lines is easy for AI tools to confuse when its sources state different facts.
  • One approved record of brand facts, with a named owner for each fact, stops teams from publishing versions that drift apart.
  • Each AI vendor publishes separate controls for search access and for model training, so a crawler policy should be one decision across every website.
  • We do not guarantee rankings or AI citations, because other companies control those systems, and the audit scope is confirmed in writing first.
What keeps a large brand from being split
  1. One record of brand factsEvery team publishes from the same approved record.
  2. Matching websitesEvery website states the same company facts.
  3. Matching locationsEvery location lists the same hours and phone numbers everywhere.
  4. Defined product linesEach product line has one page that defines it.

Simplified model of an enterprise audit. The scope is confirmed in writing before any work starts.

Client reviews

What clients say about working with AI Search Rankings

5.0 out of 5 on Google

  • I have worked with Jagdeep Singh, founder of AI Search Rankings, on Laser Tagging Inc., and the results have been excellent.

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    Jagdeep and his team built our website and completely improved how our business is positioned online. They understood our services, how customers search for us, where we were losing potential bookings, and what needed to change to turn more traffic into actual customers.

    One of the biggest wins has been our visibility in AI search. Laser Tagging Inc. has become much easier to find and is now being recommended more often across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google Gemini, and Google Search.

    The work has had a real impact on the business. We have generated more revenue, improved the customer journey, and fixed areas where we were previously losing customers and bookings.

    What impressed me most about Jagdeep is his understanding of both traditional SEO and Answer Engine Optimization. He knows how to position a business so search engines and AI platforms can clearly understand what the company does, trust the information, and recommend it when people are looking for those services.

    He is knowledgeable, detail-oriented, communicates clearly, and most importantly, follows through and gets the work done.

    I am very happy with the results and highly recommend Jagdeep and AI Search Rankings to any business owner who wants to grow their visibility, become a recommended answer in AI search, and turn that visibility into real business and revenue.

  • Google Review: I've worked with Jagdeep Singh, the founder of AI Search Rankings, on several projects, including Mr. Locksmith Lockout, Family Junk Removal Cleanout, and other businesses across different industries.

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    What sets Jagdeep apart is that he understands where search is heading. He doesn't just build websites or focus on traditional SEO. He brings real expertise in Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), helping businesses become easier for Google, Google Maps, ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and other AI search engines to find, understand, trust, and recommend.

    For my locksmith business, he took the time to understand our services, locations, and what customers actually need when searching for help. He and his team built our websites around those needs, with clear service information, local coverage, and easy ways for customers to call or text us.

    What I appreciate most is that Jagdeep doesn't just give recommendations and leave the work to someone else. He deve

    lops the strategy, handles the implementation, listens to feedback, and follows through. He understands that a website needs to do more than look good. It needs to help the business get found and turn visitors into customers.

    After working with Jagdeep on multiple projects, I highly recommend AI Search Rankings to business owners looking for a knowledgeable, reliable partner in website development, SEO, and Answer Engine Optimization.

  • We hired AI Search Rankings to help improve our visibility in AI search, and we have been very happy with the experience.

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    Jagdeep took the time to understand our business, explained everything in a way that was easy to understand, and showed us where we were missing opportunities.

    They worked on our Answer Engine Optimization and helped improve how our business is presented and understood by platforms like ChatGPT and Google. What I appreciated most was that Jagdeep did not just give us recommendations. He actually helped us make the improvements and had a clear reason behind everything he recommended.

    AI search was completely new to us when we started, but the whole process has been straightforward and easy to follow. I would definitely recommend AI Search Rankings to any business that wants to improve its online visibility and prepare for the way people are searching today.

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One company

Many websites and many teams should still describe one company

Each brand, location, and product line is published by a different team. When each one states the company facts in its own way, the company looks like several unrelated businesses.

Your companyYour company keeps one governed record of brand facts.
  • BrandsEvery brand states how it relates to the parent company.
  • WebsitesEvery website carries the same core company facts.
  • LocationsEvery location lists matching hours and phone numbers.
  • Product linesEvery product line has one page that defines it.
  • LeadershipEvery leader has a profile with a current, verifiable role.
  • ProfilesOutside profiles match the facts on your websites.
How a parent company, its brands, and its locations connect in structured data that matches the visible websites.
  • One approved record

    Every team publishes the company name, description, and leadership from the same record.

  • A named owner for each fact

    Each core fact has one person who approves changes to it, so corrections do not stall.

  • Connected structured data

    Each brand and location is linked to the parent with a permanent identifier. See schema and entity SEO services.

Illustration of several locations connected to one company

Many sites, one company

Each brand, location, and product line is published by a different team, so the audit checks that they all describe the same company.

  • Core facts are compared across every website.
  • Conflicts are listed by source.

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Fact conflicts

The audit lists every place where your own sources disagree

A conflict is easy to fix once it is found. The audit compares each core fact across every source and shows which ones differ.

Example comparison of brand facts across four kinds of sources
Business fact Corporate website Brand website Location pages Outside profiles
Legal company name Matches Matches Differs Differs
Company description Matches Differs Differs Differs
Product line names Matches Matches Matches Differs
Leadership team Matches Differs Matches Differs
Example brand fact check.
  • Every conflict, with its source

    The audit names the page or profile where each conflicting fact appears, so the owner knows what to change.

  • The answers AI tools give today

    The audit records how AI tools describe your company and each brand before any change is made. See AI visibility tracking.

Illustration of conflicting details between two versions of the same company

Every disagreement, listed

Each core fact is compared across every source, and each conflict is shown with where it appears.

  • A conflict is easy to fix once it is found.
  • Each one is assigned to the team that owns it.

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Audit stages

Six stages take you from scattered facts to one governed record

The audit runs in the same order every time, so your teams know what happens next and leadership can follow the progress.

  1. List every sourceWe list every website, profile, and feed that states a company fact.
  2. Compare the factsWe compare each core fact across every source and mark the conflicts.
  3. Name the ownersYour teams agree who approves a change to each fact.
  4. Correct the sourcesEach conflict is corrected at the page or profile where it appears.
  5. Connect the markupStructured data links every brand and location to the parent.
  6. Report to leadershipA monthly record shows how AI tools describe the company.
The six stages of the enterprise AEO audit, in the order they run.
Illustration of an ordered plan with next steps

One governed record

The audit runs in the same six stages every time, so teams know what happens next and leadership can follow the progress.

  • The governed record becomes every team's source.
  • Progress is reported stage by stage.

Read what AI Search Rankings guarantees, and see how a written plan is delivered in AI search consulting.

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Checked against vendor documentation

Which AI crawlers to allow, and what each one controls

Each AI vendor publishes separate controls for search access and for model training. Checking them is the cheapest, fastest fix in AI search, and one wrong rule can hide your pages without any warning on your website.

Your websitePages, facts, and answers
robots.txt and firewallDecide which crawlers get in

Model training controls

  • Google-Extended
  • GPTBot
  • ClaudeBot

Allow or block these as a business decision. Each vendor documents them separately from its search crawler.

How robots.txt and firewall rules decide which AI crawlers can read your website. Crawler names come from vendor documentation, checked September 13, 2026.
Search access and training controls by AI vendor
AI productSearch accessTraining controlWhat the training control changes
Google AI Overviews and AI ModeGooglebotGoogle-ExtendedGoogle states that Google-Extended does not affect inclusion in Google Search and is not a ranking signal in Google Search.
Microsoft CopilotbingbotNone listedThe cited documentation lists no separate training crawler.
ChatGPTOAI-SearchBotGPTBotBlocking it tells OpenAI not to use your content for model training. Appearance in ChatGPT search is controlled separately by OAI-SearchBot.
PerplexityPerplexityBotNone listedThe cited documentation lists no separate training crawler.
ClaudeClaude-SearchBotClaudeBotAnthropic states that blocking it excludes your future content from its model training datasets.

What the documentation says

  • Google states that a page must be indexed and eligible to show with a snippet in Google Search to appear as a supporting link in AI Overviews or AI Mode.
  • Google states that no special schema, AI text file, or new machine readable file is required to appear in these features.
  • The nosnippet, data-nosnippet, max-snippet, and noindex controls limit what Google can show, including in AI features.
  • Clicks and impressions from AI features are included in the Search Console Performance report under the Web search type.
  • Bing Webmaster Tools added an AI Performance report in public preview in February 2026. It shows how often your pages are cited in Microsoft Copilot and AI generated summaries in Bing.
  • Bing supports IndexNow, which notifies Bing when a page is added, changed, or removed.
  • OpenAI states that a robots.txt change can take about 24 hours to take effect.
  • Perplexity publishes the IP ranges for both agents, so a server firewall can allow them without allowing everyone.
  • Anthropic states that its crawlers honor robots.txt, including the Crawl-delay extension.

The rule most people miss. Under the robots.txt standard, a crawler obeys the most specific group that names it. If you add a group for one crawler, that crawler stops reading your "User-agent: *" rules, so any private folders you block there must be blocked again inside the new group.

Stay visible in AI search and opt out of model training

# Search crawlers (Googlebot, bingbot, OAI-SearchBot,
# PerplexityBot, Claude-SearchBot) need no new group.
# They follow your "User-agent: *" rules unless a group
# names them. Remove any rule that blocks them.

# Opt out of OpenAI model training.
# ChatGPT search is controlled by OAI-SearchBot instead.
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

# Opt out of Anthropic model training.
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

# Opt out of Gemini training and Gemini Apps grounding.
# Google states this does not affect Google Search.
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

Test changes in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools after you publish them.

Sources, checked September 13, 2026: Google Search Central: AI features and your website, Google common crawlers: Google-Extended, Microsoft Learn: web search in Microsoft Copilot, Bing Webmaster Blog: AI Performance public preview, OpenAI crawler documentation, Perplexity crawler documentation, Anthropic crawler documentation, RFC 9309: Robots Exclusion Protocol.

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Ask for a free review, and we will look at your robots.txt file and tell you whether it blocks the crawlers listed above.

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Enterprise AI search readiness check

Answer eight questions about your organization. A company with several websites, locations, or product lines is easy for AI tools to confuse, so consistency comes first.

Choose Yes, No, or Not sure for each question, then select See my score and fixes. Open the details under a question to see why it matters, how to check it, and the fix.

  1. Does your organization keep one approved record of its core brand facts?
    Why it matters and how to check

    Why it matters. Without one record, every team publishes its own version, and the versions drift apart.

    How to check. Ask three teams for the official company description and compare the answers.

    The fix. Create one approved record of brand facts and make it the source for every website and profile.

  2. Does each core fact have a named owner who approves changes to it?
    Why it matters and how to check

    Why it matters. A fact with no owner is changed by anyone and corrected by no one.

    How to check. Ask who approves a change to the company description, the leadership list, and the product names.

    The fix. Name an owner for each core fact and record how a change is requested and approved.

  3. Do all of your websites state the same company name, description, and parent relationship?
    Why it matters and how to check

    Why it matters. Websites that disagree make it unclear whether they describe one company or several.

    How to check. Compare the about page and the footer of each website you operate.

    The fix. Align every website to the approved record and state how each brand relates to the parent.

  4. Does every location list matching hours, addresses, and phone numbers on every source?
    Why it matters and how to check

    Why it matters. Customers act on these details, and one wrong listing sends them to the wrong place.

    How to check. Pick five locations and compare each one across your website, its profile, and two directories.

    The fix. Manage location details from one source and push corrections to every profile.

  5. Does each product line have one page that defines it?
    Why it matters and how to check

    Why it matters. When several pages define the same product line differently, none of them is the clear answer.

    How to check. Search your websites for a product line name and count the pages that describe it.

    The fix. Choose one defining page for each product line and point the other pages to it.

  6. Does the structured data on your websites connect each brand and location to the parent organization?
    Why it matters and how to check

    Why it matters. Connected markup states the relationships between your entities in a form machines read directly.

    How to check. Test a brand page and a location page in the Rich Results Test and look for a parent organization.

    The fix. Add organization markup that links every brand and location to the parent with a permanent identifier.

  7. Is your leadership team listed with current roles on your website and on outside profiles?
    Why it matters and how to check

    Why it matters. Outdated leadership details are a common source of wrong answers about a company.

    How to check. Compare the leadership page on your website with your main outside profiles.

    The fix. Update the leadership page first, then correct each outside profile to match it.

  8. Do you record how AI tools describe your company and each brand every month?
    Why it matters and how to check

    Why it matters. A monthly record shows whether descriptions are getting more accurate and where confusion remains.

    How to check. Ask two AI tools to describe your company and one brand, and save the answers with the date.

    The fix. Record the same questions every month and report the changes to leadership.

Proof from the same method

No published enterprise result yet. Here is what the same method did for other businesses.

We publish only results we can document, so this page does not present another industry's numbers as enterprise proof. Each result below names the business, where the data came from, and what it does not prove.

Want a documented starting point for your own organization? The free review records how AI tools describe you today, so your baseline exists before any work starts. Get my free review

  • The Toolsforhuman.com website shown on a desktop monitor

    Measured on Microsoft Copilot

    Verified result

    26,300Microsoft Copilot citations

    Toolsforhuman.com Microsoft Copilot

    AI Search Rankings used schema-first Answer Engine Optimization, layered JSON-LD, robust canonicals, and multilingual hreflang to help Toolsforhuman.com earn 26,300 Microsoft Copilot citations across 160 plus pages, including Spanish-language pages, in a sample window of about three months.

    Limitation. The result applies to the documented sample window and does not guarantee future citations.

  • Laser Tagging Inc. website hero section before and after the redesign

    Measured on Google AI Overviews and AI Mode

    Client-reported private Google Search Console result

    4,460Google generative AI impressions

    Laser Tagging Inc. Google AI Overviews and AI Mode

    AI Search Rankings rebuilt the Laser Tagging Inc. digital brand and website, expanded its service-area relevance across Newark, Fremont, San Jose, and nearby Bay Area communities, and documented 4,460 client-reported Google generative AI impressions in the selected last-three-month window.

    Limitation. The report measures Google generative AI impressions. It does not prove a ChatGPT recommendation, a click, a booking, a lead, or revenue.

    Newer data shared by the client: a Google Search performance export for search type Web shows 6,109 impressions in the last 3 months as of September 13, 2026, compared with 947 in the previous 3 months. That total covers all Google web results, not only AI features. Checked September 13, 2026. Open the search performance export shared by Laser Tagging Inc. (opens in a new tab)

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Why AI Search Rankings

Why businesses choose us for Enterprise AEO Audit

Senior expertise, published prices, and honest reporting from the first conversation. This is what partnering with us looks like.

  • Led by a named expert

    Jagdeep Singh, Founder and Principal AI Architect, brings 12+ years of SEO and digital marketing experience and 9 Google Skills certifications you can verify.

  • Prices published before you call

    Three monthly packages at $799, $1,500, and $3,500, each with a written list of the work delivered every month.

  • Reports you can check yourself

    We record the real AI answers for your buyer questions and list the work shipped beside them, never invented rankings.

  • Proof with its limits stated

    Results such as 26,300 Microsoft Copilot citations for Toolsforhuman.com are published with how they were measured and what they do not prove.

  • Honest about what no one controls

    We guarantee the work, not rankings or citations, so you are never sold a promise that cannot be kept.

  • A fast, straight answer

    A strategist replies within 24 hours, Monday to Friday, and tells you plainly when we are not the right fit.

Jagdeep Singh, founder of AI Search Rankings
Jagdeep Singh, Founder and Principal AI Architect.

A named expert you can look up

Every engagement is led by Jagdeep Singh, Founder and Principal AI Architect, who brings 12+ years of SEO and digital marketing experience. His profile lists his background and the credentials behind it.

  • His 9 Google Skills certifications can be verified at the issuer.
  • A strategist replies within 24 hours, Monday to Friday.
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Published pricing

What Enterprise AEO Audit costs, for your kind of business

Choose your business type. Mid-size B2B and enterprise programs publish their starting price, and local businesses choose from three fixed packages. Every price is a written monthly scope of work, never a promise about rankings or AI citations, because other companies control those systems.

Mid-Size B2B AI Search Program

This program is built for B2B companies with a sales team, a defined category, and buyers who research before they talk to sales. Become the company AI engines describe accurately and recommend when buyers ask for a shortlist in your category.

Mid-size B2B companies

Mid-Size B2B AI Search Program

From $2,500 per month

Most programs cost $2,500 to $7,500 per month. Your price is confirmed in writing before any work starts.

Get on the shortlist AI gives your buyers

  • We set your AI Answer Readiness Score baseline and re-audit it after each phase.
  • We track your buyer questions in ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Google AI Mode.
  • We track how visible your competitors are for the same questions.
  • We improve your product, solution, and comparison pages every month.
  • We strengthen schema and entity facts for your company, products, and leaders.

Enterprise AI Search Program

This program is built for organizations with several brands, websites, regions, or product lines, and a review process for public facts. Keep one consistent set of brand facts across every property, so AI engines never confuse or split your company.

Enterprise AEO Audit is part of the Enterprise AI Search Program. It aligns your brand facts across every website, location, and product line.

Enterprise organizations

Enterprise AI Search Program

From $5,000 per month

Most programs cost $5,000 to $15,000+ per month. Your price is confirmed in writing before any work starts.

One consistent company in every AI answer

Everything in the Mid-Size B2B AI Search Program, plus:

  • You get everything in the B2B program, across every brand, website, and region.
  • Every public fact gets one source and one owner who approves changes.
  • We align entities for your brands, products, leaders, and locations.
  • We track more buyer questions, markets, and competitors.
  • We build custom AI workflows on the OpenAI API, scoped and priced in writing.

Local AI Answer Packages

Three published monthly packages, built around local and service-area businesses that win customers through Google, Google Maps, and AI answers. Each one lists exactly what is delivered every month.

  • Local small businesses

    Local AI Answer Starter

    $799 per month

    Help nearby customers find, trust, and choose your business across Google, Google Maps, and AI answers.

    Local buyer prompts tracked
    25
    Local competitors compared
    3
    Page optimized monthly
    1
    New local answers monthly
    3 to 5
    See everything in Local AI Answer Starter
  • Competitive & multi-location businesses

    Local AI Answer Authority

    $3,500 per month

    Build a complete local authority system across Google, Maps, AI answers, reviews, and content.

    Local buyer prompts tracked
    150 to 250
    Local competitors compared
    10
    Pages optimized monthly
    5 to 8
    New local answers monthly
    10 to 20
    See everything in Local AI Answer Authority

Not sure which package fits? Answer four questions in the AI Search Fit Check, or compare every package line by line.

Straight answers

Enterprise AEO audit questions, answered

Plain answers to the questions buyers ask most. If yours is not here, ask a strategist directly.

What is an enterprise AEO audit?

An enterprise AEO audit, or Answer Engine Optimization audit, records how search engines and AI tools describe a company that has several websites, locations, or product lines. It compares the company's brand facts across every source, lists where they conflict, and names who should correct each one.

Why do AI tools confuse large companies?

Large companies publish facts in many places: corporate and brand websites, location pages, product pages, and outside profiles. When those sources state different names, descriptions, or leadership details, a search engine or an AI tool has to guess which one is right.

Is this page for B2B companies that are not large enterprises?

Yes. A B2B company with more than one website, location, or product line faces the same problem at a smaller scale. The audit scope is set by the number of sources to compare, not by company size, and it is confirmed in writing before any work starts.

What does brand fact governance mean?

Governance means one approved record of the company's core facts, a named owner for each fact, and a clear way to request and approve a change. With it, every website and profile is updated from the same record instead of drifting apart.

Who does the corrections after the audit?

That is your choice. Your own teams can make the corrections using our written plan, or AI Search Rankings can make them with your approval. Both options use the same published monthly packages.

Do you have results from enterprise clients?

No enterprise client result is published yet. The closest documented result is Toolsforhuman.com, which covers 160 plus pages and is not an enterprise. Each result on this page names the business, where the data came from, and what it does not prove.

Can you guarantee AI citations or rankings?

No. We do not guarantee rankings or AI citations, because other companies control those systems. We guarantee the defined work in your scope and a record of how search and AI tools describe your company and brands.

How much does an enterprise AEO audit cost?

The published packages are Local AI Answer Starter at $799, Local AI Answer Growth at $1,500, and Local AI Answer Authority at $3,500 per month. Enterprise and B2B companies start with a free package fit review, which confirms in writing whether a published scope fits before any work starts.

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