Free AI Search Visibility Mini-Audit
Are AI search engines recommending your competitors?
AI visibility audit for SaaS founders and marketing teams
Boring Engineer runs simple AI search visibility mini-audits for founders, SaaS teams, and business owners. We check whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, and Google AI mention your competitors instead of your brand.
What the audit checks
The mini-audit is a practical snapshot of how AI search tools talk about your category today. We focus on buyer-intent prompts—the questions prospects ask before they ever click your website.
- Brand presenceWhether your brand appears in AI-generated answers
- Competitor mapWhich competitors appear instead
- Prompt riskWhich buyer-intent prompts create competitor recommendations
- Source trailWhich sources or citations seem to influence the answers
- First fixWhat the likely first repair opportunity is
Who it is for
Use this audit when you need a fast, honest read on AI search visibility without committing to a long consulting engagement first.
How it works
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Submit
Share your website and competitors through the Meta form.
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Review
We manually check 10 buyer-intent AI search prompts.
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Deliver
You receive a short mini-audit within 24–48 hours.
What the free mini-audit includes
- 10 AI search prompts
- Brand vs competitor visibility check
- Competitor mention summary
- 1–3 example findings
- Recommended next step
Why AI search visibility matters
Buyers increasingly research vendors inside AI assistants before they visit a homepage, open a demo form, or talk to sales. If ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI recommends competitors when someone asks for the best tool in your category, you can lose pipeline before traditional analytics ever show the problem.
AI search visibility is the measure of whether your brand is mentioned, explained, and recommended in those generated answers. A strong SEO program can coexist with weak AI visibility because the sources and ranking signals each system uses are not identical.
AI visibility vs traditional SEO
Traditional SEO tracks positions in search engine results pages, click-through rates, and indexed pages. AI visibility tracks a different outcome: whether your company is named in the answer itself, which competitors are suggested instead, and which reviews, docs, or comparison pages the model appears to trust.
That is why teams with healthy organic traffic can still have an AI search blind spot. The free mini-audit gives you a baseline across common buyer prompts so you can see where competitors win mentions and where a content, citation, or positioning fix may have the highest leverage.
Frequently asked questions
- What is an AI search visibility audit?
- It checks whether AI tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, and Google AI recommend your brand when buyers ask purchase-intent questions in your category.
- How is AI visibility different from SEO?
- SEO measures rankings in search results. AI visibility measures whether your brand appears inside generated answers, which may cite different sources than Google's top ten blue links.
- What does the free mini-audit include?
- Ten buyer-intent prompts, a brand-versus-competitor check, a short summary of who gets mentioned, one to three example findings, and a recommended next step.
- Which AI tools do you check?
- We manually review answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, and Google AI using prompts your buyers are likely to ask before choosing a vendor.
- Who is the audit for?
- SaaS founders, business owners, marketing teams, and SEO or content agencies that need a quick read on AI search blind spots before investing in a larger program.