AuthoritySignal is a Generative Engine Optimization agency. We measure exactly how ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Bing Copilot see your brand — then build and execute a prioritized plan to make you the default citation.
Keyword density, backlink profiles, and DA scores don't predict whether ChatGPT will quote your page. AI engines rank differently — brand mentions carry 3× the weight of backlinks, and only 11% of domains rank in both ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews. If you're not measuring GEO, you're flying blind on the fastest-growing traffic channel on the internet.
Weighted across six AI citability categories, scored 0–100.
Every audit produces a transparent 0–100 score across six categories. No black-box ranking. You see the formula, the weights, and exactly what to fix first.
We score every content block on five dimensions — Answer Block Quality, Self-Containment, Structural Readability, Statistical Density, and Uniqueness — targeting the 134–167-word answer-first format AI engines prefer.
We scan your presence across the platforms AIs actually cite — YouTube (25%), Reddit (25%), Wikipedia (20%), LinkedIn (15%), plus Quora, Stack Overflow, GitHub, Hacker News, podcasts, and news — and produce a Brand Authority Score.
A 25-point rubric per dimension quantifies Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. We enforce word-count benchmarks and Flesch Reading Ease 60–70 for content that both humans and models rank highly.
Eight-category technical audit — crawlability, indexability, security, URL structure, mobile, performance, Core Web Vitals, and SSR. Extra emphasis on JS-rendered content detection, because AI crawlers have limited JavaScript execution.
We detect, validate, and generate JSON-LD across the types that move the needle — Organization, LocalBusiness, Article+Author, Product, FAQPage, SoftwareApplication, WebSite+SearchAction, Person — and emit a sameAs linking strategy across platforms.
Only 11% of domains rank across both ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews. We score you separately for AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Bing Copilot — each with its own ranking-factor checklist — so you optimize for the surfaces that matter to your buyers.
Launch a full audit and our platform fires five specialized engines in parallel — AI visibility, platform analysis, technical infrastructure, content quality, and schema markup. Each engine runs deep analysis across citability, crawler access, llms.txt compliance, brand authority, structured data, and nine more dimensions. Results aggregate into a single composite score with a prioritized, agency-grade action plan.
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See all 14 audit dimensionsTier-1 critical AI crawlers against your robots.txt.
Discovery, diagnosis, execution, measurement. Every stage of your engagement follows a proven process — with clear deliverables at every step.
In sixty seconds we surface a homepage-level GEO snapshot — color-coded gaps across all six scoring categories, your AI crawler access status, and the biggest opportunities. No commitment required.
We run a deep audit across all 14 dimensions and deliver a comprehensive report — your scores, the gaps, and a prioritized action plan sized to your situation. No guesswork, no generic playbooks. Every recommendation maps to a measurable improvement.
Baseline vs. current, deltas across all six categories and five AI platforms, action-item completion, progress bars, estimated business impact. A polished PDF report you can hand straight to your leadership team or drop into a board deck.
Every tier includes full audits, ongoing optimization, and dedicated strategy. The difference is cadence and scope — we right-size the engagement to your score so you're never overpaying for work you don't need.
For brands with solid foundations who need to close the last gaps and maintain answer share against competitors.
For brands with meaningful gaps across citability, schema, and brand-authority signals who need active shipping cadence.
For brands starting from invisible. Full-stack intervention — technical, content, schema, brand authority, all five AI platforms in parallel.
About GEO, scoring, crawlers, llms.txt, and how AuthoritySignal works.
GEO stands for Generative Engine Optimization — optimizing for the paragraph an AI produces after synthesizing hundreds of sources, not for the ranked list of ten blue links Google returns. The fundamentals overlap: crawlable content, authoritative signals, topical depth. But the tactics diverge sharply.
AI engines weight brand mentions 3× more strongly than backlinks. Platforms like YouTube, Reddit, and Wikipedia outweigh traditional SERP signals. And each AI engine ranks differently — only 11% of domains rank in both ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews — so platform-specific optimization is required. Conventional SEO tools don't measure any of this.
The composite GEO Score is a weighted sum of six categories: AI Citability & Visibility (25%), Brand Authority Signals (20%), Content Quality & E-E-A-T (20%), Technical Foundations (15%), Structured Data / Schema.org (10%), and Platform Optimization (10%).
Inside Brand Authority, the sub-weights are YouTube 25%, Reddit 25%, Wikipedia 20%, LinkedIn 15%, other platforms 15%. It's a transparent formula — no black-box ranking. Every audit shows you the inputs, the weights, and the score contributions line by line.
llms.txt is an emerging standard — proposed by Jeremy Howard in September 2024 — that acts as an AI-friendly sitemap. It tells AI engines what your site is about, where the canonical content lives, and which pages to prioritize. Adoption is still early (roughly 5% of sites as of 2026), which makes it a competitive edge for brands that move now.
AuthoritySignal analyzes your existing llms.txt or generates a new one from a full site crawl. We can also produce an llms-full.txt with deeper page content for engines that want it — all included in the Standard and Premium tiers.
We check your robots.txt against a 3-tier matrix of 14+ AI crawlers:
Tier 1 (critical): GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot. Tier 2 (important): Google-Extended, GoogleOther, Applebot-Extended, Amazonbot, FacebookBot. Tier 3 (training-only): CCBot, anthropic-ai, Bytespider, cohere-ai.
Each bot gets a per-path allow/deny status and a recommendation. Blocking a Tier 1 crawler is the single fastest way to become invisible — we catch it in the first 10 seconds of an audit.
A full GEO audit detects your business type (SaaS / Local / E-commerce / Publisher / Agency / Hybrid), crawls up to 50 pages respecting robots.txt, and launches five analysis engines in parallel: AI Visibility, Platform Analysis, Technical, Content, and Schema. Each engine evaluates multiple dimensions of your GEO readiness.
Results are aggregated into a composite GEO Score with a prioritized action plan. The output is a polished, client-ready report — available as a downloadable PDF — sized to be handed directly to a client or attached to a board deck.
Most brands see measurable GEO Score improvements within the first 30 days. Technical fixes — crawler access, schema deployment, llms.txt — take effect almost immediately. Content and brand-authority signals compound over 60–90 days as AI engines re-index and recalibrate their source rankings.
Your monthly progress report tracks every delta so you can see exactly which levers moved the number and by how much.
Book a free Quick Scan. In about sixty seconds we'll surface a homepage-level GEO snapshot — enough to know whether your robots.txt is blocking AI crawlers, whether you have schema, whether your brand mentions are visible, and roughly where your GEO score lives.
If the gaps are meaningful, we follow up with a full GEO audit and a tailored engagement recommendation. Most brands go from first scan to active optimization in under a week.
Get a complimentary Quick Scan and a full GEO Score breakdown. Thirty minutes, zero obligation. You'll walk away knowing exactly where your brand ranks across all six AI engines — and the three fastest levers to move the number.