AI Authority Audit

Can AI understand, and recommend, your business?

Buyers are changing how they discover expertise. The question is no longer just whether your website ranks, it’s whether AI can understand your business well enough to include you in the conversation.

More buyers now begin their research with AI answer engines, not a search bar.

A buyer asks: “Who would you recommend for this?”
ChatGPTClaudePerplexityGeminiCopilot
A competitor
Another supplier
Your business? Are you in the answer?
A new leadership challenge

AI has become a boardroom discussion. Few organisations know where they stand.

Marketing

How does AI change search and discovery?

Sales

How are buyers now researching suppliers?

Leadership

Where do we invest, and what matters first?

The challenge isn’t whether you’re using AI. It’s that few businesses know whether their expertise is being understood by AI in the first place.

Authority comes before capture

Successful AI adoption starts before you deploy a single new tool.

It starts with becoming an organisation that is easy to understand, easy to trust and easy to recommend. Our commercial AI framework follows a simple progression:

You are here
Stage 1

Authority

Be understood, trusted and recommended, by people and by AI.

Stage 2

Capture

Turn that visibility into better buying experiences and stronger opportunities.

Stage 3

Convert

Respond faster, prepare better and create more value for customers.

Before AI can help you capture opportunities or accelerate sales, it first needs to understand who you are, what you do and why your expertise matters. The AI Authority Audit focuses on that first step.

What the audit actually does

It won’t tell you which AI tools to buy. It tells you how well you’re positioned to be found.

01

How well can AI understand your business?

Can AI clearly identify what you do, who you help and where your expertise lies, or does your website leave too much open to interpretation?

02

How discoverable is your expertise?

When buyers ask AI for recommendations or specialist knowledge, are you creating the kind of authoritative content that deserves to be found?

03

How effectively is your authority communicated to AI?

AI doesn’t simply read pages. It interprets structure, relationships, context, trust signals and evidence of expertise. The audit reviews how clearly yours comes across.

04

How visible are you in the AI search landscape?

Search is changing. The audit explores how well you’re positioned to be understood and surfaced where more buying journeys are now beginning.

What we review

The foundations that help both buyers and AI understand your business.

  • Market positioning and clarity
  • Website structure and organisation
  • Topic authority and depth of expertise
  • Buyer-focused content
  • Trust and credibility signals
  • Evidence of experience
  • Commercial relevance
  • Technical foundations for AI understanding
This isn’t a technical SEO audit. It isn’t an AI readiness assessment. And it isn’t a guarantee of how any individual AI platform will respond. It’s a commercial assessment of how effectively your expertise is communicated to both people and AI-powered search and answer engines.
What you’ll receive

A practical report, not a pile of technical jargon.

Your result
AIAuthority Score
Illustrative. Your score reflects your own digital authority.
  • An AI Authority Score
  • A review of how clearly AI can interpret your business
  • Where your expertise could become more discoverable
  • Opportunities to improve how your authority is communicated
  • Practical recommendations for the evolving AI search landscape
  • A prioritised action plan that strengthens the Authority stage

The goal isn’t to overwhelm you. It’s to help you understand where you are today, what matters most, and where to focus first.

Is this audit right for you?

Designed for organisations that rely on expertise to win business.

It’s particularly valuable if you’re asking questions like:

  • Can AI actually find our business?
  • Would ChatGPT recommend us?
  • How well can AI understand what we do?
  • How discoverable is our expertise?
  • Is our authority reaching AI answer engines?
  • How visible are we as AI search evolves?
  • Are we publishing enough expertise?
  • Does our website clearly say what we do?
  • Are we building authority in markets that matter?
  • What should we improve first?
Why it matters

The organisations that become recognised authorities won’t publish the most content. They’ll publish the clearest expertise, organised so both buyers and AI can understand it.

As AI becomes part of the buying journey, digital authority is becoming a commercial advantage, not simply a marketing objective.

Start your AI Authority Audit

Build authority before everyone else does.

The first step isn’t buying another AI tool. It’s understanding how effectively your expertise is being communicated. Complete the audit and receive a practical assessment of your digital authority, with clear recommendations to strengthen your visibility, credibility and discoverability.

Prefer to talk first?

We’ll walk you through it.

If you’d rather discuss your authority and where AI fits before running the audit, tell us a little about your business and we’ll be in touch.

Prefer email? info@plangrowdo.com

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