AI search audits for agencies and consultants
Key takeaways
- $399 a month flat for ten client sites, white-label reporting included.
- Per-domain pricing elsewhere costs $990 a month for the same ten-client book.
- No plugin, tag, CMS or analytics access needed, so you can audit prospects and competitors.
- Deterministic re-runs make before-and-after slides a real measurement rather than a narrative.
- Below about four sites, buy one-time audits instead. We would rather say so.
Ten client sites, one flat $399 a month, white-label reports included. Per-domain pricing is the structural problem an agency runs into everywhere else in this market: at $99 per domain, a ten-client book costs $990 a month before anyone has done any work.
What does per-domain pricing cost an agency?
| Client sites | Per-domain at $99 | AnswerOpen Agency | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 sites | $297 | $399 | +$102 |
| 5 sites | $495 | $399 | −$96 |
| 10 sites | $990 | $399 | −$591 |
| 20 sites | $1,980 | $798 | −$1,182 |
Below about four sites you should buy the per-domain tool or just buy one-time audits from us. We would rather say that than sell you the wrong plan.
What can you put your own logo on?
The client-facing report: an executive summary with the headline score and the one blocker that matters, the per-page table, the ranked fix plan with every affected URL, the per-engine readiness lenses, and the off-site action plan. Your logo and colors, your domain in the footer, no mention of us unless you want one. Print-optimized, because half of these still get walked into a meeting on paper.
Why does this fit agency work specifically?
- It produces billable work, not a dashboard. The output is a ranked list of specific edits with named URLs. That is a scope of work you can quote from directly.
- It audits sites you do not own. The crawl needs no plugin, no tag, no CMS access and no analytics connection — so you can audit a prospect's site before the pitch, and a competitor's site during it.
- It re-runs deterministically. The same crawl on an unchanged site returns the same numbers, so a before-and-after slide is a real measurement rather than a narrative.
- It finds problems that are not yours. An edge blocking AI crawlers is a hosting or security decision. Being the one who finds it is worth more than another content recommendation.
How does a typical agency engagement run?
- Prospect audit before the pitch: headline score, biggest blocker, one page.
- Full audit on signature, delivered under your brand.
- Fix sprint — your developers work from the diffs, or we stage and apply them with backups on approval.
- Re-audit to evidence the delta, then monthly monitoring that alerts only on regression, so a client's new WAF rule surfaces the week it lands rather than the quarter after.
The finding that pays for the engagement is almost never a content finding. It is that something between the client and the internet has been quietly refusing answer engines for months.
— AnswerOpen engagement notes, August 2026
What should an agency know before buying?
The same disclosure as everywhere else on this site: the audit engine is production-grade and has run on production sites of 679 and 391 pages, but the subscription plumbing — logins, scheduled runs, automated white-label generation — is being built. Early agency engagements are run with us in the loop, which in practice means you get more of our attention than the price implies and less self-service than you would eventually want. See pricing and how it works.
Primary sources
Everything asserted above traces to one of these. Operator documentation changes often; check the current version before relying on any of it.
- OpenAI crawler documentation — the authoritative list of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot and ChatGPT-User behavior
- Perplexity bot documentation — PerplexityBot and Perplexity-User
- Bing Webmaster Tools — first-party AI performance data, and the free ground truth for any prediction we make
Request an audit of your site
There is no fake "instant scan" button on this site. A real audit crawls your sitemap, fetches every page, and runs nine live user-agent probes against your edge — it takes minutes of machine time, not milliseconds, and it is run by a human who reads the result before you see it. Send the URL and you get the headline score plus your single largest blocker back, at no charge.
Frequently asked questions
Can I put my own branding on the report?
Yes. The client-facing report carries your logo, your colors and your domain in the footer, with no mention of us unless you want one. It is print-optimized because many of these get walked into a meeting on paper.
Can I audit a site I do not have access to?
Yes. The crawl is external and read-only, needing no plugin, tag, CMS login or analytics connection, so you can audit a prospect's site before the pitch and a competitor's site during it.
How many sites are included?
Ten sites on the $399 flat monthly plan. Larger books are quoted, and the flat structure is preserved rather than converted to per-domain pricing.
What does an agency engagement typically look like?
A prospect audit before the pitch, a full audit under your brand on signature, a fix sprint your developers work from or we stage and apply with backups, a re-audit that evidences the delta, then monthly monitoring that alerts only on regression.
What is not ready yet for agencies?
The subscription plumbing. Logins, scheduled runs and automated white-label generation are in build, so early agency engagements run with us in the loop: more of our attention than the price implies, and less self-service than you will eventually want.