What a finished audit looks like

How to read this report

This report shows what four AI answer engines said about [Fieldline Consulting] when asked the questions a buyer would ask, on [date], from [location]. It then lists what is worth fixing, in order.

Three things to keep in mind:

• AI answers move. The same question can get a different answer tomorrow, from another city, or for another user. Treat this as a dated snapshot, not a ranking.
• Nobody can guarantee a mention. Not us, not an agency, not a tool. What you can control is how easy your company is to understand and to cite. That is what the fix list targets.
• Every finding has a source. Each answer was saved as a screenshot or text export. They are in the appendix folder that came with this report.

Engines tested: ChatGPT (logged out, web search on), Perplexity (free, default model), Gemini (logged out), Google AI Overviews and AI Mode (US, signed out, private window).

Method: 15 buyer questions, each run once per engine in a fresh session. No custom instructions, no memory, no prior conversation.

1. Summary

In one paragraph: [Fieldline appears when buyers search by its name, and mostly disappears when they describe the problem. The engines lean on two directory profiles and one roundup article that do not list Fieldline. Two of the three factual errors come from a pricing page that is still live. Fixing those pages and getting listed where the engines already look is the fastest route.]

2. Question by question

One row per question. "Named" means the company appeared anywhere in the answer. "Position" is the order of mention among companies. "Cited" means a page from your site was linked as a source.

3. What the engines got wrong about you

4. Where the engines look in your category

The sources cited most often across all 60 answers, whether or not you appear in them.

5. Your site, as a crawler sees it

On llms.txt: We do not recommend it as a fix. Ahrefs found that 97% of llms.txt files on 137,000 sites got zero traffic in May 2026, and Google says the file is not needed for its AI search features. If you already have one, leave it.

6. The fix list, ranked

Ranked by likely effect on the answers above against effort. Effort is a rough guide for a small team.

7. What happens next

• Do it yourself. The fix list is written so your team can work through it without us.
• Rerun in 60 days (optional, $150). Same 15 questions, same engines, same method, with a side-by-side table of what changed. Answers can move for reasons unrelated to your fixes, so the rerun reports what changed, not why.
• Questions. Reply to the delivery email within 14 days and we will answer anything in this report.

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Sample only. Fieldline Consulting, Northpoint Advisory, Ridgeway and Alder & Co are made-up names, and every number in brackets is a placeholder. No result shown here is a real audit result. Prepared by Yan Moukoury, Plaintext.