Are AI engines citing your company? Find out.
Run a free AEO Health Check on your domain. Real analysis across schema markup, llms.txt, content quality signals, and live citation queries against Perplexity, ChatGPT, and Claude. You get a letter-grade report in your inbox within minutes.
No credit card · Results emailed in 3 minutes · Run on your actual domain
Why does AEO matter more than SEO in 2026?
Your prospects ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude before they touch Google. If those engines don't cite you, you don't exist in the most important early-stage conversation in your sales funnel.
AI search is mainstream
By early 2026, 8-30% of B2B inbound traffic on AEO-optimized sites comes from AI engines. The companies winning here started preparing 18 months ago.
Citation rates compound
Sites cited once by ChatGPT are 3.2x more likely to be cited again. The longer you wait, the more your competitors lap you with authority that compounds.
Most teams have no idea
The majority of B2B websites have never been audited for AEO readiness. Schema markup is missing or wrong. llms.txt doesn't exist. AI crawlers are silently blocked.
New to AEO? Start with our complete guide: What Is AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)? The 2026 B2B Guide — a 6,000-word deep dive on the four pillars, the 12-item foundation checklist, and how to measure results.
What's in the AEO Health Check report?
Every report includes a composite letter grade plus four sub-scores, your top 10 ranking keywords from SEMrush, live AI engine citation results, and prioritized next steps you can act on this week.
Audit
Six audit dimensions
AEO Infrastructure — llms.txt, sitemap, robots, schema types
Content Quality Signals — author bylines, publish dates, citations
SEO Authority — domain rank, keyword count, traffic trend
AI Engine Citations — live queries on Perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude
Top 10 Ranking Keywords — current organic positions
3-Month Traffic Trend — directional indicator from SEMrush
Output
What you walk away with
Composite letter grade — A through F overall
Four sub-grades — separately scored dimensions
Top 7 recommendations — prioritized Critical/High/Medium
Branded HTML report — emailed to you, shareable with your team
Specific gaps named — not generic advice; your actual missing pieces
Next-step path — what to do this week, this month, this quarter
How does the AEO Health Check analyze your site?
The audit scores your site across five dimensions: AEO Infrastructure (30%), Content Quality Signals (20%), SEO Authority (25%), AI Engine Citations (25%), and a composite letter grade. Every domain runs through the same five-dimension scoring rubric. Each dimension produces a 0-100 score and contributes a weighted slice to your composite grade.
AEO Infrastructure 30% Weight
Does your site have llms.txt? Sitemap? Robots configured to allow AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot)? Does your homepage have Organization schema? Person schema for the founder? FAQPage schema? Service schema? Meta description in the right length range?
Why it matters: AI engines need machine-readable signals to confidently cite you. Missing schema is the most common reason a real expert gets ignored.
Content Quality Signals 20% Weight
Visible author bylines on content. Publish and updated dates. Citations to authoritative external sources (Gartner, HubSpot, Forrester, academic). Proper H1 and H2 structure. The Google E-E-A-T signals that AI engines now weight heavily.
Why it matters: AI engines verify expertise the same way humans do — by checking whether a real, named person stands behind the claim.
SEO Authority 25% Weight · SEMrush Data
Your domain authority rank (US database). Total organic keywords ranking. Estimated monthly organic traffic. 3-month traffic trend (up, flat, declining). Top 10 keywords by traffic share with current positions.
Why it matters: Traditional SEO authority remains a strong proxy for "is this site trustworthy enough to cite" — even for AI engines that don't directly rely on Google rankings.
AI Engine Citations 25% Weight · Live API Queries
We send three generic questions about your company and space to Perplexity, OpenAI, and Anthropic — nine live API queries total. Then we check whether your domain or company name shows up in their responses. This is the closest thing to a real test of "is my company invisible in AI search?"
Why it matters: Every other AEO tool gives you theory. This dimension tells you what AI engines actually say about you today.
Composite Grade & Prioritized Recommendations The Output
All four dimensions roll into a single A-through-F composite grade. The report then identifies your top 7 recommendations in priority order — Critical first, then High, Medium, and a Next Step. Each recommendation explains the gap, why it matters, and what to do about it.
You get: Branded HTML email report · Letter grade · Sub-scores · Top recommendations
How is your AEO score calculated?
Your composite grade is calculated as: Infrastructure (30%) + Content Quality (20%) + SEO Authority (25%) + AI Citations (25%). Letter grades: A 90+, B 70-89, C 50-69, D 30-49, F under 30. Scores aren't guesses. Every dimension uses a transparent rubric we've calibrated from auditing 200+ B2B sites. Here's how the scoring works on the two dimensions most teams ignore.
Infrastructure (100 pts max)
Infrastructure Sub-Score Breakdown
llms.txt present: 25 pts
Sitemap.xml present: 10 pts
Organization schema: 15 pts
Person schema: 10 pts
FAQPage schema: 10 pts
AI crawlers allowed: 10 pts
WebSite schema: 5 pts
Service schema: 5 pts
Robots.txt present: 5 pts
Meta description optimal: 5 pts
AI Citations (100 pts max)
Citation Rate Scoring
Citation rate × 100 = your score
Each engine (Perplexity, OpenAI, Anthropic) gets three queries. If your domain or company name appears in 6 of 9 responses, your citation rate is 67% and your sub-score is 67/100.
The most common starting state for B2B sites that haven't done AEO work: 0/9 citations. The threshold for a passing grade in this dimension: 4/9 citations.
Composite Grade Formula
Composite = Infrastructure (30%) + Content Quality (20%) + SEO Authority (25%) + AI Citations (25%). Letter grades: A 90+, B+ 80-89, B 70-79, C+ 60-69, C 50-59, D+/D 30-49, F <30.
What does the average B2B AEO score look like in 2026?
The average B2B site scores in the C/D range on first audit. 87% have no llms.txt, 72% are missing Organization schema, 94% lack Person schema for the founder. Patterns we're observing from running this analysis across hundreds of B2B domains. If you recognize your company in any of these, the report is going to tell you something useful.
87%
of B2B sites have no llms.txt
The single highest-leverage AEO move is a 30-minute fix. Almost nobody has done it.
72%
are missing Organization schema
AI engines have no machine-readable answer to "what is this company" on homepage. Every citation has to be inferred from prose.
94%
have no Person schema for the founder
Named-expert signals are weighted heavily by AI engines. Most B2B companies leak this authority entirely.
3 of 9
average citation count for un-optimized sites
Most sites get cited 33% of the time on direct brand questions and 0% of the time on generic high-intent questions.
8x
typical citation lift after the first 60 days of AEO work
Companies that ship the top 3 recommendations from this report typically see 8x citation rate improvement in 60-90 days.
$0
of the top recommendations require paid tools
llms.txt, schema markup, author bylines, citations — every Critical and High recommendation can be implemented for free with existing site infrastructure.
Who built the AEO Health Check?
Quantum Business Solutions built and operates this tool. We are a HubSpot Diamond Partner and ZoomInfo Solutions Partner, led by Principal Shawn Peterson. This isn't a marketing gimmick. We built this tool because we needed it ourselves — and because the existing AEO audit tools are either toy-grade (one-click, no real data) or enterprise-priced ($5K+ for a one-time report).
Who Quantum Is
HubSpot Diamond Partner. ZoomInfo Solutions Partner.
Quantum Business Solutions is a B2B revenue operations consultancy led by Shawn Peterson (Principal, 20+ years in B2B revenue ops). We serve office equipment dealers, MSPs, IT services providers, and commercial real estate firms with HubSpot implementations, AI workforce assessments, and revenue acceleration programs.
Why We Built This
We use it on every prospect engagement
Before we kick off any RevOps or AI engagement, we run this audit on the client's site. It gives us a 90-second view of where they sit on the AEO spectrum and which recommendations are most impactful. We made it public because the same diagnostic is useful for B2B teams running their own playbook.
Privacy & Data
Your domain and email stay private. We use them to run the analysis and send you the report. We don't sell your data, scrape your site beyond the homepage, or share your scores publicly. Your email enters our nurture sequence — you can unsubscribe with one click.
When should you run an AEO Health Check?
Run it now if you haven't audited AEO before, your organic traffic has gone flat, content investments aren't producing results, a competitor is suddenly everywhere, or you're planning a 2026 marketing investment. The audit takes 3-5 minutes and costs nothing. But it's most useful when one of these signals applies to your business right now.
1. You haven't audited AEO before
Most teams have never explicitly evaluated whether AI engines can find them. If "AEO" is a new term to you, run this to establish a baseline.
2. Your organic traffic has gone flat
If SEO traffic stopped growing in the last 6-12 months, the answer is often that AI engines are now intercepting queries that used to land on your site. The report tells you whether you're losing to AI engines or your competitors.
3. You've invested in content but nothing happens
Publishing blog posts that don't move the needle is usually an AEO infrastructure problem, not a content quality problem. Schema and author signals are doing more lifting than content depth right now.
4. A competitor is suddenly everywhere
If one company keeps showing up in your prospects' conversations, they probably got serious about AEO 12-18 months ago. The audit shows you the specific gaps between you and them.
5. You're planning a 2026 marketing investment
Before you spend money on content, ads, or SEO services, get a baseline of where AI engines see you today. The report tells you which investments will compound and which will fizzle.
If Two or More Apply
Run the analysis now. 3-5 minutes to complete, 3 minutes for the report to land in your inbox. No commitment beyond your email.
What do you do after the AEO Health Check?
Three paths after the report: fix the recommendations yourself (free, DIY), book a 30-min strategy call with Shawn (free, no commitment), or engage Quantum to build the foundation ($5K-$15K fixed fee). The report ends with a prioritized recommendation list. Most teams do one of three things from there — and "do nothing" is sometimes the right answer.
Path A · DIY
Run the recommendations yourself
Most of the top recommendations are 30-90 minute fixes — add llms.txt, fix homepage schema, add author bylines. Your team can ship the top 5 in a sprint with no outside help.
Free · Internal effort
Path B · Strategy Call
30-min strategy review with Shawn
Free 30-minute call to walk through your report, identify the 2-3 highest-impact moves for your specific business, and clarify what's worth doing yourself vs. outsourcing.
Free · No commitment
Path C · Engagement
Quantum builds the fix
If the gaps are bigger than your team can absorb, we offer fixed-fee AEO foundation builds. Llms.txt, full schema, content trust signals, topic clusters — shipped in 2-4 weeks.
$5,000 – $15,000 fixed
How much does the AEO Health Check cost?
The AEO Health Check costs $0. No credit card, no trial period, no upsell wall. The AEO Health Check is free. We pay the API costs to run SEMrush, Perplexity, OpenAI, and Anthropic queries against your domain. You get the full report in your inbox at no cost.
AEO Health Check
Free analysis · Report in 3 minutes · No credit card
3-month traffic trend
Anthropic live queries
scored 0-100
recommendations
One analysis per domain per 30 days · Email required · Unsubscribe anytime
Why It's Free
The audit is free because it earns trust. Most teams who run it find 3-7 high-impact gaps they didn't know existed. Some of those teams fix the gaps themselves. Some hire Quantum. Either way, we'd rather show value upfront than hide it behind a paywall.
What does the AEO Health Check NOT cover?
The audit does not cover: deep content quality review, guarantee of citation, full SEO audit, every AI engine (Gemini and others), full-site crawl, or custom strategy. The audit is genuinely useful but has clear limits. Honest scoping of what it doesn't cover.
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A complete content audit
This evaluates infrastructure and signals. It doesn't evaluate the actual quality of your blog content, messaging, or thought leadership. A complete content audit is a different engagement.
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A guarantee of citation
Fixing the recommendations dramatically improves the odds, but no AEO tactic guarantees AI engines will cite you. Authority compounds over time and requires sustained content investment.
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A full SEO audit
We sample SEMrush data and look at domain authority, but a real SEO audit involves keyword gap analysis, backlink profile review, and technical SEO that's out of scope here.
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A test of every AI engine
We query Perplexity, OpenAI, and Anthropic — the three engines that matter most for B2B research today. Google Gemini, ChatGPT search, and others may report different results.
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An on-page SEO crawl
We only crawl your homepage to evaluate schemas and content signals. We don't crawl your full site or run technical SEO checks on internal pages.
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A custom strategy
The recommendations are prioritized but generalized. A custom AEO strategy for your specific business takes 30-60 minutes of human review — that's what the free strategy call is for.
Frequently asked questions about the AEO Health Check
Is this really free?
Yes. No credit card, no trial period, no upsell wall. We pay the API costs (SEMrush, Perplexity, OpenAI, Anthropic) to run your analysis. You enter your domain and email, you get the report. The only "cost" is that your email enters our nurture sequence — which you can unsubscribe from with one click.
How accurate is the data?
SEO data comes from SEMrush (industry-standard, real). AI citation data comes from live API queries against the actual production engines (Perplexity, OpenAI, Anthropic) — not estimates. Schema and infrastructure checks are direct site crawls. Everything in the report is real measurement, not modeling.
How long does it take?
You complete the form in under 2 minutes. The analysis runs for 90-120 seconds on our side (9 live AI API calls plus SEMrush queries plus site crawl). The full HTML report email lands in your inbox within 3 minutes of submission.
Why business email only?
We restrict to corporate email addresses (no Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) for two reasons. First, the report is most useful to people making decisions about their company website. Second, it's a soft signal against tire-kickers since we pay real API costs for each run.
Will Quantum sell my data?
No. Your domain and email are used to run the analysis, send the report, and contact you with related content. We don't sell, share, or expose your data publicly. Your AEO scores are not posted anywhere — they're yours.
Can I run this on a competitor's domain?
Technically yes, but you'd want to use your own email since we send the report to whoever submits the form. The audit only uses publicly available data (their homepage, their public SEO presence, public AI engine queries), so there's no privacy concern with auditing competitor sites.
Is there a limit on how many domains I can audit?
One analysis per domain per 30 days, with a daily cap of 50 analyses across all users. The 30-day per-domain rule prevents accidental re-runs but allows you to track improvement quarter-over-quarter.
What if my score is bad?
Most B2B sites score in the C/D range on first audit. That's normal. The point isn't the score — it's the prioritized recommendations. A site scoring D today that ships the top 5 recommendations typically scores B+/A within 60-90 days.
Do I have to talk to Shawn after?
No. The report includes a free strategy call CTA, but it's purely optional. Most teams who run the audit just take the recommendations and ship them internally. We don't follow up aggressively — one email and you're back in the regular newsletter cadence.
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