AI Visibility Audit
Traditional SEO asks do we rank. This asks are we cited, and are we described correctly — across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Different mechanics, different fixes.
Why This Exists
Rank tracking cannot see the surface that is eating your clicks. A brand can hold position three for its head term and still be absent from every AI answer that term now triggers.
The failure is almost never content volume. It is that the sources those answers cite do not mention you — so publishing more owned content moves nothing.
This skill measures presence, diagnoses which of five root causes is responsible, and returns a ranked fix list you can hand to someone on Monday.
How It Works
Build the prompt set
20–30 prompts across five intent tiers — discovery, comparison, problem-first, branded, and buying-criteria — weighted toward the unbranded questions where visibility is actually won.
Run & record
For each prompt: is the brand mentioned, where, described how — and crucially, which sources the answer cites. That citation column is where the fix lives.
Diagnose the root cause
Every gap maps to one of five causes: citation absence, entity ambiguity, extractability, comparative absence, or factual drift. Naming the cause is what makes the fix specific.
Ship a ranked fix list
Prioritized by (impact × confidence) ÷ effort, each item states what to do, why it moves AI visibility, who owns it, and how you'll know it worked. Re-measure in 60 days.
Two Minutes To First Output
# 1. Clone the repo git clone https://github.com/seosdm/ai-visibility-audit.git # 2. Copy SKILL.md into a Claude Project, then prompt: Run the ai-visibility-audit skill for [brand]. Category: [what they sell]. Competitors: [3–5]. # 3. Re-run the same prompt set every 60 days to measure movement.
No API keys, no setup. The skill is a SKILL.md file plus a worked example — it runs anywhere Claude does.
Sample Output
Verdict: strong when named, near-invisible in discovery. Root cause — the three listicles cited across discovery prompts don't mention the brand. Highest-leverage move is earning placement in those sources, not publishing more owned content.
See the full worked example in /examples.
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