A systematic assessment of a brand's current AEO readiness — content gaps, technical setup, citation performance, and competitive position.
An AEO audit evaluates a brand's preparedness for AEO across five dimensions: (1) Technical foundation — robots.txt, llms.txt, Schema.org markup, sitemap configuration; (2) Content readiness — citation-friendly structure, FAQ coverage, source citations, author credentials; (3) Citation performance — current share of voice, prompt coverage, competitor benchmark; (4) Attribution setup — GA4 AI referrer tracking, CRM integration, lookback windows; (5) Reporting cadence — board-ready reporting, executive accessibility. Audits typically take 2–4 weeks and produce a prioritized action plan.
Most teams don't know their AEO readiness baseline. The audit makes invisible problems visible: blocked AI crawlers, missing schema, content gaps versus competitors, attribution leakage. Without an audit, AEO investment is unfocused.
Lantern's free AEO Audit (V1.5 feature) walks a customer through the 5-dimension assessment in 30 minutes, generates a scored report (e.g., '6.5/10 AEO readiness'), and produces a prioritized action plan: 'Fix blocked AI crawlers (robots.txt) within 1 week; implement FAQ schema across pricing pages within 2 weeks; expand prompt tracking from 30 to 100 within 1 month.'
The terms in this glossary aren't theoretical — they're what Lantern's product calculates and reports every month for B2B SaaS teams. See yours in 7 days. 14-day free trial.
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