What an AI Visibility audit actually checks.
Whether an answer engine can reach, read and cite your site is one question. How you compare with named rivals when it does is another. Go Voltic sells two separate reports rather than one blurred score, because they test two different things.
Report: two business days, target. Head-to-Head: same business day, once rivals are added. No install.
What an AI Visibility audit is.
An AI Visibility audit checks whether answer engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or Perplexity can reach, read and cite a website. Go Voltic sells two. The $299 AI Visibility Report tests your own site alone: crawler access, structured data, answer shape, and a live citation test against real buyer questions on two engines, Claude and Perplexity. The $149 Head-to-Head scores your site and up to five named rivals on the same answers from both engines, so you can see who an engine mentions instead of you.
Two different questions, two reports.
Neither is a subscription. Both are one-time reports.
| AI Visibility Report · $299 | Head-to-Head · $149 | |
|---|---|---|
| What it answers | Can an answer engine reach, read and cite my site? | How do I compare to named rivals when it does? |
| Rivals tested | None. Your site only. | Up to 5, named by you: a brand or a domain. |
| Buyer questions | Up to 8, drawn from your own pages, each asked up to 6 times on each engine. | Up to 8 that never name a brand, each asked up to 6 times on each engine, with every named brand scored on the same answers. |
| Answer engines | Claude with live web search, which sets the score, and Perplexity, which searches its own index and is printed beside it. | The same two, side by side, brand by brand. |
| Crawler access test | Up to 16 named AI crawlers asked whether they can reach your site. | Not tested. A rival's web address, where given, gets one light public read for the machine-files table, and nothing more. |
| What you learn about a loss | Who was cited instead, the exact passage they were quoted on, your closest page, and the change to make. | How often each rival comes up, where it lands, whether it is cited, and how it is described. |
| The score | AI Visibility Score, 0 to 100: technical eligibility weighted 40, observed citation weighted 60. | Head-to-Head score, 0 to 100: the share of answers that named or cited you, with every rival scored the same way. |
| Delivery | Two business days, target. | Same business day, once rivals are added. |
| What it needs | Just your site. | Your site, plus the rivals, added after checkout from your account. |
The AI Visibility Report: what it checks on your site.
Six areas, each scored from something measured on your live pages rather than a rule of thumb, and one AI Visibility Score on the cover. It weights technical eligibility at 40 and observed citation at 60, so a site no engine cites cannot score above 40.
Crawler access.
Up to 16 named AI crawlers asked whether they can reach your site, and whether they actually get through.
Readable without JavaScript.
Key pages loaded a second time with JavaScript switched off, so you see what a retrieval crawler that does not run it actually gets.
Answer shape.
Whether your pages answer in a form that can be lifted, page by page.
Structured data.
What you state about yourself in machine-readable form.
Entity clarity and freshness.
Whether you read as one consistent, current organization: declared profiles checked, and every page checked for a modified date.
Cited by answer engines.
The live test: buyer questions put to Claude with web search, repeated, with every citation recorded question by question. The report prints this reading on its own, and it carries the larger weight in the AI Visibility Score, so it is never averaged away against the areas that scored well. The same questions then go to Perplexity, which searches its own index, and its reading is printed beside Claude's, question by question. Perplexity is a second opinion: it never moves the score.
Delivered to your account and your inbox as a web report, a PDF, and a markdown work list you can point a coding agent at, ending in a four-week plan. See a full sample, page by page.
The Head-to-Head: what it checks against named rivals.
The same buyer questions, with every name, yours included, scored on the same answers.
You name the field.
Your site plus up to five rivals, a name or a domain for each, and the category a buyer would search under, added on your account page after checkout.
The same answers score every name.
Up to 8 buyer questions that never name a brand, each asked up to 6 times on each engine, and every name in the field is scored on the same answers, so the comparison is apples to apples.
Every score comes from the answer engines.
We ask the answer engines what they say, not the rivals' servers. Where you give a rival's web address, we read its home page, a few public pages and the files it publishes for machines once, the same light read as our free scan, and only where its robots.txt allows.
What the report shows.
Brand by brand, question by question: how often each name comes up, where it lands, whether it is cited, and how it is described. Every name, yours included, gets a Head-to-Head score out of 100 from the Claude answers: the share that named or cited it. Perplexity's mention rate for every name is printed beside it.
Which one to buy first.
Start with the AI Visibility Report
- You do not yet know whether answer engines can reach, read or cite your site at all.
- You want the crawler-access, structured-data and answer-shape checks that the Head-to-Head does not run.
- You want a page-by-page fix list with a test for each change.
Add the Head-to-Head
- You already know your own visibility and want to see how you stack up against named rivals.
- You have specific competitors in mind and want their citation rate on the same questions.
- You do not need your own crawler-access or structured-data reading again.
Want either re-checked monthly instead of once? AI Visibility Pulse re-runs the AI Visibility Report every month, $149/mo, cancel anytime. It is offered from your account once your Report is delivered, because that report is the baseline it re-tests, so it is not on the pricing menu.
What neither report includes.
Neither changes your website.
Both identify what to fix. Implementing it is on you or your developer.
Neither reads pages behind a login.
Our tools never sign in.
Neither is a guarantee.
Both describe two engines on one day, each asked the same questions a bounded number of times. That is a measured reading, not a promise an engine will say your name tomorrow, and not a guaranteed ranking or citation outcome.
Questions people ask before they buy.
What is the difference between the AI Visibility Report and the Head-to-Head?
The $299 AI Visibility Report tests your own site alone: crawler access, structured data, answer shape and a live citation test. The $149 Head-to-Head scores your site and up to five named rivals on the same buyer questions, on both engines, so you can see who an engine mentions instead of you.
Do I need both reports?
No. Buy the AI Visibility Report first if you do not know whether answer engines can find, read and cite your site at all. Add the Head-to-Head once you already know that and want to see how you compare to named rivals on the same questions.
Does the Head-to-Head crawl my rivals' websites?
No. Every score comes from asking the answer engines directly. Where you give a rival's web address, we read its home page, a few public pages and the files it publishes for machines once, the same light read as our free scan, to fill one table: what each business publishes for machines.
How do I add rivals to the Head-to-Head?
After checkout, from your account: one to five rivals, a name or a domain for each, plus the category a buyer would search under.
What counts as being cited by an answer engine?
Cited means the engine attached a page to its answer as a source, not merely that it looked at it.
Which answer engines are tested?
Two, both with live web search: Claude, which sets the score, and Perplexity, which searches its own index and is printed beside it as a second reading. The delivered report names each engine, its model and the run. If the second engine cannot answer on the day, the report says so and why, and the score is unaffected.
Is a citation result guaranteed or a ranking promise?
No. Results are a measured reading from one day of questions on two engines, not a guarantee of any ranking, citation or outcome. We do not warrant that an engine will mention you in the future.
What do I get, and when?
The AI Visibility Report lands in your account and inbox as a web report, a PDF and a markdown work list, target two business days. The Head-to-Head lands the same business day once your rivals are added.
Why not just use the free scan's AI grade?
The free scan infers AI-crawler access from your robots.txt as text and gives a grade. It does not test citation and does not ask any answer engine a real question. That live test is what the paid reports measure directly.
Find out what an answer engine says about you.
Start with your own site, or go straight to a named rival comparison.