What's the difference between the free audit and the paid Audit Sprint?

The free audit (3-business-day turnaround) covers the core question — where a product stands today and who's winning instead — in a plain-English report. The $1,500 one-time Audit Sprint goes further: a prioritized fix list, schema and llms.txt set up, and a 30-day roadmap to the first citations, delivered in about two weeks. The Sprint fee is credited toward the first month if the client continues to a retainer.

How are the buyer prompts chosen for an audit?

From the real questions a buyer would type when comparing options in the category — "best tool for X," "alternative to Y," "does Z work for [use case]" — not generic keyword variations. The prompts are fixed once agreed, so the same set gets re-run over time for a consistent, comparable trend.

What happens after the audit?

The report shows the gap in plain English — where the product is missing and why, based on the real signals engines read. From there it's the client's call whether to fix it themselves, using the audit as a checklist, or continue into a Launch or Growth retainer where Nivonto does the fix work directly.

AI Visibility Audit for B2B SaaS — Nivonto

AI Visibility Audit

Before any optimization work starts, Nivonto runs real buyer questions across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini and shows exactly where a product stands — cited, missing, or misdescribed, and who's winning instead. There's a free version and a paid deep-dive; here's the difference.

By Nithish Govindasamy · Updated August 2026

Why start with an audit instead of a pitch

Most agencies open with a sales conversation about what they'll do. Nivonto opens with the actual data — what ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini already say about a product today, before any money changes hands. That's a deliberate choice: in a category with no established players yet, showing the gap is more convincing than describing it.

What the audit covers

Share-of-answer — the percentage of real buyer prompts where the product is named, per engine.
Missing prompts — the exact buyer questions where a competitor gets named and the product doesn't.
Description accuracy — whether engines describe the product correctly when they do mention it.
Who's winning instead — the competitors currently occupying the answer, and why.

Two ways to start

The free audit is the lowest-commitment way to see where things stand — no cost, no obligation, a plain-English report in three business days. The AEO Audit Sprint ($1,500 one-time) is the paid deep-dive for teams ready to act on the findings immediately, with the fix list and setup work included. Both feed the same ongoing tracking once a retainer begins.

Frequently asked questions

What's the difference between the free audit and the paid Audit Sprint?: The free audit (3-business-day turnaround) covers the core question — where a product stands today and who's winning instead — in a plain-English report. The $1,500 one-time Audit Sprint goes further: a prioritized fix list, schema and llms.txt set up, and a 30-day roadmap to the first citations, delivered in about two weeks. The Sprint fee is credited toward the first month if the client continues to a retainer.
How are the buyer prompts chosen for an audit?: From the real questions a buyer would type when comparing options in the category — "best tool for X," "alternative to Y," "does Z work for [use case]" — not generic keyword variations. The prompts are fixed once agreed, so the same set gets re-run over time for a consistent, comparable trend.
What happens after the audit?: The report shows the gap in plain English — where the product is missing and why, based on the real signals engines read. From there it's the client's call whether to fix it themselves, using the audit as a checklist, or continue into a Launch or Growth retainer where Nivonto does the fix work directly.