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Answer Engine Optimization diagnostic

Find out why AI engines are not recommending you. And what to fix first.

ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews are answering your buyers' questions right now, with or without you. We run your domain through our diagnostic and hand you the few fixes with the biggest payoff.

20 questions. A price on the spot. 10% down to start. Backed by the 10X Path Guarantee. See how it works

What changed

Your buyers stopped searching. They started asking.

Nobody sends you the report of the deals you were never shortlisted for. This is that report.

A few years ago a buyer with a problem typed it into Google, opened six tabs, and eventually landed on your site. Today they ask ChatGPT or Perplexity to shortlist three vendors, and they read the answer instead of the tabs.

That answer is short. It names a handful of companies, explains why, and moves on. If you are in it, you are on the shortlist before a single salesperson has spoken. If you are not, the deal is being shaped without you and nobody sends you a report about it.

This is the uncomfortable part: the answer engines have already formed an opinion of your company. It comes from your site, from what third parties say about you, and from what they cannot see because you never made it visible. That opinion decides whether you get mentioned, and it will not change on its own.

This is not a fringe behavior. In a September 2026 Wynter survey of 101 CMOs and VPs of marketing, 88% said they use AI recommendations to discover and research vendors (source: Peep Laja, Wynter). And when Kyle Poyar ran "evaluate [company] on pricing" through six AI engines for every Cloud 100 company, the company's own pricing page was the first source in about one answer in eight; the rest came from Vendr, Reddit, G2 and teardown sites. The engines always answer. The question is where they get the answer.

The good news is that it is diagnosable. AI engines are consistent about what they weigh. Once you can see exactly where you fall short, most of the first fixes are cheaper than a month of paid search.

What the engines actually weigh

  1. A clear entity. Engines need to know who you are, what you do, and for whom. Vague positioning reads as no positioning.
  2. Citable pages. Definitional, comparison and answer-shaped content that an engine can quote without rewriting it.
  3. Third-party corroboration. Press, reviews, directories, communities. Engines trust what other people say about you more than what you say.
  4. Technical access. If your robots.txt blocks the crawlers or your pages are unreadable without JavaScript, you are invisible by default.
  5. Consistency. The same facts, names and numbers everywhere. Contradictions get you dropped from the answer.

What we measure

Three numbers that tell you where you stand.

Every diagnostic runs your domain and your competitors through Green Flag's AEO tooling. You get the actual data, not a gut feel. Below is what each number means and why it moves revenue.

Answer presence

Across a set of buyer questions in your category, how often does each engine mention you at all?

If you are absent from the answer, nothing else matters yet. This is the first number to move.

Citation share

When engines cite sources, what share of those citations point at your pages versus everyone else's?

Citations are where AI traffic actually comes from, and they show which of your pages the engines trust.

Competitor comparison

The same measurements for the rivals who keep showing up, side by side with yours.

It shows you exactly what they have that you do not, which is usually a short list.

Green Flag Digital track record

3,740 referring domainsmoveBuddhaearned through digital PR
13K new visitsPureCarefrom 22 articles in 6 months
275+ placementsReservations.commedia coverage program
105% traffic growthTravel tour operatoryear over year, four years running

Content, SEO and digital PR results for Green Flag Digital clients. AEO diagnostic results will be added here as clients approve them.

Real screenshots from client diagnostics are added here as they are cleared for publication. We do not publish invented numbers.

The offer

Two ways to get the diagnostic. Pick by how much judgment you want on top.

Both run the same proprietary tooling on your domain. The difference is whether a human at Green Flag reads the results, argues with them, and tells you what to do first.

The downsell

Instant AEO Report

$2,500

Delivered automatically once intake is complete

Founders and marketing leads who want the data now and will do their own prioritizing.

  • Full run of Green Flag's AEO diagnostic tooling on your domain
  • Answer presence, citation share and competitor comparison across the major engines
  • AI crawler access and structured-data check
  • Auto-generated findings and a ranked fix list
  • PDF report plus the raw data
  • No human review. The report says so on the cover.
  • No calls. Upgrade to the founder-reviewed tier any time and we credit the full $2,500.
The flagship

Founder-Reviewed AEO Diagnostic

$5,000

About three business days after intake and kickoff

Companies that want judgment, not just data: which two or three things to do first, and why.

  • Everything in the Instant Report
  • Intake form and a 15-minute kickoff call to clarify goals and numbers
  • Early observations within the first day, from our proven playbooks
  • Human review of every finding by the Green Flag team
  • Prioritized report: the top opportunities, each with a value path in your numbers
  • 60-minute walkthrough call to go through it together
  • Backed by the 10X Path Guarantee

What the extra $2,500 buys

  1. Judgment: someone decides which findings matter for your business and which are noise.
  2. Prioritization: a short list of top opportunities with a value path in your own numbers, not an idea dump.
  3. Validation: findings are checked by hand before you see them, so you can act without re-verifying.
  4. Access: a kickoff call, early observations within a day, and a walkthrough call with the team.
  5. The guarantee: only the reviewed tier is backed by the 10X Path Guarantee, because only a human can make that call.

The 10X Path Guarantee

If we cannot show you one big idea with a credible path to 10X the price of the diagnostic, we refund everything. You keep the audit.

Every founder-reviewed diagnostic must contain at least one opportunity where we can show a credible path to a return of ten times what you paid us. If it does not, you get a full refund and you keep the full report.

A credible path is not a prediction. It is a written case with the assumptions stated, simple value math built on the numbers you gave us in intake (revenue, margin, customer value), the actions required, the time horizon, and which levers you control.

It is a path, not a promise of a realized return. We do not control your sales team, your pricing or your follow-through. We do control whether the idea is real, sized honestly, and worth doing.

The bar scales with what you paid. A small business paying $5,000 needs a path to $50,000 in value. That is the point: the guarantee is fair at any size.

Full refund, and you keep the audit. Claim it within 14 days of the walkthrough call by replying to your delivery email.

Before that, there is nothing to lose either. The preview audit, the crawler access scan and the first prompt run are yours whether or not you ever buy anything. Book the call, keep the results, walk away if it is not for you.

Read the full guarantee terms

How it works

From deposit to walkthrough in about a week.

No waiting on a proposal. The clock starts once we have your intake and a 15-minute kickoff, not when you pay.

01

Answer 20 questions

You · 5 minutes

Goals, revenue range, margins, customer value, how you sell, where you stand today. You get a priced offer on the spot.

02

Put 10% down

You · 2 minutes

Secure your slot with a 10% deposit on Stripe. The balance is invoiced after kickoff. Or pay in full if you prefer.

03

Book your kickoff

You and Joe · Tuesday to Thursday slots

A 15-minute call to clarify inputs and confirm the questions we will answer. Founder-reviewed tier only.

04

Complete intake

You, guided by Kristen or Riley · 15 minutes

Goals, economics, constraints, data access, and your AI data-handling preference.

05

Early observations

Green Flag delivery team · Within one business day

A few initial ideas from our proven playbooks so you have something to think about while the full run completes.

06

Full diagnostic run

Green Flag tools and delivery team · About three business days

Your domain and competitors through the AEO tooling. Answer presence, citation share, competitor comparison, technical access, content and authority gaps.

07

Human review

Delivery team, signed off by Joe · Included in the three days

Every finding checked by hand. Noise removed. Opportunities sized with your numbers.

08

Walkthrough call

Joe and the delivery team · 60 minutes

We go through the top opportunities together, in order, and agree what happens first.

Who does the work

Tools produce the data. People produce the judgment.

Green Flag Digital is a content, SEO and digital PR agency founded by Joe Robison. The AEO diagnostic is run by the team below with Joe reviewing every founder-reviewed report.

Joe Robison

Founder

Final review on every founder-reviewed diagnostic. Leads enterprise engagements.

Kristen and Riley

Account managers

Run intake, the diagnostic process and delivery so every client gets the same standard.

Specialist bench

Content, digital PR and technical

Plug in for paid follow-on modules when the diagnostic points to them.

Your data

You decide how your company data is handled.

Green Flag runs a proprietary process on paid tools and data, uses AI where it helps, and reviews by hand. We use business-tier AI accounts. You choose one of three handling modes at intake.

Standard

Business-tier AI accounts are used as part of the analysis workflow.

Anonymized

Your company name and exact figures are replaced with bucketed, non-specific values before any AI step.

Opt out

No AI tools touch your company information. The team works with humans and Green Flag's proprietary software only.

Questions people ask before they pay

What exactly do I get?

A diagnostic of how the major AI engines see your company: answer presence, citation share and competitor comparison, plus technical access, content and authority gaps. The founder-reviewed tier adds human review, a prioritized shortlist with value paths in your own numbers, a kickoff call and a walkthrough call.

Why is your pricing public?

Because AI engines answer pricing questions whether or not a company publishes. If the answer does not come from us, it comes from a third-party teardown. Every tier is on the pricing page with the schema an engine needs to cite it. It is also the first thing we check for clients.

How is the price decided?

The 20-question assessment routes you to the right tier and shows a fixed price for the two lower tiers. Larger companies see a budgetary range and book a call. Nothing is negotiated by email.

What is the 10% deposit?

You put 10% down on Stripe to secure your slot. The balance is invoiced once intake and kickoff are done and the delivery clock starts. You can also pay in full at checkout.

When does the three-day clock start?

After we have your intake form and the 15-minute kickoff call, not at payment. That is how we keep the three days honest.

Do you put my data into ChatGPT or Claude?

Only if you choose the standard mode. We use business-tier AI accounts. If you prefer, choose anonymized mode (name and figures bucketed before any AI step) or opt out entirely and the team uses humans and proprietary software only.

Is my data used to train AI models?

We are not going to make a blanket claim here. Vendor terms change. What we will do is tell you, in writing at intake, the current data-usage terms of every tool in the workflow you chose, and you can switch modes at any time.

What does the Instant Report not include?

Human review. It is fully automated and labeled that way on the cover. If you upgrade to the founder-reviewed tier later we credit the full $2,500.

What if the guarantee is not met?

Full refund of what you paid for the founder-reviewed diagnostic, and you keep the audit. Claim it within 14 days of the walkthrough by replying to your delivery email. No forms, no argument.

Who is this not for?

Companies that cannot change their website or content for the next six months, and anyone looking for a guaranteed ranking. We show you a credible path. You still have to walk it.

Can I talk to someone first?

Yes. Finish the assessment and pick the call option on the quote page. Joe takes strategy calls Tuesday to Thursday.

Find out where you stand before your competitors do.

Twenty questions, a price on the spot, and a diagnostic your team can act on next week.

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