The First Step
In 14 business days, you'll know precisely where your brand appears — and doesn't appear — when your buyers ask AI systems who to trust in your category. And you'll have a specific plan to close the gaps.
What's Included
Section 01
AI Citation Baseline
40–60 queries tested manually and via tool across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot. Queries are mapped to the client's specific category, buyer pain points, and competitive landscape — not generic search terms. Documents exactly where the client appears, where they don't, and where competitors are being cited instead, broken down by platform and by query type.
Section 02
Technical Readiness Assessment
30-point rubric covering: AI bot crawlability (robots.txt, sitemap, LLMs.txt), structured data implementation and completeness, Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS), mobile performance, JavaScript rendering analysis, internal linking architecture, entity clarity across the site, and page speed against 2026 thresholds. Every item is pass/fail with a specific remediation note — not a vague recommendation.
Section 03
Content Architecture Review
Page-by-page assessment of your most important content against AI extractability criteria. Whether your pages are structured for answer-first extraction, whether headers are formatted as questions AI can match to buyer queries, whether FAQ sections exist and are schema-marked. Every assessed page receives a specific remediation — not a general recommendation.
Section 04
Entity Authority Analysis
Whether the brand exists as a recognized entity in Google's Knowledge Graph. Wikipedia and Wikidata presence assessment. NAP and brand information consistency across the web. How AI systems currently understand and describe the brand versus how the brand describes itself. Where inconsistencies create citation risk — the specific domains and directories where data conflicts undermine entity recognition.
Section 05
Competitor Benchmark
Three closest competitors mapped across the same 40–60 queries. Where they appear that the client doesn't. What they're doing structurally — schema, content architecture, entity signals — that earns them citations. Gap analysis ranked by impact-to-effort ratio with specific actions to close each gap.
Section 06
Prioritized 90-Day Roadmap
A specific action plan built from what Sections 1–5 found. Three phases: technical infrastructure first, content architecture second, entity and third-party authority third. Every item includes effort estimate and impact rating. The roadmap is what a retainer engagement executes — and the retainer proposal is built directly from it.
Delivery
The Report
A structured PDF document covering all five sections. Formatted for internal distribution — clear enough that a CMO can share it with a CEO or board without needing to translate it. Every finding is specific to the client. No templated recommendations that could apply to any business.
The Walkthrough
A 90-minute recorded video walkthrough of the report findings, delivered by the lead strategist. Available to share internally. Covers every section, explains every finding in plain language, and closes with the specific roadmap priorities and retainer proposal if applicable.
The Roadmap
The 90-day action plan extracted from the full report. Formatted as a standalone document for use in internal planning. Specific items, specific timelines, specific owners (agency vs. client vs. shared). Usable independently of whether a retainer follows.
The Retainer Proposal (if applicable)
If the findings support an ongoing engagement, a retainer proposal is included in the audit report itself — built directly from the roadmap. Not a standard package. Scope, timeline, investment, and monthly reporting metrics are specific to what the audit found.
Book the Audit
The Audit is CAD $3,500. It maps your current AI citation presence across five platforms, identifies the specific gaps, and delivers a prioritized action plan in 14 business days.
Fill out the form below and proceed to secure payment. CAD $3,500 .
Payment is processed immediately and securely. Your intake form is sent within one business day.
Complete the intake form — it takes 10–15 minutes and gives us everything needed to run your specific audit. The 14-business-day clock starts from intake completion.
The full report and 90-minute recorded walkthrough are delivered on day 14. A retainer proposal is included in the report if the findings support an ongoing engagement.
Common Questions
Following payment, an intake form is sent — it takes 10–15 minutes to complete. It covers: your business and buyer description, the questions your buyers ask AI when researching your category, your top three competitors, your most important pages, current SEO status, and read-only access to GA4 and Google Search Console. The more detail you provide, the more specific and actionable the audit findings will be.
If your brand already has strong AI citation presence, Brands with genuinely strong AI citation presence across all five platforms are rare at this stage — but if the audit finds the situation is better than expected, the roadmap reflects that. You still receive a full competitive benchmark and technical assessment, which has value regardless of the citation baseline.
Yes. The CAD $3,500 audit fee is credited in full toward the first three months of any retainer engagement signed within 60 days of audit delivery.
The audit fee is non-refundable once work has begun. If concerns arise after payment but before work begins (within 24 hours of invoice payment), contact hello@meridiansearch.io.
Intake form completion is required within 48 hours of payment. If intake is delayed, the 14-day clock starts from intake completion, not payment. Concurrent audits are limited to ensure every audit receives the attention the scope requires — if capacity is constrained, this is disclosed at booking.