AI & search recommendation readiness
Find out what is stopping AI from recommending your business.
We audit your website, your Google presence and the third-party evidence that AI assistants and search engines rely on, then show you exactly which findings are weakening your recommendation readiness, with the underlying evidence attached to each one.
No guaranteed rankings. No secret AI tricks. Every finding is linked to evidence.
Illustrative report structure
AI recommendation readiness, example layout
Summary
3 blockers, 5 improvements
Website inspection
Title, schema, service pages checked
Google Profile
Category and service area reviewed
Blocker, Specialism not consistently supported
Website says one thing, Google Profile says another, structured data omits the category.
Why this matters
Customers now decide where to go before they visit your website.
They ask Google, they read reviews, they check Maps, and increasingly they ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity for a shortlist. If the information about your business is unclear, out of date, or contradicts itself across those surfaces, you become harder to match with the person searching, and the recommendation goes elsewhere.
Search & Maps
Category, service area and reviews determine whether you show up when someone searches for what you actually do.
Reviews & directories
Third-party sources are cross-referenced by both search engines and AI assistants when forming a recommendation.
AI assistants
Perplexity, Gemini and similar tools summarise what they can read about you, they cannot recommend what they cannot recognise.
What we audit
What Citeworthy looks at
Each area produces observable findings that are linked to the underlying evidence in your report, not opinions, and not a black-box score.
Business identity
Name, legal entity, contact details, checked against your website, Google Profile and applicable registers (e.g. CQC, SRA).
Website clarity
Homepage and service pages read the way a person or an AI assistant would read them, do they state clearly what you do, where, and for whom.
Google Profile alignment
Primary category, service area, opening hours and website link cross-checked against the site.
Services & locations
Whether the specialisms and locations you actually serve are consistently supported across your surfaces.
Technical accessibility
Deterministic checks: HTTP status, robots.txt, sitemap, canonical tags, structured data, index-blocking headers.
Trust & evidence
Third-party signals: reviews, directory listings and regulator records, what supports (or contradicts) your positioning.
AI recommendation observations
How Perplexity and Gemini-assisted interpretation respond to a small set of representative questions about your service.
Platforms we check
Tested across Perplexity, Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude
We ask each system a small set of representative questions about your service and record what comes back, including when a system does not recognise you or returns something contradictory. Results are observations from a point in time, not a guarantee of presence, and Citeworthy is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of these providers.
- Perplexity
Answer engine with citations
- Gemini
Assistant and search answers
- ChatGPT
Assistant answers
- Claude
Assistant answers
Platform names are the trademarks of their respective owners and are used here only to describe what Citeworthy checks.
Example finding
One inconsistency, three surfaces, one lost recommendation.
Illustrative example. Not a real client.
Website says
“Commercial property solicitor in London.”
Google Profile says
“General legal services, Croydon.”
Structured data
No legal-service category present.
Citeworthy finding: Specialism and location are not consistently supported across the website, Google Profile and structured data.
Action: Align the homepage, the service page, the Google Profile category and the schema so that the real specialism and the real location are the same on all four surfaces.
How it works
Four steps, no long engagement required.
- Step 1
Confirm your business
You tell us who you are and link the sources we should audit (website, Google Profile).
- Step 2
Audit runs
Deterministic technical checks plus AI-assisted interpretation of your public evidence.
- Step 3
Review evidence & fixes
You receive a report with every finding linked to the evidence and a prioritised action list.
- Step 4
Improve & re-audit
You apply the changes; a re-audit confirms which findings have closed.
Report preview
What the report contains.
Every audit produces the same structured report. You can open the sample to see the full layout.
Summary
Overall readiness, count of blockers and improvements.
Blockers
Findings that stop AI or search from confidently recommending you.
Website findings
Homepage, service pages, structured data, technical accessibility.
Google Profile alignment
Category, service area, hours, website link, review context.
Third-party evidence
Directory presence, applicable regulators (CQC / SRA where relevant).
Technical accessibility
Deterministic HTTP, robots, sitemap, canonical and schema checks.
AI recommendation observations
How Perplexity and Gemini-assisted interpretation respond, with the transcripts.
Action plan
Prioritised list of what to fix and in what order.
Re-audit
Confirms which findings have closed after you apply the changes.
Methodology & trust
What is measured, how, and by whom.
We separate deterministic checks from AI-assisted interpretation, and we name the source behind each finding. Data we cannot verify is shown as unavailable rather than guessed.
Deterministic checks
HTTP status, robots.txt, sitemaps, canonical tags, JSON-LD/structured data, index-blocking headers. Repeatable, no model in the loop.
Third-party sources
Google Places, CQC (UK healthcare) and SRA (UK solicitors) where applicable, and searched directory presence.
AI-assisted interpretation
Perplexity for cited web answers, and a Gemini-assisted pass to summarise the collected evidence. Prompts and transcripts are stored with the report.
What we will not do
We do not predict Google rankings, we do not promise placement in any AI answer, and we do not present fabricated statistics or testimonials.
Pricing
One complete audit, an optional re-audit, and implementation help if you want it.
No long-term contracts. The audit is a fixed piece of work. The re-audit confirms your changes closed the findings. Implementation is a separate service you can add if you would rather we apply the fixes.
Audit
A full evidence-led audit of your business, delivered as a structured report.
Re-audit
Optional. Re-runs the same checks after you apply changes and confirms what closed.
Implementation help
Separate service. We apply the recommended changes to your website and Google Profile on your behalf.