What's actually in a GEO Report (and why it's not just an SEO audit)

A transparent walkthrough of the AnswerLab GEO Report — every section, what it tells you, and why it's a different beast to the SEO audit you may have run before.

Short Answer

An AnswerLab GEO Report is a PDF audit of how visible your business is to nine AI search platforms — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, Meta AI, Apple Intelligence, Bing Copilot, and Google AI Overviews. It includes platform-by-platform readiness scores, a crawler access audit, structured data review, brand authority assessment, competitor benchmarking against up to three rivals, and a prioritised action plan. Delivered next business day. $199 with a follow-up report included.

If you've read our explainer on what GEO is, you already know the goal: stop optimising only for Google rankings and start being cited inside the AI answers your customers now rely on. This post is the operational follow-up — exactly what you get when you order a GEO Report, presented section by section, with nothing hidden.

Why an SEO audit doesn't tell you this

The first thing worth understanding is that a GEO Report is not a slightly different SEO audit. It's a different artefact, measuring different things, against different standards.

A traditional SEO audit tells you...
A GEO Report tells you...
How well you rank for specific keywords in Google's blue-link results
Whether nine separate AI tools can find, read, and cite your business
Backlink quality and domain authority
Entity clarity and answer extractability
Page-level technical issues (broken links, slow load times)
AI-specific signals: schema, crawler access, llms.txt, structured answers
Keyword density and meta tag optimisation
Brand authority signals across the web that feed AI confidence
Competitor rankings for the same keywords
Competitor AI visibility across the same platforms

The two audits can both be useful. They are not interchangeable. A site that aced its SEO audit two years ago can still be entirely invisible to ChatGPT today — because the things that win Google rankings (long pages, keyword density, backlink networks) are not the same things that win AI citations (clear answers, defined entities, crawler access).

A site that aces its SEO audit can still be invisible to ChatGPT.

The eight things inside every GEO Report

Every AnswerLab GEO Report follows the same structure. The findings change based on your business and your industry, but the deliverables don't. Here's exactly what arrives.

1
Full GEO Score with six-dimension breakdown
A single headline score out of 100, broken into six component scores: AI Citability, Brand Authority, Content Quality, Technical GEO, Structured Data, and Platform Readiness. The headline number is for quick triage. The six-dimension breakdown is where you actually learn where the work is.
Why it matters: Without a baseline number, you can't tell whether you're improving. The score is the anchor you measure progress against.
2
AI crawler access audit
A check of which AI bots can currently reach your site — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Bytespider, OAI-SearchBot, and more — and which are being blocked. Often the blocks are accidental: a developer added them years ago, or a security plugin defaulted to disallowing them. You'd be surprised how often the answer is "you're invisible to half the AI tools and nobody noticed."
Why it matters: If a crawler can't read your site, no other GEO work will help. This is stage one of citation.
3
Platform-by-platform readiness scores (nine AI search engines)
Separate readiness scores for ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, Meta AI, Apple Intelligence, Bing Copilot, and Google AI Overviews. Each platform uses different retrieval sources and weighting, so a site can score well for one and poorly for another. The breakdown tells you which platforms you're currently winning, which you're losing, and what's driving each.
Why it matters: Generic "AI visibility" advice ignores the fact that the platforms behave differently. This is the part of the report most people find the most surprising.
4
Structured data & schema review
A detailed look at the schema markup on your site — what's there, what's broken, what's missing. Schema is one of the most direct ways to tell an AI what your business is, what it offers, and where it operates. Most sites either have no schema at all, or have schema that contradicts itself in ways the AI quietly downweights.
Why it matters: Adding the right schema is one of the highest-impact, lowest-effort fixes in GEO. The report tells you exactly which ones to add and in what order.
5
Brand authority assessment
An evaluation of the signals AI tools use to decide whether you're a real, trustworthy business worth citing. Reviews, third-party mentions, Google Business Profile completeness, social presence, and entity consistency across the web. This is where off-site work matters as much as on-site.
Why it matters: Trust is what gates citation. A well-written page from a poorly-defined business gets passed over for a worse page from a clearly-defined one.
6
Content & technical findings
A plain-English summary of everything the audit surfaces — what's working, what's broken, what's missing. Written for the business owner, not the developer. No "synergies" or "leveraging." If something is wrong, it's named and explained in language a non-technical person can act on.
Why it matters: Findings you can't understand are findings you'll never act on.
7
Competitor GEO benchmarking (up to 3 competitors)
You nominate up to three competitors. We run a lightweight version of the GEO scan on each of them and show you exactly where you lead, where you're being outpaced, and which platforms are recommending them over you. This is often the most uncomfortable part of the report — and the most useful.
Why it matters: Knowing your score in isolation is interesting. Knowing your score relative to the businesses actually winning your customers is actionable.
8
Prioritised action plan
Quick wins you can action this week, medium-term improvements that take a developer or some content work, and longer-term strategies for sustained AI visibility. Ordered by impact, not effort — so you can start with the things that move the score the most.
Why it matters: A list of problems isn't a plan. The action plan is what turns the findings into work you can actually delegate or do.
See a real GEO Report
A complete sample report is available to download — same format, same depth, real findings.
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What's not in the report

Being clear about what's in a deliverable means being equally clear about what isn't. A GEO Report is an audit, not an implementation. Specifically:

Honest moment

If you'd rather not pay for a report and would prefer to muddle through GEO yourself, the resources we publish on this blog will get you a long way — start with the Australian business guide and work through the five "what to do this week" steps. The report is for people who want the picture compiled cleanly and the action plan prioritised by impact, not for people who want a secret list of tricks. There isn't one.

How it's delivered

Practical mechanics, because this is the bit most service pages skip:

Who it's for (and who it isn't)

A GEO Report is the right purchase if you fit one of these shapes:

It's probably not the right purchase if:

The five-second version
  • A GEO Report is not an SEO audit — different signals, different platforms, different deliverable.
  • Eight sections: score, crawler audit, platform-by-platform breakdown, schema review, brand authority, findings, competitor benchmark, action plan.
  • Nine AI platforms covered, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and AI Overviews.
  • Delivered next business day as a PDF. $199. Follow-up report included.
  • No account access needed — runs entirely on public data.
Get your GEO Report

A complete audit of how nine AI search platforms see your business. $199 covers two reports — a baseline next business day, and a follow-up so you can measure progress as you implement changes.

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Written by Nevin at AnswerLab AnswerLab is a Melbourne-based AI consultancy helping Australian businesses get found by AI search tools and put AI to work in their day-to-day operations. Plain language. No hype.
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