Technical SEO / AI-answer visibility
Most sites do not have an AI problem. They have a crawl, render or index problem, and it was there before.
Auspex works the engineering layer of search for B2B software companies: whether a machine can fetch your pages, whether it keeps them, and whether it will quote you or someone else's page about you. We work alongside your existing agency, not instead of it.
Diagnostic audit $1,500·ten business days·credited in full against a retainer·refunded in full if it finds nothing at the severity agreed beforehand
- Gate 1 Crawl Can a bot fetch the URL? robots.txt · server errors · CDN and WAF rules · budget spent elsewhere
- Gate 2 Index Did the engine keep it? thin · duplicate · canonicalised away · noindex
- Gate 3 Retrieve Was it pulled for this query? does not answer the sub-query the fan-out issued
- Gate 4 Cite Did it get named in the answer? present in the source, not lifted out
- Gate 5 Influence Did it shape what was said? cited navigationally, contributing nothing
Gate four is the one people miss
Being inside a page an engine cited does not mean you get named. Engines quote a directory and then name firms that were not on it.
Classic SEO lives at the first two gates, and most agencies are strong there. AI-answer visibility lives at the last three, and almost nobody sells gates four and five, because they are the hardest to measure honestly. That is where we work. How gate four fails, and how we test it →
Where to start
The five gates
How search and AI-answer failures happen, gate by gate, and what Google's own documentation says does not work.
Read the reference →Methodology
Why most AI visibility scores are noise, and the measurement design we use instead: frozen panels, repetition, intervals.
See how we measure →Tools
Four free checks, live: what a site returns to each named crawler, whether a request in your logs was the crawler it claimed to be, what the index would keep from a page, and whether a sitemap offers what it then takes back.
Run a check →Services
What the audit and the retainer include, what is excluded by design, and what access is required.
What we do →Pricing
Published in full, with the credit and refund conditions. No call required to get a number.
See prices →For agencies
The engineering layer delivered under your name. Unbranded, technical scope only, pricing on application.
The agency channel →Glossary
Twenty terms defined, including the ones the industry uses loosely and the ones that do not mean what people think.
Look something up →Self-audit
The diagnostic audit in the form a client receives it, run on this site, with every reading dated.
Read the audit →About
What we can prove, what we infer, and the conditions under which we will tell you not to hire us.
How we work →What we will not sell you
Ranking or citation guarantees. Bought links. Bulk AI-generated content. A
single blended AI-visibility score. An llms.txt package. A live dashboard.
Content production. Each one is excluded for a reason we can show you.
The reasoning for each →
Start with the audit
Ten business days, and a ranked fix list you can act on with or without us. Send your domain and a sentence on what you sell. You will get an initial read on whether an audit is worth your money before anything is quoted.