On live accounts Austin Heaton has run: Lumanu 656 AI-sourced clicks and 101 conversions in 60 days; Riseworks 288% organic and 575% AI search expansion over 12 months; iSpeedToLead 310.8% AI-sourced click growth and 7.79 citation share.
Next paths: technical AEO audits, AEO for B2B SaaS, AEO for B2B, and fractional SEO.
Austin Heaton's take: treat the Free AEO Report Card as a go/no-go for hiring, not as the hire. If crawl access is broken, money pages are missing, and review sites own your category answers, you need a scored gap list, then a pilot that rewrites commercial pages and tracks citation share by engine. As of Q3 2026, teams that skip that sequence keep buying AI SEO packages that never change the shortlist.
Named downside: a free report card is not enough if you already know the gaps, need CMS-level fixes this month, or run a multi-brand program that needs a production bench. Then start with a technical AEO audit or scoped pilot. It is also wrong if your buyers never use AI assistants.
A Free AEO Report Card is Austin Heaton's scored first look at crawl/LLM access, citation share, money-page gaps, entity signals, and multi-engine coverage before you hire.
The free AI SEO audit is a self-serve browser grader. The Free AEO Report Card is a human-reviewed hire-intent diagnostic.
Technical crawl/LLM access, citation share vs review sites, money-page gaps, entity consistency, and coverage across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews.
Teams that already know the gaps, need deep CMS fixes, or need multi-brand production capacity should start with a technical AEO audit or 90-day pilot.
Yes, when you want a low-risk go/no-go. Skip it if you already have a clear gap list.
Scope on AEO for B2B SaaS or AEO for B2B, bands on pricing, and a 30-minute Calendly call.
Your competitors are getting cited right now. Find out what that is costing you.
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