AI answer visibility
Which priority questions name the business, which engines returned substantive answers, and how often competitors appear instead.
Before we recommend anything, we need to know what buyers are seeing.
The audit checks the questions that matter, the businesses appearing first, and the public evidence supporting those answers. It gives us a real starting point instead of a generic score.
In practical terms, the audit tells you whether your business appears when a serious customer asks for help, who is receiving the recommendation instead, and what may be making that competitor easier to understand or trust.
What you receive.
The report is organized around three owner questions: Where do we stand? Why? What should we improve first?
Local recommendation position
The business inside a market-locked competitor set, using live local evidence when available and clearly labeled model evidence when not.
Website readiness
Whether service pages, location facts, structured data, reviews, proof, and conversion paths are clear to machines and buyers.
Source map
The profiles, directories, publications, citations, and first-party pages that reinforce—or contradict—the business entity.
Competitors ahead
Named businesses returned in answers or local results, with the evidence used to distinguish verified competitors from incomplete proof.
Prioritized fix queue
A sequenced 90-day plan separating quick corrections from authority-building work that requires time and external corroboration.
How to read the result.
This example is fictional. It shows the report structure without implying a client result or promised outcome.
A local practice appears when customers search its name, but not when they ask who to choose.
That usually points to an evidence gap rather than a nonexistent business. The website may be clear enough for a branded search while the service-area proof and independent confirmation remain too thin for a broader recommendation.
| Layer | Illustrative finding | Confidence | First action |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI mentions | Named for one branded question; absent from four non-branded questions | Directional | Lock and repeat priority prompts |
| Local position | Competitor set pending until the exact market is confirmed | Incomplete | Select the local listing and city |
| Website | Services readable; location and proof signals thin | Audited | Strengthen service-area and evidence sections |
| Sources | Core profiles exist but service language is inconsistent | Audited | Align categories, descriptions, and citations |
How we move from the first check to a retest.
Every exact claim depends on the correct entity and market. A chain or franchise is tied to the selected location unless the audit is explicitly national.
Confirm the business.
We resolve the name, domain, category, market, and location-level listing before scoring.
Run the buying questions.
The same prompts are checked across supported answer and search surfaces. Failed or unavailable checks remain visible.
Identify the businesses ahead.
Competitors are restricted to the confirmed market. Unknown positions remain unknown rather than becoming fabricated names.
Inspect the public evidence.
The website, reviews, profiles, citations, structured facts, and independent sources help explain the gap.
Complete the work and test again.
Approved changes are prioritized by credibility and business value, then evaluated against the original question set.
The audit is a dated record, not a permanent ranking.
Answers can vary by engine, wording, date, location, personalization, and model changes. We can improve the evidence and measure the outcome; we cannot control an engine’s recommendation.
No guaranteed placement
Frontier Rank can improve evidence and measure outcomes; it cannot control an engine’s recommendation.
No mixed denominators
A website-readiness score is not reported as an engine mention or a local recommendation position.
No hidden provider failure
Unavailable, fallback, modeled, and live sources are separated so confidence is understandable.
Start with the exact business.
Run a directional public preview, then confirm the entity and market for a source-locked audit.