From Free Check to AI Visibility Strategy: Which Next Step Fits Your Team?

What Should You Do After a Free AI Visibility Check?

After a free check, decide which question you still need answered. The free check tells you whether AI bots can reach your site and what the obvious technical gaps are. It does not tell you what AI engines say about you. If that is the open question, the next step is a paid audit. If you already know what is wrong and lack the time to fix it, the next step is help, not more measurement.

This post is a decision guide, not a funnel report. An earlier version described a five-stage path that 50 users were following, with conversion figures and testimonials. Our records did not support any of it, so we removed it. What follows uses the free check, prices and services as they stand in October 2026.

What Does the Free Check Tell You, and What Does It Not?

The free check tells you whether your site is technically ready for AI crawlers and answer engines. It runs six tools on one domain: AI crawler access, robots.txt, llms.txt, schema markup, AEO page readiness and an overall AI Readiness score. You get the score, a letter grade and your top issue, and Radar emails you a link to the result.

What it does not tell you matters as much. Because the free check does not ask AI engines about you, it cannot say whether ChatGPT names you, whether Perplexity links you or whether Gemini confuses you with another business. A good free result means the doors are open. It does not mean anyone has walked through them.

The free check is one per domain, so a second check on the same domain is refused rather than run again. To see whether a fix worked, you recheck with a paid audit.

When Is One $5 Audit Enough?

One audit is enough when you have one domain and one question: what do the engines say about us right now, and what should we look at first? A single audit runs all 13 tools, including Reddit monitoring and the tools that sample answers from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, and puts them in one report.

What you get with a paid audit, as of October 2026:

• all 13 tools, with the AI-response results shown per engine;
• cross-tool insights, which name the places where two results disagree;
• actions in a stable order by impact and effort, with fix threads that say which tools to rerun;
• unlimited messages with the Strategist, which is briefed on your audit;
• PDF export, saved history and competitor comparison.

Credits do not expire, so buying one audit now does not commit you to anything. Part 4 explains how the 13 tools run and how the insights are built.

When Do Audit Packs or Pro Make More Sense?

Packs make sense when you need a few audits at your own pace. Pro makes sense when you need a regular watch over several domains. The difference is not mainly price per audit; it is whether you want credits or a schedule.

Pro works out to slightly more per audit than a pack. What it adds is the watch: domains you add are re-scanned weekly, so a change shows up without anyone remembering to run an audit. If you would not use the weekly re-scans, a Power Pack is the better buy.

Should You Fix It Yourself or Hand It Over?

Fix it yourself when the gaps are technical and someone on your team has access to the site. Hand it over when the gaps are structural and nobody has the time. Most audits find some of both.

For the do-it-yourself route, Radar helps draft the change: each action can generate a copy-and-paste prompt for an AI assistant such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, and your team reviews it and makes the change.

For the hand-it-over route, Pixelmojo's AI Visibility Strategy starts with the $4,500 Visibility Sprint, over four to six weeks.

The sprint includes a full Radar audit with expert analysis, robots.txt configuration for AI bots, knowledge graph entity mapping, a disambiguation strategy if brand confusion is found, content restructuring into an answer-first format, competitive benchmarking and a 60-day action plan. Ongoing retainers start at $2,000 a month for monthly audits, citation monitoring and maintenance.

“Review the evidence. Choose one practical change. Then check again, so your client gets a clear next step.”

Scout, What Should We Fix First? (video, September 2026)

Read the transcript

Your client asks, what should we fix first? I'm Scout. Radar helps you inspect how AI describes their business. Review the evidence. Choose one practical change. Then check again, so your client gets a clear next step.

How Should You Recheck After a Fix?

Recheck once the change is live, and read the result as what changed, not why. AI engines also change on their own, and the same question can get a different answer on the next run, so a better result after a fix is encouraging but not proof that the fix caused it.

A few habits make rechecks more useful:

• Change one thing at a time where you can, so a change in the results has fewer possible causes.
• Compare like with like. Use the same domain and the same audit, and keep the earlier run in your saved history.
• Look at the counts, not just the rate. "Named in 3 of 8 answers" moving to "4 of 8" is a small change.
• Give it time. Crawlers revisit on their own schedule, and we do not publish a timeline for when engines pick up a change.

We wrote more about reading results in the Radar user guide.

What Changed in This Post?

We rewrote this post on 2 October 2026 as part of a review of every post on the blog. The changes:

• the five-stage path that "50 users are following", its drop-off figures and its conversion figures are removed, because our records do not support them;
• testimonials for plans that had launched three days before the original post are removed;
• the paid ladder now matches current prices: $5, $12 and $40 audits, Pro at $199 a month, and the $4,500 sprint;
• the free check is described as it works today: 6 tools, one per domain, no AI answers sampled.

What This Series Covers

This is Part 5 of The AI Visibility Stack, a six-part series on how we built Radar and what we learned running it. Part 4 explains how one audit reads 13 tools together. Part 6 covers the wrong-company audit and what we rebuilt after it.