WCAG, AEO & Site Health Auditing
All From Your Desktop
The privacy-first desktop app for accessibility, AI search readiness, and site health audits. Scan live sites, staging, and localhost with no page limits, no cloud upload, and no per-seat fees.
Available for Windows now. macOS support is coming soon.
Three Simple Steps to Start
Because Beanstalk Governance Studio runs locally to keep your codebase completely private, getting your team set up is clean, straightforward, and incredibly fast.
Download the App
Download the Windows installer directly from this site. No sales call, no waiting on approval.
Create Your Account
Sign up for your team's account in a couple of minutes. Supports up to 5 simultaneous sign-ins, so your team can work from anywhere.
Log In & Scan
Sign in with your new account and start scanning your sites, apps, and staging environments immediately.
Built for Every Team That Owns a Digital Property
The same desktop app, configured for how your team actually works
Digital Agencies & Consultants
Run full WCAG, AEO, and site health audits for every client and hand over polished, white-labeled reports — without per-client licensing.
- Unlimited white-labeled client reports
- Offline-ready report files for client handoff
- Audit unlimited client sites under one account
Enterprise Procurement & Legal
Produce defensible, jurisdiction-correct compliance documentation your legal and procurement teams can rely on.
- Automated VPAT/ACR generation for US, EU, UK, Australia, India & International
- Nothing leaves your machine — full data sovereignty
- A documented audit trail for every engagement
Product Owners & Engineering
Catch real accessibility barriers using the actual browser accessibility tree, directly in your own dev and staging environments.
- Full localhost and private-network scanning
- Real accessibility-tree extraction via Chrome DevTools Protocol
- Exact failing element and fix guidance for every issue
Marketing & Growth
Get cited by ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, not just ranked on Google — a full AI & search readiness audit across 7 dedicated reports.
- AI crawler access, structured data, and citation likelihood scoring
- On-page SEO, content structure, and E-E-A-T trust signals
- Scored locally by an embedded language model, no API key needed
The Stakes Are Higher Than Ever
Accessibility failures and AI-search blind spots are both getting more expensive to ignore. Here's the data.
Accessibility Is Getting Worse, Not Better
The 2026 WebAIM Million report found that 95.9% of the top one million home pages have detectable WCAG 2 failures, up from 94.8% the year before — averaging 56.1 errors per page. Surface-level linting tends to miss the structural barriers a real browser-based audit catches.[1]
ADA Litigation Keeps Climbing
US federal ADA Title III filings hit 5,006 in just the first half of 2026, putting the full year on pace for a record. In the EU, the European Accessibility Act has been enforceable since June 2025 and is commonly demonstrated via EN 301 549 and WCAG 2.2 AA conformance across all 27 member states.[2]
AI Search Is Now a Marketing Channel
ChatGPT alone reaches 800 million weekly active users, and Gartner's own research concludes marketers can no longer treat AI-driven answers as optional - winning visibility now means optimizing for both AI search and classic search results.[3]
Sources:
[1] WebAIM Million Report, WebAIM, 2026 (webaim.org/projects/million).
[2] Seyfarth ADA Title III Mid-Year Review, September 2026; European Commission, European Accessibility Act enforcement, effective June 28, 2025.
[3] OpenAI, reported weekly active user figures, 2026; Gartner, Gartner Survey Finds Only One-Third of Consumers Say GenAI Rivals Search Engines; Marketers Must Optimize for Both AI-Driven and Traditional Search, Gartner newsroom, 2026.
Predictable Pricing vs. Cloud SaaS Traps
Why running your governance tools locally eliminates the hidden costs of per-seat cloud platforms.
Standard Cloud SaaS
- Pay-Per-Seat Fees: Costs scale up every time you add a consultant, developer, or QA lead.
- Metered Page Scans: Large sites or complex directories trigger overage charges.
- Domain Restrictions: Many platforms only scan sites you've registered or verified ownership of.
- Data Exposure: Uploading internal code and staging environments to a third party is a real liability.
Beanstalk Governance Studio
- Flat Team Pricing: Up to 5 simultaneous sign-ins, working from anywhere, for one flat monthly rate.
- Uncapped Local Scanning: Audit any live site or private localhost workspace, no crawl limits, no domain restrictions.
- Total Privacy: Everything, including AI-powered analysis, runs on your desktop. Nothing is uploaded.
What Makes It Different
A real technical edge, not marketing claims. Here's what's actually under the hood.
True Reader Architecture
We don't just lint your markup. Governance Studio opens a real browser window and extracts the same accessibility tree a screen reader reads from, via the Chrome DevTools Protocol, then analyzes it to predict exactly what gets announced on each page.
It catches barriers that pattern-matching tools tend to miss.
Enterprise Brand Hygiene
One crawl engine powers every tool — sitemap discovery, URL lists, or full spider crawl — shared across WCAG, AEO, and Site Health scans.
Broken links (4xx/5xx), missing or broken images, incomplete page metadata, and a custom regex finder for your own content patterns, all included.
AEO & SEO Scoring With a Real Language Model
AI search answers are quietly replacing the blue links — being cited by ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity is becoming as important as ranking on Google. This isn't just a compliance concern; it's a growth lever every marketer is chasing. A multilingual language model runs locally inside the app and powers every AI & search readiness score out of the box — no API key, no setup, no page content ever leaves your machine.
Real Semantic Analysis
Cross-lingual understanding of your content, not just English keyword matching, for direct-answer detection, author signals, and content quality scoring in over 100 languages.
Zero Data Exposure
No OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google API key is required for AEO/SEO scoring. The model runs fully offline inside the app, so your page content never has to be transmitted anywhere to get scored.
Comprehensive Governance Tools
One-off crawl tools independent of the WCAG audit for targeted governance and quality assurance — the kind of ongoing digital quality monitoring teams otherwise license a separate DXP add-on to get
Regex Finder
Find all pages where a regex pattern matches. Enter one pattern per line to identify specific content, code patterns, or structural issues across your entire site.
Broken Link Detection
Find all 4xx/5xx HTTP responses on internal and external links. Automatically identify broken references that impact user experience and SEO performance.
Page Meta Information
Audit missing or incomplete title, meta description, OG tags, JSON-LD, H1, and canonical tags. Ensure complete SEO and social media optimization across all pages.
Broken Images Detection
Detect images that fail to load and identify images missing alt text. Maintain visual integrity and ensure accessibility compliance for all image assets.
Client-Ready Reports
11 WCAG report formats, generated automatically from every audit — plus 7 dedicated AI & Search Readiness (AEO/SEO) reports and a consolidated Site Health report, ready to hand straight to clients or stakeholders
Formal Reports .docx
Professionally structured deliverables you can customize with your own branding:
- Web Accessibility Audit Report: 11-section diagnostic report.
- ACR/VPAT Report: Formal compliance documentation (VPAT® Version 2.5, the current ITI standard, in the correct edition for US, EU, UK, Australia, India, or International).
Developer Checklists .xlsx
Structured, actionable worksheets built for developer remediation tracking, not presentation:
- Excel Workbook: 7 sheets covering issues, remediation tracking, and fix priorities.
Standalone Interactive Reports .html
Self-contained offline files for fast stakeholder review, or safe public hosting:
- Interactive Issues & Screen Reader Report
- Per-Page Reports
- Executive Briefing
- Accessibility Statement (HTML & Word)
- Verification Report
AI & Search Readiness Reports (AEO/SEO) .html
7 dedicated reports per audit — not just one page. Built for marketing and growth teams, not just compliance:
- Executive Summary
- AI Crawler & Technical Report
- AI Citation & Discoverability Report
- On-Page SEO Report
- Site Reliability Report
- Content Structure Report
- E-E-A-T & Trust Report
Safe, Private, and IT-Approved
Designed to fit smoothly into your normal team operations without tricky network reconfigurations
Your Data Stays Yours
Because Governance Studio runs directly on your computer, your source code and staging environments never leave your machine. That includes developers scanning localhost builds and marketers reviewing staging or intranet sites — things a hosted SaaS tool simply can't reach.
One Signed App Build
Every team downloads the same signed application package. Your IT team approves one file, and your whole account is ready to go.
Verified & Scanned
Windows
Every release is signed with a verified code-signing certificate and scanned clean by Windows Defender and an enterprise-grade antivirus engine before publishing.
macOS
Signed and notarized builds — coming soon with macOS support.
FAQs
Still have questions?
Start Your Free 7-Day Trial
Download the app, create your account, and start scanning. No sales call, no credit card.
⚡ Flat $399/month or $4,450/year. Cancel anytime.
Your account and installed app stay — scanning pauses until you pick a plan after day 7. No surprise charges.
Available for Windows now. macOS support is coming soon.