For Marketing & Growth Teams

Get Cited by AI.
Not Just Ranked by Google.

AI search answers are quietly replacing the blue links - being cited by ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity is becoming as important as ranking on Google. Governance Studio audits real AI crawler access and scores citation likelihood against research-backed criteria, alongside traditional SEO, in one run.

$399per month, flat rate
8AI crawlers checked
7dedicated AEO/SEO reports
0page content sent to the cloud

The Opportunity

Enterprise SEO platforms weren't built for AI search (AEO).

Enterprise SEO platforms are priced the same way enterprise accessibility platforms are - annual contracts, per-domain and page-volume tiers, seat-based licensing. Most were also built before AI search existed, so AI crawler access and citation likelihood are not something they measure at all.

What marketing teams deal with today

  • Enterprise SEO platforms commonly run $25,000-$150,000+/year[1], priced per domain and page-volume tier
  • Adding a new brand or regional site means a new subscription negotiation and contract
  • Most platforms report traditional SEO signals only - no AEO coverage, so no visibility into whether AI crawlers like GPTBot or ClaudeBot can even access your pages
  • No visibility into citation likelihood - whether ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity would actually cite your content in an answer
  • Per-named-seat licensing means SEO, content, and marketing ops cannot all access the tool without multiplying costs

What Governance Studio does instead

  • One flat $399/month license covers every property you own - no domain limits, no per-site tiers, no page caps
  • Covers both traditional SEO and AEO in one audit - real AI crawler access for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and 5 others, not just traditional SEO signals
  • Scores citation likelihood using a multilingual language model that runs entirely on your desktop - how likely each page is to be cited by AI engines
  • 7 dedicated AEO/SEO reports per audit, covering on-page SEO, content structure, site reliability, and E-E-A-T trust signals
  • 5 simultaneous sign-ins, each with their own login, means your whole cross-functional team can work from anywhere

Sources:

[1] Enterprise SEO platform pricing: seoClarity published tiers $30,000-$54,000/year; Conductor contract data $26,800-$500,000+/year (median ~$49,000); BrightEdge contract-analysis average ~$12,000-$127,000+/year; Botify $75,000-$400,000+/year for mid-size to enterprise sites. Figures reflect 2026 published pricing and third-party contract-data analysis; none of these vendors publish full list pricing.

Citation Scoring

Research-backed, not a black box.

Citation likelihood is scored with a real formula grounded in published research - and it's honest about which signals matter most, and which are still contested.

What actually moves the score

The two highest-weighted factors - quantitative data density and citing or quoting external sources - are drawn directly from Aggarwal et al., "GEO: Generative Engine Optimization," KDD 2024 (Princeton, Georgia Tech, Allen Institute, IIT Delhi) - described in the research as the only peer-reviewed study measuring this directly. A second factor, field-populated FAQ/Q&A schema, draws on Fischman (SSRN 2026), a 730-citation cross-platform study across ChatGPT and Gemini - with the scoring code explicitly noting this specific area is still contested (a separate large-scale Ahrefs study found no effect at all).

2
Peer-reviewed/empirical studies cited directly in the scoring formula
100
Languages the scoring extends to via the embedded model
800M
Weekly active ChatGPT users[2] - AI search is no longer a niche channel

Sources:

[2] 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.

Who This Is For

Built for the team that owns AI visibility.

In-House Marketing & Growth Teams

Heads of SEO, content, and digital marketing who need to know whether AI engines can crawl, understand, and cite your content - across every property in the portfolio, not just the flagship site.

Digital Marketing & SEO Agencies

Adding AI search readiness to your service line. Sell AEO/SEO audits - 7 dedicated reports per client - without licensing a separate enterprise SEO platform.

Pricing

One license. Every AEO/SEO report. No per-page fees.

A single flat price covers unlimited AEO/SEO audits across every property you own - and includes the full WCAG audit and Site Health tools in the same license, not a separate add-on.

Governance Studio License

$399/ month

$4,450 billed annually - or month-to-month at $399

  • Unlimited properties - no domain or site cap
  • Unlimited pages - no volume tiers or overages
  • Unlimited audit runs - scan as often as needed
  • 5 simultaneous sign-ins, each with their own login
  • AI & Search Readiness (AEO/SEO) - 7 dedicated reports, 8 AI crawler checks
  • Research-backed citation scoring
  • Traditional SEO checks included alongside AEO
  • Also included: full WCAG 2.2 AA audit - 11 report formats, VPAT® generation
  • Also included: Site Health tools - broken links, regex, meta, images
  • Localhost, staging & authenticated-page scanning
  • 7-day free trial - no credit card required

Common Questions

Things marketing teams ask us.

Most enterprise SEO platforms were built before AI search existed, so they don't check AI crawler access or citation likelihood at all - the two things that determine whether ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity will ever surface your content. Governance Studio runs alongside your existing SEO stack and adds that missing AEO layer: 7 dedicated reports per audit covering AI crawler access, citation likelihood, content structure, and E-E-A-T trust signals, scored locally with no page content sent to a third-party cloud.
Citation scoring itself is a transparent, rule-based formula grounded in published research - not an AI judgment call. The embedded model's real job is narrower: it extends the same rule-based detectors to work correctly on non-English and non-Latin-script sites, where plain-English keyword matching would otherwise detect nothing. It runs fully offline, with no page content ever transmitted anywhere.
Your whole team can be provisioned - 5 people can work simultaneously, each with their own login, at one flat monthly rate. No per-seat counting as your team grows, and no separate contract negotiation to add a new brand or regional site.
The 8 tracked crawlers cover OpenAI (GPTBot), Anthropic (ClaudeBot and the alternate anthropic-ai user-agent), Perplexity, Google's Gemini/Bard training crawler (Google-Extended), Amazon (Amazonbot), Common Crawl (CCBot, which feeds many third-party models), and Cohere - the current major AI crawler landscape, reviewed as new bots become relevant.

See your own AI crawler access score.

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$399/mo - Unlimited properties - 7 AEO/SEO reports - 7-day free trial - no credit card required