Before you start
- The businessIts name and city (Joe's Salon, Leeds), its website, or its Google Maps link.
- Nothing elseNo logins. The audit reads the public Google listing and website, and asks the AI engines the way a customer would.
Nothing in the audit is written by an AI model: the comparison and the fix list are worked out in code, and every finding shows its source and the date it was read.
PART 01
Run an audit
0 of 4 done- Open AnswerCheckrAt answercheckr.ahastudio.net, or press Start something new on your account page and choose Readiness Audit.
- Optional: who it is forIf you build for clients, pick the client under For (your client profiles are under Your account, Clients): the work uses its brand colour, voice, call to action and lead notifications, and is saved under that client in Your work. The picker shows once you have saved a client.
- Type the businessIn the Which business? card, type in Business name and city, website, or Google Maps link. A tag in the field says what it reads it as (a website, a name and city, a Maps link), or asks you to add the city. Pick the Country beside it. Under More options you can name the Main service (it words the questions) and tick the Assistants to ask. The line under the button shows how many questions and assistants it will ask.
- Press Check this businessThe steps tick off: Finds the business (the Google listing and the website), Asks the AI engines, Compares the answers with the facts, Checks the foundations and Writes the fix list. A grid of questions by assistant fills in as the answers arrive. A failed step says why and has Retry; Continue nudges an audit that has not moved. If the business cannot be found, nothing is asked: type the exact name, the website or the Maps link and press Try again.
PART 02
What it checks
The questionsWhere can I get your service in your city, what are your opening hours, how do I book, and how much it costs. ChatGPT is always asked (with web search on); Perplexity and Google AI Mode by default, Gemini, Claude and the Google AI Overview if you tick them.
Found or notWhether each answer names you or links your website, and who it named instead.
HoursThe hours in each answer compared day by day with your Google listing: same, different, or not stated.
BookingWhether the answer gives your booking or order link, your phone, or nothing.
PricesThe prices an answer quotes, matched against the prices written on your website.
Your Google listingClaimed or not, hours, booking link, categories, photos and reviews.
Your websiteAI crawlers allowed in robots.txt, LocalBusiness markup, the same name, address and phone as Google, the same hours, a contact or booking page, prices, and llms.txt (optional, not proven to matter).
SquareA restaurant or food and drink seller on Square in the US is told it may already be reachable in ChatGPT through Square (Square, 1 July 2026).
PART 03
The report and the fix list
0 of 5 done- Read the scoreThe top line says how many answers are right, with a bar of right, partly right, wrong and cannot be checked (the facts are not published anywhere). The short version says what to fix first.
- Tap an answerEach cell in the grid says Right, Partly, Wrong or Can’t check. Tap it to see what the assistant said, its sources, the model and the date, and how it compares with your facts. Your Google listing and Your website cards show each check. Every answer in full opens all of them.
- The fix listFix first, Next and Later, in plain words, each with the findings behind it. Tick a fix when you have done it (the ticks are kept in this browser). Where an Aha worker does the job, Do it with Aha opens it: Neighborhood Pages, SEO Magnets, AI Search or the tracking Hand-off.
- Download or shareOpen the report or Download the report (print it to save a PDF), or Download as .md. Make a share link gives a private address you can send to a client, in your client's colours and logo. Turn the link off any time.
- Check againCheck again now runs the same audit now; Check again on (a date 30 days away) turns on the monthly check: it runs every 30 days and emails you when something changed. Stop the monthly check turns it off.
PART 04
Local Prospector: check up to 10 businesses
0 of 6 done- Open itIn AnswerCheckr, press Local Prospector under the Which business? field (members), or go to /demo/answercheckr/prospector. It is for finding which local business to pitch first.
- Add the businessesUp to 10: each one's Business name, Website (leave it empty if they have none), Main service (for example plumber) and City. Or choose one of your BuildMyDirectory directories and press All listings or No website list, then press a business to add it.
- See the cost firstPress See the cost first. Nothing is searched yet: the line shows how many Google searches and listing lookups it will run, as a share of your monthly included amount (nothing on your own DataForSEO account). Then press Run the searches.
- Read each businessFor each one: where its website ranks on the first page of Google for "[main service] [city]", if at all, and what kind of page ranks above it (another business, a directory, a review site); its Google listing (claimed, primary category, hours, phone and review count); and its 3 most visible problems, one plain sentence each. The last review date and whether the owner replies to reviews are not read yet, and say so.
- Pitch these firstThe list is ranked by how much a fix would change their calls: the weight of their problems, and whether their reviews show real customers already. The top 3 carry the reason.
- The three buttonsAdd to my pipeline makes the business a New lead in Your account, Leads. Write the pitch shows a short, honest email that quotes the one search result; Copy it, or Put it in Outreach as a draft (a business with a website). Run the full AnswerCheckr opens the audit for that business. Aha never contacts a business: you send every email yourself.
PART 05
Your limits
Starter allowance5audits in your first 14 days
Each month20audits. Unlimited with your own DataForSEO login after your first 14 days.
FREE DEMO1 a day3 questions on ChatGPT, no share link or monthly check
PART 06
If something looks wrong
Still stuck? Email support@anthonyhayes.me or open the help desk.
Ready to build?Type a business name and its city, a website or a Google Maps link, then press Check this business.Open AnswerCheckr