The Shortlist Method Audit

Know exactly where you stand in AI search. In 5 days.

We run 200+ buyer-intent prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Overviews. You get a citation scorecard, the top 5 cited competitors, schema and content audits, and a 90-day roadmap.

Built for B2B SaaS at $1–10M ARR. Outside that band, the prompts and competitor set won't be tuned to your buyers.

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$1,490 flat · 5 business days · 50% credits to retainer if signed within 14 days

Founding-5 offer · 5 of 5 spots left

First 5 customers also get a 30-min founder review call with Ivar (post-delivery) and a 60-day re-run audit to measure delta. Included at no extra cost. After the 5th audit ships, this offer ends.

Anchor check: standalone GEO audits typically run $5,000–$15,000. Profound + Peec + Athena platform spend ≈ $8,000/year before any work happens. The Shortlist Method audit is one-time $1,490, ships the work plan, and 50% credits if you sign a retainer.

What you receive

Branded audit dashboard — 16 sections, scorecard, roadmap, schema specs
Loom walkthrough — 30–45 min, watch at 1.5×
Spreadsheet — every prompt × engine × citation status, raw
Top 20 prioritized fixes — impact × effort matrix
90-day execution roadmap
Optional 30-min Q&A call

Inside the audit

Eight layers. Same structure for every audit. Customized findings.

Prompts × engines

30+ priority prompts per buyer pattern (category, comparison, problem-led, persona) — 200+ total runs across ChatGPT-4o, Perplexity Sonar, Gemini, Claude, and AI Overviews.

Citation scorecard

Per-engine, per-prompt status: cited / partial / not-cited / blocked. Color-coded, click-through to raw responses.

Competitor analysis

Top 5 cited competitors by engine. Why they show up. One profiled in depth. (Compare directly: see /vs/profound, /vs/peec-ai for tooling alternatives.)

Extractability audit

Top 20 pages scored 0–100 for AI extractability. Specific issues per page. Quick wins highlighted.

Schema audit

Current implementation per page type. Missing schemas (Organization, Product, FAQ, HowTo, Review). Code snippets ready to copy.

Authority surfaces

G2/Capterra recency, Reddit mentions and sentiment, podcast presence, trade press, backlink relevance.

Top 20 fixes

Prioritized by impact × effort. Each fix tagged with owner, hours, and expected lift.

90-day roadmap

Week-by-week plan. What we'd do as the retainer. What your team handles. Milestones.

Timeline

Day 1 to Day 5. Non-negotiable.

Day 1KickoffStripe payment received. Kickoff form (8 questions, 5 minutes). Audit Engine queued.
Day 2Engine runPrompts execute across all 5 engines. Citations parsed. Competitor surfaces analyzed.
Day 3Content + schemaTop 20 pages crawled and scored. Schema audit. Authority surface review (G2, Reddit, podcasts).
Day 4SynthesisFindings written into the 16-section audit dashboard. Top 20 fixes prioritized. 90-day roadmap built.
Day 5DeliveryLoom recorded (30–45 min). Dashboard link + spreadsheet shared. Calendly for optional Q&A.

Investment

$1,490

one-time · 5 business days · 50% credits to retainer

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Guarantee. If the full audit dashboard and Loom aren't delivered by end of business on Day 5, full refund. If the audit surfaces fewer than 5 actionable issues, full refund within 14 days. I'd rather refund than ship slop.

FAQ

Audit-specific questions

Can I just buy the audit without committing to a retainer?
Yes. The audit stands alone. You get a branded audit dashboard, a 30–45 minute Loom walkthrough, a 90-day roadmap, and a free 30-day refresh that shows your before/after. Most teams can hand it to their marketing function and run with it. If you decide to upgrade to a retainer within 14 days, $745 of the audit fee credits to month 1.
What do I need to provide?
Your domain, your category, and a single buyer persona. That's it for the audit itself. No long discovery call needed before scope.
Do you need login access to my site?
No. The audit is read-only — we test how AI engines see you from the public web. The retainer is when we'd ask for CMS access (to publish content) or schema-deploy access (to ship structured data).
Can I share the deliverable internally?
Yes. The audit dashboard is a shared link with no login wall. Forward it to your CEO, your SEO agency, your engineering lead — that's the point. The audit doubles as your internal sales document for fixing AI visibility.
What's the Founding-5 offer?
Authority's first 5 paid audits include a 30-minute founder review call (post-delivery, with Ivar) and a 60-day re-run audit to measure delta against the baseline. Both are included at no extra cost. The offer ends when the 5th audit ships — counted live from the database, not promised perpetually. Reason: the first 5 customers shape what the product becomes, so I want direct contact and a real measurement of whether the work moved the score.
How does the 50% retainer credit work?
If you sign a retainer within 14 days of audit delivery, $745 credits to your first retainer month. So a Launch tier first month becomes $1,745 instead of $2,490. Audit-paid signal works as a discount.
My category isn't in The Shortlist Index yet — does that matter?
No. The Index publishes one category per month publicly, but the audit covers any B2B SaaS category. We run prompts specific to your category and ICP — your audit isn't constrained to whatever's currently published.

More general questions? Home page FAQ or email Ivar.

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Know exactly where you stand in AI search. In 5 days.

Built for B2B SaaS at $1–10M ARR. Outside that band, the prompts and competitor set won't be tuned to your buyers.

$1,490 flat · 5 business days · 50% credits to retainer if signed within 14 days

Founding-5 offer · 5 of 5 spots left

Eight layers. Same structure for every audit. Customized findings.

Prompts × engines

30+ priority prompts per buyer pattern (category, comparison, problem-led, persona) — 200+ total runs across ChatGPT-4o, Perplexity Sonar, Gemini, Claude, and AI Overviews.

Citation scorecard

Per-engine, per-prompt status: cited / partial / not-cited / blocked. Color-coded, click-through to raw responses.

Competitor analysis

Top 5 cited competitors by engine. Why they show up. One profiled in depth. (Compare directly: see /vs/profound, /vs/peec-ai for tooling alternatives.)

Extractability audit

Top 20 pages scored 0–100 for AI extractability. Specific issues per page. Quick wins highlighted.

Schema audit

Current implementation per page type. Missing schemas (Organization, Product, FAQ, HowTo, Review). Code snippets ready to copy.

Authority surfaces

G2/Capterra recency, Reddit mentions and sentiment, podcast presence, trade press, backlink relevance.

Top 20 fixes

Prioritized by impact × effort. Each fix tagged with owner, hours, and expected lift.

90-day roadmap

Week-by-week plan. What we'd do as the retainer. What your team handles. Milestones.

Day 1 to Day 5. Non-negotiable.

Day 1KickoffStripe payment received. Kickoff form (8 questions, 5 minutes). Audit Engine queued.

Day 2Engine runPrompts execute across all 5 engines. Citations parsed. Competitor surfaces analyzed.

Day 3Content + schemaTop 20 pages crawled and scored. Schema audit. Authority surface review (G2, Reddit, podcasts).

Day 4SynthesisFindings written into the 16-section audit dashboard. Top 20 fixes prioritized. 90-day roadmap built.

Day 5DeliveryLoom recorded (30–45 min). Dashboard link + spreadsheet shared. Calendly for optional Q&A.

Audit-specific questions

Can I just buy the audit without committing to a retainer?

Yes. The audit stands alone. You get a branded audit dashboard, a 30–45 minute Loom walkthrough, a 90-day roadmap, and a free 30-day refresh that shows your before/after. Most teams can hand it to their marketing function and run with it. If you decide to upgrade to a retainer within 14 days, $745 of the audit fee credits to month 1.

What do I need to provide?

Your domain, your category, and a single buyer persona. That's it for the audit itself. No long discovery call needed before scope.

Do you need login access to my site?

No. The audit is read-only — we test how AI engines see you from the public web. The retainer is when we'd ask for CMS access (to publish content) or schema-deploy access (to ship structured data).

Can I share the deliverable internally?

Yes. The audit dashboard is a shared link with no login wall. Forward it to your CEO, your SEO agency, your engineering lead — that's the point. The audit doubles as your internal sales document for fixing AI visibility.

What's the Founding-5 offer?

Authority's first 5 paid audits include a 30-minute founder review call (post-delivery, with Ivar) and a 60-day re-run audit to measure delta against the baseline. Both are included at no extra cost. The offer ends when the 5th audit ships — counted live from the database, not promised perpetually. Reason: the first 5 customers shape what the product becomes, so I want direct contact and a real measurement of whether the work moved the score.

How does the 50% retainer credit work?

If you sign a retainer within 14 days of audit delivery, $745 credits to your first retainer month. So a Launch tier first month becomes $1,745 instead of $2,490. Audit-paid signal works as a discount.

My category isn't in The Shortlist Index yet — does that matter?

No. The Index publishes one category per month publicly, but the audit covers any B2B SaaS category. We run prompts specific to your category and ICP — your audit isn't constrained to whatever's currently published.