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title: "Audit a client's AI readiness in 10 minutes"
url: "/resources/audit-client-ai-readiness"
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markdown_url: "https://crunchjunkie.io/resources/audit-client-ai-readiness.md"
language: "en"
type: "playbook"
summary: "Use the GEO Audit and Agent Readiness sub-score to build a prioritised client plan: how crawlable and citable a site is for AI, and whether agents can reach it."
site: "CrunchJunkie"
llms_txt: "https://crunchjunkie.io/llms.txt"
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# Audit a client's AI readiness in 10 minutes
Source: https://crunchjunkie.io/resources/audit-client-ai-readiness
Category: Agency workflow · Level: Beginner · 6 min read
Outcome: A prioritised, plain-language AI-readiness report for any client site — with fixes you can hand to a developer.

Before you promise a client more AI visibility, you need to know what's holding them back. The GEO Audit turns a site into a 0–100 readiness score with a prioritised fix list in a single pass — and now carries a separate Agent Readiness sub-score for the emerging class of AI agents. Here's how to run one and turn it into a deliverable.

## 1. Run the GEO Audit
Open the client's AI Visibility project, go to GEO Audit, and the domain is pre-filled from their saved website. Click Run audit — CrunchJunkie fetches robots.txt, the homepage, llms.txt and the sitemap the same way an AI crawler does (plain HTTP, no JavaScript) and scores concrete signals into one number.

## 2. Read the score and categories
The composite 0–100 score weights five categories: AI crawler access, content accessibility / SSR, structured data, technical hygiene and llms.txt. A high score means the site is well-positioned to be cited — it's a readiness measure, not a promise of mentions, which you track separately on the Visibility tab.

## 3. Work the prioritised fixes
The audit ranks every non-passing check by the points it would recover — highest-impact first. Each comes with a plain-language explanation, and "Draft the fix with Crunch" writes a concrete, copy-pasteable remediation grounded in that specific finding, ready to drop into a ticket.

## 4. Check the Agent Readiness sub-score
Alongside the GEO score is a separate Agent Readiness sub-score: can real-time AI agents fetch the site, read it without JavaScript, and parse a breadth of structured data. It's deliberately kept out of the main score because the category is still emerging — but it's a forward-looking differentiator few audits offer. It checks the preconditions, not whether an agent can complete a task on the site, so present it to a client that way.

## 5. Turn it into a client deliverable
The audit history saves every run, so you can re-audit after the client ships fixes and show the score move over time. Drop the score, the prioritised fixes and the Draft-the-fix remediations into a report or a short email — a credible, specific action plan rather than vague advice.

### FAQ
**What does the GEO Audit actually check?**
It fetches the site as an AI crawler does and grades: whether robots.txt and the CDN allow the AI crawlers, whether key content is server-rendered (not JavaScript-only), whether valid schema.org structured data is present, technical hygiene (sitemap, canonical, titles, HTTPS), and llms.txt. Present-but-incomplete schema is flagged with the exact missing properties.

**What's the difference between the GEO score and the Agent Readiness sub-score?**
The GEO score is about being crawled and cited by AI answer engines. The Agent Readiness sub-score is about the newer class of real-time AI agents that fetch on a user's behalf — whether they can reach the site, read it without JavaScript and parse its structured data. Those are the preconditions, not a test that an agent can complete a task. It's shown separately and doesn't affect the GEO score.

**Can I re-run the audit to show progress?**
Yes. Every run is saved to the audit history with its date and score, so after a client applies fixes you re-audit and the history strip shows the improvement — a clean before-and-after for your report.

**Does a high GEO score guarantee more AI mentions?**
No, and we're deliberate about that. The score measures readiness — that the technical barriers to being cited are removed. Whether the brand is actually mentioned is tracked separately by Visibility % on the AI Visibility tab. Readiness is necessary but not sufficient; pair the two for the full picture.