About
We grade your site for the search reality of 2026, and we show our work.
SEO for AI Agents is built by Own The Climb. We audit the signals classic Google and AI crawlers read, and we sample what six AI answer engines actually answer. We hold ourselves to a single rule: we never present a number we did not earn.
Why this exists now
Discovery stopped being one search engine.
A brand that ranks first on Google and is invisible in ChatGPT is no longer winning. Between 2024 and 2026, AI answer engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and others) took a real slice of the moment a buyer decides who to trust. Classic SEO tools still grade you for the 2015 ten-blue-links Google.
We treat AI answers as first-class surfaces, not a bolt-on. Today we sample ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, and Google AI Overviews through their APIs and the Google results page. We do not measure Microsoft Copilot, because no public API measures its answers. The audit is the wedge. The sourced editorial layer (a methodology page behind every score) is the moat. The reason we can be trusted with that claim is that we refuse to fake the measurement.
Who is behind this
A real person stands behind every score.
Shimon Alex Carroll is the Founder and CEO of Own The Climb, the studio that builds custom software, AI agents, and business systems. SEO for AI Agents is the product expression of a simple belief: the companies that win the AI era are the ones that can actually measure whether AI recommends them, honestly, and act on it.
We are a small, focused team. That is a feature. It means the person who decides what a check measures is the same person who decides we will not ship a check that lies. If you want to reach us, write to support@seoforaiagents.com.
The integrity stance
The rules we hold ourselves to.
We never fake a measurement
If a check is a deterministic rule, we call it a rule. If a result came from a live model, we show the model, the version, and the timestamp. We would rather show you less than show you a number we did not earn. A tool whose pitch is "every finding shows its evidence" cannot have a single fabricated signal.
Every finding shows its evidence
Severity, a confidence flag, a methodology citation, the evidence snippet, and a fix you can paste. Every score traces back to the primary source that justifies the rule. We refuse to surface a finding without its confidence value.
We say what does not work
llms.txt does not earn AI citations. "EEAT score" is a vendor invention. Keyword density is not a real signal. We lose some "10 SEO hacks" traffic and we keep the trust of the operators whose careers depend on not being fooled.
Pillars never lock; volume scales
Every audit, on every plan, scores Foundational SEO, Technical SEO and AI Visibility. Local SEO is scored when the pages we read show a physical location or a service area, such as a street address, a city and state or a Maps link, and on every accountant, lawyer, medical practice and real estate audit. No pillar is ever held back for a higher plan: the free audit scores every pillar that applies to your site. What scales with the plan is volume: pages read per audit, tracked prompts, brands, and history. A free audit reads 1 page, the one you enter. Starter reads up to 3 pages, Pro up to 5, and Agency up to 10. A locked pillar would fracture the product, so we never lock one.
Read the methodology. Then run a real audit.
Every score has a methodology page behind it, and our security posture is published in full. Nothing here is boilerplate.