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Gap Analysis· GEOsix-layer root-cause analysis

Generative Engine Optimization

Being found, included and cited when an AI generates an answer — at answer time, from the live web.

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— visibility in AI answers

You already know the AI doesn't recommend you — but not why. The Gap Analysis uncovers, question by question, why the AI chooses someone else and what your page is missing.

The
Machine equity

Machine equity is the business asset that arises from AI systems being able to recognize, understand, recall, recommend — and, on a user's behalf, transact with — a brand. Composed of three layers: rented reach (retrieval visibility), owned memory (trained model recall), and machine buyability (agent-side transactability). Measured honestly only as a portfolio of ranged, per-layer metrics — never as a single blended score.

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loop

  1. 1 · MEASURE — where you stand and which questions matter (Citation Tracker, Selector)
  2. 2 · FIX — why the AI skips you, fixed in code (Gap Analysis, Gap Closure)
  3. 3 · ANCHOR — an unambiguous entity, present where models learn (Entity Anchor, Corpus Campaign)
  4. 4 · PROVE ↺ — closed-book baseline and the delta at every new model generation (Model Memory Audit, Release Audit)
→ AI TRANSACTION — when the agent buys (agentic commerce · roadmap)

KG Doctor and the Claim Coherence Engine — the studio's own instruments — serve the entire loop.

Execution order:
A1A2A3A4
→ sequential

AVE Studio doesn't run short-term campaigns: we build our partners' machine equity, across model generations.

The problem

The AI usually doesn't recommend another provider by accident: their content, data or site structure is measurably a better fit for the question. For every approved target question, the Gap Analysis identifies the competitor the AI engines most consistently recommend instead of you. We then examine that competitor's actual pages in detail and show, with evidence, what they do differently — and what you're missing.

Six dimensions we examine for every question

01Content

Does your page answer the buyer's question in a form the AI can easily interpret and cite?

02Vocabulary

Do you use the same terms your buyers and the AI use to name the subject?

03Structured data

JSON-LD is the description written for machines. Does it clearly tell the AI what each element of the page means?

04External credibility signals

Which trusted sources link to you, and how credible do you appear to the AI as a result?

05Page type

Are you answering the question with the right type of page — or competing against a detailed service page with a blog post?

06Internal linking

Do your internal links lead the AI to your most important page, or is it buried in the structure?

How we back up the findings
Evidence behind every claim

We separate facts from assumptions

Every finding is tied to a concrete source: your own page, a competitor's page, or the measurement result. Anything without direct evidence is explicitly labeled "assumption" and never stated as fact. This reduces the risk of false, invented conclusions.

Real competitor examples

not a generic advice list

We examine the actual content and structure of the pages recommended instead of you, and document their practice with evidence. If the AI answers on a question are too volatile, we say so plainly: "no clear winner". We don't draw firm conclusions from uncertain data.

Behind the service: purpose-built software

Every service runs on an application we built in-house for exactly this job — not manual spreadsheets, not general-purpose tools.

A six-dimension, evidence-linked analysis engine: every finding is tied to a source; anything unproven is explicitly labeled an assumption.

What you get
  • Root-cause analysis per question: shows why the AI passes over your page. Findings across the six dimensions are ranked by severity.
  • Competitor evidence: page by page, we document what the competitor the AI most consistently recommends instead of you actually does.
  • Site-level technical findings: robots.txt, llms.txt — the file that guides how AI systems crawl your website — and the sitemap.
  • A client-ready report: available on a shareable link, with the measurement date in the header so it's always clear what vintage of data it's built on.
  • Analysis grounded in published research: we incorporate documented AI-visibility findings — such as the Princeton GEO research — with source attribution.
  • The basis of the next step: the findings feed directly into the Gap Closure's executable fix package.

Reports are delivered in Hungarian and English.

Honesty note

For every target question, we examine in detail the page of yours that best fits it — not your entire website. We do not guarantee improved rankings or naming rate; we uncover the likely causes and back them with evidence. The question list approved in the Selector carries over automatically, so no new input is needed from you. ---

Frequently asked questions
How much does the gap analysis cost?
From €425 (net). The premium consulting market sells a "comprehensive audit + strategy" document at a multiple of this; here you get a page-by-page, question-by-question diagnosis measured against the actual AI answers, in six layers.
What do I receive?
A page-level, question-level breakdown of exactly where and why the AI passes you over: which page fails, in which layer (access, content, structure, entity), and who gets cited instead of you. Not a generic recommendation list — evidence, with addressed faults.
How is this different from generic AI-audit consulting?
The consulting genre writes documents: general recommendations and best practices. We measure your pages on your buyers' questions, and every finding comes with the actual AI answer it is visible in. The difference is evidence instead of opinion.

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