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A meadery in northeast Ohio

A real AI-visibility audit, run with the exact method we use for a paying client. We’ve taken the name off and blurred the town. The score, the per-engine numbers, and every finding below are what the audit actually returned.

73out of 100 · Meadery in Ohio
Named in 29 of 45 real AI answers (64%)
The engines

Where AI sends people when they ask

Every engine got the same local questions with the business’s own town written in. This is how often each one actually named it.

ChatGPT7/10
Gemini7/10
Claude5/10
Perplexity9/10
Google AI Overviews1/5

It actually leads its category: no single competitor dominates its local mead searches. The gaps here are accuracy, not absence.

The scorecard

How it scores, area by area

The audit scores each part of being found by AI. Green is fine; the low bars are where the work is.

AI crawler access100
Reviews, maps & lists100
Site fundamentals85
Machine-readable identity85
Content answers questions10
The plan

What to do about it

The quick wins the owner can do this week, and what a rebuild changes.

Do these yourself, this week

  • Correct the wrong street address on the Yelp listing.
  • Fix the Chamber of Commerce listing's wrong Friday and Sunday hours.
  • Add tasting and flight pricing to the visit page.
  • Add JSON-LD structured data that identifies it as a Meadery.

What a Stave rebuild fixes

  • Pages that answer these questions in plain text, hours and tasting prices included
  • A machine-readable identity: Meadery type, address, geo, hours, and linked profiles
  • Real headings, a real FAQ, and your visit or reservation policy in writing
  • Consistent, correct listings across the maps, directories, and lists these engines read
  • A monthly report showing which AI answers now name your meadery
The findings

Every issue the audit flagged

11 major and 14 minor findings in all. The majors, grouped the way the report groups them:

Real AI answers

  • MAJORGoogle AI Overviews rarely recommends the business (1 of 5 answers)
  • MAJORReal share of voice: mentioned in 29 of 45 AI answers

Retrieval & citations

  • MAJORAbsent from "things to do" / mead day-trip sources
  • MAJORYelp lists the wrong street address
  • MAJORChamber of Commerce directory shows wrong Friday and Sunday hours
  • MAJORShare of voice: business surfaces in 9 of 10 queries, but no dominant recurring competitor exists to unseat

Content answers questions

  • MAJORNo tasting/pour/flight pricing stated anywhere on the site
  • MAJORQuery absent: "is the meadery dog friendly and kid friendly"

Machine-readable identity

  • MAJORNo JSON-LD structured data in the raw HTML

Reviews, maps & lists

  • MAJORAddress mismatch between official site and Yelp listing

Site fundamentals

  • MAJORWAF blocks plain or missing user-agents

Plus 14 minor findings and the technical checks, in the full report. See how we measure it or read another teardown.

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