Rivac LabsAEO Competitor & Answer-Gap Audit
Knowing your own citation rate is only half the picture — the more actionable question is which specific questions a named competitor is winning that you're losing, and why the AI engine trusts their answer over yours. This audit runs the same buyer-intent prompts against a brand and its named competitors side by side, then diagnoses the actual answer gap: missing content, weaker entity signals, thinner schema, or simply a better-structured page the AI engine prefers to quote. It's for brands who already know they're behind a specific competitor in AI answers and need to know exactly why, not just that it's happening. The output is a competitor-specific gap list that turns into a concrete content and technical backlog.
How We’d Approach This
A clear, staged plan — not a black box
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Run identical buyer-intent prompts against the brand and named competitors to quantify exactly where and by how much the brand is losing citations.
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Diagnose the top losing prompt cluster in depth — content, entity, or schema gap — and pilot a fix against it.
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Re-run the pilot prompts and review the citation-rate shift against the competitor before scaling the fix.
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Build the full gap-closing backlog across content, technical, and authority fixes and track competitive position on an ongoing basis.
What You Get
Deliverables from this engagement
- A side-by-side competitor citation and share-of-voice comparison
- A ranked answer-gap list naming the specific questions being lost
- A root-cause diagnosis for each major gap — content, entity, or schema
- A prioritized backlog to close the gaps
Six Ways We Could Architect This
Different engagement, different build — pick the shape that fits
There’s more than one way to deliver on this service. Browse a few of the ways we’d structure the work, depending on your speed, budget, and integration needs.
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