AI Search Visibility Audit · Example Report
Prepared for

Apex Building Solutions

Domain  apexbuilding.co.nz Benchmarked against  Clearstone Group Issued  June 2026
Overall readiness
Entering the Race

A real search foundation to build on. The gap is in how AI tools read and surface your business.

AI search presence

Your AI presence, head to head

Mixed results vs Clearstone Group
Featured snippet positions you hold
26
Clearstone Group: 9 +17 ahead
Keywords triggering AI Overview answers
14
Clearstone Group: 31 17 behind
Monthly organic search traffic
4,800
Clearstone Group: 1,680 nearly 3x more

You lead on traffic and featured positions. But Clearstone Group has 31 keywords triggering AI-generated answers compared to your 14. On the metric that matters most going forward, they're already ahead.

Side by side

Apex vs Clearstone Group

Apex Building Solutions Clearstone Group
Total ranking keywords
2,340
780
Monthly organic traffic
4,800
1,680
Estimated traffic value
$8,400/mo
$3,200/mo
Your readiness score
31
out of 100
Entering the Race

You have a foundation. Active channels, a working website, and solid organic presence. The gap is in how AI search tools read and recommend your business. That's fixable.

Falling behind Entering the race Gaining ground Out in front
Where you stand

Apex Building Solutions is ranking for 2,340 keywords and pulling in 4,800 organic visits a month. On traffic and featured positions you're comfortably ahead of Clearstone Group. But Clearstone has 31 keywords appearing in AI-generated answers compared to your 14. That gap matters. AI search is increasingly where buying decisions start, and right now your competitor is better positioned to be the answer buyers see first. Your mobile performance score of 67 out of 100 is also a drag. Fixing these two things changes the picture significantly.

Site performance

How your website is performing

A slow or unstable site hurts search rankings and the experience people have when they arrive.

Mobile speed score
67
out of 100
Needs work
Largest contentful paint
3.2s
time to load main content
Needs work
Visual stability
0.053
layout shift score
Stable
Authority and technical signals

What AI tools see and what they miss

These are the signals that help AI search engines understand who you are, what you do, and whether to recommend you.

Named authors on key pagesContent without author attribution carries less weight in AI results.
Missing
About or Team pageAI systems look for real people and real expertise behind a website.
Present
Contact pageA visible contact page is a basic trust signal for both users and algorithms.
Present
Organisation structured dataConfirmed in page source.
Detected
WebSite structured dataConfirmed in page source.
Detected
LocalBusiness, FAQPage, Article, HowToNot detected in page source. Worth verifying with your web team.
Not detected
Do these first

Three quick wins

01

Add named authors to your key pages

Google and AI tools actively look for real, identifiable people behind content. Pick two or three people in the business, give them simple author profiles, and start attributing content to them. It directly improves how your content is weighted in AI-generated answers.

02

Add LocalBusiness and FAQ technical markup

Your site has Organisation and WebSite technical markup in place, but LocalBusiness and FAQPage signals were not detected. These tell AI tools what your business does, where you operate, and what questions you answer. Your web team can add them without changing anything visible on the site.

03

Improve your mobile load speed

A mobile score of 67 and a 3.2-second load time is slow enough to push people away before they have read a word. Ask your web team to look at image sizes and scripts loading on the homepage. A faster site directly supports both your search rankings and conversion.

Your biggest opportunity

Clearstone Group appears in AI-generated answers more than twice as often as you do. Closing that gap is the single highest-leverage thing you can do right now.

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