What $49 Buys That a Free AI Check Doesn't

You ran a free AI check on Sunday. It gave you a number and three fixes, and on Monday you forwarded it to the freelancer who built your site with one line: can you do these? The reply came back within the hour. What exactly do you want me to change?

That gap, between a score and an instruction a developer can act on, is the best reason to pay for NetWebMedia's AI Visibility Scan. It costs $49, once. The page describes a written report delivered by email within 48 hours, covering what ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI actually see when they look at your site, and the fixes that get you cited.

Start with what is free

Be clear on what you can get for nothing first, because it is a lot. The free AI visibility check runs five consumer-style questions for your industry and city through an answer engine with live web search and shows who gets named. The AEO Citation Index reads a single URL and scores its structure in about a minute.

Between them, those two answer the questions I would start with: am I being named, and is my page built to be quoted? Neither costs anything beyond an email address. If either one tells you everything you needed, stop there.

The scan page draws the line itself. The free tool gives you an instant automated score. The paid scan is a personalized audit, with real AI answer testing for your market, human review and a written fix list specific to your site.

What the report adds

• More than one assistant. Real queries for your category and market across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI, documented with the actual answers, showing whether you or your competitors get cited.
• A person on top of the crawl. An automated deep-crawl plus human analysis, with your structured data checked against what answer engines parse.
• A schema gap list. What answer engines need that your pages don't expose.
• A fix list in priority order. Ten points, ordered by impact, written so you can hand it to any developer.

The AEO score comes with a breakdown across schema and structured data, entity clarity, answerability, crawlability and citations footprint, so you can see which area pulls it down instead of guessing from a single number.

The last item is the answer to that Monday-morning reply. A developer can work from a numbered list with reasons attached. A score out of 100 gives them nothing to start on.

Who should buy it

The scan fits a particular person: someone who has a way to get the work done and lacks a clear list of what the work is. You have a developer, or a relative who knows your website builder, or a free Saturday, and you want instructions rather than a sales call.

The page promises no calls, no meetings and no pitch, and it needs no access to your site. Everything is analyzed from the outside, the way AI crawlers see you, so there is nothing to install and no password to share. For an owner who has sat through an agency discovery call that turned into a proposal, that is most of the appeal.

It also suits the owner who suspects the problem is on the website but cannot say where. The free check can tell you that you are missing from the answers. It cannot tell you which of your pages is to blame, and that is the question a written report with a person behind it is meant to answer.

Who should skip it

If all you want to know is whether assistants mention you, the free check answers that, and I would run it before spending anything.

If your site is three pages and a contact form, a paid report will mostly tell you to write more pages. You can hear that from me for free: write a page for each service you want to be found for, in plain sentences that say what you do and where, and then come back.

And if you already know you want someone to do the work every month, the arithmetic changes. The scan page says the $49 is credited in full if you upgrade to AEO Starter ($249/mo) within 30 days, which makes the first month $200. In that case the scan works as a written diagnosis before you commit, at no extra cost.

Read the refund line carefully

The page says that if the report contains nothing actionable, the $49 is refunded in full. That protects you from paying for an empty report. It is not a promise that the fixes will get you named, and no honest report could make one, because answer engines change their answers from one session to the next and between one tool and another.

Handing the list to a developer

When the report arrives, send it to whoever will do the work without rewriting it. The order is the point. The page describes the list as ordered by impact, so the first items come first even when a later one looks easier. Ask for a rough time estimate on each item before anyone starts. Anything under an hour can happen the same week, and anything bigger gets a date on the calendar.

Keep the schema gap list somewhere you will find it again. Structured data is usually added once, in a site template, and then forgotten, which makes it easy to lose in a redesign. A written list of what should be there turns the check after any future redesign into five minutes of work.

Getting the most out of 48 hours

Checkout is one-time, through Flow or MercadoPago, with no subscription. During signup, use the email where you want the report and make sure your website URL is in your profile, or reply to the confirmation email with it.

Two things are worth doing while you wait. Write down the questions you would most like an assistant to answer with your name, in the words a customer would use, so you can check the report against them. And tell whoever will do the fixes that a list is on its way, so it does not sit unread for three weeks.

When the fixes are live, run the free check again and compare the names in the answers with the ones in the report. That comparison, a few weeks later, is the honest test of whether the $49 was well spent.

If that sounds like your situation, the AI Visibility Scan is one page and one checkout. If it doesn't, the free tools above will take you a long way first, and I would rather you used them.

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