A fixed-scope diagnostic of your site's entity coverage, predicate consistency, semantic dilution, AI citation readiness, and technical infrastructure — delivered as a 25–40 page written report with a prioritized issue map. Yours to keep, execute internally, or use as the foundation of a longer engagement. No commitment beyond the audit.
Seven diagnostic components run sequentially across the audit. Each one produces written findings that flow into the final prioritized issue map. No vague "SEO health checks." Every component has a defined scope, a defined output, and a defined contribution to the recommendation layer.
Maps your site's existing entity footprint against the topic's full attribute space. Identifies where the Central Entity is well-defined, where it's fragmented, and where coverage gaps create competitor opportunities. Output: entity coverage heatmap with severity scoring.
Audits how the same relationships between entities are described across pages. Flags inconsistent predicate language that fragments authority. Output: predicate consistency report with documented examples and proposed unified vocabulary.
Identifies content drift — pages, clusters, or topics that pull authority away from the Central Entity. Locates Source Term Vector violations, off-topic content, and category-confusing assets. Output: dilution map with prune/redirect/restructure recommendations.
Evaluates how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google's AI Overviews currently see your site. Tests against representative queries. Identifies why retrievals fail. Output: AI visibility diagnostic with citation-readiness scoring per cluster.
Reviews schema, structured data, internal linking, hierarchy, and crawl signals — but only the parts that affect entity recognition. Not a generic technical SEO audit — every finding ties back to entity authority impact. Output: technical findings tied to entity outcomes.
Maps your entity authority against 3–5 ranking competitors. Identifies where they hold structural advantage, where you have defensible openings, and which clusters are realistically winnable. Output: competitive entity gap analysis with prioritized opportunities.
Synthesis layer. All findings consolidated into a severity-scored, sequenced issue map with proposed remediation paths. Each issue tagged with effort estimate, expected impact, and dependencies. Output: actionable roadmap your team or ours can execute against.
Below is a sample slice from a recent audit deliverable — not a marketing mockup. Toggle between the Issue Map view (problems flagged with severity scoring) and the Recommendation Map view (the same issues with prioritized remediation paths). The actual audit document includes 30–60 such rows depending on site complexity.
The audit runs on a fixed schedule. Week 01 is intake and access provisioning — your team's only material time commitment. Week 02 is diagnostic execution (silent on our side). Week 03 is synthesis, deliverable production, and the live walkthrough call. You receive everything in writing — the call is the explanation, not the deliverable.
The audit produces high value for businesses with existing site footprints and clear topical direction — and produces frustration for businesses without them. Below is the explicit fit map. If your business is in the left column, this is the right starting point. If it's in the right column, the audit isn't the right product yet.
Three intended paths after the audit deliverable lands. None of them require a follow-on engagement with us. The audit is designed to be valuable as a standalone deliverable — the architecture engagement is one option among three.
The audit becomes the foundation of a 6–18 month architecture engagement. The issue map sequences directly into the build roadmap. Audit fee credited toward architecture engagement if started within 60 days.
Your internal team takes the audit and runs the work themselves. The deliverable is structured as an executable roadmap — not a marketing report. Many clients close with us at this point and execute the audit findings without further engagement.
The audit travels. Some clients use it to evaluate other SEO partners, brief internal hires, or take to leadership for budget approval. The deliverable is yours — no NDA constraints on how you use it after delivery.
The audit is a productized engagement. Starting price: $3,500 USD. Final pricing depends on site complexity (page count, vertical complexity, multilingual scope, regulatory layer). All pricing locked before kickoff — no surprise additions. Below is what's included at the base tier.
Single payment · invoiced at kickoff · 50% upfront / 50% on deliverable · USD wire or Wise. Audit fee credited toward architecture engagement if started within 60 days of deliverable.
Book Audit Intake CallThese are the questions that come up specifically about the audit — pricing, scope variance, deliverable format, and the relationship between audit and architecture engagements.
The base price covers a single-language site with up to 200 indexed pages, 1 vertical, and standard scope (no regulatory or YMYL specialization). Pricing scales upward for: multilingual sites (additional language adds $1,500–$3,000), large sites (500+ pages adds $1,500), YMYL verticals (medical, legal, financial — adds $2,000 for SME-grade review), and multiple verticals on one domain.
Final pricing is locked during the intake call before any work starts. No surprise scope additions after kickoff.
Traditional SEO audits diagnose technical issues, content gaps, and backlink profile health. They produce checklists. The Semantic Audit operates at the entity layer — it diagnoses how cleanly your site's Central Entity is defined, how consistently your predicates run, how completely your topical map covers the buyer's question space, and how AI retrieval models currently see your site.
If a generic SEO audit tells you "fix your title tags and improve internal linking," the Semantic Audit tells you "your Central Entity is fragmented across 4 pages and your Source Term Vector contains 18 off-vector terms — here's how to consolidate authority before content production."
No. The audit is a standalone productized engagement. You pay for the audit, receive the deliverable, and decide independently what to do next. Many clients close with us after the audit and execute the roadmap internally — that's an intended outcome, not a failure mode.
The 60-day credit window exists if you do want to proceed to architecture — but it doesn't expire your right to the deliverable.
Yes. The deliverable is yours after delivery — no NDA constraints on how you use it. Some clients use the audit to brief internal hires, evaluate competing agency proposals, or get budget approval from leadership before committing to a longer build.
We treat this as a feature, not a leak. A buyer who runs a methodology-grade audit through three competing agencies and chooses us based on the depth is a stronger fit than one who only saw our pitch.
The audit isn't the right product for greenfield sites. There's nothing structural to audit yet. Pre-launch sites need architecture, not audit — and the architecture engagement starts at a different price point and timeline.
If you're pre-launch, book a strategy call directly (not the audit intake) and we'll scope an architecture engagement instead.
Three artifacts ship at the end of Week 03: (1) the main audit document in DOCX format (25–40 pages), (2) the prioritized issue map as a separate spreadsheet, and (3) the entity coverage heatmap as both an embedded visual and exportable PDF.
All artifacts are yours permanently. Editable formats so your internal team can annotate, brief contractors, or reuse content directly.
60-minute call after the deliverable lands. We walk through the prioritized issue map, explain why each high-severity finding matters, answer questions about specific recommendations, and discuss the three intended paths (proceed / execute / shop).
Recommended attendees: whoever owns SEO + whoever owns content + (if relevant) whoever owns the budget decision. The call is included in the audit fee — no upsell pressure during it.
The audit is the lowest-commitment path to working with Digital Vikingz. You receive a structurally complete diagnostic of your site's authority infrastructure — yours to keep regardless of what you decide next.