Audit · the diagnosis

A live read on your marketing message. Severity-ranked. In under two minutes.

Connect a URL. Stratridge reads your site against six dimensions and twenty-four factors of marketing message coherence, probes how AI engines describe you, and benchmarks against the rivals you actually lose to. Findings cite the page, the line, the gap. No call required.

What we read for

Six dimensions, twenty-four factors. One severity-ranked diagnosis.

Each dimension is composed of four factors. Every factor gets a score, a finding list, and quoted evidence from your own pages. Together they form the most complete read of your marketing message you've had since the last reposition.

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Positioning

Is your category clear, your audience specific, your stake on the table — or is the homepage a tour of features?

  • ·Category fitWhether you've named the category buyers use, or one only you use.
  • ·Anchor of contrastThe specific rival or alternative you're defining yourself against.
  • ·Target buyer clarityWhether the page is written for one named buyer or hedging across three.
  • ·Audacity of claimWhether the central claim is a position worth defending or a hedge.
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Messaging

Does the message architecture cohere from H1 down to the small print, or does each page speak a different dialect?

  • ·Narrative spineThe through-line that connects your claim, proof, and offer.
  • ·HierarchyWhether the most important thing is in the first place a buyer looks.
  • ·Voice consistencyOne register across surfaces, or a different voice on every page.
  • ·Copy qualitySpecific, owned language vs. generic vendor-speak.
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Discoverability

Where do buyers find you when they search, ask an AI engine, or click an ad — and what do they see when they get there?

  • ·Organic surfaceIndexed pages, ranking patterns, and the queries you own.
  • ·AI-engine answersCitation share across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude.
  • ·Paid presenceWhether paid spend reinforces the positioning or contradicts it.
  • ·Schema & llms.txtJSON-LD, robots, and llms.txt — what crawlers and engines can see.
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Voices

Who else speaks for you — analysts, customers, your executives on LinkedIn, your partners — and what are they saying?

  • ·Analyst coverageWhere you appear in analyst reports, vendor lists, and category maps.
  • ·Customer proofQuoted outcomes, named buyers, and the density of evidence per claim.
  • ·Executive influenceWhat your executives publish, where, and whether it reads as the brand.
  • ·Employee & partner amplificationThe reach you earn from people who already know you.
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Engine

The marketing machine: cadence, owned vs. earned mix, the conversion plumbing, and the distribution you actually use.

  • ·Content cadenceHow regularly the brand ships and whether the cadence shows.
  • ·Owned vs. earned mixThe balance between what you publish and what others publish about you.
  • ·Conversion plumbingThe path from page to pipeline — forms, CTAs, hand-offs, integrations.
  • ·DistributionWhere the work actually reaches buyers — newsletters, communities, syndication.
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Trajectory

Direction over time. How the message has evolved, where competitors have drifted, and whether the story is board-ready.

  • ·Evolution over timeWhether the message has moved with the market or is still arguing the old thesis.
  • ·Competitive driftWhere rivals have moved relative to you since the last read.
  • ·Signal of lifeRecent activity that proves the brand is shipping — releases, posts, wins.
  • ·Board-readinessWhether the story you'd tell a board this quarter actually holds together.
The AI-engine read

What ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and DeepSeek say about you this morning.

The Discoverability dimension probes ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and DeepSeek with the category queries your buyers actually type — and parses the citation graph. You see your share, the rivals taking the citations you should own, and the specific gaps to close. The fixes (a generated llms.txt, a robots diff, JSON-LD, a homepage rewrite, citation-gap briefs) are produced in the AI Visibility Kit on the Amend side — because the audit's job is to find, not to fix. The watch is continuous: every weekday, the brief at 8am surfaces what changed overnight.

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Citation share

What percentage of category queries cite you, and how that compares to the three or four rivals you nominate.

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Paraphrase audit

When the engines do mention you, what are they saying — and is it the message you'd write yourself?

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Gap queries

The specific queries the engines answered without you. The shortest path to taking a citation back.

Competitor baseline

The signal floor on the rivals you actually lose to.

A baseline sweep of the rivals you nominate — pricing pages, /vs/ pages, recent hires, job postings, product announcements. The starting read so future moves register as moves. The continuous monitoring layer (daily signals, alerts, recommended responses) lives in Amplify.

Win/loss intake

Pattern engine on closed deals.

Paste deal notes, call recordings, or CRM tags. Stratridge reads them for objection patterns and maps them back to the gaps the audit found. The audit gets sharper when it knows what's happening in deals.

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Objection clusters

The five objections that keep coming up across deals — and which dimensions of your audit each one points to. Fix the audit, the objection stops appearing.

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Reason-won patterns

The thread your closed-won deals share that the marketing message doesn't yet capture. Sometimes the work isn't 'fix what's broken' — it's 'lean into what's working.'

Frequently asked

Short answers.

How long does the first audit take?
Under two minutes for a typical site. Bigger sites with deeper crawl take longer; you'll see live progress and we email you when it's ready.
What does the free audit include?
Severity-ranked findings across all six dimensions and twenty-four factors, the AI-engine read across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and DeepSeek, and a baseline competitor sweep on the rivals you nominate.
Where do the prescribed fixes live?
On the Amend side. The audit's job is to find — what's leaking, where, how badly. Amend takes each finding, dates it, owns it, and pairs it with a recommended fix. The AI Visibility Kit (llms.txt, robots diff, JSON-LD, homepage rewrite, citation-gap briefs) is one of the artifacts Amend produces.
Do you train on my data?
No. Your context, audit findings, and generated artifacts live in your tenant. We don't train shared models on your content.
What's the difference between the audit and a re-audit?
The first run establishes the baseline. Re-audits diff against the prior run — you see which dimensions and factors improved, which regressed, and what changed in the competitive landscape. The cadence and trajectory live in Amplify.

The audit is free.
The watch is the habit.

Run the audit in your browser. The first Morning Brief lands tomorrow at 8am Eastern — the citation gap, the competitor move, the drift you wouldn't have caught until quarter-end.