Getting started with AEO scanning takes under 60 seconds.

Yes, and we want to be upfront about that rather than surprising you at the end of a scan. Creating an account means your results are saved and you can come back to them, track your score history over time, and compare rescans. It takes under 60 seconds, needs only your name and email, and requires no credit card.

We considered building a no-account scan, but the results are genuinely complex. A score, a breakdown, fix instructions, key page scores, quick wins. Showing all of that meaningfully in a one-time page without somewhere to save it felt worse for you, not better. The account is worth it.

A score of 90 or above is AI-Ready, which means your site is optimally configured for AI engines to understand and trust you. That's the target. 75-89 (Established) is strong and most sites in this range are already seeing AI citations on their best content. 60-74 (Developing) means solid foundations with meaningful gaps. Below 60 (Emerging) means significant structural work is needed before AI engines will cite you regularly.

To put it in context: the average score for sites we've scanned sits in the mid-60s. Most well-maintained business sites with a few years of SEO investment tend to land in the 65-75 range on their first scan. A score in the 40s or 50s is not unusual and is absolutely fixable, usually within a few focused weeks of work.

Your Caijo score improves the moment you implement the fixes and rescan. The score measures what's on your site right now, so changes are reflected immediately in the next scan. What takes longer is for those improvements to translate into more AI citations, because AI engines need to re-crawl and process your updated content before they start citing it more frequently. That typically takes four to eight weeks from implementation.

The fixes themselves vary in time. Adding Organisation schema takes about 10 minutes if you know where to edit your site's HTML. Adding a Privacy Policy page takes an afternoon. Restructuring content on a thin page might take a few hours of writing. Most sites can meaningfully improve their score within two to four weeks of focused effort on their Quick Wins list. The full Bigger Gaps list might take two to three months to work through properly.

Not for most of them. The majority of AEO fixes are content changes, schema additions, and page additions, all of which a reasonably confident non-developer can handle. Adding JSON-LD schema, creating an About page, adding authorship to articles, improving heading structure: none of these require code-level access to your site if you have a CMS like WordPress, Webflow, or Squarespace.

A small number of fixes do require developer involvement: robots.txt configuration, canonical tag implementation, XML sitemap issues, and anything that requires changes to your site's template files rather than individual pages. Caijo's fix instructions tell you clearly which fixes need a developer and which you can do yourself. If you're on an agency plan, the fix instructions also include enough technical detail to brief a developer accurately.

No. AEO fixes and SEO fixes overlap significantly, and where they diverge they are complementary rather than conflicting. Adding schema markup, improving heading structure, adding an About page, improving content depth, adding authorship: all of these are positive signals for both Google and AI engines. There's no trade-off here.

The one area worth being thoughtful about is content changes. If you're adding CiteReady passages to a page that currently ranks well in Google, you're adding content, not replacing it. Adding well-written, authoritative 115-180 word passages to a page is almost always positive for SEO as well as AEO. The research that underpins CiteReady's format (self-contained, authoritative, specific, answer-first) describes the same characteristics Google has always valued in high-quality content.

When you're actively implementing fixes, rescan every two to four weeks after a meaningful batch of changes. This gives you a clear before-and-after and makes it easy to see which fixes moved the needle most. Rescanning too frequently (after every small change) makes it harder to read the results clearly.

Once you've reached a stable high score, monthly rescans are usually enough for most sites. More frequent monitoring makes sense if you're in a competitive category, if you publish a lot of new content, or if you've made significant technical changes to your site. AGENCY users can set up scheduled automatic rescans so monitoring happens without any manual intervention.

Caijo's scoring model is designed around the signals that matter across all major AI engines: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, and Grok. The structural signals that Caijo measures (schema markup, content structure, entity clarity, trust signals, technical accessibility) are relevant to all of these engines because they all crawl the web, extract content, and decide what to cite based on broadly similar criteria.

Caijo doesn't send live queries to AI engines and track your brand mentions in real time. That's a different category of tool (AI monitoring, like Profound or Otterly). Caijo is a diagnostic scanner: it analyses your site and tells you what to fix so that all AI engines can better understand and cite you. If you want to combine site diagnostics with live AI monitoring, Caijo and a monitoring tool work well together.

Yes, and the AGENCY plan is specifically built for this. You can scan any domain, organise client work into separate Projects, export white-label PDF reports with your branding, set up scheduled automatic rescans for each client, and run competitor comparisons across up to 9 domains per scan. CiteReady on all Key Pages with bulk passage download means you can deliver content briefs as part of your AEO service offering.

A growing number of AEO practitioners are building their entire audit workflow around Caijo: a scan as the diagnostic foundation, CiteReady passages as the content deliverable, and a white-label export as the client report. If you're building an AEO service and want to understand how Caijo fits your workflow, get in touch. We work closely with agencies and we're happy to talk through it properly.