AI GEO acceptance checklist

Use this list as the acceptance section of an AI GEO / AI search visibility contract. Every item must be retestable by the buyer — not just demonstrated once by the vendor.

1. Buyer questions coverage

• A list of at least 20 buyer questions in the customer's own language.
• Each question tested across ChatGPT + Gemini + Perplexity at minimum; ideally also Claude, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Bing/Copilot.
• For each question, the current answer, sources cited, and whether the customer is mentioned or missing.

2. 14-day retest

• The same questions retested 14 days after delivery, unchanged wording.
• Deliverable is considered met only if visibility is stable or improving, not just present on day zero.
• Sudden loss on retest is a red flag for prompt injection, cached snapshots, or fabricated coverage.

3. Data and permission boundary

• Where does the source content live?
• Who can write to it, who can read it?
• What personal / commercial data is not allowed to be published?
• Written approval from data owner before any indexable content is emitted.

4. Cost cap and failure ownership

• Explicit monthly cost ceiling for third-party APIs.
• Clear ownership of failures: model regressions, crawler downtime, deleted external sources.
• Rollback plan if a change tanks visibility.

5. Lead handoff

• Standard lead capture minimum fields.
• Attribution back to the AI channel that generated the lead (which question, which engine, which surface).
• Handoff SLA to sales / delivery in hours, not days.

6. Repeatability

• Same operator can rerun the entire audit in <2 hours.
• Rerun log stored in a versioned system (git repo, wiki, or immutable object store).

7. Human review for high-risk output

• Any output that touches regulated claims (medical, financial, legal, safety) is not auto-published.
• Named reviewer + signed-off template.

8. Traceability

• Every recommendation the vendor makes is traceable to a public artifact or a documented internal source.
• No "our internal model says so" without a reproducible test.

If a vendor cannot meet items 1, 2, 4, and 8, the project is not ready to be signed.