Question 1

Who is behind Growthract?

Accepted Answer

Growthract is an independent technical visibility practice built on more than a decade of search strategy, technical SEO and growth experience.

It combines search strategy, technical implementation, and deterministic website diagnostics to help B2B SaaS companies improve how their products are represented across traditional and AI-assisted search.

Question 2

Where is Growthract based?

Accepted Answer

Growthract operates remotely and supports B2B SaaS companies internationally.

The delivery model is designed around asynchronous technical audits, documented implementation scopes, and reviewable code changes rather than location-dependent consulting.

Question 3

Why was Growthract created?

Accepted Answer

Growthract was created to address a gap between conventional SEO reporting and the code-level conditions that affect machine retrieval.

Modern SaaS websites can appear complete to human visitors while returning incomplete crawler permissions, structured data, metadata, or initial HTML to automated retrieval systems. Growthract identifies and fixes those observable infrastructure problems.

Question 4

What is AI entity debt?

Accepted Answer

AI entity debt is Growthract's term for accumulated technical gaps that make a company or product harder for machines to identify consistently. Examples include missing or contradictory structured data, inaccessible public routes, incomplete metadata, unclear entity relationships, and important content that is absent from the initial HTML response. It is not an official web standard or a guaranteed ranking factor. It is a practical framework for organizing observable technical barriers to machine-readable product context.

Question 5

How do I know if my SaaS has an AI visibility problem?

Accepted Answer

Start by checking whether AI search tools describe your company, product category, features, audience, and pricing accurately. These manual checks are useful indicators, but individual answers can vary by query, location, model, and retrieval source. A technical audit provides stronger evidence by inspecting the public responses that retrieval systems may encounter. Crawler permissions and applicable robots.txt rules The availability and structure of public machine-readable resources Structured data syntax and entity relationships Metadata, canonical tags, and initial HTML content Important content that only appears after client-side rendering

Question 6

Who is Growthract built for?

Accepted Answer

Growthract is built primarily for B2B SaaS companies using modern web stacks such as Next.js, React, TypeScript, server-rendered applications, and Vercel-style deployment workflows. It is relevant to early-stage teams establishing their technical foundation and established SaaS companies managing multiple product, feature, documentation, or pricing routes.

Question 7

How does the diagnostic app work?

Accepted Answer

The app performs read-only checks against publicly accessible website responses. Depending on the selected scan, it can inspect robots.txt crawler directives, /llms.txt availability, metadata, structured data, indexability signals, sitemap accessibility, image alt text, and other on-page technical signals. The report highlights observable findings and recommended areas for review. It does not access private source code, execute changes, or guarantee how an external AI provider will rank, cite, or interpret a page.

Question 8

Is the Growthract Audit diagnostic free?

Accepted Answer

The Growthract Audit diagnostic is free to run, and no credit card is required.

Question 9

Can I run the free diagnostic more than once?

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Yes. The free diagnostic can be run again after changes are made, and it can also be used to check other eligible public websites. A repeated scan performs a fresh set of checks against the current public website responses, so you can compare findings after meaningful changes.

Question 10

What happens after I run the free diagnostic?

Accepted Answer

You can continue by getting the Expert Action Plan, a written breakdown of your top issues, or by sending a project brief to scope a larger implementation directly. The free audit is intended to help you review evidence before deciding whether hands-on implementation is necessary.

Question 11

Does the diagnostic app make changes to my website?

Accepted Answer

No. The diagnostic app is read-only. It evaluates publicly available responses and does not write to your website, repository, deployment environment, or database.

Question 12

What is the difference between the Expert Action Plan and a custom implementation scope?

Accepted Answer

The Expert Action Plan is a fixed-price written report that ranks your top AI-visibility issues by impact and gives exact fix instructions for each—no implementation, no call required. A custom implementation scope is for teams that want the fixes actually built: crawler rules, structured data, rendering, and metadata work across an agreed set of routes. That work is scoped and priced individually because it varies too much by architecture for one fixed number to be honest. Expert Action Plan — $399 one-time, delivered within 48 hours Custom implementation — scoped and priced after a project brief is reviewed

Question 13

What is included in the Expert Action Plan?

Accepted Answer

The report focuses on the highest-impact AI-visibility issues found during your diagnostic. Top 5–8 issues ranked by impact Exact fix instructions for each issue Findings tied to observable evidence Delivered as a written report—no meeting required

Question 14

Who reviews the Expert Action Plan?

Accepted Answer

Every report is checked against the audit evidence before it goes out: each recommendation is traced back to something observed on your site. It is a hands-on, human-reviewed process, not an automated export.

Question 15

What if the Expert Action Plan isn't useful to me?

Accepted Answer

Tell us and we'll refund it.

Question 16

How much does Growthract cost?

Accepted Answer

The Expert Action Plan has one fixed price: $399. Larger implementation work is scoped individually, because the right approach depends on the website, the problems being solved, and the scope of the engagement. Different websites require different levels of work. Technical complexity can significantly affect scope. The recommended work is defined before an engagement begins.

Question 17

Why doesn't Growthract publish a fixed price for implementation work?

Accepted Answer

The Expert Action Plan has one fixed price because its deliverable does not change. Implementation work does change from site to site, so publishing one standard number could imply that every business needs the same work. Scope is based on the work required. Unnecessary deliverables are avoided. The investment is provided after the opportunity is understood.

Question 18

Do you offer standard SEO or AEO packages?

Accepted Answer

Growthract does not force every company into the same SEO or AEO package. Some businesses need focused technical work, while others need search strategy, content architecture, entity improvements or a broader implementation scope. Requirements differ by website. The highest-priority problems determine the scope. SEO and AEO can be combined when both are relevant.

Question 19

What determines the cost of an engagement?

Accepted Answer

The investment can depend on website size, technical complexity, the number of important pages, the problems discovered, the implementation required and the objectives the engagement needs to support. Website size and architecture. Technical and implementation complexity. Number and importance of affected pages. Breadth of the agreed scope.

Question 20

Can I get a custom proposal from Growthract?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Growthract can review your website, objectives and highest-priority opportunities and then recommend a defined scope with the associated investment. Start with the website and business objective. Identify the problems that deserve attention. Receive a clearly defined proposed scope.

Question 21

Is the Growthract website audit free?

Accepted Answer

Yes. You can start with the Growthract App and run the free website audit before deciding whether you need additional implementation support. Start with the free diagnostic. Review the findings before committing to additional work. There is no requirement to purchase an engagement after the audit.

Question 22

Does a Growthract proposal include implementation?

Accepted Answer

The proposal clearly defines what is included. When implementation is part of the engagement, the scope specifies the technical, search, content or related work Growthract will complete before the engagement begins. Included work is defined before kickoff. Implementation boundaries are documented. Work outside the agreed scope is discussed separately.

Question 23

Do you need access to our production environment or deployment credentials?

Accepted Answer

No. Growthract does not require production credentials, deployment keys, environment variables, or direct production control. Public diagnostics use read-only HTTP requests. Implementation can be delivered through a reviewable patch, or through an isolated pull request when your team explicitly grants appropriate repository access.

Question 24

How are code changes delivered?

Accepted Answer

Changes are delivered as isolated, documented, reviewable code. When repository access is provided, this can take the form of a GitHub or GitLab pull request. Otherwise, Growthract provides a reviewable patch or ready-to-integrate modules. Your engineering team remains responsible for reviewing, testing, merging, and deploying every change.

Question 25

Will the implementation interfere with our existing product work?

Accepted Answer

The work is intentionally scoped to minimize disruption, but no external implementation can truthfully promise zero integration risk. Changes are isolated where practical, documented, and submitted for your team's review. The agreed scope identifies affected routes and files before implementation begins.

Question 26

Which technology stacks do you support?

Accepted Answer

Growthract specializes in modern JavaScript and TypeScript stacks, particularly Next.js App Router, Next.js Pages Router, React, Node.js, and Vercel-style deployments. Other stacks may be supported after a technical review confirms that the requested work fits the delivery model.

Question 27

What exactly does Growthract guarantee?

Accepted Answer

Growthract guarantees delivery against the agreed technical scope—not rankings, citations, traffic, or revenue. The delivery standard can include valid JSON-LD syntax, an accessible /llms.txt response, documented crawler-rule findings, initial-HTML verification, and reviewable implementation code. Validation confirms observable technical conditions at the time of testing. It cannot guarantee how every external search engine or AI system will interpret or use those signals.

Question 28

Does allowing an AI crawler guarantee citations?

Accepted Answer

No. Allowing an applicable crawler removes one possible access barrier, but it does not guarantee discovery, indexing, ranking, inclusion, or citation. External providers control their own crawling, retrieval, ranking, safety, and answer-generation systems.

Question 29

How does re-crawling work after deployment?

Accepted Answer

Some retrieval agents can fetch pages in response to user activity, while other systems rely on separate crawling or indexing processes. A corrected page may become available when the relevant provider next fetches it, but Growthract cannot guarantee when that will happen or whether the provider will use it in an answer.

Question 30

Is /llms.txt an official web standard?

Accepted Answer

/llms.txt is an emerging community proposal for publishing a concise, machine-readable map of useful website content. It is not an IETF, W3C, or universally adopted search-engine standard. Growthract treats it as a complementary resource—not a replacement for accessible HTML, structured data, metadata, robots.txt, sitemaps, or established technical SEO practices.

Question 31

Do OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, and Claude-User perform the same function?

Accepted Answer

No. Providers publish different agents for different purposes. OAI-SearchBot and PerplexityBot are associated with search discovery and result inclusion. Claude-User and Perplexity-User can be used for user-initiated retrieval. Training crawlers are separate and should not be treated as equivalent to search or user-request agents.

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