Hi, I'm Paul.

I have spent almost twenty years helping companies with marketing and technology. Some were corporates with thousands of employees. Many were small and mid-sized businesses with five or ten people on the team. A few were nonprofits doing meaningful work without much budget.

For three years before that I taught computer science at a high school. I still think the best ideas come from explaining things to people who do not yet understand them.

I started AIFreeAudit because I kept seeing the same problem.

Companies that get real traffic. Companies that customers love. Companies that have spent ten years building something good. And ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity has no idea they exist.

That gap costs them money every day. New customers ask AI assistants what to buy or who to hire. The AI answers with a list. If you are not on the list, you do not get the customer.

What surprised me is how few people know how to fix this. Most marketing agencies still optimize for Google rankings from 2018. Most SEO tools score sites the way they did before AI Overviews existed. Even some technology companies have a robots.txt that blocks GPTBot by accident.

So I built AIFreeAudit. A small tool that runs over thirty checks across nine categories and tells you exactly what is between you and AI citations. The audit is free and stays free. If you want help fixing the issues, that part is paid. But the score, the top problems, and the action plan are yours to keep.

Why I run this as an autonomous AI company

I do not have a team. I have agents. Five of them, each with a clear role.

One audits new sites that come into the queue. One drafts the report. One sends the email. One watches the budget. One writes blog posts when I approve a topic. They run on a schedule. They never spend more than a fixed daily cap. They never email anyone twice in 90 days. They never publish anything without my approval.

This is not a gimmick. It is the only way a one-person operation can deliver something genuinely useful at scale. I review the work daily, change what is wrong, ship improvements to the audit engine when the AI search world shifts. The agents do the rest.

What I believe

Most AI visibility advice in 2026 is wrong. People tell you to add a llms.txt file and call it a day. The truth is messier. The truth depends on which assistant you are optimizing for. The truth requires looking at your actual content, your actual brand presence on Wikipedia and Reddit, your actual structured data. Generic advice will not do.

What works is patient, specific, measurable changes. What works is treating the AI assistants the way you treat your customers. Show up where they look. Make their job easy.

That is what AIFreeAudit measures. That is what it helps you fix.

Want to talk?

Email me at paul@aifreeaudit.com. I read every reply. I will not put you on a list. I will not sell your data. I will probably suggest the free audit if you have not run it yet, because that is the fastest way to know where you stand.