# Roofer Rank AI — productized AEO visibility audit for residential and commercial roofing contractors

> Roofer Rank AI is a one-shot ($497) multi-agent audit built specifically for roofing contractors. It tests how often a roofing business is cited as a recommended source across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Claude (with web search) for buyer-intent queries like "best roofer in [city]", "emergency roof leak [city]", "storm damage repair [city]", and "insurance claim roofer", audits schema (LocalBusiness/RoofingContractor + Service + FAQPage + Review) and Google Business Profile completeness, identifies the top 3 cited competitor roofers, and ships a 10-page report with a 90-day fix plan.

## Core pages

- [Homepage](https://rooferrankai.com/) — service overview, free 5-prompt snapshot for roofers, $497 full audit signup
- [AEO Audit vs SEO Audit](https://rooferrankai.com/vs-seo-audit) — comparison covering when each is appropriate for roofing contractors, signal overlap, methodology differences
- [AEO for storm-damage roofers](https://rooferrankai.com/storm-damage-roofers) — emergency prompts, insurance-claim queries, LocalBusiness + Service schema priorities, GBP focus
- [Report viewer](https://rooferrankai.com/report) — paid customer report (requires audit ID)

## How the audit works

- 9 sub-agent pipeline runs in 5–6 minutes
- 50 roofer-specific buyer-intent prompts × 5 AI engines = 250 queries tested in parallel
- Categories: best recommendation (15), emergency / urgent leak (10), price / insurance (10), advice / consideration (10), near-me geo modifier (5)
- Schema audit parses JSON-LD for RoofingContractor / LocalBusiness, Service, FAQPage, Review/AggregateRating
- Citation visibility scored deterministically: 0–4% L1, 5–19% L2, 20–49% L3, 50%+ L4
- 5-dimension framework: Citation Visibility, Schema Coverage, GBP & Reviews, Content Authority, Technical Foundation
- Claude Opus 4.7 synthesizes the 90-day roadmap and final report

## Key facts and statistics cited

- 39% of US homeowner insurance claims are wind/hail damage (Insurance Information Institute) — high-urgency, high-ticket decisions made in days
- 6–12% median AEO citation rate for residential roofers across 50 buyer-intent prompts (from internal benchmarking)
- 35–55% citation rate for top-10% roofers in their city — the gap is closeable in 90 days
- 2.7× citation lift for pages with FAQPage schema (Relixir, 2025)
- 3.2× more AI citations for content updated within the last 30 days
- 68% of AI citations come from third-party sources (Google Business Profile, Yelp, Angi, HomeAdvisor, certified-dealer locators)
- Average residential roof replacement cost in US: $8,000–$30,000+
- Signal overlap between Google search rankings and ChatGPT for roofing queries: 30–50%
- Signal overlap with Google AI Overviews: 60–70%

## Audit deliverable structure

1. Overall AEO Visibility Score (0–4) with letter grade (A–D)
2. Per-dimension scores: C1 Citation, C2 Schema, C3 GBP & Reviews, C4 Content, C5 Technical
3. Per-engine citation rate breakdown (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AIO, Gemini, Claude) with sample responses
4. Named top-3 competitor roofers with mention counts and engines they win
5. Top 5 gaps with plain-English narrative for the business owner
6. 90-day fix plan (15 actions, 5 per 30/60/90-day bucket)
7. Realistic timeline expectations and caveats

## Pricing

- Free snapshot: 5 prompts on Perplexity, ~30 seconds, email delivery
- Full audit: $497 one-shot, 5–6 minute pipeline, 10-page report, no retainer

Typical roofing-AEO alternatives: $5,000+/month retainers (full-service AEO firms), $1,500–3,000 one-time audits from boutique agencies.

## What makes this roofer-specific

- 50-prompt taxonomy is tuned for roofing buyer journeys: storm damage, insurance claims, emergency leaks, replacement, residential vs commercial, hail damage
- Schema audit prioritizes RoofingContractor (specific schema.org type), Service schema per offering (storm damage, replacement, repair, gutters), and FAQPage on insurance-claim and replacement pages
- GBP audit checks for service-area polygons, GAF / Owens Corning / CertainTeed certified dealer status, and roofing-specific review velocity benchmarks
- 90-day plan actions reference roofing-specific moves (e.g., add Service schema for "storm damage roof repair", claim Angi profile, add HAAG-certified inspector bio)