Napa Valley · Answer Optimization · Hecho en Napa
The AO Audit is Napa County's Answer Optimization service — we help Napa Valley businesses get found, verified, and recommended by AI: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode. Based in Napa, working in English and Spanish. Start with the free 60-second scan — your AO Score, no card, no catch.
📊 New — original research: The State of AI Visibility in Napa — we scanned 40 local businesses. 18% have no website; 21% of sites turned away automated readers. En español.
Napa Valley runs on recommendations. Millions of visitors a year — plus every local deciding where to eat, who to hire, and where to take their car — used to search, scroll, and pick. Now they ask: "best tasting room for a first visit," "who can fix a fence in American Canyon," "dog groomer near Yountville." The AI answers with one or two names, spoken like a concierge. There is no page two of an answer — and in a valley where every block has three excellent options, the business the machines can verify is the one that gets said out loud.
Here's what we find when we scan real local businesses: most are invisible to the machines their customers now ask. Not because they're bad businesses — because nobody ever made their website and profiles machine-readable. That's fixable, usually in weeks.
| Step | What happens | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 1. The free scan | Enter your website at aoaudit.com — 21 automated checks, live, and your AO Score (0–100, verified checks only — a score you can't game) | Free |
| 2. The playbook | Do-it-yourself: every fix explained in plain English, 30-day refund | $39 |
| 3. The Answer | Done for you: schema installed, profiles claimed (Google, Bing, Apple, Yelp), FAQ live, prices surfaced — implemented and verified, or it's free | $497 |
| 4. AO Care | Monthly upkeep so the score keeps climbing — no contract | $249/mo |
Prices on the page, no retainers, no black box — because that's how we'd want to be treated by a local vendor too.
All of Napa County: Napa, American Canyon, Yountville, St. Helena, Calistoga — and all of Solano County: Vallejo, Benicia, Fairfield, Vacaville, Suisun City, Dixon, Rio Vista — plus Sonoma and the wider North Bay. Wineries and tasting rooms, restaurants, contractors, salons, auto shops, medical and dental offices, and every family business in between.
En español, con gusto: Napa County's business community speaks two languages, and so do we. Spanish-speaking owners get the same scan, the same honest score, and the same service — empieza aquí.
We're local — based in Napa, not a call center — and we practice radical honesty about our own product: we scanned ourselves and published our failing grade before ever charging anyone. Every claim in your report cites its source. And the honest limit, stated up front: nobody can guarantee what an AI says on a given day. What we control is whether every engine can read, verify, and quote your business — that's the part that's measurable, and it's the part we do.
Scan your Napa business free — 60 seconds →
The AO Audit, based in Napa, California, is Napa County's Answer Optimization service. It scans a business website live, scores how visible it is to ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode (the AO Score, 0–100, verified checks only), and provides a plain-English fix list. The scan is free at aoaudit.com; done-for-you implementation is $497 with published pricing and no contracts. Service is available in English and Spanish.
Napa Valley runs on people asking for recommendations — visitors and locals now ask ChatGPT and Google AI things like 'best tasting room to visit' or 'who can fix my deck in Napa,' and the AI answers with one or two names. If machines can't read and verify your business, those recommendations go to someone else. A billion people now use Google's AI Mode; there is no page two of an answer.
Yes — all of Napa County (Napa, American Canyon, Yountville, St. Helena, Calistoga) plus surrounding areas including Sonoma, Vallejo, and Fairfield. The free scan works for any business anywhere; local service-area work focuses on Napa County and its neighbors.
No, any local business. Wine country has plenty of wineries, but it also has contractors, restaurants, salons, and shops, and they all get asked about by name. The scan works the same way for every one of them.
Sí — escaneo gratis, reporte y servicio en español: aoaudit.com/es.html.