Understand Where You Stand
Assessment-led services for brands that need clarity before committing to a programme of work.
Not a generic site crawl report. A commercially focused assessment that identifies the 10-20% of SEO recommendations that will have the most significant impact on your organic performance and revenue.
Discovery audits are the right starting point when you need clarity before committing to a larger programme of work.
EVALUATING THE SEO OPPORTUNITY
You’re not sure whether organic search is worth the investment for your business.
Maybe you’ve been told SEO takes too long or that your industry is too competitive. Maybe a past agency delivered nothing. Before writing it off or doubling down, you need an honest, data-backed assessment of whether the organic opportunity justifies the investment for your specific business.
VISIBILITY BLIND SPOT
You don’t know whether your website has SEO problems – but you suspect something is off.
Traffic has been flat. Competitors seem to be gaining ground. But nobody on the team can say with confidence whether the site has technical issues, content gaps, or structural problems holding it back. You need an independent diagnostic before deciding what to do next.
CLARITY BEFORE COMMITMENT
You need a clear picture of current organic performance before committing to a full technical audit or retainer.
You’re not ready for a six-month engagement or a deep technical audit. What you need first is a strategic overview: where you stand, what the opportunity looks like, and whether the returns justify the next step. Discovery gives you that answer without the big upfront commitment.
BUILDING THE INTERNAL BUSINESS CASE
You need data and projections to justify increasing the internal SEO budget to leadership or investors.
You believe in the organic opportunity. But the board, the CFO, or the investors want numbers. You need a credible, externally validated assessment that quantifies the opportunity, benchmarks against competitors, and presents the ROI case in language that gets budgets approved.
Frequently asked questions
Most agency audits are tool-generated reports – a crawl export, a list of technical errors ranked by severity, and a generic set of recommendations. Discovery is a commercially framed assessment. It quantifies the total organic opportunity available to your business, benchmarks your position against specific competitors, maps search demand to revenue potential, and presents prioritised recommendations ranked by commercial impact, not technical severity. The output is designed for leadership decision-making, not for an SEO team to work through a checklist.
A presentation-ready deliverable your team can take to the board or investors. It covers where your organic performance sits today, the total addressable market you’re competing for, how your visibility compares to named competitors, which opportunities represent the highest revenue potential, and a prioritised roadmap of what to do first. It also includes an honest assessment of whether the organic opportunity justifies further investment for your specific business. Some discovery audits conclude that SEO isn’t the right channel to prioritise – and that’s a valuable answer too.
Usually, yes. Internal teams are often right about the symptoms but wrong about the root cause, or right about one problem but unaware of a bigger one. Discovery validates or challenges what the team believes, surfaces opportunities nobody was tracking, and provides the externally validated evidence leadership needs to commit budget. It’s also common for discovery to reveal that the competitive landscape has shifted in ways the team hasn’t accounted for – particularly around AI search displacement and competitors who’ve gained ground recently.
Yes, and this is one of the most common use cases for PE and VC firms. A discovery audit on an acquisition target quantifies the organic asset value: how much traffic is commercially defensible, whether past algorithm updates have created latent risk, how reliant the brand is on a small number of high-value queries, and where the growth ceiling sits. The output is framed for the investment committee, not the marketing team. It answers the question of whether the organic channel is worth what the seller claims it is.
Typically two to six weeks from kickoff to final presentation, depending on the size and complexity of the site. We need access to Google Search Console (root domain level, not URL prefix), Google Analytics, and ideally server logs and any existing SEO reporting. Beyond that, the most useful input is a 30-minute conversation at the start to understand the commercial context: what the business objectives are, what’s been tried before, and what decisions the discovery output needs to inform. The less we have to guess about the business context, the more commercially relevant the recommendations.
See the results
What we did
Long-term client engagement delivering consecutive year-on-year growth and achieving market-leader status. Work included technical SEO, strategic direction, stakeholder communication, reporting, and global stakeholder management. Multi-product focus across mutual funds, 401(k) solutions, and sustainable investing.
What they said
“Working with our company is very demanding, and there are many levels of approval to go through for work to be implemented. Carl has always been very responsive and goes beyond the typical scope of any project, providing us with all angles of technical solutions and detailed recommendations for content optimisations.”

Global Head of SEO
What we did
Improving B2C & B2B user journeys through query intent and optimising internal page signals.
What they said
As someone who has been doing SEO for about 10 years and having worked on companies of all shapes and sizes myself, I can tell the difference between someone who gets their hands dirty and delves into the deepest regions of your site vs an SEO “expert” who pushes a button and runs a site audit report only to tell you you have “12 duplicate title tags.” Carl is definitely the former, and whenever I need a fresh set of eyes on my site, I call him.

Director of Growth Marketing
What we did
Supporting SEO strategy and execution across a number of Apax portfolio brands.
What they said
“His knowledge base expands far beyond SEO having run many successful affiliate sites in his down time. His day-to-day work of planning and implementing SEO strategies for major, FTSE 100 brands was first class. He’ll also know the very latest news on domains, ecommerce and pretty much everything else you’ll wish to mention when it comes to running a successful business online.”

Operating Executive
What we did
A detailed technical SEO audit assessed the platform’s architecture and server logs to uncover crawl issues and indexing gaps. The work focused on strengthening geo-specific targeting and capturing high-intent commercial queries, alongside a review of the existing JavaScript framework.
What they said
“Addressing technical SEO challenges at the global domain level requires deep expertise and strategic thinking.
Carl and his team didn’t just conduct an audit – they uncovered the infrastructure-level opportunities that were holding back our entire global platform. Their comprehensive server log analysis, technical audit, content & UX audit as well as a discovery review gave us the clarity and confidence to secure cross-divisional investment for the project.
What sets Audits.com apart is their ability to translate complex technical findings into actionable business priorities that resonate with stakeholders. Their expertise in the financial services sector, combined with their hands-on approach, turned a complex challenge into a clear roadmap for transformation across our divisions.”

IG Markets (APAC+ME)
What we did
A detailed technical SEO audit assessed the platform’s architecture and server logs to uncover crawl issues and indexing gaps. The work focused on strengthening geo-specific targeting and capturing high-intent commercial queries, alongside a review of the existing JavaScript framework.
What they said
“Working with Carl has been a game changer for our SEO. He cuts through the noise, finds what really matters, and turns it into a clear, prioritised roadmap my team can execute. Within a few months we’d fixed long-standing technical issues and unlocked meaningful organic growth. ”

Head Of Digital Marketing & Website PO
What we did
Comprehensive organic search review across multiple websites within the Citation Group portfolio. Each site received a tailored analysis with prioritised recommendations, supported by group-level dashboard reporting, LLM/AI search visibility reporting via in-house technology, and content recommendations aligned to user search intent.
What they said
I’ve worked with the team at Audits a number of times over the past 10+ years. They consistently identify the key factors limiting performance and provide clear, data-led recommendations. Their support for internal teams is invaluable, and they’re always responsive, approachable, and communicate in plain English.

Digital Experience Lead – The Citation Group

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