An ebook for marketing leaders at B2B SMEs

Your AI Strategy Planning Guide for 2027

The ultimate guide to better results from your AI marketing strategy in 2027.

46 pages. PDF, 2.3 MB. No form. Includes a sample AI visibility audit.

Cover of What Your AI Audit Is Missing

What the Audit Cannot Decide

An audit can show that your company is absent from an AI answer. It cannot decide whether that question matters to your growth, which buyers you should pursue, or whether a missing mention deserves investment. Those decisions require market and buyer research. Otherwise, marketing can spend its budget improving visibility among buyers the business does not want.

The ebook, What Your AI Audit Is Missing, sets out what an AI visibility audit measures, how to read it, the research that gives the findings their context, and how the ideal customer profile turns both into a plan. A sample audit of a fictional consulting firm runs throughout, so you can see the shape of a real report before commissioning one.

What's Inside

Part 1. The AI audit

What an audit measures, what it cannot decide, and how research prevents the wrong marketing investment.

  1. What an AI audit is, and what each part is for
  2. How to use the audit in your plan
  3. Audit mistakes to avoid

Part 2. Research

The 8 connected areas that establish where to compete, which buyers to prioritize and what drives their decisions.

  1. 8 connected areas
  2. Market segmentation and targeting
  3. Buying process and buyer journey
  4. Who AI names in your place
  5. How the research gets done

Part 3. ICP

The ideal customer profile, the buyer questions that come out of it, and what changes in marketing, sales and the 2027 plan.

  1. The ideal customer company
  2. The buying committee, buyer profiles and personas
  3. From ICP to the question set
  4. From ICP to marketing and sales
  5. Your 2027 plan

Plus a sample report. Four pages from a sample AI visibility audit of Fenwick Hale Advisory, a fictional 150-person management consulting firm: the scorecard, one answer buyers get, the named-or-absent grid and one category page.

The 3 Numbers to Report

Across the whole audit run, three figures summarize the result. The book explains how each is counted, and why they sit under the commercial measures rather than above them.

Share of voice

Your mentions as a share of all supplier mentions across the discovery answers, counting each supplier once per answer.

Citation rate

The share of answers in which your own website is cited as a source. An engine can name you from a directory without citing your site.

Accuracy rate

The share of the engine's factual claims about you that are correct, checked against your own records, and whether each error flatters or damages.

Who Wrote It

Kevin Hayes

Kevin Hayes

Managing Partner

Leads marketing and execution. Twenty years of growth systems, media budgets and sales and marketing capacity for global and regional brands.

Mika Nurminen

Mika Nurminen

Managing Partner

Leads research and strategy. Intelligence and commercial strategy at global enterprises, and go-to-market work for Fortune 500 brands, startups and PE-backed firms.

Read it first. Then run the first cycle with us.

We run the audit, the research and the ICP work with your team, produce the briefing and the plan inputs, and leave you with a schedule you can keep.

Not sure where you stand yet? The 3 minute assessment gives you a score out of 10 across the five signals the engines read, and the audit picks up from there.

Take the AI assessment