Research · The AEO Gap Report

Professional services: how AI-ready is it?

Professional services sits mid-table at 82/100 - six in ten top pages skip the schema an answer engine reads to trust a firm.

82.1

mean AEO score / 100 (47 top-ranking pages)

#7

of 13 industries for AI-readiness

-1.5

vs the 83.6 cross-industry average

Consultants, accountants and advisers publish credible content but under-structure it. Nearly 60% of top pages lack Article or FAQ schema and 57% write headings as statements rather than the questions clients ask. For a sector that sells expertise, being easy for an engine to parse and quote is the cheapest edge available.

Where professional services pages lose citability

Share of top-ranking pages missing each signal.

Professional services · n=47

Article / FAQ schema
59.6%
Question-shaped headings
57.4%
A tuned meta description
31.9%
An FAQ section
27.7%
A concise page title
17%
A single clear H1
10.6%
Open to AI crawlers
4.3%
Enough substance
0%

These figures come from the same deterministic checker behind our free AI Visibility Check, run across 615 top-ranking pages in 13 industries. See the full AEO Gap Report for the method and the cross-industry picture.

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