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.
mean AEO score / 100 (47 top-ranking pages)
of 13 industries for AI-readiness
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
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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