System 01 · Diagnostic

Agentic SEO audit engine

A crawl, an issue taxonomy and a priority model, wired end to end — agentic SEO that produces the same artifacts every run, which is the only reason the numbers are comparable month to month.

Crawl engineHeadless, issue-classified
Default cadenceMonthly, weekly on Accelerate
Runs onOur cloud, or yours
Data ownerYou, on every plan
Architecture

Three layers, so the guessing stays in one of them.

Directive

What to do

The SOP, written down. Goals, inputs, the tools to use, the outputs and the edge cases — in plain language, versioned like code. When we learn an API limit the hard way it gets written here, so it is never learned twice.

Orchestration

Decision-making

The only probabilistic layer. It reads the directive, calls the tools in order, handles the errors and asks when something is genuinely ambiguous. It does not do the work itself.

Execution

Doing the work

Deterministic scripts. Same input, same output, every run. Ninety per cent accuracy per step is fifty-nine per cent over five, so anything that must be right lives down here instead.

Data flow

In, through, out.

What it reads
Sitemap, expanded from the index
Search Console impressions & coverage
Analytics sessions & conversions
Backlink profile by URL
Field & lab performance data
Problem → solution
A list of issues nobody has rankedA queue ordered by what each one is costing you
Fixes chosen by whoever shouted loudestPriority argued from traffic and revenue
Months that never compare to each otherOne measurement, repeated — progress as a number
What you get
Classified issue set, machine-readable
Priority fix list with acceptance criteria
Drill-down sheet, one row per URL
Audit deck and PDF
Tasks filed in your tracker

Most audits describe the version of your site a browser eventually assembles. Yours is judged as search engines and AI crawlers actually receive it — which is where the expensive, invisible problems tend to live.

Integrations

It reads your stack. It doesn't replace it.

  • Screaming FrogHeadless crawl + issue export
  • Search ConsoleCoverage, impressions, queries
  • Analytics 4Sessions + conversions by URL
  • AhrefsReferring domains by page
  • SemrushCompetitor keyword overlap
  • ClickUpFix tickets, one per issue type

Also connects to

Search ConsoleAnalytics 4Headless crawlerKeyword & backlink dataField performance (CrUX)Lab performance (Lighthouse)Tag ManagerWordPressShopifyWebflowClickUpGoogle Drive & SlidesLooker Studio

Read-only wherever read-only is enough. Nothing gets write access it doesn't need, and every write is logged.

Quality gates

Checked before it ever reaches you.

The crawl reaches your whole site — URL coverage is verified against your sitemap before a single issue is scored.

Every issue is classified against the full taxonomy, so the report you read is the complete picture, not a convenient one.

The deck, the issue list and the prioritised backlog all arrive together, every time.

That consistency is the whole point. The same checks and the same artifacts on every run, so when a number moves you know it moved because your site moved — not because the method did.

Datasheet

The boring details.

SpecStandardDeployable
Where it runsOur infrastructureYours
Who holds the API keysUs, scoped per clientYou
CadenceMonthly, or weeklyAny schedule
Raw data retentionRebuilt each runYour policy
Artifact deliveryYour Drive and trackerYour choice
Source code accessFull
Runs unattendedYesYes
Failure alertingSlack and emailYour channels
The other systems

Same architecture, different job.

Want it in your own stack?

Deployable hands over the software, the hosting and the keys. You run it; we stay on for support.

Talk scope
Before you start

Questions about the audit engine.

How often does the SEO audit run?

Monthly by default, and weekly on Accelerate. Every run produces the same artifacts — the crawl, the classified issue list and the prioritised fix list — which is what makes one month comparable to the next instead of re-derived each time.

What makes an issue a P1?

Severity crossed with traffic impact. A critical issue is P1 at any traffic level, and a high-severity issue on a page with real sessions or conversions is P2. Issues affecting a large share of the site escalate, so a hygiene problem across most pages does not sit quietly at the bottom of the backlog.

Do we get the underlying data?

Yes, on every plan. The crawl exports, the classified issues and the prioritised backlog belong to you, and the audit is delivered as a deck plus a task list rather than a dashboard you lose access to when you leave.