Audit Stages
Eight stages, one connected analysis.
Updated August 2026
Overview
FixRank runs eight intelligence stages. Each has a defined role and contributes findings to the final report.
The eight stages
- Crawl Engine — Maps the site and creates the shared website intelligence every later stage reads from.
- Audit Agent — Evaluates technical SEO and overall site health.
- Google Agent — Evaluates Google-search related signals and the search data available for the site.
- AI Visibility Agent — Analyses AI-search visibility signals across AI answer surfaces.
- Semantic Engine — Maps entities, topics, relationships, and semantic gaps.
- Content Engine — Evaluates content quality, coverage, and opportunities.
- Internal Linking Engine — Identifies structural and contextual internal linking opportunities.
- Fix Agent — Synthesises every finding into one prioritised plan.
Stage order
The Crawl Engine always runs first because everything downstream depends on the shared intelligence it produces. The Fix Agent always runs last because it synthesises the other stages.