Does the whole-site crawl give me an overall score?
No — by design. The page audit returns a Page Audit Score with a grade and a per-analyzer breakdown. The site crawl returns issue groups, per-page counts, category benchmarks and a coverage line, and prints "No overall score — by design" where a score would sit. A 25-page crawl is not reducible to one number in a way that would help you fix anything.
Do I need an account to run an audit?
Not for the free site scan: no account, up to 8 pages, JavaScript disabled, about 30 seconds, with an honest partial-coverage note. The scored page audit, the rendered Robust crawl, saved history per brand and site, and PDF/CSV export come with a plan and an account.
Can I hand the result to a client?
Yes, by export. The PDF follows the same order as the report on screen and the CSV carries the findings. Your logo and colours are applied on the plans that include report branding; on the standard plan you export the same report with ours. The MVP has no hosted client portal, so the deliverable is the file you send.
Is this just a content generation tool?
No — content is the last step. AEO Spotlight monitors how your brand is answered across the 8 paid monitoring engines (ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok, Claude and Microsoft Copilot), audits the pages and sites you want cited, and only then drafts content aimed at the gaps it found.