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kōdōkalabs
The Deep-Dive Audit & Roadmap
Stop Guessing.
Get the 6-Month Battle Plan in 5 Days.
Most SEO audits are useless.
They are 50-page PDFs of generic “crawl errors” generated by a tool you could have run yourself. They don’t tell you how to grow; they just tell you what’s broken.
The kōdōkalabs Deep-Dive Audit is different.
We don’t just look for technical bugs. We look for Revenue Gaps. We combine a forensic technical analysis with a strategic “Entity Gap” analysis to build a prioritized, ready-to-execute roadmap.
The 3-Layer Analysis
We analyze your domain through three distinct lenses to ensure no opportunity is missed.
Layer 1:
The Technical Core
(Python-Powered)
Layer 2:
The Semantic Gap
(AI-Powered)
We use LLMs to analyze your top 5 competitors and build a “missing entity” graph.
- Topic Clusters: What entire categories are your competitors ranking for that you don’t even have pages for?
- Information Gain: Why is Google choosing them over you? (Usually missing data points/angles).
Layer 3:
The Commercial Reality
(Human-Powered)
Our Senior MD reviews the data to prioritize based on ROI.
- Striking Distance: Keywords ranking #11-#20 that can be moved to Page 1 with minor updates.
- Conversion Alignment: Focusing budget on high-intent pages, not vanity traffic.
What You Get
(The Deliverables)
Deliverable
Description
The Technical Scorecard
A “Red/Yellow/Green” spreadsheet for your dev team. No fluff, just tickets to file.
The Topical Authority Map
Timeline & Investment
- Timeline: Delivered 5 business days after access is granted.
- Investment: One-time fee of €8,900 – €24,900 (depending on site size).
Pricing
Audit Sail
Focused Audit
€8,900
- Up to 500 URLs
- 1 market / language
- Top 3 competitors
- 5 business days
- Technical scorecard + 30-page roadmap
Audit Cruise
Deep-Dive Audit
€16,500
- 500 – 15,000 URLs
- Up to 3 markets / languages
- Top 5 competitors
- 7 business days
- Adds log-file analysis, entity gap map, Share of Model baseline
Audit Fly
Enterprise Audit
€24,900
- 15,000+ URLs / programmatic / marketplace
- Unlimited markets
- Top 10 competitors
- 10 business days
- Adds crawl-budget engineering, custom Python scripts, board-ready exec deck, 1-day strategy workshop
100% of the deep-dive audit fee credits toward the first 2 months of a Velocity Retainer if signed within 30 days. This is the single most effective conversion mechanism in agency selling. It feels generous to the client and costs you almost nothing because the audit work is the foundation of the retainer anyway.
Money-back guarantee if the deep-dive audit doesn’t surface at least 20 prioritized findings (Sail) / 40 findings (Cruise) / 70 findings (Fly).
Concrete Deliverables (What You Actually Get)
You won’t receive a bloated, automated 100-page PDF filled with low-priority automated warnings. You get a lean, actionable toolkit designed for immediate execution:
- Executive Decision Matrix (Loom + PDF): A concise, 15-minute video walkthrough with our Managing Director outlining the 3 top revenue-blocking bottlenecks and the exact strategy to solve them.
- The Dev-Ready Backlog (Jira/Asana/CSV): Technical recommendations formatted as copy-paste developer tickets—complete with expected impact, priority levels, and exact code/markup fixes.
- The Entity & Content Gap Roadmap: A structured list of high-intent topical clusters missing from your site, complete with information-gain angles needed to outrank legacy competitors.
- 60-Minute Executive Alignment Call: A live working session with senior leadership to answer questions, align on resource allocation, and map out the 6-month implementation timeline.
The Financial Math of a Cracked Foundation
Executing an aggressive content or link-building strategy on an unoptimized architecture is like pouring water into a leaky bucket. This is why you need to run a deep-dive audit first to fully understand where your website is underperforming.
Operational Friction
Typical Resource Waste
The Deep-Dive Audit Remediation
Crawl Budget Waste
Keyword Cannibalization
Outdated Content Decay
Bottom Line: If your monthly marketing budget is $10k+, fixing baseline structural issues often yields a higher, faster return on investment than launching new campaigns.
From Access to Execution in 5 Business Days
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Day 1: Access & IngestionYou grant read-only access to your Google Search Console, Analytics, and site crawl access. We pull server log files and run proprietary Python scripts.
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Days 2-3: Forensic & Entity AnalysisWe run a 3-layer diagnostic: log file analysis for crawl health, LLM-driven entity gap mapping against your top 5 competitors, and manual technical validation.
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Day 4: Executive PrioritizationOur Senior SEO Directors manually synthesizes the findings, cutting out tool noise and filtering the deep-dive audit down to high-ROI revenue opportunities.
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Day 5: Delivery & Strategic AlignmentYou receive the Dev-Ready Backlog, Executive Video Brief, and 6-Month Roadmap, followed by our 60-minute strategy call.
01 Does our team have to hire kōdōkalabs to execute the roadmap after the deep-dive audit?
No. The Deep-Dive Audit is built as a completely standalone, self-contained strategic asset. Your in-house engineering and content teams can take the Dev-Ready Backlog and 6-month roadmap and execute it independently. However, if you lack internal bandwidth, you can seamlessly transition into our Content Velocity Retainer or Fractional SEO Director solutions to have us execute it for you.
02 What access rights do you need from our tech team?
We keep onboarding lightweight. We only require read-only access to Google Search Console and your primary analytics platform. We do not require CMS admin access, code-repository access, or database changes to complete the audit.
03 How do you ensure these technical changes won't break our existing SEO rankings or web architecture?
Safety and risk mitigation are central to our diagnostic process. Every technical recommendation in the Dev-Ready Backlog undergo a strict risk assessment. Before any code is deployed to production, we test fixes in your staging environment to verify canonical rules, rendering, and HTTP response headers. Furthermore, for high-impact structural adjustments (such as URL migrations or core taxonomy changes), we provide a step-by-step rollback plan so your development team can execute with complete confidence.
04 Our internal engineering team is already stretched thin. How much developer time will this deep-dive audit require to implement?
We design our audit outputs specifically to respect your dev team’s limited bandwidth. Rather than dropping a massive list of 100 minor technical warnings on them, we prioritize findings by direct ROI impact and categorize them into Quick Wins (high impact, under 2 hours of dev effort) and Structural Projects (longer-term architecture fixes). Because every issue is delivered as a pre-formatted, dev-ready ticket complete with steps to reproduce and exact code specifications, your developers spend zero time translating SEO jargon into actionable tasks.
05 What happens if Google releases a Core Update while our audit is underway or shortly after?
Our audits are built around fundamental entity search principles and technical site health, rather than short-term algorithmic tricks. If Google rolls out a major update during our audit phase or within 30 days of delivery, we automatically re-run our Python log analysis and Search Console data suite to evaluate if your site’s baseline was affected. We then adjust the final Executive Action Plan to address any new algorithmic shifts at no extra cost.
Our No-Fluff Executive Assurance
- Zero Dev Waste: Every technical fix comes pre-formatted as a Jira/Asana user story complete with code-level specifications, acceptance criteria, and reproduction steps.
- Direct Senior Access: You will not be handed off to a junior account manager. Your deep-dive audit strategy and 15-minute video walkthrough are conducted directly by senior leadership.
What We Need to Start (The 5-Minute Onboarding)
You don’t need to write a lengthy brief or gather complex internal documentation. Once you book the deep-dive audit, onboarding takes under 5 minutes:
[ ] Grant Read-Only Access: Add our service email to your Google Search Console & Google Analytics.
[ ] Share Your Top 3 Competitors: Let us know who you keep losing organic deals to in search results.
[ ] Identify Your High-Margin Solutions: Tell us which core products or services drive the highest lifetime value (LTV) for your business so we can prioritize revenue-generating pages.
We handle everything else from there.
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Deep-Dive Audit
You know what great SEO looks like. Don’t settle for an agency that relies on junior talent or generic prompts. Choose the agency built by a seasoned leader, engineered for the algorithmic era.
