# Questions people actually ask. Source: https://www.ahalevel.com/faq/ Last reviewed 2026-08-26 These are the seven questions we get asked before anyone buys anything. The answers here are the same answers published in our machine-readable index, so a person and an AI system get the same account. One clause differs between the two, because a sentence that reads correctly inside a file does not always read correctly on a page. ## What is the AHA Level? The AHA Level is a 0–100 score with a letter grade that measures a business's visibility where customers actually decide: Google Search, AI search, review sites, social, sector directories, and the business's own website. AHA rolls the six channels into one number and ranks it against the businesses competing for the same customers, by name. The first measurement is free and saved as a dated baseline. ## What does AHA cost? The first AHA Level measurement is free — no card, about a minute, at ahalevel.com/scan. Consulting starts at $1,500/mo, and every engagement opens and closes with a dated measurement snapshot, so the result is verifiable arithmetic against a baseline. The $499 action plan is credited in full toward your diagnostic if you engage us to do the work. ## Is AHA an SEO agency? No. SEO optimizes for ranking in a list of links; AHA measures and fixes what AI systems and the six decision channels actually say about a business — the answer a customer hears when they ask who to hire. The disciplines overlap, but AHA's target is being the accurate, quoted answer, and every claim traces to a dated measurement. ## Does llms.txt actually work? Honestly: as of early 2026, no major AI provider has publicly committed to consuming llms.txt in production. AHA publishes one anyway — including the file at ahalevel.com/llms.txt — because it costs minutes, cannot hurt, and serves agent and developer tooling today. What drives AI citations is accurate facts on the pages, entity consistency, and third-party corroboration. That is where AHA puts the real work. ## Where does AHA operate? AHA is based in Wesley Chapel, Florida and works with Tampa Bay businesses in person. The work itself is digital — measurement, verification, and fixes across Google, AI search, reviews, social, directories, and the website itself — so AHA serves businesses across the United States remotely. ## How does AHA prove its results? Every engagement opens with a saved measurement snapshot and closes with one, so "it worked" is arithmetic against a dated baseline, not assurance. Published numbers derive from stored raw observations, AI model versions are pinned to every snapshot, and corrections are logged publicly rather than hidden. The method is published at ahalevel.com/methodology. ## What does AHA stand for? AHA stands for anti-hallucination architects. The name is literal: the blueprint is Grounding, Refinement, Validation, Guardrails, and the work is making sure that what AI systems say about a business is accurate, checkable, and current — starting with measurement, because a fix without a baseline is a story. If your question is not here, the methodology covers how the score is built and the commitments cover what we will not do. Both are longer and neither is a sales page.