AI readiness for accountants and bookkeepers

Deadline season, a specific question, and a fee page that says 'bespoke'.

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The moment

Ben, partner at a small practice serving contractors

A limited-company contractor asks an assistant which local accountant handles year-end for one-person companies and roughly what it costs annually.

What the agent needs: Do you serve this client type, what is included, and what is the fee.

What actually happens: Services are described in general language that fits any client, the fee page says 'tailored to you', and the client-type page that would have matched exactly was never written. The assistant names three practices publishing packages.

Which dimensions decide it, and why

AIScan grades five dimensions. These are the ones that carry the outcome for this kind of business.

Content

Specificity is what gets you matched. A page per client type — contractors, landlords, restaurants — in plain text is more valuable here than any amount of general copy.

Commerce

Practices are transactional even when they hate saying so. A published package with a price makes you comparable; 'bespoke' removes you from the comparison entirely rather than winning it.

Discoverability

Deadline-driven queries spike hard and are answered fast. If the relevant page is not crawlable and listed, the spike passes you by.

The checks that matter here

Fix guides: /docs/checks/content · /docs/checks/commerce · /docs/platforms/wordpress

Most sites like this run on WordPress — read the WordPress playbook for where each fix lives.

Questions we get asked

We genuinely price per client. Must we publish a number?

Publish a range or a starting package. A number with a boundary is honest and quotable; no number reads as 'will not say'.

Are client-type pages better than service pages?

For assistant queries, usually yes — people ask as themselves ('accountant for a landlord'), not in your service taxonomy.

Does an accreditation logo help?

As an image, no. Name the body in text and link it; that is what gets read.

Should we block AI crawlers to protect our guides?

Blocking assistant fetchers means your guides are never the source of the answer someone else's guide becomes. Take a position on training separately.

What about a fee calculator?

Keep it, and put an example outcome in text beside it. A calculator alone produces an empty page for anything that does not run scripts.

How do we track improvement?

Scan, fix, re-scan. Monitored sites re-scan on a schedule and email you when the grade moves.

Scan your site and see where you actually stand

Free, no account, about twenty seconds. The report names every failing check by ID, shows the evidence we found, and gives the fix for your platform — plus a hand-off prompt you can paste straight into Claude Code or Cursor.

Run a free scan npx aiscan-cli yoursite.com

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