Free AI search readiness audit

Will AI recommend you — or your competitor?

Customers now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI for recommendations. We measure the signals assistants need to find, read and cite your site — and which AI crawlers you're blocking without knowing it.

Free account · 3 audits a month · AEO + GEO + AIO scored

SEARCH IS CHANGING

AI answers cite a few sources. Be one of them.

When someone asks an assistant instead of searching, there is no page two — the answer names a handful of sites and everyone else is invisible. Getting named isn't luck: assistants favor sites they can crawl, parse and verify. All three are measurable, and none of them show up in a classic SEO audit.

WHAT WE MEASURE

Three pillars, three scores — all deterministic.

No black box: every pillar below is scored from signals we actually read off your pages and robots.txt. Your report shows each sub-score with the exact signals behind it.

AEO

Answer Engine Optimization

Can your content BE the answer?

  • FAQ & HowTo schema
  • Question-style headings
  • Lists & tables (answerable structure)
GEO

Generative Engine Optimization

Would an AI trust you enough to cite you?

  • Article & entity schema
  • Named authors & publish dates
  • Outbound citations to sources
AIO

AI crawler access & readability

Can AI systems even read your site?

  • robots.txt verdict for 6 AI crawlers
  • llms.txt published
  • Schema type coverage
THE SILENT BLOCKER

Many sites block AI crawlers without knowing it.

An inherited robots.txt rule, an over-eager bot blocker, a CDN default — and every assistant behind that crawler goes blind to your site. It's one of the most common findings in this audit, and one of the fastest to fix. We test all six:

GPTBotOpenAI / ChatGPT
ClaudeBotAnthropic / Claude
PerplexityBotPerplexity
Google-ExtendedGoogle / Gemini
CCBotCommon Crawl
Applebot-ExtendedApple Intelligence

Scores are deterministic — same input, same score. How we calculate scores. And to be clear: this measures your readiness, not your position inside any assistant's answers — no tool can reliably measure that. Just want the crawler check? It's free with no signup.

AI search questions

Questions, answered.

Classic SEO earns you a ranked position in a list of links. AI search optimization earns you a place inside the answer itself — AEO makes your content answerable (FAQ schema, question headings, lists), GEO makes it citable (authorship, dates, entity schema, sources). Different signals, and strong Google rankings don't automatically transfer.

No — and be wary of any tool that claims to. Assistant answers aren't a stable, measurable index. What we measure is your readiness: whether AI crawlers can access your site at all, and whether your content carries the structural signals assistants need to find, read and cite it.

llms.txt is an emerging convention — a plain-text file that tells AI systems what your site is about and which pages matter. It's cheap to add and an early-adopter signal; the audit checks whether you publish one.

We test your robots.txt against six: GPTBot (OpenAI), ClaudeBot (Anthropic), PerplexityBot, Google-Extended (Gemini training), CCBot (Common Crawl) and Applebot-Extended. Any of them blocked means the corresponding assistants can't read — or cite — your site.

Yes. Create a free account (no credit card) and you get 3 full audits every month — each includes the complete SEO report alongside the AI-search scores.

Not necessarily. AI visibility depends on crawler access and machine-readable structure, not just authority. A top-ranking site with GPTBot blocked in robots.txt is invisible to ChatGPT browsing — and that's one of the most common findings in this audit.

Check your AI visibility before your competitor does.

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