Is your website
visible to AI?
ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI now answer your customers directly. If they can't read your site, you don't exist. Find out in 10 seconds — free.
What you get back — in about 10 seconds
Search changed.
Most websites haven't.
Three things happened while everyone was still doing old-school SEO.
People ask AI now
Instead of scrolling ten blue links, your customers ask ChatGPT or Perplexity and get one answer. Only a few sources ever get named in it.
AI decides who gets quoted
If a model can't parse and trust your site, it quotes a competitor instead. You never see those lost customers — there's no “lost to AI” report in your analytics.
Old SEO isn't enough
Ranking well on Google doesn't mean an AI will cite you. Answer engines read different signals — structure, entities, schema, answerability.
How it works
No setup. No sign-up. Three steps to knowing exactly where you stand.
Enter your URL
Paste any page. We fetch it and read it the way an AI answer engine does — bots, schema, structure and all.
We score 30 AI signals + 12 technical checks
Whether crawlers are actually served, whether the page is worth citing, whether it can be quoted, whether it survives retrieval — plus we ask an AI what it actually knows about you.
Get code, not homework
A prioritized plan and ready-to-paste schema, FAQ and meta tags written for your actual page. Copy, paste, done.
Nine names. One job.
Agencies have coined a new acronym roughly every quarter. They all describe the same thing: making a page readable, quotable and citable by AI answer engines. This tool measures that one job. It does not sell you nine.
Only GEO has published research behind it — Generative Engine Optimization, Aggarwal et al., KDD 2024. Four of our checks come directly from that study. The rest of the names are marketing; the work underneath is real.
30 AI signals, six questions
Every signal answers one of six questions an AI engine is effectively asking about your page. Weights and reasoning are published on the scoring page.
Fetched as the bots themselves
robots.txt is a request; the server has the last word. We fetch your page as GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended and compare with a browser. First run found Wikipedia returning 403 to ClaudeBot.
Invisible-to-AI detection
Most AI crawlers do not run JavaScript. We read the raw HTML your server sends and compare it with the rendered page — a site can score 85 on a classic SEO tool and be blank to ChatGPT.
What AI actually knows about you
We ask a language model, honestly, whether it recognises your domain. Not recognised is the usual answer for a new site — and knowing that is the point.
Can AI reach it?
Before anything else: does the crawler get a page at all? A site can pass every other check and still be a blank shell to a bot that does not run JavaScript, or a 403 from a firewall that robots.txt never mentions.
- JavaScript-rendered content
- AI crawler access
- AI crawlers actually served
Is it worth citing?
The only signals here with a measured effect: cited sources, statistics and quotations each moved AI citation rates 30-40% in the KDD 2024 GEO study (Aggarwal et al.). Keyword stuffing did nothing, so there is no keyword check.
- Cited sources
- Concrete statistics
- Quotations
- Sentence fluency
Will AI quote it?
Answer engines lift passages, not pages. A question heading with a short, self-contained answer under it is the shape that gets quoted whole.
- FAQ / Q&A format
- Answerability
- Direct answer up front
- Question-shaped headings
- Definition sentence
- Tables and lists
Does it survive retrieval?
Retrieval cuts a page into chunks and keeps the ones that stand alone. Even-sized sections, real content over boilerplate, and a well-formed llms.txt.
- Passage chunkability
- Content vs boilerplate
- llms.txt
- Content depth
- Internal links
Can AI tell what it is?
Structured data and clean markup tell a machine what a page is instead of making it guess. Guessing is where citations go wrong.
- Structured data
- Entity clarity
- Page title
- Meta description
- H1 heading
- Heading structure
- Semantic HTML
- Canonical URL
- Open Graph
- Image alt text
Who says so?
A named person with a real page behind them, and a date that is actually recent. AI engines weight identifiable expertise.
- Author / E-E-A-T
- Freshness
12 technical SEO checks, scored separately
Scored on its own so a tidy site can't hide an AI-invisible one. You see both numbers, never an average that buries the gap.
- Indexability — noindex / nofollow directives
- HTTPS, and whether HTTP redirects to it
- Canonical hostname — www and non-www serving one page
- XML sitemap — including sitemaps robots.txt declares but the server doesn't serve
- Broken links
- Server response time
- Mobile viewport
- Declared language (BCP-47)
- Page weight and sub-resource count
- Favicon and character encoding
What comes back
Not a grade and a shrug. Everything needed to act, in one page.
Two scores, kept apart
An AI-visibility score out of 100 and a technical-SEO score out of 100, side by side. Averaging them would let a fast, tidy site hide the fact that AI cannot read it.
A fix plan, in order of impact
Every failing signal, ranked by what it costs you, with what to do about it — plain English, no jargon you have to look up.
Code, written for your page
Organization and FAQPage JSON-LD, a meta description, an llms.txt and the robots.txt lines — generated from your content, ready to paste.
Every number explained
Each signal says exactly what it counted — “5 figures in 980 words”, “ClaudeBot got HTTP 403” — so a disagreement is about a number, not a verdict. Export as text or PDF.
Frequently asked
What is AI search visibility?
It's how easily AI answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews — can read, understand and cite your website when answering users. It's the next layer beyond traditional SEO.
Is this GEO, AEO, AIO, LLMO or AI SEO?
All of them. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), AEO (Answer Engine Optimization), AIO, LLMO, AISO, GAIO, AISEO, AAO and 'ChatGPT SEO' are nine names for one job: making a page readable, quotable and citable by AI answer engines. AnswerRank measures that one job across 30 signals. It does not produce a separate score per acronym, because there is nothing separate to score.
How is this different from normal SEO?
SEO optimizes for ranking in a list of blue links. AI search optimization makes your content easy for a language model to parse, trust and quote directly in an answer — which needs structured data, clear entities, FAQ formatting and AI-bot access.
Is the audit really free?
Yes. Enter any URL and get a full score and fix plan with no sign-up. A paid plan (full-site crawls, PDF reports and monitoring) is coming for teams and agencies.
Why can't AI engines see my site?
The most common reasons are a robots.txt that blocks AI crawlers, missing structured data, no FAQ formatting, and thin or unstructured content. The audit pinpoints exactly which apply to you.
Do I need to be technical to use the fixes?
No. Each fix is written in plain language, and we generate the exact code for you to copy and paste. For hands-off help, done-for-you implementation is available.
Who built this
One person built this, uses it on real projects, and answers the email — not a faceless startup.
Need the fixes done, not just listed?
I take on the implementation directly — the same person who wrote the checks applies them.
- AI-search visibility fixes, implemented on your site
- LLM features built into your product — search, assistants, pipelines
- Full-stack builds: Next.js, React, NestJS, FastAPI
Know where you stand
with AI search.
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