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AI readiness score

Your AI readiness score is a measurement, not a prediction: 164 documented checks run against your live site, scored and ranked. One of them is llms.txt, the proposal that says "We propose adding a /llms.txt markdown file to websites to provide LLM-friendly content." Bigger levers come first though: crawler access, JavaScript-free rendering and quotable answers. The score tells you which failures matter and in what order to fix them.

Most sites we scan fail on two or three specific checks, not across the board. The score tells you which ones, so you are not guessing.

Free Visibility Scan: whole site, up to 150 pages, no email. Full Report is a one-time $10.

What it measures

Search and AI engines have different requirements.

A site can sit on page one of Google and score poorly on AI readiness, because AI engines run their own crawlers, apply their own content quality signals and cite sources based on factors Google does not weight: whether your crawler rules allow GPTBot and ClaudeBot, whether your content exists without JavaScript, whether your pages open with a direct quotable answer, whether you are a recognizable named entity with consistent identity across the web.

Your AI readiness score measures those conditions, not your Google rank. The two scores often diverge, which is why we report them separately. If you want to understand the landscape first, why your site isn't in AI search is the right starting point.

What goes into the score

Four pillars. The gates come first.

Crawler access · gate checks

These block everything else

  • GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended allowed in your robots.txt, checked per bot. A single blocked line zeros out your AI presence for that engine. See fixing AI crawler access
  • Whether your hosting or CDN silently turns AI bots away before they reach robots.txt
  • Content present in raw HTML without JavaScript
Citability

How quotable you are

  • Answer block quality: a direct, quotable answer with specific facts and sourced evidence
  • Citable sourced facts across body copy
  • Passage structure: long content broken into headed sections that can be lifted
Entity clarity

Can engines tell who you are?

  • Business identity markup: consistent name, description and type across structured data and on-page signals. See fixing entity clarity
  • Off-site entity presence: whether your organization is linked and recognizable across authoritative platforms
Technical & structured data

The trust layer

  • Schema coverage: Organization, Article, FAQPage where relevant
  • llms.txt presence and completeness
  • Sitemap, canonicals, heading order and the HTML signals behind Core Web Vitals

One scan. Your AI readiness and your Google visibility come back as separate numbers, because they are different problems. Below each score, every failed check is listed worst first in plain English, with the documented source it stands on. Siblings: the AI visibility checker and AI citation checker; the umbrella is the AI search optimization hub.

Questions

Straight answers.

Is this the same as my Google SEO score?

No. AI readiness and search rank are different measurements. We return both, separately, because the fixes are often different too.

Do you show me what ChatGPT or Perplexity says about my brand?

No. AI answers change by prompt, session and user, and live answer monitoring is on our roadmap but not yet built. What the score measures is the documented set of preconditions that determine whether AI engines can reach, read and cite you. Those are fully testable and fixable today.

How is the score calculated?

Each check carries a weight based on how much it blocks AI visibility if it fails. Gate checks, crawler access, JavaScript rendering, indexability, carry the highest weight because failing them means AI engines cannot see you regardless of how good your content is. The score is a weighted sum, not a black box; every component is shown in your report.

What score is good?

There is no universal passing grade. What matters is which specific checks failed and in what order to fix them. The report ranks failures worst first so you are not spending time on low-impact items while a crawler block sits unaddressed.

Is the free scan really free?

Yes. Your score and every failing check, on screen, whole site up to 150 pages, no email. The diagnosis is free; the $10 Full Report unseals the page-by-page detail with the PDF, action plan and fix file.

Get the number, and the reasons behind it.

Free scan of your whole site, up to 150 pages. Every component of the score shown. No email.

164 graded checks · a weighted sum, not a black box · the audit that shows its work