Answer readiness means your page opens with a passage an AI engine could quote standalone: it names its subject, answers one question completely in under about 80 words, and still makes sense with the rest of the page deleted. Google states that featured snippets are chosen automatically from what the page already says, so the passage does the winning. This free check reads a real fetch of your page and reports what the machines find. No email.
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When an AI engine answers a question, it lifts a short passage out of a page and quotes it with everything around it gone. A paragraph that leans on the rest of your page ("as mentioned above", an opening "This means...") falls apart when lifted. This test runs entirely in your browser: nothing you paste is sent anywhere.
We fetch your page the way a crawler does and read its structure. No AI engine publishes a citation formula, so we measure the things that are documented and observable: whether there is anything clean to quote, and whether the page's structure helps or hides it.
A liftable paragraph names its subject in the first sentence, answers one question completely, and stays under about 80 words. It survives with the rest of the page deleted: no "as mentioned above", no opening "This means" pointing at a sentence the engine did not quote. Concrete material helps too; passages with numbers, named sources and quotations are the kind engines cite.
No. A liftable passage makes your page quotable, and nothing makes it quoted. Engines choose citations from many candidate pages using signals nobody outside those companies can see, so any tool promising citations is guessing. What readiness buys you is a fair shot: when an engine does consider your page, there is a clean passage to take instead of a reason to move on.
The answer paragraph belongs directly under the heading that raises the question, starting with the answer itself. For the page's main question that means the first paragraph after the H1. Readers skimming get the point in one glance, and an engine parsing the page finds the answer attached to the question instead of buried three paragraphs deep behind context and wind-up.
Answer readiness tells you whether your page is quotable. It does not tell you whether crawlers can reach it, whether a robots rule blocks AI bots, whether your structured data parses, or the hundred-odd other things that decide visibility. The full AuditLamp audit runs all 116 documented checks against your site and shows the failures in plain English, worst first.