AI Visibility Check
AI search · ChatGPT & Perplexity · Free, no signupMore and more customers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews before they ever open a website. This free AI visibility checker looks at whether AI search tools can find, read, and understand your page - not just whether Google ranks it.
Two checks you can run right now
AI search can only recommend what it can read. These two tell you whether it can read you. Free, instant, no signup.
Check 1
Are AI bots allowed in?
Reads your robots.txt and shows whether the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity may read the page.
Look for the AI search crawlers row in the result. Nothing is stored.
Check 2
Does your site say what kind of business you are?
Reads the structured data on the page: the labels that tell machines your business type, address and opening hours.
We fetch the page once and read its JSON-LD. Nothing is stored.
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Can AI answers use you?
A dedicated AI Readiness category checks the specific things that decide whether AI systems can read, understand, and cite your page.
AI crawler access
Whether AI search tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity are actually allowed to read the page - they can be blocked without you realising.
Linked business profiles
Whether your profiles are connected so AI systems can tell who you are, what you do, and where you operate.
llms.txt
Whether your site offers an llms.txt guide for AI tools. Reported for completeness, never scored: no major AI search platform has confirmed it reads the file.
AI training bot policy
What your robots directives say to AI training crawlers, and whether that matches what you intend.
Structured data
The behind-the-scenes labels that let machines - search engines and AI alike - understand what your business is.
Quotability
Whether the page has enough well-structured content for an AI answer to quote and cite, rather than skip.
Judge the report before you run one
We publish a real, unedited AuditCrow scan of a real business site - one verdict, a featured fix, and a prioritised task list, with only the domain anonymised. What you see there is exactly what this tool gives you.
View the sample reportWhat is AI visibility?
AI visibility is how discoverable your business is inside AI-powered answers - the summaries people now get from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews. When someone asks an AI assistant "who's a good [what you do] near me?", AI visibility is whether your business can show up in that answer. It's a different question from classic search ranking, and a fast-growing blind spot for most sites.
Why it matters now
A rising share of searches never reach a website at all - the answer is delivered directly in an AI summary. If AI systems can't reach your pages or can't easily understand them, you can be invisible in those answers even when your traditional SEO is strong. Getting these foundations right is what makes your site readable and citable rather than skipped.
What the check actually tests
The AI visibility check runs the full AuditCrow page scan and leads with its AI Readiness category. These are the specific tests, and how each one is judged:
- AI search crawler access. Whether your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind AI search answers read this page: OAI-SearchBot (ChatGPT search), Claude-SearchBot and PerplexityBot. All three allowed is a pass, two is acceptable, one or none needs attention. No robots.txt at all means everything is allowed.
- Linked business profiles. Whether your structured data carries "sameAs" links to your other profiles, which AI systems use to confirm you are a real, established business. Only checked when the page has structured data.
- Quotable content. Whether the page has enough well-structured text for an AI answer to quote, and whether questions and answers are marked up as FAQ schema.
- llms.txt. Whether one exists. Reported, never scored, because the evidence says it doesn't move AI search visibility for most sites (what the evidence shows).
- AI training bot policy. Which training crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended) you block. Blocking training is a legitimate choice, so this is reported as your policy, never as a fault. It is separate from the search crawlers above.
Example output from a real scan
These are the AI-related rows from the published sample report, an unedited scan of a real UK business site run on 8 July 2026:
- Your page has enough well-structured content to be quoted: Pass
- Your questions and answers are labelled for search engines: Needs attention
- AI search tools (ChatGPT, Perplexity) can read this page: Pass
- Your business profiles are linked so AI knows who you are: Not checked
- Your site offers an llms.txt guide for AI tools: Not in place (reported, not scored)
- Your policy on AI training bots: Pass (reported, not scored)
Every row that needs attention comes with a plain-English fix and a message you can forward to whoever looks after your website.
How this differs from AI brand-mention trackers
Tools like Profound, Otterly and Peec AI run large sets of prompts through ChatGPT and other assistants and track how often your brand is mentioned over time. That's useful for larger brands with a budget for it, but it measures the outcome, not the cause. This check looks at the causes you can fix on your own site today: whether AI tools are allowed in, whether they can tell who you are, and whether your page gives them something to quote. It doesn't monitor mentions. Our round-up of the best AI visibility tools compares the trackers, and mentioned vs cited explains why being named isn't the same as being found.
Learn more
Dig deeper with our guides on whether AI crawlers can reach your site and why your business might not show up in AI Overviews or ChatGPT, including a free way to check what AI assistants say about you.
You can also run our free llms.txt checker to validate an llms.txt file if you publish one.
Common questions
Straight answers about what this tool does - and doesn't do.
What is AI visibility?
AI visibility is whether AI-powered answers - ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google's AI Overviews - can find, read and cite your business when people ask them questions. It is a different problem from classic search ranking, and most sites have never checked it.
What does the AI visibility check actually test?
Whether AI search tools are allowed to read your page, whether your business profiles are linked so AI systems can tell who you are, whether your site offers an llms.txt guide for AI tools, and what your policy on AI training bots is - alongside the standard structure, speed and content checks that affect how quotable your page is.
Is this an AI mentions or rank tracker?
No. This checks readiness: whether anything on your site is blocking AI systems from reading and understanding it. It does not monitor how often AI assistants mention you - readiness is the part you can fix directly on your site.
What is llms.txt and do I need one?
llms.txt is a small text file that gives AI tools a curated guide to your most important pages. It is cheap to add, but no major AI search platform has confirmed it reads the file, so for most business sites it is not a priority. It earns its place on developer documentation and public APIs. If you publish one, you can validate it with our free llms.txt checker.
Is this the same as a GEO audit?
It covers the on-site half of one. GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation) is the work of getting cited in AI answers. A full GEO audit also looks off-site, at reviews, directory listings and how consistently your business details appear across the web. This check handles the part on your own page: crawler access, entity links, structured data and quotable content.
Will fixing these checks get me cited by ChatGPT?
No tool can guarantee citations, and you should be wary of any that promises them. What the check does is remove the blockers - if AI systems cannot read or understand your page, you are invisible to them no matter how good your content is.
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