20-question self-assessment across technical access, content structure, schema, authority signals, and freshness. See your AI citation readiness score and a prioritised fix list — in 2 minutes.
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot are explicitly allowed in robots.txt
You have a llms.txt file at your domain root
Your site is fully HTTPS (no mixed content warnings)
Key pages return HTTP 200 for unauthenticated requests (no login required)
Machine-readable .md versions of key pages are available (e.g. /services/seo.md)
Key pages have a direct answer to the target query in the first 150 words
All statistics are attributed to named sources with year (no 'studies show...')
Key pages have 5+ explicit Q&A pairs (FAQ sections)
You have structured comparison tables for 'vs' and comparison queries
FAQPage schema is implemented on FAQ content pages
Article schema with author markup is on all blog/editorial content
BreadcrumbList schema is implemented site-wide
SpeakableSchema is used on key answer content pages
Organization schema with complete business details is on your homepage
Content has named authors with linked professional bio pages
You publish original research, proprietary data, or case studies
Content includes 2–3 external citations to authoritative sources per page
You have 5+ interlinked articles covering the same core topic (topical cluster)
Key pages have visible 'Last Updated' dates and are updated within 12 months
You track AI Overview impressions in Google Search Console
The AI SEO Readiness Score evaluates 20 signals across five categories: Technical Access (can AI crawlers reach your site?), Content Structure (is your content extractable?), Schema Markup (does structured data help AI understand your content?), Authority Signals (do AI systems trust your source?), and Freshness (is your content current?). Each signal is weighted by its impact on AI citation probability.
AI SEO readiness measures how well your website is optimised to be cited as a source in AI-generated answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, and Anthropic Claude. It covers technical access (AI bot permissions), content structure (direct answers, FAQs), authority signals (named authors, original data), and schema markup.
There's no hard threshold, but websites scoring 70+ typically see meaningful AI citation rates across major platforms. Scores below 50 indicate critical gaps — particularly in bot access (robots.txt) and content structure (missing direct answer blocks and FAQPage schema) — that prevent AI systems from finding and citing your content even if it's high quality.
Technical fixes (robots.txt bot access, llms.txt, schema markup) can be implemented in 1–3 days and show results within 2–4 weeks as AI crawlers re-index your site. Content structure improvements (adding direct answer blocks, FAQ sections, named attribution) take 1–4 weeks to implement across key pages. Authority building (original research, expert author profiles) takes 1–3 months.
