Can AI assistants actually read your website?
When a customer asks ChatGPT, Google or another AI assistant who to hire, it can only recommend you if it can open and read your site. If it can't, you aren't ranked lower. You're left out of the answer, and nothing tells you.
Sound familiar?
- Someone asks “are we showing up in AI answers?” and nobody knows how to check.
- A competitor keeps getting recommended. You don’t, and you can’t see why.
- Your site loads fine for you, while a security setting may be turning AI away.
Free · no sign-up · know in about a minute
Checks access for
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Perplexity
- Bing
- Apple
- DuckDuckGo
- and more
Who's a good family dentist near me?
AI assistant
Based on their websites, here are three good options:
- 1.Brightside Dental✓ site read
- 2.Maple Street Smiles✓ site read
- 3.Northgate Family Dentistry✓ site read
Your practice — not mentioned. The assistant couldn't open your website, so it never knew you existed.
- pages
- Only the first 6 pages are measured. A block on a template you did not crawl will not appear here.
- training
- Allowing training crawlers trades a reservation of rights for future brand recall. Answer-time citation is unaffected either way.
This run will not be recorded. Sign in first and it becomes the before that next week's fix is measured against. The audit is free and ungated either way.
cabin audio
Plays only while an audit is running. Synthesized here; nothing is downloaded.
Five scenes, generated with the Web Audio API at page load — no audio files, no CDN, nothing to download. Level-matched so the picker changes character, not loudness. Playback suspends when this tab is hidden, and ends when the audit does.
Why it matters
A low rank still puts you on the page. Being unreadable puts you nowhere.
Think of an AI assistant as a very fast researcher. Before it suggests a business, it visits websites to read about them. If your door is locked, or your pages look blank to it, it moves on to someone else.
When it happens, the cause is usually mechanical: a setting, not your reputation. Mechanical means fixable. The costly part is not knowing, while the questions keep going to someone else.
What we check
Four questions, answered for your site.
Are AI assistants let in?
Security settings and website hosts sometimes turn AI visitors away without telling you. We knock as each assistant and note which ones get in.
Can they read your pages?
Many modern websites only show their words after extra code runs in your browser. Most AI assistants skip that step, so they may see an empty page.
Is it clear what you do?
Your name, services, prices and location, written and labelled in a way a machine can pick out and repeat correctly.
Does the rest of the web back you up?
Profiles elsewhere, such as LinkedIn or Wikidata, that link back to you and confirm you are who your site says you are.
How it works
Three steps. About a minute.
- Step 1
Paste your website address
No account and no payment needed for the check.
- Step 2
We visit it the way AI assistants do
Takes about a minute. You can watch each step as it happens.
- Step 3
Get a score and a to-do list
Plain-language fixes, most important first, plus ready-made files your web person can add.
Being straight with you
Being readable is the first step, not the finish line. This check tells you whether AI assistants can reach and understand your website. It cannot make any of them recommend you, and no tool honestly can. What it does is remove the reasons they would skip you without ever looking.
Questions
Common questions
Do I need to be technical to use this?
No. Each finding is explained in everyday words, with what to do about it. The technical detail is included for whoever looks after your website.
How is this different from SEO?
SEO decides where you appear in a list of links. An AI assistant writes one answer and names only a few businesses, and it can only name the ones whose sites it could read.
Will it change anything on my website?
No. It only reads your public pages, the same as any visitor. Any fixes or files it suggests are yours to use or ignore, and nothing changes until you or your web person put them in place.
Is it really free?
The check is free and needs no sign-up. A full written report and extra tools are available to buy; prices are listed further down this page.
I run an agency. Can I use it for clients?
Yes. You can keep a list of client sites, put your own name on the PDF report, and email it to them. Every number in it can be checked independently.
For your web developer
Being unreadable is worse than ranking badly.
A low rank puts you somewhere. A 403 is absence. Your robots.txt says Allow. Your CDN says otherwise. When a buyer asks an AI which tool solves their problem, find out whether your site can even be fetched, read and quoted.
Fetched as each crawler
Every known AI user-agent, judged by HTTP status. Not by reading your robots.txt — the file states an intention, the status code is the answer.
Fetched twice
Once with JavaScript, once without. AI crawlers largely don't run JS, so the gap between those two fetches is content no engine can quote.
Nothing invented
Every claim in every generated file traces to a span on your own page. Untraceable claims are dropped rather than published.
Checkable by your client
Every number in the client PDF is re-runnable with curl. An audit your client cannot check is an audit your client can dismiss.
No account, no API key. Runs on status codes.
We generate llms.txt — and score it zero for citation. Google states its Search and AI surfaces don't use it, and Ahrefs checked 137,210 domains in May 2026: of those that publish one, 97% were never requested that month. It does have a real audience — coding agents fetch it when you point them at your docs — but that is not an answer engine, so it earns no citation points. If a tool won't tell you which of its outputs don't work, ask what else it isn't telling you.
sign in
A six-digit code by email. No password — there is nothing to store, reset or leak.
clients
One row per site you look after, whoever slipped since last time first. Audit the whole list at once, email each report from your own address, and put your name on the cover. Needs an account — nothing else here does.
brand performance
Whether answer engines name you, and whether they cite your pages. Needs no audit — but reads better after one.
What it costs
The audit is free, with every finding and every generated file. The downloadable report — the PDF and the deliverable package for one audit — is $49.00, paid once, no account needed.
Prepaid credits, no subscription. One credit is one engine-backed run; audits that need no engine call cost nothing. Payment happens on Stripe's own page — no card detail reaches us.
| Pack | Credits | Price | Per credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | 300 | $99.00 | 33¢ |
| Studio | 1,000 | $330.00 | 33¢ |
| Agency | 3,000 | $990.00 | 33¢ |