Question 1

What does the AI Readiness Check actually test?

Accepted Answer

15 live checks across four categories: access & crawlability (robots.txt AI-bot rules, real fetches as GPTBot and PerplexityBot, sitemap health, soft-404s), content & rendering (server-rendered text, content depth, token weight, first-byte speed), structured data & entity (JSON-LD validity, organization identity, sameAs entity links, meta/OG), and agent usability (an agent-actionable booking path, llms.txt, markdown availability). The scan fetches everything live from your site rather than reading from a cache of old crawls.

Question 2

Is it really free? What's the catch?

Accepted Answer

Free and ungated: no email, no signup. The catch is honest: we build AI-ready websites for a living, and a tool that shows you exactly what's broken is the best introduction to how we work. The score is yours either way.

Question 3

What do the proven / hygiene / speculative labels mean?

Accepted Answer

Every check carries an evidence label. Proven: it affects what AI engines can actually do today; a blocked bot can't read you, and JS-only content is invisible to most crawlers. Hygiene: correct and cheap with a plausible mechanism, worth doing. Speculative: it scores points on every checker (including this one) without citation evidence behind it; llms.txt is the famous example, and we say so. Other tools weight all of these as if they were equal. They aren't.

Question 4

Does a high score mean ChatGPT will recommend my business?

Accepted Answer

No, and any tool that implies it does is overclaiming. A 95+ score means your site is mechanically AI-ready: engines can crawl it, read it, understand who you are, and agents can act on it. Being cited and recommended also takes authority and content built over time. But without readiness, none of the rest can start.

Question 5

Which AI bots does it check?

Accepted Answer

The robots.txt check covers 18 tokens across every major engine: OpenAI (GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User), Anthropic (ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User), Perplexity (PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User), Google-Extended, Bingbot, Meta (Meta-ExternalAgent, Meta-ExternalFetcher), MistralAI-User, Amazonbot, Applebot, Applebot-Extended, DuckAssistBot, and CCBot. Worth knowing: Google-Extended governs Gemini training and grounding only; AI Overviews ride on plain Googlebot. On top of the parsing, we make real fetches as GPTBot and PerplexityBot and compare them to a browser fetch, which catches the WAF and edge-level blocking that robots.txt parsing can never see.

Question 6

What happens to my scan data?

Accepted Answer

The result is stored for 90 days so your score link keeps working, and repeat scans of the same URL are served from a 1-hour cache so the tool can't be used to hammer anyone's site. We don't sell your data. The optional email field sends you the full report and adds you to our list for the occasional useful update. No spam, and every update has a one-click unsubscribe.

Question 7

My score is low. What now?

Accepted Answer

Every failed check comes with a copy-paste fix snippet, matched to your stack where we can detect it (Next.js, WordPress, Shopify). If you'd rather not do it yourself: we build sites that ship scoring 95+ on this exact check, on fixed tiers at $3K / $7.5K / $15K, live in 1–3 weeks. The rubric is public, so you can hold us to it.

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