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AI Readiness Checker
Your buyers now ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews before they ever reach your site. Enter any page and we will check how easily those answer engines can reach it, read it and cite it, and whether visitors who click through can keep asking questions.
The checker runs in your browser and needs JavaScript turned on.
Get the full report
Every check with what we found and how to fix it, the points each fix adds, which AI bots your robots.txt allows, copyable fix prompts and a PDF to share with your team.
What it checks
Six areas that decide whether AI recommends you
An answer engine can only cite a page it is allowed to visit, can read without running JavaScript and can understand. Once a buyer clicks through, your site has to keep answering. The checker reads the page you enter plus your robots.txt, llms.txt and sitemap, and runs 23 checks across six areas.
AI access
Which of 15 AI bots your robots.txt allows, grouped into search, assistant and training bots, whether your firewall treats an AI bot request differently, and noindex or nosnippet directives.
Readability
How much text is in the HTML before any JavaScript runs, whether the page is a JavaScript app shell, server response time and the declared language.
Structure
H1 and heading structure, title, meta description and canonical, sections that open with a short answer, question headings, lists, tables, alt text and Open Graph tags.
Structured data
Whether the page has valid JSON-LD, whether it names your business, and whether it describes the page type, such as Product, Article or FAQPage.
Trust
HTTPS and the http redirect, author and date signals, links to About and Contact, and links to proof such as customers, security, docs and pricing.
AI guides and answers
An llms.txt file, an XML sitemap that lists the page, question and answer content, and whether visitors can search or ask the site a question.
How the score works
Each area carries a fixed share of the 100 points: AI access 25, Readability 20, Structure 20, Structured data 10, Trust 10, AI guides and answers 15. Every check has its own weight within its area and earns full, partial or no points based on what the scan finds. The same page returns the same score unless the page or its files change.
Some gaps outweigh any amount of polish. If most AI search bots are blocked in robots.txt, or the page carries noindex, the score is capped at 40. If the main content only appears after JavaScript runs, it is capped at 60. The result tells you when a cap applied. Blocking training bots is a policy choice, so it never lowers your score.
The weights are our judgement of what matters most for AI visibility, based on how answer engines fetch and quote pages. They are not an industry benchmark. The scan reads one public page and your site files as our server sees them, so firewalls that treat real AI crawlers differently can still change the picture.
What you get
Your score, a band, a breakdown by area and the three fixes worth the most points, straight away and without signing up. Add your name and work email to unlock the full report: every check with what we found, why it matters and how to fix it, the points each fix adds, a table of which AI bots can visit, a fix prompt you can paste into ChatGPT or Claude or send to your developer, and a PDF download.
Frequently asked questions
Is the AI Readiness Checker free?
Yes. The score, the breakdown and the top fixes are free with no sign-up. The full report is also free. We ask for your name and work email to unlock it.
What does the checker read?
Only public files: the page you enter as plain HTML without running JavaScript, plus your robots.txt, llms.txt and XML sitemap. It also makes one request with an AI search bot user agent to see whether your firewall answers it differently. It does not log in, submit forms or crawl the rest of your site.
Which AI crawlers does it look for?
Fifteen, in three groups. Search and citation bots: OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Googlebot and Bingbot. Assistant fetchers that visit when someone asks about you: ChatGPT-User, Claude-User and Perplexity-User. Training bots: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, CCBot, meta-externalagent and Bytespider. Training bots are shown but not scored.
Why can my page open in a browser but not in the checker?
Usually bot protection. Firewalls such as Cloudflare can block or challenge automated requests, including ours, even when people can browse normally. If real AI crawlers get the same treatment, that is worth fixing. Very slow pages can also time out.
What is llms.txt and do we need one?
It is a plain text file at the root of your domain that points AI tools to your most useful pages. It is a proposed standard and support varies by provider, so it carries a small weight. It is cheap to add and easy to keep current.
Will a high score get us cited in ChatGPT or AI Overviews?
No tool can promise that. A high score means the foundations are in place: AI systems can reach your page, read it and understand what it says. Whether you get cited also depends on how well your content answers the question, your authority on the topic and what competitors publish.
Do you store the pages we check?
No. The scan runs on request and keeps the result in short-lived memory so a repeat check is fast, and our hosting provider keeps standard request logs for a short time. If you unlock the full report, we keep your name, email, the address you checked and its score so we can follow up.
Where does Webless fit in?
Webless is the AI search and answer layer for B2B websites. Webless Blocks adds AI-readable summaries and FAQs to your pages, AI Search and Discovery and Website Agents answer visitor questions on your site from your own content, and Content Whitespace Analytics shows where buyer questions and your content do not line up.
See it on your site
We will walk through how buyers arriving from AI answers would experience your site with Webless, using your own pages.