See whether AI search can read your business, in under sixty seconds.
Same question, two engines
Web results
About 1,240,000 results
Your brand — the thing you do best
Years of Google index say you are the answer.
The tool everyone compares against
Simple boards for small teams
In Google results, yourbrand.com ranks first.
Why it happens
Three sentences that explain the first way a site goes missing from AI answers.
A search engine scores every page it can see and puts them in order. Being on the list is a matter of degree — page one, page three, somewhere.
An answer engine reads a handful of pages and names the ones it used. You are in that handful or you are not mentioned at all.
Each AI engine decides for itself whether it can read you, by its own rules. A site can rank first on Google and be invisible to every one of them.
Google ranks
ChatGPT cites
Ranking gets you on a list. Citation needs AI engines to be able to read you first.
Before content is even the question, there is a door: for many sites it was closed to AI engines years ago, without anyone noticing.
Which is good news: doors are cheaper to open than content is to write.
How it works
A Google ranking does not guarantee a place in AI answers. Website access, useful content and the sources an engine selects all play a part.
Your site
settings and content
AI engine
ChatGPT search · Perplexity · Google AI Mode
The answer
may use relevant sources
See whether your website settings allow ChatGPT search, Perplexity and Google's search services, with search access kept separate from model training preferences.
See whether your homepage responds to our check and how much readable text it provides initially, with clear next steps for reviewing missing content.
Every problem comes with a plain-language fix, the points it recovers and an honest evidence tier, so the person who fixes it knows what to change first and what to ignore.
What you learn
Understand your website findings, how buyers find you and what to improve next. The full report separates observed results from practical recommendations.
Which search readers your checked website settings allow or restrict.
An llms.txt file or schema markup as an AI-citation fix. No engine documents either as a citation signal, so we do not look for them and the audit will never recommend them.
Discover
See which measured answers name your brand, with model knowledge and web-based answers shown separately.
Compare
See which saved competitors appear in answers to the same buyer questions.
Improve
Get specific next steps, supporting evidence and a clear way to check each improvement.
Optional Google Search Console connection
See weekly impressions and clicks for searches that include your brand name, alongside your measured AI mentions. Connect your own website with read-only access.
Example report
An illustrative report for a made-up domain, rendered with the same components as your live result. Run yours at the top of the page.
This is the free check. The full audit adds the fixes.
Illustrative example
Checked
In plain words
Your visitor rules restrict 2 of the checked search readers; review the affected findings below. The biggest problem: Your visitor rules restrict ChatGPT's search reader. This opts blocked pages out of ChatGPT search answers; navigational links and answers from model knowledge are separate.
Website readiness score
Access issues need attention
A checked setting or response may limit a search service; review the affected findings.
These findings cover website access and content. The full audit separately measures whether AI answers name your brand.
Your visitor rules tell ChatGPT's web search to stay out. This opts blocked pages out of ChatGPT search answers; navigational links and answers from model knowledge are separate.
Reported as: OAI-SearchBot blocked · This opts blocked pages out of ChatGPT search answers; navigational links and answers from model knowledge are separate.
Fix and evidence in the full audit
Your visitor rules restrict ChatGPT's search reader
This opts blocked pages out of ChatGPT search answers; navigational links and answers from model knowledge are separate.
Reported as: OAI-SearchBot blocked · This opts blocked pages out of ChatGPT search answers; navigational links and answers from model knowledge are separate.
Fix and evidence in the full audit
Your visitor rules restrict Perplexity's search reader
Perplexity leaves your pages out of its answers; a person's live request may still get through.
Reported as: PerplexityBot blocked · Left out of Perplexity's search index (a user's live fetch may still get through).
Fix and evidence in the full audit
Your initial homepage has very little text
Limited initial text is a reason to review whether the homepage answers buyers' questions, not proof of a citation problem.
Reported as: Only ~61 words of server-rendered text · The initial homepage response contains fewer than 150 readable words. This content-review heuristic does not establish whether an answer engine can use or quote the page.
Fix and evidence in the full audit
The full audit includes every fix, ordered by the points it recovers, with the evidence line that triggered it.
6 of 9 checked readers have a restriction in these rules.
Access
Your visitor rules restrict ChatGPT's search reader
This opts blocked pages out of ChatGPT search answers; navigational links and answers from model knowledge are separate.
Reported as: OAI-SearchBot blocked · This opts blocked pages out of ChatGPT search answers; navigational links and answers from model knowledge are separate.
Fix and evidence in the full audit
Your visitor rules restrict Perplexity's search reader
Perplexity leaves your pages out of its answers; a person's live request may still get through.
Reported as: PerplexityBot blocked · Left out of Perplexity's search index (a user's live fetch may still get through).
Fix and evidence in the full audit
Your visitor rules allow Google's search reader
This rule permits crawling; it does not confirm actual access, indexing or selection in Google answers.
Reported as: Googlebot allowed · Google Search + AI Overviews + AI Mode
Anthropic's training collector is allowed in
Your text may be used to train Claude models.
Reported as: ClaudeBot allowed · Anthropic model training only
Findability
Your page list includes reported update dates
Keep dates tied to significant page changes so Google can use them when scheduling another visit.
Reported as: Page-update dates are supplied · Keep these dates tied to significant changes to the page. Accurate lastmod values can help Google schedule recrawls; leave unchanged pages' dates as they are.
Your page list was found
Search engines can use this list to discover the pages you want found.
Reported as: Sitemap found: 312 URLs · Parsed 1 sitemap(s), up to 5 children each.
The pages we checked from your page list all load
Responsive links give search engines a route to your public content.
Reported as: 8/8 sampled sitemap URLs respond OK
Homepage
Your initial homepage has very little text
Limited initial text is a reason to review whether the homepage answers buyers' questions, not proof of a citation problem.
Reported as: Only ~61 words of server-rendered text · The initial homepage response contains fewer than 150 readable words. This content-review heuristic does not establish whether an answer engine can use or quote the page.
Fix and evidence in the full audit
Your homepage has no summary line
Engines fall back to whatever text they can find to describe you.
Reported as: Missing meta description · Not a ranking factor, but engines use it as fallback summary text.
Fix and evidence in the full audit
Your homepage loads
A working homepage gives search services a page they can process.
Reported as: Homepage HTTP 200
Your homepage has a title
A descriptive title helps search services label the page; they may also use other visible text.
Reported as: Title present · Your Brand — project management for agencies
The checked Google listing and preview controls are clear
These settings leave Google able to use the page for listings and previews; other eligibility checks still apply.
Reported as: No snippet or index restrictions · No robots meta tag (defaults allow everything).
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FAQ
If an answer here ever stops being true, the methodology changes first and the copy second.
Yes. A free account, no card and no sales call. Groptim checks your site and computes the report on the spot. The report is kept with your account so you can re-run it after a deploy.
Website access and content readiness. It is separate from Google search coverage and observed mentions in AI answers, which the full report shows on their own.
Because not all advice is equally proven. Tier 1 is documented by the engine vendor. Tier 2 is a large-sample correlation. Tier 3 is good hygiene with no direct proof. You should spend your time on Tier 1 first, and we say so.
No engine has documented either as a citation signal, so we do not check for them and we will not recommend them. If that changes, the methodology changes with it.
Yes. Training and search are separate permissions, and it is easy to close one when you meant the other. The check tells them apart and tells you which one you have actually closed.
The free check shows website findings and their scoring impact. Buy a one-time pass to generate full reports with supporting evidence, guided fixes and measured visibility in AI answers and Google searches. Each full report or rerun uses one audit credit. Failed runs do not use a credit.
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