AI search readiness checker:
free, no signup.
Enter a URL and get a 35-point readiness check across AEO, GEO, and Crawlability in 30-90 seconds - what ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews can and cannot cite on your site, and the copy-paste fixes for everything that fails.
Three axes, 35 checks, one readiness score.
Can an engine lift a correct, self-contained answer from your pages? Checks direct-answer density, heading hierarchy, FAQ structure, and definition placement.
Do engines have the grounding they need? Checks llms.txt presence and quality, citation signals, entity clarity, and schema.org coverage.
Can AI bots reach your content at all? Checks robots.txt rules for the current AI crawler fleet, sitemap health, and endpoint availability.
A checker that ships the fixes, not just the findings.
Most readiness checkers stop at a score. Every failed check in a Citevera report carries the artifact that fixes it.
The report opens with your three axis scores and a 5-stage AI decision funnel - detection, understanding, trust, coverage, conversion - showing where your site falls out of an engine's answer-building process. Then the Top 3 moves ranked by leverage, and a 15-item priority plan. Each item ships its fix: the llms.txt file written for your site, the JSON-LD block for the page missing it, the robots.txt rules for the AI crawlers you are blocking, and content rewrites where extraction is the problem.
Want to check individual pieces first? The free llms.txt reality check and AI crawler access checker test those two layers on their own, no scan needed. And every statistic we cite about AI search lives on the AI search statistics page with source, sample, and framing notes.
Running WordPress? The free Citevera plugin runs a local readiness audit inside wp-admin and applies the fixes directly - see the WordPress AI visibility audit page for the WP-specific flow.
Readiness checker FAQ
What is an AI search readiness checker?
A tool that inspects your website the way AI answer engines experience it and reports what blocks a citation: missing or malformed llms.txt, absent schema.org markup, robots.txt rules that shut out AI crawlers, and content structured so extraction fails. Citevera runs 35 checks across three axes - AEO, GEO, and Crawlability - and returns a 0-100 score per axis in 30-90 seconds.
Is the Citevera checker really free?
Yes. The scan at scan.citevera.com is free with no signup, and it returns real findings, not a teaser. The free account tier includes one on-demand audit; the $99 one-time audit adds full detail and PDF export with no subscription, and monthly plans start at $49.
What exactly does the check cover?
Three axes. AEO: whether your content is structured for answer extraction - direct-answer density, heading hierarchy, FAQ formatting. GEO: generative-engine fit - llms.txt presence and quality, citation signals, entity clarity. Crawlability: robots.txt AI-crawler rules, sitemap health, and whether AI bots can reach your pages at all. Every failed check names the page and ships the fix.
How is this different from an SEO audit tool?
Classic SEO audits check signals Google ranking uses. An AI search readiness check covers the answer-engine layer above it: whether AI crawlers are allowed in, whether your content survives extraction into an answer, and whether engines can ground who you are as an entity. The overlap with SEO is real but partial - a site can rank well and still be invisible to AI answers.
What do I get beyond the score?
The fix pack. Citevera generates the artifacts each finding needs: an llms.txt file written for your site, JSON-LD blocks for pages missing schema, robots.txt rules for blocked AI crawlers, and content rewrite suggestions - ordered in a 15-item priority plan with the Top 3 moves ranked by leverage.
Can I check a WordPress site?
Yes - the checker works on any public site, and WordPress sites additionally get the free Citevera plugin, which runs a local readiness audit inside wp-admin and applies fixes (llms.txt generation, schema injection, crawler rules) directly.
90 seconds from URL to fix list.
No signup, no credit card. If the check finds nothing, you learned your site is ready - that is worth 90 seconds too.