Readiness: see if AI can reach, read and quote your pages
Before ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Claude cites you, three things have to happen in order: they find your page, read it, and pick it as a source. Readiness checks all three, page by page, before you change a word.
Ranking in Google and being cited by AI are different outcomes.
A page can rank well and still be invisible to an AI answer because it is never retrieved, never read, or read and skipped as unconvincing. Each gate limits what happens next: Readiness diagnoses the problem, Optimization provides the fix, and Visibility shows whether the fix worked.
The gate: AI has to reach you first.
A page AI bots cannot reach cannot be cited, however well it reads. Access checks that before anything else.
- Check llms.txt, robots.txt and sitemap.xml in Site Files.
- Test live reachability for each AI bot with its real user agent.
- See whether search surfaces your pages for the prompts you track in Search Presence.
The llms.txt wizard detects your site identity from the homepage, reads titles and descriptions, and writes an llms.txt file with CMS-specific deployment steps. The reachability test runs live requests with each AI bot's real user agent, separates citation bots from training crawlers, and names the cause and fix behind every block. Citation bots decide AI search visibility; training crawlers do not affect AI search results.
Every page, scored for how ready it is to be quoted.
AI Readiness Score rates every tracked page from 0 to 100 and puts the pages holding you back first.
- Sort pages into five states: Critical, Poor, Fair, Good and Excellent.
- Check every page against five rule sets: Content Structure, Structured Data, Credibility, Citability and AI Preview.
- Open any rule set or page to see exactly where it loses points.
An Excellent page passes all five rule sets. A Critical page is hard for large language models to extract or quote, and it is the first one to send to Optimization.
Simulate your page before you publish it.
Put a live page, a rewritten version or an unpublished draft in front of a real AI engine and see whether it gets picked, before anyone else sees the page.
- Simulate an unpublished draft or a rewrite before it goes live.
- See which pages the engine found, read and cited, and where you rank among them.
- Keep every run to compare results before and after a fix.
The engine builds a shelf of real search results with their real body text and writes its answer from that shelf. Getting onto the shelf is only the start; the real test is whether your page is read and quoted. Each run repeats three times, so consistency becomes something you can measure.
Access opens the gate. AI Readiness Score prepares the page. Simulate proves it.
Access runs before anything is scored. All three checks feed into Optimization for fixes, while Visibility tracks the results over time.