CiteScope — AI visibility audit

Google can find you. AI can’t. That’s the problem now.

When a buyer asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Claude for "the best dentist / lawyer / roofer / clinic near me," the answer names a handful of businesses — and cites its sources. CiteScope audits your site the way those engines read it, scores you on Reach / Recognize / Believe, and hands you paste-ready fixes. No $750/month agency retainer. No dashboard you have to learn. A report and a fix pack, in 72 hours.

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Free self-check — the live 11-check engine

How visible are you to AI answers?

Enter your website and the checker reads the same public files AI crawlers read — robots.txt, llms.txt, sitemap.xml and your homepage — then scores you /100 on Reach / Recognize / Believe. No email required before the verdict.

The checker measures technical and structural citation-readiness — not live AI answers, which are sampled manually in the paid audit and never promised.

11 checks
Reach / Recognize / Believe
Scored /100
72 hours or the audit is free

The problem

Your next customer asks an AI answer engine

A Stradiji audit released October 12, 2026 of 100+ sites found nearly 90% had closed at least one critical condition for AI visibility, and about three in four gave AI crawlers no explicit access in robots.txt — many block GPTBot, ClaudeBot or PerplexityBot outright.1

The Website Auditor AI Visibility Index (1,009 sites, Aug–Sep 2026, 30,340 answers) found AI assistants named the audited local business in only 3.6–4.4% of answers.2

A Seotal Research study published October 1, 2026 found agencies charge a median $750/month for AI search optimization, software trackers a median $99/month — and 37% of agencies publish no price at all, only "book a call."3

What the audit proves — on real sites

anchormedown.com: CiteScope score 70/100 — AI-PARTIALLY-VISIBLE — 8/11 checks pass. Genuine findings: no JSON-LD entity schema (0 blocks found), no FAQ schema/content, no AI crawler explicitly addressed in robots.txt. llms.txt present (5,822 chars), no crawler fully blocked, sitemap present. Control site (example.com): 6/100 — AI-INVISIBLE / HIGH RISK. Correctly found no robots.txt (404), no llms.txt, no schema, no meta description, ~27 words of text.

  1. 1 Stradiji GEO Score Card study, October 12, 2026: nearly 90% of 100+ audited sites had closed at least one critical condition for AI visibility; about three in four gave AI crawlers no explicit access in robots.txt.
  2. 2 Website Auditor AI Visibility Index, 1,009 sites, Aug–Sep 2026, 30,340 answers: AI assistants named the audited local business in only 3.6–4.4% of answers.
  3. 3 Seotal Research, October 1, 2026: agency median $750/month for AI search optimization; tracker median $99/month; 37% publish no price.

How it works

How it works

1

Send us your site

Send us your website URL and your 3 most important services + city. Five minutes.

2

We run the checker

We run the CiteScope checker (robots.txt AI-crawler access, llms.txt, sitemap, entity schema, FAQ extractability, answer-ready content) plus a manual prompt-sample review, and score you /100.

3

Your report lands in 72 hours

Your report lands within 72 hours: every check with evidence, what it costs you, and — on the Fix Pack — the actual corrected files, ready to paste or hand to your web person.

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The 11 checks, in three stages

The 11 checks, in three stages

Reach

robots.txt present8 pts
No AI crawler fully blocked in robots.txt16 pts
At least one AI crawler explicitly addressed in robots.txt6 pts
llms.txt present & substantive (>=200 chars)10 pts
sitemap.xml present6 pts

Recognize

Homepage reachable6 pts
Entity schema (JSON-LD Organization/LocalBusiness or any @type)14 pts
Single clear H1 naming the business/offer (>=8 chars)8 pts
Title + meta description present8 pts

Believe

FAQ schema or substantive FAQ content (answer-extractable)10 pts
Substantive homepage text (>=300 words for extraction)8 pts

11 checks · weights sum to exactly 100 · verdict bands: 80+ AI-VISIBLE · 50–79 AI-PARTIALLY-VISIBLE · under 50 AI-INVISIBLE / HIGH RISK

In every Audit

What you get

Reach check: are GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and CCBot blocked, ignored, or explicitly allowed in robots.txt?

llms.txt + sitemap presence and substance check

Recognize check: Organization / LocalBusiness JSON-LD schema, title + meta description, clear H1 naming the business

Believe check: FAQ schema/content an engine can extract as an answer, substantive page text, answer-ready structure

Scored report /100 with a verdict (AI-VISIBLE / PARTIALLY-VISIBLE / INVISIBLE) and evidence per check — no invented citation guarantees

Pricing

Flat prices, published up front

Pay once or monthly — no calls, no quotes, no hourly billing.

Audit

$149

one-time

  • Full 11-check CiteScope audit, scored report with evidence, prioritized fix list. Delivered in 72 hours or the audit is free.
Get my AI Visibility Audit — $149

Most popular

Audit + Fix Pack

$449

one-time

  • Everything in Audit, plus paste-ready corrected robots.txt snippet, a drafted llms.txt for your business, LocalBusiness/Organization + FAQ JSON-LD tailored to your services, and answer-ready rewrites for your homepage headline + FAQ block
  • Fix Pack delivered within 5 business days
  • Fix files pass our own checker on re-run before delivery
Choose Audit + Fix Pack — $449

Sentinel

$79

/mo

  • Monthly re-audit, crawler-block and schema regression alerts, and a drift report so a redesign or plugin update doesn't silently make you invisible again.
Choose Sentinel

Honest scope

We do NOT guarantee ChatGPT or any engine will cite or rank you — no honest provider can.

We do NOT guarantee ChatGPT or any engine will cite or rank you — no honest provider can; AI answers vary by session and model. What we guarantee is the part we control: a real, evidence-backed audit in 72 hours or it's free, and fix files that pass our own checker on re-run. If your site already scores 90+, we tell you and the Fix Pack upsell is off the table.

Size it

How visible are you to AI answers?

Try it — live demo

How visible are you to AI answers?

When a buyer asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Claude for "the best dentist / lawyer / roofer / clinic near me," the answer names a handful of businesses — and cites its sources.

Pages to audit: 80

  • Services to test in prompts3
  • Audit — plan price$149
  • Audit + Fix Pack — plan price$449
  • Sentinel — plan price$79

Interactive demo — your numbers; plan prices are published.

Choose Audit + Fix Pack — $449

“We already pay for SEO.”

Keep it. Traditional SEO optimizes for a list of blue links. This checks a different failure: whether AI crawlers are even allowed in, and whether an engine can extract an answer from your pages. Most SEO packages never check robots.txt for AI bots or llms.txt at all.

“Can't I just use a $29 tracker?”

Trackers tell you a score and leave the fixing to you. CiteScope is done-for-you: the Fix Pack is the corrected files themselves.

“$449 feels like a lot for text files.”

Agencies charge a median $750/month for this work (Seotal, Oct 1 2026). Ours is one-time, flat, and published — no call required to learn the price.

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Find out whether AI can reach, recognize and cite you.

Run the free self-check above, or send us your site and get the full 11-check audit with evidence — delivered in 72 hours or the audit is free.