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AI Readiness Score (pulse) · Last audited 2026-05-30 UTC
The AI Readiness pulse is a composite of six content-surface tools from Radar’s 13-tool methodology: AI bot crawlability, robots.txt configuration, llms.txt implementation, schema markup quality, AEO page structure, and a unified composite score.
This is the same score used in the State of AI Visibility 2026 benchmark report. The full Radar audit (13 tools, including live LLM citation tracking, hallucination detection, and prompt SOV) is available on the paid platform.
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