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Free AI Visibility Tools
Test and optimize how AI search engines see your website. Built from real implementation experience, not theory.
Every tool reflects what we learned optimizing for AI search and building knowledge graphs that LLMs actually cite.
Or run all 12 at once with Radar — unified score, cross-tool conflicts, action plan
AEO Page Auditor
Score any page for answer engine readiness. Checks speakable schema, answer-first structure, structured data quality, data extractability, content freshness, and entity authority.
- 6 weighted AEO scoring categories (100 pts total)
- Speakable schema and answer-first content analysis
- Structured data quality and entity authority checks
- AI-generated page-level recommendations
Answer Engine Citation Tester
Test if ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini cite your specific page for a question. Identifies content gaps and competitor pages being cited instead.
- 4 AI providers queried simultaneously
- Content alignment scoring between page and AI responses
- Competitor citation identification via Perplexity
- Page-level citation gap analysis
AI Crawl Checker
Test how GPTBot, Claude, Perplexity, and 11 other bots see your website. Analyzes robots.txt, structured data, llms.txt, and content accessibility.
- 14 bot user-agents tested with real HEAD requests
- robots.txt parsing with per-bot allow/block rules
- Structured data extraction (JSON-LD)
- llms.txt detection and scoring
AI Citation Tracker
Check whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini cite your brand. Tests brand recognition, competitive visibility, URL citations, and sentiment.
- 4 AI providers tested simultaneously
- 6 query types: brand, competitive, and reputation
- URL citation detection via Perplexity
- Sentiment and prominence analysis
Reddit Brand Monitor
Find what people say about your brand on Reddit via Google search. Detects LLM-seeded (AI-generated promotional) content with heuristic + GPT analysis.
- Google-powered Reddit post discovery
- Two-layer LLM seeding detection (heuristic + GPT)
- Sentiment and promotional language analysis
- Cross-subreddit posting pattern detection
YouTube Brand Monitor
Track brand mentions across YouTube videos. AI search engines weight YouTube heavily for brand queries, video transcripts and metadata are major training signals.
- Live YouTube Data API queries on every audit
- Five-dimension score: volume, diversity, sentiment, reach, recency
- Channel breakdown with per-channel sentiment
- AI-generated 3-step action plan
llms.txt Validator
Validate your llms.txt file against the emerging specification. Deep analysis of structure, content sections, links, entity definitions, and use policy.
- Section-by-section structure analysis
- Entity definition and link extraction
- llms-full.txt detection and bonus scoring
- AI-powered recommendations for improvement
AI Readiness Score
One unified score for how AI-ready your site is. Combines crawl access, llms.txt quality, structured data, and citation signals into a single actionable report.
- 5 weighted categories across 100 points
- Combines crawl checker + llms.txt validator data
- Pentagonal radar chart visualization
- AI-powered action roadmap
robots.txt Analyzer for AI
Audit your robots.txt specifically for AI bot directives. See exactly what GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and others are allowed or blocked from accessing.
- 16 bots analyzed across search, AI browse, AI train, and SEO
- Full directive parsing with syntax validation
- Per-bot rule matching with status visualization
- Suggested robots.txt additions for missing AI bots
AI Open Graph Auditor
Check how your page renders in AI assistants, Slack, Discord, X, and iMessage share previews. Audits Open Graph tags, Twitter Cards, image reachability, and JSON-LD coverage.
- 5 weighted categories across 100 points
- Share image reachability check (HTTPS + 5MB ceiling)
- og:url vs rel=canonical alignment
- JSON-LD coverage for Article, Product, Organization, FAQPage
Site Freshness Auditor
Score your site for AI agent monitoring readiness. Five freshness signals: sitemap lastmod distribution, RSS/Atom feed, blog cadence, Article schema dateModified, visible date stamps.
- 5 weighted categories across 100 points
- Sitemap lastmod distribution analysis (30/90/180 day windows)
- RSS/Atom feed discovery + latest-entry recency check
- Blog cadence count from sitemap (last 30/60/90 days)
Domain Comparison (Head-to-Head)
Audit your brand against a competitor across 6 AI visibility tools in a single run. Get a side-by-side scorecard with a shareable link, winner callout, and embeddable badge.
- 6 tools run in parallel per domain (12 fetches total)
- Winner callout + per-tool breakdown
- 90-day shareable scorecard URL
- Embeddable SVG badge for the winner
Radar AI Readiness Badge
Free embeddable SVG badge that shows a domain’s AI Readiness score. shields.io-style pill, auto-updates when the audit is re-run. Paste in GitHub README, docs, or email signature.
- shields.io-style pill, auto-updates on re-audit
- Drop into GitHub README, docs site, blog, email
- Every embed is a backlink + brand impression
- Markdown, HTML, and direct URL snippets
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Our full audit covers knowledge graph mapping, entity resolution, citation tracking, and a custom optimization roadmap for your brand.
