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AI visibility audits

Be the answer,
not link #9.

Search is moving from a list of links to a single AI answer. Check whether a site is ready for ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews to find, understand and cite it.

First audit is free. No credit card.

How the audit works

/robots.txt

User-agent: *

Allow: /

User-agent: GPTBot

Disallow: /

Allow: /

This one line locks OpenAI's crawler out of the whole site.

Also checked: ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, content in static HTML, /llms.txt

One line in robots.txt is the most common reason a site that ranks on Google never shows up in an AI answer.

Ten blue links became one answer.

If the answer does not mention your client, for many searches they are simply not in the room.

The new front page
A buyer asks an AI engine a question and one answer comes back. If a client is not in it, for many searches they are invisible.
Ranking is not citing
A site can rank on page one and never be quoted. Crawler access, quotable passages and structured meaning are a separate layer.
Fixes, not a score
You hand the client FAQ schema, entity markup, quotable answer snippets and an llms.txt, ready to paste.

Can the AI crawlers even read it?

The fastest way to vanish from AI answers is to block the crawlers that feed them, often by accident, in one line of robots.txt.

AI crawler access
robots.txt rules for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended.
Content in static HTML
Whether the text exists before JavaScript runs, where crawlers can read it.
Answer-first structure
Headings that ask, passages that answer, definitions an engine can lift.
Entity signals
Organization and FAQ JSON-LD that say who the business is and what it does.
llms.txt
Whether the site offers one, with a starter file written for it.

Same machine. A third service line.

If you already run SEO or accessibility audits with Reportiv, AI visibility is one more audit type on the same white-label engine.

  1. We read the page like a crawler

    We fetch the real HTML, check what an AI crawler actually sees, and whether robots.txt lets GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot in at all.

  2. AI judges citability

    Answer-first headings, self-contained passages an engine can quote, clear definitions, entity signals and structured data, ranked by impact.

  3. Ready-to-paste fixes

    FAQ and Organization JSON-LD, quotable answer snippets written answer-first, and an llms.txt starter. Review, edit, choose what lands in the PDF.

  4. White-label PDF out

    Your logo, your colors, your contact details. A report that explains why the answer engines skip a client and what to change.

Honest about what we measure.

We assess readiness, not outcomes. No tool can promise a site will be cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity or AI Overviews, and we never claim to. The engines move and their rules are not public.

What we can do is check what demonstrably blocks or helps citation and write the fixes. The report says exactly that, so you can resell it without overpromising.

Questions agencies ask

What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), also called Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), is the practice of structuring a website so AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews can find, understand and cite it. It builds on SEO but optimizes for being quoted in a generated answer, not just ranked in a list of links.

How is AEO different from SEO?

SEO optimizes for ranking in search result links. AEO optimizes for being the source an AI answer quotes. It rewards answer-first writing, self-contained factual passages, clear definitions, structured data and letting AI crawlers access the page. A site can rank well and still be invisible to AI answers.

Can you guarantee my client will appear in ChatGPT or AI Overviews?

No. No tool can promise a site will be cited by an AI engine, and we never claim to. Our audit assesses on-page readiness: whether the content is structured, accessible to AI crawlers and quotable. We help you improve the odds and fix what is actively blocking citation, not guarantee an outcome.

Why would AI engines ignore a site that ranks well on Google?

Common reasons: robots.txt blocks AI crawlers like GPTBot or ClaudeBot, the content only loads with JavaScript that crawlers do not run, there are no self-contained answer passages to quote, or there is no structured data identifying the entity. The audit checks each of these and writes the fixes.

See an AI-visibility audit on your own site.

The first audit is free, no credit card. A client-ready PDF in about five minutes, with SEO, accessibility and AI visibility under one login.

First audit is free. No credit card.