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Citablio
AI search readiness

Can ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI find your site?

Citablio checks whether AI search engines can crawl, index and cite your pages — and gives you a prioritized fix list. Deterministic checks are evidence, not a guarantee.

No sign-up required. We never promise AI citations or rankings.

Checks readiness for the AI answer engines people use

  • ChatGPT
  • Claude
  • Perplexity
  • Google AI Overviews
  • Gemini
  • Copilot (Bing)
19
AI crawlers checked
9
audit modules
~10s
free check
A–F
readiness score
Inside Citablio

What an AI readiness audit actually looks like

Deterministic checks you can verify yourself — not a black-box score.

Scan result

Nine weighted modules, one honest score

We fetch it the way an AI crawler would, then report per module what we found.

  • Weights sum to 100Each check is honest about what it can and cannot tell you. Weights sum to 100.
  • A–F score or exposure bandVerified sites get a graded A–F score; an unverified single-page check shows an exposure band (Strong / Moderate / Weak).
Citablio scan page with the readiness grade and the audit modules with their weight and number of findings
Illustration · sample data
A common mix-up

Blocking AI training bots does not hide you from AI search

robots.txt has two very different kinds of AI crawler — Citablio checks both and never confuses one for the other.

  • OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Claude-SearchBot, Googlebot, Bingbot…These fetch pages to answer live queries and power AI Overviews / citations. Disallowing one of these removes your pages from the index it feeds — and from the AI answers built on that index.
  • GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, Google-Extended…These only collect data to train future models — they are not part of any live search or citation path. Blocking them is a legitimate content-licensing choice and does not reduce your visibility in AI answers.
Citablio findings: a blocked search bot rated high, a blocked training bot rated info, with the robots.txt snippet
Illustration · sample data
Continuous monitoring

Notice the day a release makes you invisible to AI search

Re-scan on a schedule and see exactly what changed since the previous scan.

  • Alerts on every changeA new, worsened or resolved finding reaches you by e-mail, with the score before and after.
  • Verified sites onlyMonitoring and the graded score unlock once you verify domain ownership.
Citablio change view with a new, a worsened and a resolved finding since the previous scan
Illustration · sample data
How it works

Three steps to an evidence-based readiness report

Deterministic checks you can verify yourself — not a black-box score.

  1. Submit a URL

    Give us a public page or a verified site. We fetch it the way an AI crawler would.

  2. We check AI-crawler access

    robots.txt rules per bot, indexability, and whether your content renders without JavaScript.

  3. Get a prioritized fix list

    An A–F score and concrete, ranked findings — never a promise of citations or rankings.

The report

A remediation roadmap you can hand to your developer

One-time report or monitored audit: the same deterministic findings, ranked by how much they matter for AI search.

  • Prioritized fix listAn A–F score and concrete, ranked findings — never a promise of citations or rankings.
  • Evidence, not a guaranteeThe report body comes from a deterministic composer — it never invents findings.
First page of the Citablio PDF report with the readiness grade, finding counts and the evidence-not-a-guarantee note
Illustration · sample data
What we check

9 modules, weighted by how much they actually matter for AI search

Each check is honest about what it can and cannot tell you. Weights sum to 100.

AI crawler access

weight 25

Does robots.txt block OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Claude-SearchBot, Googlebot or Bingbot? Blocking the wrong bot makes you invisible.

Render parity

weight 20

Compares raw HTML against what a browser renders — most AI crawlers do not execute JavaScript.

Indexability

weight 15

noindex/nosnippet tags, canonical tags, redirect chains and sitemap validity.

Edge/CDN bot blocking

weight 10

Fetches your homepage with each search bot's own user agent to catch WAF/CDN rules robots.txt cannot show.

Content structure

weight 10

Heading structure, landmark elements, text-to-HTML ratio and response speed.

Citability signals

weight 8

Author bylines, publish dates and clear entity definitions — heuristics that may help, never a guarantee.

Structured data

weight 7

Valid JSON-LD for Organization, Article and Product — keeps your entity information unambiguous.

Bing IndexNow

weight 3

Checks for IndexNow key-file setup so new/changed pages can be pushed instead of waiting to be crawled.

llms.txt

weight 2

Checks for a well-formed llms.txt if present — there is no evidence major AI engines read it yet.

Pricing

Start free, upgrade when you need monitoring

Free checks, verified monitoring, and a one-time full report — see the details on the pricing page.

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