Hello from Citablio: we are starting

Citablio is live, and this is the first post on its blog. A short one, to say what the product is for and what you can expect to read here.

Why we built it

A growing share of first questions is asked to an assistant instead of typed into a search box. Whether your site can be part of those answers depends on something surprisingly mundane: can the assistant's crawler get in, get past your CDN, and find real text without running JavaScript? Can it quote you, or does a nosnippet tag forbid it? Is the search crawler blocked by a robots.txt rule that was only meant for training bots?

Those are yes-or-no questions with checkable answers. Citablio asks them for you — 19 AI crawlers, nine audit modules, one free check that takes about ten seconds — and turns the answers into a prioritised fix list. Verified sites get an A–F readiness score, continuous monitoring with change alerts, and PDF reports that carry a SHA-256 fingerprint anyone can verify.

What we will not claim

Citablio does not promise that you will be cited, ranked or recommended by any AI engine. Nobody outside those companies can honestly promise that, and we would rather be useful than impressive. A clean report means the doors are open; it does not mean anyone will walk through them. You will find that sentence, or one like it, on nearly every page of the product. It is not fine print. It is the product.

The same restraint applies to fashionable advice. We report llms.txt because people ask about it, but we give it almost no weight, because there is no public evidence that the major engines read it. We check structured data because it keeps your entity information unambiguous, not because we can show it earns citations.

What this blog is for

Two kinds of posts will appear here.

• A weekly roundup of AI-search news that matters for site owners: crawler policy changes, new user-agent tokens, documentation updates from the engines themselves, studies worth reading. It is written from published headlines, links its sources, and is marked as a roundup.
• Occasional notes from us — what we learned scanning real sites, engine changes, and honest write-ups of what a check can and cannot tell you.

No growth hacks, no "rank #1 in ChatGPT" headlines, no invented statistics. If a number appears here, it was measured.

Start with the free check

Enter a URL on the homepage. No account is needed. You will get the crawler-access, render and indexability findings for that page, with an exposure band rather than a grade — because we have not yet verified that the site is yours. When you do verify it, the full audit and monitoring open up.

Thanks for reading. We are starting.