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Free AI visibility checker: does AI name your business?
Type in your website and business name. In about ten seconds I'll show you whether ChatGPT and other AI tools can get into your site and read it.
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- Type your website and business name.
- See whether AI tools can get into your site and read it, in about ten seconds.
- Get the first things to fix, then try the questions buyers ask AI.
Your result
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I'll ask ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity the 10 questions your customers ask, save every answer, and send you a ranked list of what to fix, within 48 hours. It's free.
The button opens a short request form: your name, email, website and where you sell. I run the questions myself and email you the results. No call, no cost.
Can AI reach and read your site?
Sample result · fictional businessAsk the AI yourself
Add your city and main service to get the questions your buyers ask.
Open each question in ChatGPT, Google or Perplexity (the buttons fill it in for you), then mark what came back: did it name you, were your details right, and who did it name instead. Answers change from day to day and person to person, so this is a snapshot. Google shows its AI answer at the top of the results when it has one. Gemini opens a blank chat, so copy the question first. Want a dated record to keep? Download the printable log.
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How this compares with other free AI visibility tools
Each row is from the tool's own page, checked October 29, 2026. All four are free with no signup. They answer different questions, and the automated ones are faster at counting mentions.
| This check | Ahrefs | Semrush | Hostinger | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| You enter | Website and name, then city and service for the questions | Brand name | Domain | URL |
| Limit | A few runs a minute | None; top 5 per section | 3 a day | Not stated |
| Asks the AI engines | You run 10 prompts in ChatGPT, Google and Perplexity | Automatic: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, AI Overviews, AI Mode | Automatic: ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Mode, AI Overviews | No |
| Competitors named instead of you | Yes, per prompt | Paid upgrade | Yes | No |
| Grades the answers for accuracy | Yes, you mark each one | Not in the report | Not in the report | No |
| Fetches your page as AI bots | 4 bots, compared with a browser | Not in the report | Not in the report | Yes, one AI agent |
| robots.txt per bot | 14 tokens, split by job | Not in the report | Not in the report | Main AI crawlers |
| llms.txt, schema, raw HTML | Yes | Not in the report | Not in the report | Yes |
| Written fixes | Three, in order | Not in the report | Not in the report | Yes, per issue |
| A person runs it for you | Yes, the free AI Answer Snapshot | No | No | No |
Last verified: October 2026
How this AI visibility tool scores your site
An AI assistant can only recommend you if three things are true. Its crawler can reach your site, it can read what's there, and enough other sources agree about you that it's willing to say your name. The first two you can test from the outside in ten seconds. The third only shows up in the answers, and it matters most. In six AI search audits (3,623 graded answers), crawler access was almost never the problem. Who got named came down to what other sites said. The score is weighted to match.
The weights
- Does AI name you: 50 points. Scored on the six prompts that don't use your name, because those are the ones that bring in new customers.
- Does AI get you right: 20 points. The share of answers that named you with nothing wrong in them.
- Can AI reach your site: 20 points. robots.txt plus the fetch-as-bot comparison. Blocking a search bot costs far more than blocking a training bot.
- Can AI read it: 10 points. Raw-HTML content, then business schema. llms.txt is 5% of this area, half a point overall.
There's no number until you've scored 5 prompts. Before that, you get a site readiness panel: Yes, Partly or No for reach and read. A healthy site that no answer names isn't healthy, and a big green number would say otherwise. If AI named you in under 30% of the questions that didn't use your name, the score stops at 40. These weights are my judgment, set before I saw any results, and published so you can disagree.
Can AI crawlers reach the site?
I fetch your robots.txt and evaluate it for 14 user agents the way the robots.txt standard, RFC 9309, says a crawler must. A bot follows the group that names its token, or the * group if none does. The longest matching path wins, and on a tie, Allow beats Disallow. When the file fails with a server error or a timeout, the standard says to assume the whole site is off limits, and Google handles a 429 the same way at first, so that's the most urgent fix. The robots.txt checker for AI bots shows every token, with its source, and tests any path you like. The AI crawler directory lists each bot's user agent and robots.txt token, and my guide covers how to check if AI crawlers can reach your site by hand.
The bots split by job, and the split matters more than any single rule. Search bots decide whether an assistant can find and link you. OpenAI says blocking OAI-SearchBot keeps you out of ChatGPT search answers, and Anthropic and Perplexity say blocking theirs can cost you visibility. User bots fetch a page when someone asks about it, and OpenAI and Perplexity both say those fetches may not follow robots.txt. Training bots collect pages for future models, and blocking them is a fair business decision. I left Bytespider out because I couldn't find a ByteDance page documenting it.
Does your firewall agree with your robots.txt?
Plenty of sites allow every bot in robots.txt and then block them at the CDN without anyone noticing. So I load your page as a normal browser, then fetch the same final address as GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot, and compare the status code and the size of what came back. The ClaudeBot request uses a test string built around the ClaudeBot token, since Anthropic doesn't publish the full one.
Hosts make blocking easy to do by accident. Cloudflare documents AI bot controls by purpose, and its July 1, 2026 changelog says new domains from September 15, 2026 get training and agent bots blocked on pages that show ads. The same post says crawlers that do both search and training are caught by the training block, so check each one you care about. My request comes from a Cloudflare server, not the bot owner's network, so a firewall that admits bots only from their published IP ranges can read as blocked when the real crawler would pass. Your firewall log settles it.
Can AI read the page once it gets there?
I count the words in the raw HTML, before any JavaScript runs. A study by Vercel and MERJ (December 2024) found none of the major AI crawlers it measured, GPTBot and ClaudeBot included, run JavaScript. Then I read your JSON-LD for a LocalBusiness or Organization block and check six fields: name, address, telephone, url, sameAs and aggregateRating. Google's guide to generative AI in Search says structured data isn't required for its AI features. I still check it because it keeps your own facts consistent, and that is what other sources copy. Last and least, I look for /llms.txt; the llms.txt checker goes deeper, and my guide explains what llms.txt is and whether your site needs one.
AI visibility audit: what the free check covers and what paid work adds
The free check builds ten prompts from your name, city and service. Six don't use your name: the best provider in your city, near me, who to trust, who can come this week, what it costs, and the alternatives. Four do: reviews, pros and cons, your address and hours, and a head-to-head comparison. You run each once and mark three things: did it name you, was it accurate, and who did it name instead. I don't call any AI API, because the answer your customers see depends on location and history.
The full check in paid work runs 30 questions across 5 AI tools, 3 runs each, keeps every answer on the record, and traces each wrong fact to its source. It's the first thing I run in the Answer Plan, for when you want it fixed, not only measured. If you'd like the ten run for you first, the free AI Answer Snapshot does that. For the whole method in one place, read how to show up in ChatGPT and AI Overviews as a local business.
The benchmark
The benchmark line comes from my AI answers field report: 9 businesses and 4,285 graded answers, pooled. It's a reference point from a small set, not an industry average.
What this check can't tell you
- Ten prompts, one run each, is a snapshot. AI answers vary run to run.
- It checks one page, the one you enter. Other pages can carry different rules.
- A bot fetch from my server is not the bot itself. The firewall result is a strong hint, not proof.
- It doesn't trace where a wrong fact came from. That's the slow part of the paid work.