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What this AI readiness checker tells you
The AI-readiness report will allow you to:
- Understand how AI assistants currently access and make sense of your website
- Find technical vulnerabilities limiting AI agent accessibility on your site
- Prioritize technical and content action items that directly impact your AI visibility
- Benchmark AI readiness (your site or competitor’s) and track improvements over time
What is the AI readiness checker?
The free AI-readiness checker analyzes how likely your website is to be found, retrieved, understood, and cited by prominent agentic AI systems like ChatGPT and Google AI Mode. It evaluates your website’s technical setup, structure, brand presence, and authority signals to generate a readiness score.
The score indicates how frequently you’re appearing in AI responses and whether your website is easily accessible to AI agents.
Our tool first gives you broad, site-level indicators like AI Crawler Access, Authority Score, and Natural Presence Rate, which reveal the big picture of your AI visibility and positioning.
It then breaks down these scores with an evaluation of individual technical checks and prompt analysis for a deeper understanding of your AI answer presence.
What do the different AI scores mean?
- AI Agent Readiness: The readiness score reflects how accessible your website is to agents and how likely they are to link to your pages in AI answers.
- Agent Access Score: Measures how well LLM agents can reach your website, render it, crawl your pages, and retrieve your content for selection in AI answers.
- AI Citation Score: Tracks how frequently AI links to your pages in answers across branded and non-branded queries.
- Authority Score: Reflects your domain authority based on backlinks, organic traffic, and trustworthiness as a website.
- AI Crawler Access: Reveals if your site allows access to prominent AI agents so they can find your website, reach it, and interact with it freely.
- Natural Presence Rate: The percentage of non-branded queries where your brand shows up as a recommendation or a link in AI chats.
- AI Visibility Score: A broad metric that evaluates your share of voice across major AI platforms.
- Citations Count: Highlights the total citations triggered in AI responses during real conversations.
What technical checks does the AI readiness analyzer perform?
Our checker focuses on 12 distinct technical aspects of your website.
Here are a few key checks:
- Robots.txt presence: Confirms that your robots.txt is reachable so AI crawlers can read your access rules and learn what parts of your website they can fetch.
- AI bot rules: Checks your robot.txt file to verify if key AI crawlers are explicitly allowed access to your site.
- Sitemap reference: The robots.txt should reference your sitemap path, so AI crawlers can discover important pages relevant to the current task.
- Critical content in raw HTML: Scans the ratio of your critical content available as raw content for crawlers to access readily, without any JS impeding AI readability.
- JSON‑LD schema: Detects the presence of core JSON-LD structured data entities like Organization and WebPage.
- Freshness signal in schema: Looks for modified and publishing dates for the content to help AI understand content freshness.
What do the ChatGPT prompt checks reveal?
Our AI readiness checker automatically generates a set of prompts in ChatGPT and sees if your brand is recommended or cited in the answers.
The tool uses brand, discovery, and comparison queries to check for citation signals across a diverse range of prompts:
- Brand queries: Direct questions that reference your brand or website in the prompt, like “What is Exploding Topics?”
- Discovery queries: Generic queries that don’t reference any brand but which are relevant to your niche and likely to recommend either your competitors or your brand, such as “Top trend discovery tools”.
- Comparison queries: Questions about comparative features and pricing of brands and products in a niche, and which tool is recommended for a specific use case.
Review the resulting table to find if your brand or website is a primary citation, an alternative, or completely absent in AI answers.
Who is the free AI readiness checker for?
This tool is built for:
- SEO professionals: Websites that acquire customers through search channels and need to extend their SEO to AI-first search surfaces for broader visibility.
- Content marketers and strategists: Experts who need solid data about brand performance in AI discovery channels to optimize for increased recommendations and citations in response to relevant prompts.
- Founders and growth teams: As AI becomes an important discovery channel, growth-focused teams must maintain AI-readiness to stay ahead of competition and dominate share of voice.
Exploding Topics Pro is trusted by 1,200+ teams worldwide.
How We Find Trends
We track topics across the internet to identify under-the-radar trends before they go mainstream.
Analyze
Our trend identification process begins with a comprehensive data collection from a variety of online sources.
- Social media platforms
- Search engines
- Online forums and communities
- News articles and blogs
- E-commerce websites
- Podcasts
Identify
Our proprietary machine learning models are designed to detect the absolute earliest signs of an emerging trend.
- Analyze historical data to identify growth patterns
- Predict future trends based on current data trajectories
- Detect sudden spikes in interest or activity around specific topics
Curate
While our algorithms are powerful, human expertise is crucial for contextual understanding, ensuring quality topics.
- Review the top-scoring trends identified by our models
- Validate the authenticity and relevance of these trends
- Filter out fads (movies, TV shows, celebrity gossip, etc.)
- Provide qualitative insights to complement quantitative data
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Everything you need to know about using our features and getting the most out of them.
How does the AI Agent Readiness Score work?
Your score (0–100) reflects both how easily AI crawlers can reach and crawl your site and how frequently AI systems naturally cite your domain or brand in responses to common, industry-relevant prompt queries.
The tool uses these factors to assess the readiness of your website and highlights where you’re falling short.
What’s the difference between Agent Access and AI Citation Score?
Agent Access checks whether AI crawlers can technically reach, render, and index your pages, including robots.txt rules, sitemaps, and HTML content. AI Citation Score shows how often AI systems respond with direct recommendations and links to your domain in brand, discovery, and comparison queries.
What do the ChatGPT Prompt checks show?
The checker generates 15 ChatGPT prompts across three main query categories: brand, discovery, and comparison. It analyzes the answers to these prompts to see how your brand is cited and positioned along with competitors in your space.
Each prompt has a separate score, which reflects whether your brand owns the primary citation, a competitor mention as an alternative, or is completely absent in the answer.
Why does my site show up for brand queries but not discovery queries?
Brand queries explicitly reference your brand, so the AI response naturally mentions or links to your website during the chat. Discovery queries ask questions about a product or brand in a certain category without naming anyone.
You’ll only show up in responses to these queries if AI recognizes you as a strong contender worth recommending. It takes a combination of good off-page trust and presence, along with high-quality content, to start appearing in the recommendations of AI systems.
Can I use this tool to benchmark competitors?
Yes, this tool works equally well for competitor AI visibility and readiness analysis as it does for your website. You can compare citation strength, AI access scores, and visibility across AI prompts for your competitors one by one.