What the grade measures — and what it can't
This checker grades the technical floor of AI visibility: access and comprehension. Access is whether the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini can reach your pages at all — one Disallow line written in 2023 can still be silently erasing you from AI answers today. Comprehension is whether an engine that gets in can work out who you are and what you sell: structured data, a real H1, a description worth quoting, a sitemap that surfaces your money pages.
What no scanner can measure is evidence — the citations, comparisons and third-party mentions that make an engine confident enough to recommend you by name. That part is earned, not configured. Start with our guide to getting cited by ChatGPT, or run the full DIY AI visibility audit if you want the complete picture. And if you'd rather someone just do it, that's the job: AI SEO is our core engagement.
One honest caveat: a scan is a snapshot. AI answers reshuffle weekly as models update and competitors publish. For continuous tracking of who ChatGPT and Perplexity actually recommend in your category — and whether it's you — we built MentionFlow.