Four checks every site should pass before an assistant reads it.

Before an assistant can recommend you it has to read you, understand you, and find something worth quoting. The tools follow that order. The AI bots checker answers the first question: can GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot open your pages at all, or does a robots.txt rule or a firewall challenge turn them away? A surprising share of small-business sites block them by accident.

The llms.txt and schema checkers cover understanding. llms.txt is the one-page brief that tells an assistant what you are and which pages to cite; structured data states your name, type, address, offers and FAQs in a form that cannot be misread. Both are cheap to publish and both tools draft a version for you when yours is missing.

The citability score covers the last step. It reads a single page the way an assistant does and scores the thirteen signals that decide whether a passage gets lifted into an answer: an answer-first opening, question-shaped headings, specific numbers, a visible date, lists and tables. Run it on the page that should answer your most common customer question.

Each tool checks one site at a time, forty checks a day per person, and never stores what it fetches beyond the result you see. For the full picture, including what the assistants actually say about you and who they name instead, run the free scan.