Can AI find and recommend your business?
Enter your URL and we'll analyse your live site the way ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Gemini see it — crawler access, structured data, answer-first content and trust signals.
Real analysis of your actual page · ~15 seconds · No login to start
AI Access
Can AI crawlers read you
Structure
Machine-readable schema
Answerability
Answer-first content
Entity & Trust
Who you are, why trust you
Freshness
Current & discoverable
About this tool
this tool
More and more Australians now start a buying decision by asking an AI assistant rather than scrolling a page of search results. Tools like ChatGPT, Google's AI Overviews, Perplexity and Gemini read the open web, then summarise and recommend a handful of businesses in a sentence or two. The problem for most small and medium businesses is that these engines can only cite what they can actually reach, read and understand — and a site built for human eyes (or for traditional Google ranking) often gives an AI almost nothing to work with. The AI Search Readiness Grader tells you, in plain terms, whether an answer engine can find your business, understand what you do, and feel confident enough to recommend you.
How it works
You enter a live URL and the tool fetches that actual page and analyses it the way an AI crawler would, then scores it across five dimensions. AI Access checks whether the major AI crawlers are permitted to read your site (for example, whether they're blocked in your robots.txt) — because an engine that can't crawl you can't cite you. Structure looks at machine-readable structured data (schema) that tells engines what kind of business and content they're looking at. Answerability assesses whether your content is written answer-first, with clear question-style headings an engine can lift a direct answer from. Entity and Trust examines the signals that establish who you are and why you're credible. Freshness gauges whether your content reads as current and discoverable. Each dimension gets a score and an overall grade, and the full report lists which specific AI engines can reach you plus a prioritised, plain-English action plan — highest-impact fixes first — so you can make a change and re-test to watch the score move.
Who it’s for
Australian SME owners and operators who want to understand and improve how AI search engines find, read and recommend their business.
- AI assistants can only recommend businesses they can crawl, read and understand — the grader checks all three by analysing your actual live page, not a generic checklist.
- It scores five dimensions — AI crawler access, structured data, answer-first content, entity and trust signals, and freshness — and shows exactly which AI engines can currently reach your site.
- The output is a prioritised action plan with the fixes that move the needle most listed first, and you can re-run the same URL after each change to confirm progress.
Frequently asked questions
How is this different from normal SEO?
Traditional SEO optimises for where you rank in a list of blue links a person then clicks through. AI search readiness (often called answer engine optimisation, or AEO) is about whether an AI assistant can crawl your site, extract a clear answer, and confidently name your business in the summary it gives the user — frequently without any click at all. The grader focuses on those AI-specific signals: crawler permissions, structured data, answer-first content and trust signals. Good SEO helps, but it doesn't guarantee an AI can read and cite you, which is what this tool checks.
Do I need to enter anything other than my website address?
No. You enter a live URL and the tool fetches and analyses that page directly, so the grade reflects your real site rather than a self-assessment. You'll be asked for a few contact details to unlock the full report — the crawler-by-crawler breakdown and the prioritised action plan — but the analysis itself runs on the page you provide.
If a crawler is blocked, is that really a problem?
It can be a significant one. If a major AI engine is disallowed in your robots.txt, it can't read your content, and if it can't read you it can't cite or recommend you — so you're effectively invisible to buyers who start their research in that assistant. The report names exactly which key engines can and can't reach you, so you can see whether crawler access is the first thing to fix. As with any general information tool, treat the results as a starting point rather than personal or technical advice, and check changes with whoever manages your site.