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Most sites have never checked whether AI crawlers can even read them
GEO and AEO are treated as a vague new discipline in most content about them. This is the one thing about it that is genuinely checkable, right now, for free.
Last updated Aug 15 · 10 min read
Why this category exists as its own thing
Generative Engine Optimization and Answer Engine Optimization get discussed abstractly — 'be more citable,' 'structure content for AI' — without a concrete, checkable starting point. The AI Visibility Checker is that starting point: ten named AI crawlers checked individually, five weighted scoring categories, a real 0-100 number with the specific fix behind every finding.
What the score actually measures
Crawler access (40 of 100 points, weighted heaviest since a blocked crawler makes everything else irrelevant), structured data (20), on-page basics (20), llms.txt (10), and sitemap declaration (10). Bands run 80-100 AI-visible, 50-79 partially visible, 0-49 mostly invisible.
The most common finding: an accidental robots.txt mistake
The single most frequent issue this checker surfaces is a robots.txt precedence mistake — a bot-specific Disallow rule that the site owner assumed was overridden by a permissive wildcard, when the specific rule always wins regardless of which one looks more generous.
Fixing what the checker finds, free
For the structured-data check, the Schema Markup Generator generates the identity-level Organization, WebSite, LocalBusiness or Person block the check looks for on a homepage. For robots.txt and llms.txt, the AI search visibility checklist walks through every fix in the order it matters.
Where a single check stops being enough
A one-time check tells you what is broken right now. It does not track citation share over time, monitor competitors, or architect a content strategy aimed at AI citation across a full site. That's where Scult's AI agents team picks up.
Run the check
It takes a few seconds, free, no signup. Book a meeting if the result raises questions worth a real conversation.
Need this built into your business?
The free tools and prompts on this site handle the small, solved problems. If what you need is bigger — AI agents & automation, built and maintained for you — that's Scult's day job.
