AI Search Visibility Checker

Run your domain. Get a 0 to 100 grade on how ready your site is to be cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Free, instant, no signup.

The short answer

An AI visibility checker tells you whether your brand is structurally ready to be cited by AI answer engines, before you guess at it. It audits the signals those engines read: an extractable answer block near the top of the page; FAQ, Organization, and Article schema; robots.txt access for crawlers like GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended; clear entity signals (sameAs, consistent brand naming); question-shaped headings; and recent freshness. Our checker scores all of that in seconds, then tells you what to fix first.

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What this AI visibility checker does

Drop in your domain. Optionally, add the prompt a customer would type ("best-in-class agency," "your product alternatives"). The checker runs a readiness audit against the structural signals AI answer engines use to decide who gets quoted, and returns a single 0 to 100 grade with a prioritized fix list.

Here's exactly what it inspects, with no mystery-box scoring:

The signals it grades

• Answer-block presence. Is there a short, self-contained paragraph near the top of your key pages that directly answers the page's main question? This is the single most-extracted unit on a page. AI engines lift it close to verbatim, the way a snippet gets pulled into a featured result. No block, no easy citation. The fix is rarely "write more," it's "answer the question in the first 60 words before you start selling."
• Schema markup. Does the page carry valid FAQPage, Organization, and Article schema? Schema is table-stakes eligibility: it tells the engine what the page is and who published it, in a format a machine can trust without guessing. It doesn't win the citation on its own, but its absence quietly works against you. (More on whether schema markup helps AI visibility if you want the receipts.)
• Crawler access in robots.txt. Are the AI crawlers allowed in? GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot (OpenAI), PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot (Anthropic), and Google-Extended each identify with a distinct user-agent. If your robots.txt blocks them, you've locked the door and wondered why nobody's home.
• Heading-question density. Do your H2s and H3s mirror the questions people ask, or are they vague marketing labels? "Our Approach" answers nothing. "How much does it cost?" answers a real prompt. Engines match buyer questions to question-shaped headings, so a page full of clever section titles is a page full of dead ends.
• Entity and sameAs signals. Is your brand a clear, consistent entity? Matching name across the site, linked social and directory profiles, sameAs references pointing to those profiles. This is how an engine decides you're a real, nameable thing worth mentioning instead of an anonymous URL. Inconsistent naming ("Acme," "Acme Co.," "Acme Solutions LLC" across three pages) makes you harder to recognize as one entity, which makes you easier to skip.
• Freshness. Is there a visible lastUpdated or recent publish signal? AI crawlers weight recency, especially for anything time-sensitive. A page that looks abandoned gets passed over for a newer source saying roughly the same thing.

What you get back

A grade, a plain-English breakdown of every signal (pass, partial, or fail), and a ranked list of fixes ordered by impact, not by what's easiest for us to upsell. The biggest lever shows up first, so you can fix the gate that's keeping you out before you sweat the cosmetic stuff.

The honest part (because that's the whole brand)

Read this before you treat the grade as gospel: the score measures readiness, not a guaranteed live citation.

There is no public API that tells you, with certainty, "ChatGPT cited you 41 times this week." The engines don't expose that data, and any tool claiming a precise live-citation count is selling you a number it can't verify. What our checker measures is the set of structural signals that make a citation possible. High readiness score plus strong third-party reputation is how you get cited. Low readiness score is how you stay invisible no matter how good your product is.

So the grade is the fast, free, automated half. The other half is a manual AI share-of-voice check: we run your real buyer prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode by hand and tell you who's getting quoted instead of you. That's the part no script can fake yet, and it's the part that closes the loop. The checker tells you if you're ready. The manual check tells you if you're there.

Why AI visibility is suddenly your problem

Search split in two. There's classic Google on one side, blue links and all, and there's the AI answer on the other: ChatGPT recommending vendors, Perplexity citing sources, Google AI Overviews answering the question before anyone scrolls to a single result.

Your customers are already using both. When someone asks an assistant "who's the best-in-class for what they need," the assistant names a handful of brands and links a handful of sources. If you're not one of them, you didn't lose the ranking. You were never in the conversation. Being on page two of Google is whispering in the dark. Not being in the AI answer at all is not even being in the room.

It's worth knowing how the engines differ, because the visibility you're chasing isn't identical across them. ChatGPT shows organic answers and, separately, labeled sponsored cards alongside or below the answer (paid, and clearly marked as ads). Perplexity is citation-only after exiting advertising in early 2026, so the only way in is to be a source it trusts enough to quote. Google AI Overviews pulls from the same organic index it always has, just rearranged into a synthesized answer. The common thread: all three reward extractable, trustworthy, well-structured pages. The checker grades for that common thread, which is why one readiness pass moves you on all three at once. If the brand-citation gap is what's eating at you, why your brand isn't cited by ChatGPT goes deeper on the usual culprits.

Most of your competitors don't know this is happening yet. That's the window. The brands that get their readiness signals right while the category is still thin are the ones the engines learn to trust first, and that trust compounds.

Who should run this

• Marketers who suspect they've gone quiet in AI search but have no way to prove it or fix it.
• Founders and B2B teams whose buyers research through ChatGPT and Perplexity before a sales call ever happens.
• Anyone whose Google traffic is softening as AI Overviews answer more queries without a click. (If that's you, start here on how AI Overviews change organic traffic.)
• Agencies and in-house teams who want a fast, defensible baseline before committing to an AEO program.

If you're not sure what half these terms mean yet, that's fine. Read what AEO is first, then come back and run your domain.

How the scoring works under the hood

The grade isn't a vibe. It's weighted against what we've found correlates with getting cited, documented in our AEO citation study. Answer-block presence and crawler access carry the heaviest weight because they're the hard gates: get them wrong and almost nothing else matters. Schema, entity signals, heading structure, and freshness layer on top as the difference between "eligible" and "chosen."

Practically, that means a clean schema setup on a page the crawlers can't reach scores low, because eligibility points don't count behind a locked door. Fix the gate first, then bank the layered points. The fix list is ordered to enforce exactly that sequence, so you're never polishing a signal that can't matter yet.

It runs as a lightweight client-side and serverless check, so nothing about your site is stored or sold. You get the result, you get the fixes, you leave. No drip campaign waiting in your inbox.

Get your grade, then get a real answer

Run the checker. It's free, it's instant, and it tells you the truth about where your brand stands in AI search. If the grade stings, good. Now you know what to fix.

Want the half a script can't measure? We'll run your real buyer prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode by hand and show you exactly who's getting quoted instead of you, then map the fixes.

Request a manual AI share-of-voice check or email us at admin@moonsauceagency.com. Thirty minutes. No pitch, no pressure.

Want the full strategy behind the score? That lives on the AEO/GEO services page.