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Can AI assistants actually read your business?

When someone asks ChatGPT or Perplexity for a local recommendation, those systems don't read your site the way a person does. They look for structured facts they can verify. This checks what yours are giving them.

Reads only public pages — your homepage, robots.txt, llms.txt and sitemap. Nothing is stored, no signup.

What this checks, and what it can't

Structured data

Whether your business, address, hours and service area are declared in a form machines can parse — and whether those declarations are valid.

Answer content

Whether the questions you already answer on your site are marked up as questions, which is what assistants quote from.

Crawler access

Whether GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended are allowed to read you at all. Some sites block them without knowing.

What it can't tell you

Whether an assistant names you today. That needs live prompting across each one, by hand. It's the first thing we do on a paid audit.

We found this on our own site first

Ask an AI for the best web design agency in Port Huron and we didn't come up. Ask by name and we were first. We fixed ours before selling the fix.

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