What is AI visibility, and why does it decide who gets the call?#
AI visibility is how often AI assistants name your business, and link to your pages, when a buyer asks a question you can answer. A buyer who types "best roofer near me that does insurance claims" into ChatGPT gets a short list, not ten blue links. If you are not on that list, you never get the click, the call or the quote request.
Generative engine optimization (GEO), also called answer engine optimization (AEO), is the work of earning a place on that list. It rests on two things Agent Studio measures separately: readiness (can the engines read, trust and quote your site?) and presence (do they actually name and cite you today?).
- 100points in the AI readiness score, each tied to a check you can see
- 27site checks across crawl access, discovery, identity and content
- 5AI engines tracking can ask: ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Claude and Perplexity
- $9.99one-time fix kit, written for your own site
How do I check if ChatGPT and Claude can read my site?#
Paste your URL into the AI Visibility Check and you get a 0 to 100 score in about a minute. The check reads your robots.txt, llms.txt, sitemap, homepage and up to three key pages, then tests every rule against the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Alexa and Meta AI. Each result quotes what it found, such as the robots.txt line that blocks a crawler, so you confirm it on your own site in seconds.
| Pillar | Points | Checks | What it proves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crawl access | 30 | 5 | The crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Alexa and Meta AI can read your homepage and key pages, and no directive stops them quoting you. |
| Discovery files | 12 | 4 | A fresh sitemap, a canonical URL and an llms.txt point crawlers at the pages that matter. |
| Machine-readable identity | 20 | 7 | Business schema states your name, contact details and official profiles the same way everywhere. |
| Extractable content | 38 | 11 | Your pages carry server-rendered text, dates, named authors, numbers, sources and question-led answers. |
Answer the six questions below for a quick self-read before you run the full check.
How do I fix what the check finds?#
Every failing check comes with a first step you take today and a fix you paste. The site-specific fix kit ($9.99, one time, paid from prepaid Agent Studio credit) writes the code for you from your own pages:
- robots.txt patch that opens every AI answer bot, keeps your private paths closed, and adds training bots only when you tick the box
- llms.txt drafted from your real key pages, ready to publish at
/llms.txt - Business schema (Organization or LocalBusiness JSON-LD) with your name, phone, address and
sameAsprofile links - FAQ schema for the questions your pages already answer
- Title, H1 and meta description rewrites that name your service and city
For the work that takes more than a paste, the results page lines up a fix crew: agents that open with your site already filled in, map the buyer questions in your market, rank the gaps and draft your first content briefs.
How do I see if AI engines actually recommend me?#
Turn on AI visibility tracking in your SEO project. Agent Studio asks each engine you pick every buyer prompt you track, then records whether the answer named your brand and whether it cited your site. New trackers start with ChatGPT and Gemini; add the rest of ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Claude and Perplexity in one click.
Start tracking AI answers
Step 1: Open AI visibility in your SEO project
Pick the engines, your market, your brand and domain, and the competitors you want to watch. Setup costs nothing.Open AI visibilityStep 2: Add the prompts your buyers ask
Type them in, let Agent Studio draft them, or pull real questions with their AI search volume from the Prompt explorer.Find prompts to trackStep 3: Run a check
Press Run check. You see the price and set a spending limit before a single answer is bought.Run a checkStep 4: Put it on a schedule
Set the check to run daily, weekly or monthly with a cost cap per run, and the 28-day trend fills in by itself.Schedule checks
| Panel | What you learn |
|---|---|
| Mention rate | Share of answers that name your brand |
| Citation rate | Share of answers that link to your domain |
| Last 28 days | Mention and citation rates against the 28 days before, over the same prompts and engines |
| By engine | Which assistants already recommend you and which ignore you |
| Brands in the answers | You against each tracked competitor: named, cited and average order named |
| Prompts | Every prompt by engine, marked Named, Cited or Not named, with the full answer one click away |
| Most-cited sources | The domains AI answers lean on, tagged Yours, Competitor or Third party |
Which AI engines does Agent Studio check?#
Each tool reads the engines where its data comes from. The readiness check reads crawler rules; tracking, the Prompt explorer and Brand lookup read real answers.
| Tool | Engines | What it measures |
|---|---|---|
| AI Visibility Check | ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Alexa and Meta AI (answer crawlers), plus the Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended training tokens | Whether those engines can read and quote your site |
| AI visibility tracking | ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Claude and Perplexity | Whether answers to your prompts name and cite you, over time |
| Prompt explorer | ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity | One prompt, every answer side by side, with citations |
| Brand lookup | ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews | Mentions, cited pages and share of voice for any brand |
What does AI visibility cost?#
The AI Visibility Check and its report cost nothing. The fix kit is $9.99 per site, once. Tracking setup and prompt changes cost nothing; each check bills the collected AI answers from prepaid credit at a price Agent Studio shows you, with your spending limit, before it runs. See pricing for plans and credit.
See what AI engines say about you today with the Prompt explorer, and make sure they can read your site with the AI crawlers guide.
See what AI assistants see on your site
Run the free check, paste the fixes, then track the answers every week.