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AI Citation Readiness

Score your site's AEO readiness across five pillars. 15 yes/no questions, live score, prioritized fixes — each linked to the tool that solves it.

Your readiness score

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/ 100

Answer the 15 questions on the right. Your live score and pillar breakdown appear here.

Pillar breakdown

Structured data—

Discoverability—

Entity citations—

Content shape—

Brand authority—

Structured data

0/3 answered

How machine-readable your pages are. Schema.org markup is the strongest direct signal AI assistants use to disambiguate entities.

Do your important pages have JSON-LD schema markup?

Schema is the most direct machine-readable signal. Pages with valid schema get cited 2-3× more often than identical pages without.

Is your Organization schema populated with sameAs links to social profiles, Wikipedia, etc?

sameAs is how AI assistants disambiguate brands with similar names. Without it, 'Acme' could be your company or the cartoon supplier — the AI guesses.

Do your content pages use the right schema type (Article, Product, FAQPage, HowTo)?

Generic WebPage schema is fine but loses you eligibility for rich results and specialized AI surfaces (FAQ answers, recipe cards, product comparisons).

Discoverability

0/3 answered

Whether AI crawlers can find what's important on your site. llms.txt, sitemap, and robots.txt sit here.

Do you have an llms.txt file at your domain root?

llms.txt is the AI-specific sitemap — a curated, human-readable summary AI assistants can quote verbatim. Adoption is early but the cost is near-zero.

Is your sitemap.xml up to date and includes every important URL?

Both classic search and AI crawlers rely on sitemap.xml to discover new pages. Missing URLs simply aren't found.

Does your robots.txt explicitly allow AI search bots (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot)?

Some site templates block AI crawlers by default 'just in case'. If those bots can't read your pages, you can't be cited.

Entity citations

0/3 answered

Third-party references that confirm your brand exists and what it does. The single highest-leverage AEO signal.

Does your brand have a Wikipedia or Wikidata entry?

Wikipedia / Wikidata is the single most cited source by every major LLM during retrieval. Having an entry doubles as identity ground-truth.

Are you listed on the major directories in your category (G2, Capterra, Crunchbase, ProductHunt, industry-specific)?

Directories are AI's secondary disambiguator. A complete G2 profile beats a polished landing page for AI citation weight.

Do you have a complete LinkedIn company page (logo, banner, description, employees, posts)?

LinkedIn is the second-most-cited disambiguation source after Wikipedia for B2B brands. Crawlers and ChatGPT both lean on it heavily.

Content shape

0/3 answered

Are your pages written so an AI can lift a clean answer? Clear H1 questions, short factual paragraphs, FAQ sections.

Do your top pages lead with a clear H1 question or topic + a self-contained answer paragraph?

AI assistants quote the first 200 words of a cited page. Buried answers don't get quoted — Reddit threads get quoted instead.

Do key pages have FAQ sections with FAQPage schema?

AI assistants love FAQ schema because each Q&A is independently quotable. Pages with FAQ schema are cited at notably higher rates.

Have you published or updated meaningful content in the last 90 days?

Freshness is a tiebreaker. AI assistants prefer recent sources when answering current-events or comparison queries.

Brand authority

0/3 answered

Reviews, mentions, and reputation signals that tell an AI your brand is trusted in its category.

Are you mentioned in industry publications, news, or notable blogs?

Third-party mentions are the second-highest weighted source for AI brand recognition (after your own structured data).

Do you have customer reviews on at least 2 third-party sites (G2, Trustpilot, ProductHunt, etc.)?

Reviews provide both authority signal AND a steady stream of third-party content with your name in it for AI crawlers to index.

If you have a physical location, is your Google Business Profile complete and verified?

GBP is the primary local-search and AI-local-result source. AI assistants pull addresses, hours, reviews directly from it.

Built for triage, not just curiosity

Most assessments give you a number and a marketing CTA. This one gives you the next three things to ship.

5 pillars, 15 checks

Structured data, discoverability, entity citations, content shape, and brand authority — the five signals that drive AI assistant citations.

Prioritized fixes

Recommendations are grouped by pillar and ordered by impact. Each links straight to the tool that solves it — Schema Generator, llms.txt Generator, Robots.txt Generator.

60 seconds, not 60 minutes

Self-assessment by design. Click through 15 questions, get a score plus a personalized action plan. No site crawl required.

The five pillars

Each pillar is independently scored — when one lags, your total drops even if the others are perfect. Fix the lowest pillar first.

Structured data

Schema.org markup is the most direct machine-readable signal AI assistants use. Organization with sameAs, plus per-page-type schema (Article, Product, FAQ, HowTo) covers the rich-result and AI surfaces.

Discoverability

Can AI crawlers actually find your important content? llms.txt gives them a curated AI sitemap; sitemap.xml covers the rest; robots.txt sets crawler access rules. All three need to be intentional.

Entity citations

Third-party references — Wikipedia / Wikidata, LinkedIn, Crunchbase, G2, industry directories — confirm your brand exists and what it does. The single highest-leverage AEO signal because it scales independently of your site.

Content shape

AI assistants quote the first 200 words of cited pages. Pages with clear H1 questions, self-contained answer paragraphs, and FAQ sections get quoted; pages with buried answers get skipped in favor of Reddit threads.

Brand authority

Press mentions, customer reviews on G2 / Trustpilot, Google Business Profile completeness. These are the credibility signals AI uses to decide whether your brand is trustworthy enough to recommend.

Frequently asked questions

Scoring details, what each level means, and how this differs from the full audit.

What does 'citation readiness' mean?

It's how prepared your site is to be cited by AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok) when users ask questions in your space. Readiness is the sum of five signals: structured data, discoverability, entity citations, content shape, and brand authority. This scorecard checks all five.

Why these 15 questions specifically?

They're the 15 highest-leverage signals from our own scan engine — the same checks that drive the FixAEO audit, distilled into a self-assessment you can run in 60 seconds. Each maps to a real fix you can ship without a meeting.

How is the score calculated?

Each Yes is worth full points, each Partial is worth half, each No is worth zero, and N/A skips the question (doesn't count for or against). Your final score is earned ÷ scoring questions × 100. Pillars are scored the same way independently, so you can see exactly which area to focus on first.

What does each score level mean?

Beginner (0-39): foundational gaps — start with the top recommendations. Developing (40-64): real progress in some pillars, plug the rest. Advanced (65-84): strong foundation, fine-tune the remaining signals. Expert (85-100): well above peers — maintain and focus on freshness + new citation sources.

Why are 'partial' answers worth half?

Most AEO signals aren't binary. You can have schema on some pages but not others; an llms.txt that exists but isn't comprehensive; a few directory listings without the rest. Half-credit reflects the reality and gives you credit for partial wins.

Is this the same as the full AEO audit?

No — this is a self-assessment that costs nothing and runs in your browser. The full FixAEO audit goes further: it actually fetches your site, queries the AI engines with real prompts, parses citations, and reports findings you'd miss in a self-review. Use the scorecard to triage, then run the audit when you want depth.

Can I save my results?

Yes — click 'Copy report' to copy a clean markdown summary of your score, pillar breakdown, and recommendations to the clipboard. Paste into Notion, an email, or your team doc.

Is this free?

Yes — everything runs in your browser. No signup, no rate limit. Your answers never leave the page.

Want it actually measured?

The free FixAEO audit goes beyond self-report. We fetch your site, query the real AI engines, parse citations, and report findings — no questionnaire required.

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