Check whether AI engines can read your site
The nine-point site check, what each result means, and the fix for every one that does not pass.
Can the AI engines read your site? on the AI Visibility page is a 0 to 100 readiness score with nine checks. It reads only what any visitor and any crawler reads: your robots.txt, your home page, your llms.txt and your sitemap. It needs no login and no access to your content system, and it works on a site Noli does not host.
Press Check now the first time, and Check again after you make a change. The weekly scan also runs it on its own, so the score stays current without you pressing anything. You need a website address saved in Brand settings first.
Each check is scored: a pass counts one point, a warning counts half, a failure counts nothing, and a check that could not be run at all is left out of the maths rather than counted against you.
The nine checks
AI crawlers allowed. Reads robots.txt and looks for a site-wide block on GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Google-Extended, ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai and Bingbot. A blocked crawler means that engine cannot read or cite you at all, which is the single most expensive thing on this list. Fix: remove the Disallow rule for those user agents, or add an Allow for them. Hosting and security plugins add these blocks by default more often than people expect. No robots.txt at all is a pass, because nothing is blocked.
Home page reachable. The home page has to load for an anonymous visitor. Fix: if it does not, nothing else here matters.
Business schema markup. Looks for JSON-LD declaring LocalBusiness, Organization, Person, RealEstateAgent, ProfessionalService or similar. Fix: add schema.org JSON-LD with your name, address, phone, area served, and sameAs links to your directory profiles. Engines use it to work out who you are.
Title and description. The home page needs a title and a meta description, and the title should contain your business name. Fix: put the business name and what you do in the home page title, and write a one-sentence description of what you do and where.
Business name on the page. The visible text of the home page has to state your name the way the engines know it. Fix: write it out in visible text, exactly as customers search for it.
Phone number visible. Fix: show the same name, address and phone on your site as on your Google Business Profile and the directories. Engines cross-check them, and a mismatch costs you.
Questions answered in your words. Looks for an FAQ section or FAQPage schema. Fix: add a page or section that answers the exact questions people type into an assistant, one question per heading, with FAQPage schema.
llms.txt. Fix: see the llms.txt guide.
Sitemap. Looks for an XML sitemap, following the Sitemap line in robots.txt when it points at your own site. Fix: publish a sitemap and reference it from robots.txt so new pages are found quickly.
How often you can run it
The on-demand check is limited to once an hour per workspace, because every run makes real requests to your website. The weekly scan runs it regardless.
What a good score looks like
Most well-built sites land in the high eighties before anyone touches them, usually losing half a point each on the FAQ and llms.txt checks. Those two are the easiest points on the page. A failure on crawlers, schema or the business name is worth fixing the same week: they change what the engines can say about you at all.
The readiness score is separate from the AI Visibility score. It measures whether you can be read, not whether you are being named.