Find out whether answer engines can cite you, and whether they do
Your customers now ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, and those engines answer by citing sources. We check whether their crawlers reach your pages, what your permission files let them read, and how many times your brand shows up in real answers, with the number of questions asked printed next to it.
Access opens in waves: we email you when yours is ready.
Our numbers, with their provenance
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19AI crawlers audited measured
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11operators covered measured
Traffic no longer tells the whole story
A generated answer does not necessarily send a click: it cites, it summarises, it decides, and the reader sometimes opens nothing. The three situations below almost always precede the question “why do our competitors show up and we don’t?”.
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Your pages are closed and nobody decided that
A rules file written for Googlebot five years ago now blocks agents that did not exist back then. Nobody chose it, and nobody re-read it either.
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You are cited, or no longer cited, and a salesperson tells you
Without a regular measurement, your only signal is a prospect reporting that they “asked the AI” and did not hear your name. That is late, and impossible to verify.
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Installed tools measure a different quantity
A classic SEO suite reports positions inside a results page. A generated answer has no page, no position and no search volume: it has to be counted differently.
What we measure
Three separate measurements, never merged
Access, declaration and citation are three different questions. Merging them produces a single number nobody can challenge, which is the same as a number nobody can use. Each carries its own date and its own denominator.
- AI crawler access (every agent published by the major operators is checked against your rules, and your pages are tested for real reachability, crawler by crawler. “Blocked” becomes a verified fact rather than an assumption.)
- What your files declare (your robots.txt and llms.txt are read, then compared with what you believe you wrote in them. A directive no known agent understands is flagged as exactly that.)
- Share of citations (real questions are put to several engines, several times, and we count the answers where your domain appears. The result reads “cited in 2 answers out of 6”.)
- A versioned readiness score (computed on explicit axes, with its scoring version travelling beside it. Two measurements separated by a change of rules are therefore never silently compared.)
Further reading
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The long-form guide: what can genuinely be measured in GEO, and what is still speculation.
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Frequently asked questions
Why a share of citations rather than a rank?
Because a generated answer has no rank. Two identical queries can produce two different answers, so the only defensible quantity is a frequency over a known number of queries. That is why our screens always print the denominator: “cited in 2 answers out of 6” can be challenged, while “33% AI visibility” cannot, because nobody knows a third of what.
What does llms.txt actually do?
It is a declaration, not a barrier: it points agents to your reference content. It binds nobody, and no operator has committed to reading it. We check that it exists, that it is valid and that it agrees with your robots.txt, and we say what it does not do, because mistaking it for a block is the most common error on the subject.
Does blocking an AI crawler remove me from answers?
Not mechanically, and that is the trap. An engine can cite a domain whose pages it has never crawled, based on what other sites say about it. Blocking reduces what it knows about you; it does not erase you. The audit therefore separates access (measurable on your side) from citation, measurable in the answers. They are two different decisions.
How often is the measurement repeated?
The access check runs again on every scheduled crawl, with nothing for you to decide. The citation measurement follows a cadence you choose: its cost is announced before the run starts, and a missed run reads “not measured”, never zero.
The exact scope of this measurement
This page sells a measurement. Influencing a model is a different thing, and the right-hand column is not a technical limitation we plan to lift later: these are things no honest tool can promise.
What we cover
- Agents published by the major operators, with their purpose and their declared handling of your rules
- Your rules files, re-read and checked against the real reachability of your pages
- Your citations in real answers, measured at a cadence you choose
Stated limits
- No guarantee of being cited: we measure an outcome, we do not influence a model
- No access to operator logs, what they do with your pages is theirs
- No rank and no ranking: a generated answer produces neither, and inventing one would be fiction
- No retroactive history: measurement starts the day you start it
Start by knowing what is reachable
An audit of your domain says within minutes which agents reach your pages and what your rules allow. The citation measurement comes next, when you decide to pay for it.
Access opens in waves: we email you when yours is ready.