AI assistants — ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Google's AI Overviews — increasingly answer questions by citing web pages instead of sending a click. Whether your site can be crawled, parsed, and quoted by them comes down to a handful of signals most SEO tools never check:
robots.txt
rules actually let AI crawlers in (GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot)? A surprising number of sites block them by accident.llms.txt
pointing models at your key content?I built a small audit engine that scores a URL 0–100 across exactly these dimensions and tells you what's failing. It's keyless to try:
curl -X POST https://citeready-api.sprytools.com/v1/audit \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"url":"https://example.com"}'
You get a per-category breakdown — AI crawler access, llms.txt, structured data, citability, technical — with a pass/warn/fail on each check and a concrete recommendation, e.g. "No robots.txt found — you lose the Sitemap hint and explicit AI-bot policy."
Prefer pasting a URL? There's a web version: https://citeready.sprytools.com — free tier is 3 audits/day, no signup.
Curious what scores people get here — what's the most surprising thing it flags on your site?