AI Visibility Scorecard
Medium
andybudd.medium.com · Media & Entertainment
Well-positioned for AI search. The breakdown below shows where Medium is still leaving points on the table.
AI engines read this profile 9 times
Apple Intelligence · Claude · ChatGPT · Meta AI
#3,851 of 1,964,804 in Media & Entertainment for AI visibility
7
AEO Visibility
iVisible · 7.1/10
10
Muse Index Score
iAI agent readiness
Basic · 10/100
0
AI Adoption
iNone detected · 0/100
About Medium
from our crawl and measurement
"Design Founder turned investor, advisor and leadership coach. Author of The Growth Equation. @Seedcamp Venture Partner. Formerly @Clearleft @LDConf & @UXLondon." That is how Medium introduces itself. Measured against the twelve signals AI engines rely on, it scores 7.1 out of 10, a strong showing.
Our crawl found structured data on the page (Person) and a readable heading structure. It is missing an llms.txt file and a sitemap.
AI crawlers have visited 5 times in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic), GPTBot (ChatGPT) and Meta AI.
The 6 signals AI reads
Strong · Good · Fair · Weak
Structured Data
Weak
Organization / LocalBusiness JSON-LD that AI can read.
Content Structure
Good
Clear headings and answer-style content.
Entity Clarity
Fair
How clearly your brand identity reads to AI.
E-E-A-T Signals
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust
Weak
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust markers.
Technical AEO
Weak
robots.txt, llms.txt, and AI-bot crawl access.
AI Discoverability
Good
Sitemaps and entity links AI can follow.
Off-page authority
How the web signals your brand to AI
Backlinks
Strong
Inbound links from other sites.
Domain Authority
Strong
Established authority for your domain.
Reference Presence
Strong
Recognized in AI knowledge graphs.
News & Press
Strong
Press and news coverage.
Community
Strong
Forum and community discussion.
Social Mentions
Strong
Social discussion and mentions.
What this score means
Your AEO score measures whether AI search engines - ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini - can actually read your site and cite it in answers. Roughly two-thirds of sites are invisible to them. At 7.1/10, Medium has a working base to build on - fixable, and the signals above are where to start.
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Source & Attribution
Scored by Engagemii on August 2, 2026. Methodology: engagemii.com/aeo/methodology
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