▲ 1.9 since Jun 2026
#826,324 OF 1,949,229 IN MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT
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AI Visibility Scorecard
The Center for Investigative Reporting
cir.org · Media & Entertainment
Borderline visible. AI bots can crawl The Center for Investigative Reporting, but the structured-data signals are thin - you are at real risk of being skipped when buyers ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity for a recommendation.
AI engines read this profile 6 times
Meta AI · Claude
#826,324 of 1,949,229 in Media & Entertainment for AI visibility
5
AEO Visibility
iBorderline · 4.9/10
0
Muse Index Score
iAI agent readiness
Basic · 0/100
0
AI Adoption
iNone detected · 0/100
About The Center for Investigative Reporting
from our crawl and measurement
The Center for Investigative Reporting describes itself simply: "Brands Mother Jones Reveal Impact Awards Donate We reach millions of people with investigative reporting on the issues that matter most." When AI engines look at it, they find little to work with. It scores 4.9 out of 10.
Our crawl found a sitemap. It is missing structured data describing the business, an llms.txt file and a heading structure that lays out what it offers.
AI crawlers have visited 2 times in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic) and Meta AI.
The 6 signals AI reads
Higher is better · 0-10
Structured Data
1
Organization / LocalBusiness JSON-LD that AI can read.
Content Structure
5
Clear headings and answer-style content.
Entity Clarity
0
How clearly your brand identity reads to AI.
E-E-A-T Signals
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust
7
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust markers.
Technical AEO
2
robots.txt, llms.txt, and AI-bot crawl access.
AI Discoverability
3
Sitemaps and entity links AI can follow.
Off-page authority
How the web signals your brand to AI
Backlinks
9
Inbound links from other sites.
Domain Authority
3
Established authority for your domain.
Reference Presence
0
Not in AI knowledge graphs yet.
News & Press
0
No press coverage found yet.
Community
0
No community discussion yet.
Social Mentions
0
No social discussion found yet.
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 4.9/10, The Center for Investigative Reporting is crawlable but under-signaled - fixable, and the signals above are where to start.
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Source & Attribution
Scored by Engagemii on July 31, 2026. Methodology: engagemii.com/aeo/methodology
Source URL: https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/cir-org
Cite this score: Engagemii (2026). "AEO Score for The Center for Investigative Reporting." Retrieved from https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/cir-org
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