AI Visibility Scorecard
hackthebadge.com · Technology
Borderline visible. AI bots can crawl CypherCon's Hack the Badge, 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 3 times
Claude
#1,075,022 of 2,705,353 in Technology for AI visibility
5
AEO Visibility
iBorderline · 4.9/10
5
Muse Index Score
iAI agent readiness
Basic · 5/100
0
AI Adoption
iNone detected · 0/100
from our crawl and measurement
"So that led to months of working with China to find switches that had LEDs inside of them that, when pressed, sounded like bubble wrap popping." That is how CypherCon's Hack the Badge introduces itself. When AI engines look at it, they find little to work with. It scores 4.9 out of 10.
On its own pages the site does well on a clear heading structure. It is passable on basic crawler access and partial sitemap and link coverage. What holds it back is a clearly stated business identity, structured data describing the business and credibility markers like credentials or reviews.
Off the page, other sites link to it. There is some, but not much, sign that the domain is only lightly established. Beyond that, AI engines do not yet recognise it as a distinct business, there is no press coverage to draw on, nobody is discussing it where AI engines look and it does not come up on Reddit. None of that can be fixed on the page: it has to be earned.
AI crawlers have visited once in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic).
Strong · Good · Fair · Weak
Structured Data
Weak
Organization / LocalBusiness JSON-LD that AI can read.
Content Structure
Strong
Clear headings and answer-style content.
Entity Clarity
Weak
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
Fair
robots.txt, llms.txt, and AI-bot crawl access.
AI Discoverability
Fair
Sitemaps and entity links AI can follow.
How the web signals your brand to AI
Backlinks
Strong
Inbound links from other sites.
Domain Authority
Weak
Little domain authority yet.
Reference Presence
Weak
Not in AI knowledge graphs yet.
News & Press
Weak
No press coverage found yet.
Community
Weak
No community discussion yet.
Social Mentions
Weak
No social discussion found yet.
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, CypherCon's Hack the Badge is crawlable but under-signaled - fixable, and the signals above are where to start.
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The search landscape has fundamentally shifted. While Google still dominates, millions of users now ask questions to ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude instead of typing into a search bar.
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Scored by Engagemii on July 31, 2026. Methodology: engagemii.com/aeo/methodology
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