AI Visibility Scorecard
Thad McIlroy - Future Of Publishing
thefutureofpublishing.com · Media & Entertainment
Somewhat visible. AI bots can read Thad McIlroy - Future Of Publishing, but it is missing the structured signals that push citation rate above competitors.
AI engines read this profile 4 times
Claude · Meta AI
#185,706 of 1,966,760 in Media & Entertainment for AI visibility
6
AEO Visibility
iBorderline · 5.8/10
35
Muse Index Score
iAI agent readiness
Agent-ready · 35/100
0
AI Adoption
iNone detected · 0/100
About Thad McIlroy - Future Of Publishing
from our crawl and measurement
"Thad McIlroy is a publishing technology analyst and author, and principal of The Future of Publishing, based in San Francisco." That is how Thad McIlroy introduces itself. To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity it is partially visible, scoring 5.8 out of 10, readable in places and missing in others.
Our crawl found structured data on the page (WebPage, BreadcrumbList, WebSite), a sitemap and a readable heading structure. It is missing an llms.txt file.
AI crawlers have visited 2 times in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic) and Meta AI.
The 6 signals AI reads
Strong · Good · Fair · Weak
Structured Data
Good
Organization / LocalBusiness JSON-LD that AI can read.
Content Structure
Strong
Clear headings and answer-style content.
Entity Clarity
Good
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
Good
robots.txt, llms.txt, and AI-bot crawl access.
AI Discoverability
Fair
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
Weak
Little domain authority yet.
Reference Presence
Weak
Not in AI knowledge graphs yet.
News & Press
Weak
No press coverage found yet.
Community
Fair
Forum and community discussion.
Social Mentions
Weak
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 5.8/10, Thad McIlroy - Future Of Publishing has a working base to build on - fixable, and the signals above are where to start.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Source & Attribution
Scored by Engagemii on August 1, 2026. Methodology: engagemii.com/aeo/methodology
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