Open Google Analytics right now and look at your traffic. Every human, every referrer, every bounce - all there. Now try to find GPTBot. Or ClaudeBot. Or PerplexityBot. You can't. They don't run JavaScript, so your analytics never fired. They came, they read your site, they left, and they used what they found to decide whether to recommend you in ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity answers - and you have no idea it happened.
That blind spot is the whole game right now, and almost nobody is looking at it.
When someone asks ChatGPT "who's the best in your category near me," the model answers from what it has crawled and understood. If your site is easy for those crawlers to read - clean structured data, an llms.txt, the right signals - you get cited. If it isn't, the model recommends a competitor and the customer never even sees your name. This is happening today, at scale, invisibly.
Search used to be a page of blue links you could measure. AI answers are a single recommendation you can't. The only way to know where you stand is to see the crawlers actually hitting you, and to check whether the engines are citing you. Both have been effectively impossible for a normal business to do.
We score websites for AI visibility - how readable and citable your site is to answer engines, across six categories and thirty-plus signals, on a simple 0 to 10. As of this morning, we have scored more than 10 million US business sites. And we decided the things a business needs to even SEE this problem should cost nothing:
Your AI visibility score, free. Six-category breakdown, where you stand.
A general fix kit, free. The JSON-LD schema, llms.txt, ai.txt, and robots rules every site should be serving, generated from your own site. Paste them in, done.
AI bot monitoring, free. The thing your analytics can't show you: which AI crawlers visited, how often, week over week. On WordPress it's one click - install our plugin and the counter is live. Any other platform, it's a small snippet.
That is the free tier, and it is genuinely useful on its own. We give it away because a business that can finally SEE the AI crawlers hitting its site is a business that understands why this matters - and a fraction of them will want more.
Once you can see the crawlers, two questions come up fast: are the engines actually citing me, and can you just write the fixes for me instead of a template? That's the paid ladder, and it's deliberately cheap.
Customized Fix Kit, $29.99 one time. We read your actual site and write your schema, llms.txt, FAQs, and metadata from your real content, not a template. Plus a full audit report.
AI Citation Tracking, $14.99 a month. Every Monday we check whether ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini cite your brand, with history and alerts, so you see the trend and know when you start - or stop - showing up.
No enterprise contract, no sales call. Free to start, cheap to upgrade.
We're not going to pretend AI visibility is fully understood - nobody's is, this is a year old. What we're sure of: the crawlers are real, they're on your site now, your current tools can't see them, and being invisible to them is a silent, compounding cost. Making that visible - for free - is the right place to start.
See your score and turn on the free monitoring: engagemii.com/aeo. WordPress plugin for one-click monitoring: wordpress.org/plugins/engagemii-aeo.
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