What is an AI visibility check?
A check of how easily search and AI engines can find, read and understand your business: your website, your Google profile and your listings. Our instant scan covers the website part in seconds; the full check, free by email within 2 business days, adds what ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews actually say for your service and town, where you show on Google and Maps, and the three fixes we'd make first.
What does the instant scan check?
Eight things on your own website that search and AI engines read, from your homepage and up to three pages it links to (contact, about and services): schema.org business details, robots.txt rules for the AI crawlers, llms.txt, sitemap.xml, your page title and description, HTTPS and phone layout, service and FAQ content, whether the name, address and phone in your markup match the page, and how an AI model reads your homepage text. Each one gets pass, warning or fail, with a one-line fix.
Is the scan the same as asking ChatGPT if it knows my business?
No. The scan looks at your website, the part you control. It doesn't ask ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google who they recommend. In one check an AI model (Claude, via Amazon Bedrock) reads your homepage text and says what it understood; that shows how clear your page is to an AI model, not a live ChatGPT or Google result. To see live answers, ask the question a customer would ask (“best dentist in Bradenton”) in a logged-out browser, as in our step-by-step guide, or request the free full check.
Does a good score mean ChatGPT or Google will recommend me?
No. The engines decide who they name. Google states that there are no additional requirements to appear in AI Overviews or AI Mode beyond being indexed and eligible to show with a snippet, and that indexing and serving aren't guaranteed (Google Search Central). Whether you're named also depends on your Google profile, reviews, listings and competitors. A good score means we found nothing on your website getting in the way.
Why does the scan look at robots.txt and AI crawlers?
OpenAI says sites that opt out of its OAI-SearchBot crawler will not be shown in ChatGPT search answers (OpenAI crawler docs), and Anthropic and Perplexity publish similar crawler controls. A robots.txt rule copied from an old template can block them without anyone noticing.
Do I need an llms.txt file?
It's a proposed convention, not a confirmed requirement: Google says you don't need AI text files for its AI features, and the llms.txt site calls it a proposal. A large 2026 log study found almost no AI crawler requests for these files. So the scan shows whether you have one but doesn't score it, and we don't sell it as a fix. Your Google Business Profile, reviews and listings matter more.
Is it free? What happens to what I type?
Free, no signup. Your website, business name, town and type are used to run the scan. The latest result for each website is kept for 30 days so its share link (advanceai.ai/ai-visibility-check?site=yourbusiness.com) keeps working; anyone with the link can see it, and it holds only facts about the website. To stop abuse we count scans per connection using a scrambled code, never your IP address, and the count expires within 2 days. We only get your email if you ask for the full check.
What if the scan finds a lot wrong?
Most fixes are small edits your current web person can make. If you'd rather hand it off, the AI Search Visibility Fix is $595 one time in 10 business days, with the same searches re-run 30 days later, and the Google Profile Fix is $299 one time. No fix can guarantee an AI mention or a ranking, and we don't promise one.
Will it work with my current website?
With most of them. We need edit access to your site, or your web person applies the changes we hand over. If your site can't be edited, the free check says so, and a new website ($1,495, or $149 a month) is the path, with the site-side fixes built in.
Do you do this for your own business?
Yes. We track 25 local searches for our own business and log which sources the engines cite, and the fixes on this page are on our own site: you can open our llms.txt and robots.txt to see them.
