Is your small business or Shopify store readable by AI? ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini can only recommend you if they can read you. This scanner checks the six things that decide it and hands you a fix list, not just a grade.
v1 checklist edition. It scores only what you paste below, in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is guessed, and no AI writes your report. Every check comes from the same audit I run by hand on ryanlenk.com and on client sites.
Six things, and each one maps to a way an AI engine can fail to read you. Whether your robots.txt allows GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot and Google-Extended. Whether you have an llms.txt and whether it is well formed. Whether your homepage carries structured data, and whether that JSON-LD parses rather than just existing. Whether your canonical tags are set. Whether you have a meta description. And, for stores, whether your product pages carry Product schema. You get a score out of 100 and the one fix worth doing first. One caveat on the crawler line: Google-Extended governs Gemini apps and Vertex AI grounding rather than Search, and every provider runs separate search and answer-time agents as well, such as OAI-SearchBot and ChatGPT-User, so check those by hand too.
No. There is no crawl and no upload. You paste your robots.txt and your page source into the form, and the checks run in your browser against that text. The tool never requests your site, so nothing about your store leaves the page you are looking at. If you would rather not paste source at all, every check has a plain-English question you can answer instead, though pasting the actual source gives you a more accurate result.
You paste the source, and that is a deliberate trade. Fetching your site from a browser tool means fighting cross-origin restrictions and usually guessing from whatever a proxy returns. Pasting the real robots.txt and the real page source removes the guessing. Right-click your homepage, choose View Page Source, select all, paste. It takes about two minutes for the full run, and you can answer the questions instead if you are somewhere you cannot do that.
The scan, the score, and your number-one fix are free with no email and no account. The full prioritized fix list costs your email address, which is the only thing on this site I gate. If you would rather not hand that over, the underlying method is published free and in full across the guides, and you can work down it yourself.
Yes. Five of the six checks are platform-agnostic, since robots.txt, llms.txt, structured data, canonical tags and meta descriptions exist everywhere. The product-page check is the only one aimed at stores, and it is skipped if you do not paste one. WordPress, Squarespace, Webflow and hand-built sites all run the same way.
Treat it as a diagnostic rather than a target. Most small business sites I have run this against fail on crawler access or on structured data, and those two are worth more than every other point on the scale combined. A site scoring in the middle with its crawlers open is in better shape than a high scorer whose robots.txt blocks GPTBot without anyone having decided to. Read your number-one fix before you read your score.
For each item: paste the real thing if you can (2 minutes, most accurate), or answer the question instead. Paste beats answers. Answers are marked self-reported in your results.
1 · robots.txtOpen yourstore.com/robots.txt in a new tab, select all, copy, paste here.
Open yourstore.com/llms.txt. If that address shows an error page, you don't have one. Leave this empty and pick "No" below.
yourstore.com/llms.txt exist?
On your homepage press Ctrl+U (Mac: Cmd+Option+U), select all, copy, paste here. This is where the scanner reads your schema, title, and description.
Same trick: open your best-selling product's page, Ctrl+U, copy, paste. The scanner looks for Product and Review schema here.
"Handmade boutique clothing for kids" passes. "Where dreams meet style" fails. Machines don't decode slogans.
PASS = found in what you pasted. SELF = your answer, not verified. NO IDEA scores zero because if you don't know, an AI engine probably isn't finding it either.
Get the complete prioritized fix list for your score, plus The Receipts: one concrete AI visibility move per issue, tested on a real family shop first. No theory, no fluff.
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AI crawlers allowed in robots.txt: 25 · llms.txt present and well formed: 15 · Entity schema (Organization, Person, WebSite): 20 · FAQPage schema: 15 · Product + Review schema: 10 (service businesses are scored out of 90 and rescaled) · Homepage says what you sell: 15. Bands: 0 to 40 Invisible to AI, 41 to 70 Partially readable, 71 to 100 AI ready. Bonus flags (sitemap, canonical) are reported but not scored.