Will ChatGPT cite your site?

What does each audit score?

Seven dimensions, each with a 0-100 score and concrete findings. Most fresh B2B sites score 30-45 overall on their first run. The three highest-impact fixes routinely move a site 15-25 points.

How does CiteReady work?

1. 1

   Paste any URL

   Submit your client's site. We crawl the homepage + top pages via Firecrawl (JS-aware).

2. 2

   7 scorers run in parallel

   Crawler access · llms.txt · schema · passage citability · AI Overviews · freshness · structured patterns. Claude Sonnet scores the AI dimensions; the others are deterministic checks.

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   Claude Opus writes the report

   Executive summary + 5-7 prioritized actions tagged P0/P1/P2. Print to PDF or share a public link. White-label rolling out next week.

How much does CiteReady cost?

Cancel anytime. Stripe-hosted checkout. First full audit is free on signup.

Frequently asked

What is CiteReady?

CiteReady is an AI search visibility audit tool that scores any website across 7 dimensions — AI crawler accessibility, llms.txt presence, Schema.org completeness, passage-level citability, modeled AI Overviews presence, content freshness, and structured patterns — and produces a Claude-Opus executive summary plus prioritized fix plan. Built for marketing and SEO agencies to resell as client deliverables. Pricing starts at $29 per audit.

How does CiteReady score passage citability?

Claude (Sonnet 4.6) reads your homepage and up to 5 top pages, then scores each one on a rubric: direct definitions, specificity, structural signaling (Q-headers, lists, tables), and self-containment. It returns a 0-100 score per page plus concrete rewrite suggestions. The score reflects how likely an LLM is to quote a passage from your page when answering a user's query.

Which AI bots does CiteReady check in robots.txt?

CiteReady checks 15+ AI user-agents: GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-Web, anthropic-ai, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Google-Extended, Bingbot, DuckAssistBot, CCBot, Applebot-Extended, FacebookBot, and YouBot. Each is classified as search/training/assistant, and the scorer flags which paths are blocked per bot.

Is CiteReady a replacement for Google SEO tools?

No. CiteReady complements tools like Ahrefs and Semrush — they track Google rankings, CiteReady tracks AI search visibility. The signals overlap partially (schema, freshness) but diverge significantly (passage citability and llms.txt matter for AI search but not for classic SEO). Most agencies run both.

What do agencies do with a CiteReady audit?

The most common use cases are: (1) pre-discovery-call audits on prospective client sites to surface concrete findings, (2) monthly client-health audits included in retainers, and (3) white-labeled audit reports sold as standalone $500-$2,000 deliverables (white-label rolling out on the Agency tier).

How much does CiteReady cost?

$29 for a single audit (one-off, no subscription), $99/mo for the Pro plan (20 audits per month), or $299/mo for the Agency plan (unlimited audits, priority crawl, and white-label rolling out). The first full audit is free on signup. Cancel any subscription anytime via the Stripe-hosted Customer Portal.

Will ChatGPT actually cite my site more after I fix these things?

Directionally, yes, though the timeline depends on the change. Technical fixes like adding llms.txt or allowing AI crawlers are picked up within days. Schema additions take 1-3 weeks to propagate through retrieval indices. Content-level rewrites (passage citability) take longer — 4-8 weeks to see measurable citation changes in tools like Perplexity that do live retrieval. Training-based models like default ChatGPT update on their own refresh cadence.