epistemedeus/ai-readiness

**Is your website visible to AI search?** A tiny, dependency-free CLI that checks whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI can crawl and understand your site, and tells you exactly what to fix.
No install, no signup, no dependencies. Node 18+.
> Prefer a browser? Run the same check (no install) at **samedaydesk.com/tools/ai-readiness**.
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📦 Want the fixes done for you? AI Search Readiness Kit: $9
The checker tells you *what* to fix. This kit gives you *everything to fix it*, ready to paste:
- Copy-paste **robots.txt** (welcomes every AI crawler), **Organization + WebSite + FAQPage JSON-LD**, **title/meta/Open Graph** templates, and an **XML sitemap**
- The **7-fix priority checklist** in order of impact
- The **full benchmark** behind the dataset below
- Delivered **instantly** after checkout, no signup
**→ Get the AI Search Readiness Kit ($9)** · Prefer a done-for-you audit of your site? See **samedaydesk.com**.
Dataset: 136 companies scored for AI-search readiness (June 2026)
We ran this checker against the homepages of **136 well-known companies across 7 industries** and published the full results. Open data, free to use with attribution.
- **Full CSV:** data/ai-search-readiness-2026.csv
- **Interactive, sortable leaderboard:** samedaydesk.com: AI-Search Readiness Leaderboard
**Average score by industry (lower = harder for AI search to read):**
| Industry | Avg score | n |
|---|---|---|
| Marketing agencies | 92 | 24 |
| SaaS | 88 | 24 |
| Dev tools | 86 | 17 |
| E-commerce | 85 | 19 |
| AI startups | 83 | 25 |
| Fintech | 74 | 16 |
| Healthtech | 63 | 11 |
**Notable findings:** Healthtech is the least AI-search-ready industry (avg 63). Klarna scored an F (38); GitHub, Chime, Ramp, Gusto, Ro, Hims and Zocdoc each scored a D. Even some AI companies struggle. Perplexity scored a C and LlamaIndex a D. Most gaps are the same and entirely fixable: JavaScript-only homepages, missing JSON-LD structured data, and no sitemap.
Per-industry write-ups: SaaS · e-commerce · marketing agencies · AI startups · healthtech.
Why this matters
AI search is becoming how people find things, and AI answers are pulled from a small set of pages that are **crawlable and well-structured**. If GPTBot is blocked in your robots.txt, or your pages have no structured data, you can be invisible in AI answers no matter how good your site looks to humans. This tool checks the technical fundamentals that decide whether you're even eligible to be cited.
What it checks
| Check | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| **AI crawler access** | Whether GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Bingbot are allowed in robots.txt. Blocked = invisible. |
| **Structured data (JSON-LD)** | AI engines use JSON-LD (Organization, FAQPage, Article) to classify and quote your content. |
| **Title & meta description** | Present and well-sized, so engines have a clean summary to work with. |
| **Open Graph tags** | Richer machine-readable context and clean link previews. |
| **XML sitemap** | Helps engines discover your pages; submit it in Bing Webmaster Tools (ChatGPT Search reads the Bing index). |
| **llms.txt** | Flagged as cheap hygiene only. Honest note: it has **no proven effect on AI citations** yet, so don't let anyone sell it to you as a ranking boost. |