The AEO Readiness Score is a 0–100 grade for how well your website is built to be cited by answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. We measure four AEO pillars across your homepage and a representative sample of your page types. Free, instant, and built for SEO, content, and brand teams.
Your AEO Readiness Score measures one thing: can answer engines confidently cite, summarize, and recommend your site in a generated answer? Where SEO grades you against Google's classical ranking signals, AEO grades you against the LLMs that now sit on top of those rankings.
The score combines answer engine optimization (AEO), generative engine optimization (GEO), and LLM-friendly content signals into a single 0–100 number. It's the metric your content, SEO, and brand teams can rally around when traffic stops being "10 blue links" and starts being "the cited source in a ChatGPT answer".
SEO is about ranking on Google's classic results page. AEO is about being cited inside the AI answer above those results — in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews. GEO is the broader discipline of optimizing for any generative system that paraphrases your content. Your AEO Readiness Score grades the technical and content foundations all three require.
Each pillar is graded by deterministic checks across your homepage and a representative sample of your page types — articles, products, services, docs, policies, comparisons. Findings roll up into a single AEO Readiness Score and a clear list of what to fix first.
For two decades the SEO playbook was "rank on Google". Today, a growing slice of every query is answered before the user ever sees a search result. ChatGPT alone serves billions of queries a week. Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google's own AI Overviews now sit on top of the SERP, summarizing — and citing — the sites they consider authoritative.
That citation is the new "page one". If your site isn't AEO-ready, you're invisible in answers about your own product, your own industry, even your own brand name. A high AEO Readiness Score is what gets you cited. A low one is why your competitor is being recommended in answers about you.
AEO doesn't replace SEO — it sits next to it. Most of the SEO fundamentals (clean HTML, schema, crawlability) still matter. AEO adds a layer: structure your content the way LLMs cite. Definitions up front, question-shaped headings, FAQ schema, clear entity grounding, fresh and well-linked topical clusters. Your AEO Readiness Score is the metric that tells you how much of that you've done.
An AEO audit that only looks at your homepage misses 90% of what answer engines actually cite. We sample across the page types LLMs most often pull from — and grade each one individually.
From your sitemap, internal nav, and content structure we identify the canonical page types — articles, products, services, docs, FAQs, comparisons, policies.
We fetch your homepage and a representative inner-page sample so the AEO Readiness Score reflects your real content surface, not a single page.
Each sampled page is graded across answerability, entity & authority, schema & technical AEO, and topical coverage. Findings roll up into one score with evidence on every check.
Use the AEO Readiness Score as the single metric for the LLM-friendly content sprint. Track answerability and schema coverage page-by-page; ship FAQPage and HowTo markup where it earns the most uplift.
Audit how AI answer engines see your brand entity. Fix author bylines, citations, and Organization schema so ChatGPT and Perplexity confidently name you when users ask about your space.
Score your site before launching a paid campaign. Sites with high AEO Readiness Scores get cited organically — paid ads on top of an answer-engine-ready foundation compound much faster.
Your AEO Readiness Score is a 0–100 grade for how well your website is built to be cited by answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. It measures four AEO pillars — answerability, entity & authority, schema & technical AEO, and topical coverage — across your homepage and a representative sample of your page types.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is about ranking on Google's classic 10-blue-link results. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is about being cited inside the AI-generated answer above those links — in ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is the broader discipline that covers AEO plus optimization for any generative system that paraphrases your content. Your AEO Readiness Score grades all three.
No — they're complementary. The Agent Readiness Score grades whether AI agents can find, understand, and complete real tasks on your site (book, buy, sign up). The AEO Readiness Score grades whether answer engines can confidently cite, summarize, and recommend you. Most sites need both: AEO drives the citation, agent readiness converts the citation into a customer.
We fetch your homepage and pick a representative sample across your page types — products, articles, services, docs, policies, comparisons — then run deterministic AEO checks on each one. We score answerability (clear Q&A structure, scannable headings, definition-style paragraphs), entity & authority (schema.org, brand consistency, author bylines, citations), schema & technical AEO (FAQPage, Article, JSON-LD coverage, robots/AI directives), and topical coverage (depth, freshness, internal linking).
Any site where you want to be the recommended answer to a question. SaaS companies use AEO to win 'best X for Y' queries. E-commerce stores use AEO to be cited as the place to buy a product category. Service businesses use AEO to be the answer to 'who should I hire for X near me'. Publishers, agencies, and B2B brands use AEO Readiness Score as the metric that drives their LLM-friendly content strategy.
Free AEO Readiness Score in ~30 seconds. Homepage plus a representative sample across your page types. Every finding backed by evidence so your team knows exactly what to ship first.