AI Search Readiness Checker
Paste a page and see how much of it could survive being lifted into an answer — section by section, with the specific fix for each miss.
This score is a judgement, not a measurement. No answer engine publishes what it weighs, and nobody outside one knows. What it encodes is the pattern behind passages that do get quoted: a direct answer, a claim that survives being cut out of its paragraph, a number with a date on it. Treat a low score as a list of things worth fixing anyway, not as a prediction.
Nothing you type here is uploaded, stored or sent anywhere. It all runs in your browser.
What "quotable" means in practice
An answer engine does not quote pages. It quotes passages. Somewhere in the pipeline a chunk of your text gets pulled out of the page, dropped next to four chunks from four other sites, and judged on its own — with no heading above it, no paragraph before it, and no idea what "this" refers to. Everything on this page follows from that one fact.
- A claim that needs the previous sentence is a claim that gets dropped. "This makes it the cheaper option" is worthless in isolation. "Per-campaign pricing is cheaper below about twenty placements" survives anywhere.
- The first sentence under a heading does the work. If the heading asks a question, answer it in the sentence directly underneath, then explain. Putting the answer in the third paragraph is fine for a human who is reading and fatal for an extractor that is skimming.
- A number with a date and a source beside it is the most liftable sentence there is. It is checkable, it is specific, and it is exactly what a model reaches for when the other candidate pages are vague.
- Structure is a hint, not decoration. A comparison table gets quoted because the comparison is already done. A list gets quoted because the boundaries are already drawn.
Where the honest uncertainty sits
Nobody outside these companies knows how a citation gets chosen, and the companies have not said. Everything above is inference from watching which passages come back in answers, plus what is obviously true about chunking and retrieval. It is a reasonable model. It is not a published algorithm, and anyone showing you a percentage weighting for "GEO factors" made that number up.
What we would bet on, because it has been true through every previous shift: being cited by an answer engine correlates hard with ranking in ordinary search, and ranking in ordinary search still runs on links and reputation. Structure makes you quotable once you are in the candidate set. It does not put you in it.
Which of our checkers to use when
- This one for a published page you want to audit whole — structure, signals and schema included.
- Citation Readiness Checker when you only care about the prose: it works sentence by sentence and shows you which of your own lines is the most liftable.
- LLM Visibility Checklist when the question is about the brand rather than the page — whether a model has any coherent idea who you are.
- GEO Content Checklist while you are still writing, as a list to tick off rather than a score to argue with.
Questions people ask
Is there a score that guarantees I get cited?
No, and be suspicious of any tool implying there is. This checks whether your text is structured so that it could be lifted cleanly. Whether it is chosen depends on the competing pages, the query, and ranking factors nobody has published.
Should I paste the HTML or just the text?
HTML, if you can. Plain text still checks the writing — direct answers, self-contained claims, figures with sources — but the byline, date, schema and table checks all need markup to look at.
Does schema markup make me more likely to be quoted?
It makes the page easier to parse, and it states the author and the date in a form that does not depend on your template. Whether it affects selection is unknown. It is cheap and it is honest metadata, which is enough reason to have it.
Why does it complain about sentences starting with "This"?
Because a passage lifted out of the page arrives without the sentence that "this" was pointing at. Naming the subject again costs you three words and makes the sentence work anywhere, which is the entire game.
Does anything I paste leave my browser?
No. The page is parsed locally with the browser’s own HTML parser, in an inert document that does not load images or run scripts. Nothing is uploaded.
Related tools
A quotable page that nothing links to is still invisible
Answer engines draw on pages that search engines already rank. The structure is yours to fix in an afternoon. The authority underneath it is the slow part, and it is what I do.