Four free tools for getting cited by AI
Four tools we built and use ourselves. Two of them read something real about your site and report what they found; two of them build a file or a list you can take away. All four are free, none asks for an account, and none stores what you type. Every one of them is built around the same rule: tell you exactly where you stand, including the parts that are not flattering.
AI Bot Checker
Can the AI crawlers even reach my site?
Enter your domain and it reads your live robots.txt, then tells you crawler by crawler whether GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and four more are allowed or blocked. A blanket block is one of the quietest reasons a brand never appears in AI answers.
AI Readiness Checker
Is this page easy to quote?
Paste one page URL and it fetches the live HTML plus robots.txt and scores seven on-page signals out of 100: crawler access, a visible date, schema, a named author, a self-contained opening answer, question-shaped headings, and the title and description. Every check reports what it looked for.
AI Prompt Generator
What should I actually type into ChatGPT to test myself?
Enter your brand, your category and up to three competitors, and it builds around thirty buyer questions grouped into five intents, from first-time discovery through head-to-head comparison. You paste them into the engines yourself and note where you are missing.
llms.txt Generator
How do I hand AI assistants a shortlist of my best pages?
Fill in a short form and it writes a valid llms.txt file: a curated, Markdown-shaped index of the pages you most want read. Live preview, copy, download. Read our honest take on whether llms.txt is worth the ten minutes before you commit.
The order we would run them in
These four are not four ways of doing the same thing. They stack, and running them out of order wastes your time.
- AI Bot Checker first. If a crawler is blocked, nothing else you do matters. This takes ten seconds and rules out the one problem that makes every other fix pointless.
- AI Readiness Checker next, on the single page you most want quoted. It tells you whether that page is shaped so an engine can lift a clean answer out of it, and which of the seven signals are missing.
- Prompt Generator third. Now go find out where you actually stand. Generate the questions your buyers ask, paste them into the engines, and write down which intents you are absent from.
- llms.txt Generator last, and only if you want it. It is a ten-minute file with an uncertain payoff, which we explain on that page rather than selling you on it.
Questions people ask
Do I need an account?
No. There is no signup, no login and no free trial. Open a tool and use it.
Is anything stored?
No. The two checkers pass your domain or URL to a small function that fetches a public file and returns the result; nothing is written to a database. The prompt generator and the llms.txt generator never send anything anywhere at all, because they run entirely in your browser.
Can I run these on a site I do not own?
Yes. Both checkers only read public files, so you can point them at a competitor and see exactly what an engine sees.
Where do I go after the tools?
The tools handle the mechanical layer. What earns citations after that is authority and being mentioned across the web, which we cover in improving your brand visibility in AI search and how to measure AI search visibility.