Methods you can run yourself, including the ones that make us unnecessary.
Each guide gives the manual route first. Where one of our tools makes a step faster we say so, but no step requires buying anything. Every guide also states what its method cannot tell you, because a method page claiming no limits is an advertisement.
How to check whether AI crawlers can read your site
Fetch your robots.txt and read it against the actual AI crawler user agents, then fetch a real page using one of those agents from outside your network. If either step fails, nothing else you do for AI visibility can work.
5 steps
How to measure your brand's visibility in AI answers
Pick the unbranded questions your buyers actually ask, run each one several times across several engines, and record the share of answers that name you along with the number of runs. A single check on a single day is an anecdote, not a measurement.
6 steps
How to find out who gets cited instead of you
Read the sources of the answers where you lose, not just the names in them. The pages an engine cites for your category are a finite, addressable list, and appearing on them is usually faster than trying to outrank them.
6 steps