Question 1

Is the AI Citation Readiness Checker free?

Accepted Answer

Yes. It's free, requires no account, and no credit card. You get the full result immediately.

Question 2

Does this guarantee AI engines will cite my site?

Accepted Answer

No. This tool measures structural readiness signals only — whether your homepage is technically and semantically easy for AI systems to read and understand. It cannot guarantee mentions, citations, or rankings in any AI-generated answer.

Question 3

Does this call ChatGPT, Perplexity, or any AI provider?

Accepted Answer

No. This checker is fully deterministic — it fetches your homepage, robots.txt, and sitemap.xml, then parses the HTML with pattern matching. It never calls an AI provider and never tests real AI-generated answers.

Question 4

What's the difference between this and the paid audit?

Accepted Answer

This free tool checks whether your homepage is structurally ready to be understood. The paid Growth GEO Intelligence Audit goes further: it tests real prompts against real AI engines, analyzes which competitors get mentioned instead of you, and reviews the sources those answers cite.

Question 5

How is the AI Citation Readiness Score calculated?

Accepted Answer

The score averages four category scores — Technical Readiness, Content Citability, Entity Clarity, and Trust Signals — each based on a set of deterministic checks against your homepage's markup. Checks the tool couldn't confirm are excluded rather than counted against you.

Question 6

Do you store my data?

Accepted Answer

No. This tool does not save your URL, your result, or any personal data. Each check runs fresh and nothing is written to a database.

Question 7

Why does the tool only check my homepage?

Accepted Answer

Checking a single page keeps the tool fast, free, and low-cost to run for everyone. It's a directional signal, not a full-site crawl — the paid audit covers a broader, prompt-driven scope.

Question 8

Why are some things marked 'not assessed'?

Accepted Answer

A few signals — like audience clarity or offer clarity — require understanding what a page actually means, not just what markup it has. A deterministic checker can't do that honestly, so V1 marks them as not assessed rather than guessing.

Question 9

Is this the same as a GEO checker or AI visibility checker?

Accepted Answer

It covers the same general area — GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) and AI search readiness — but stays narrowly focused on homepage structure. Think of it as an AI citation checker and AI search readiness checker in one: a starting point, not a full AI visibility audit.

Is your website ready to be cited by AI engines?

Four categories, one homepage fetch

Technical Readiness

Content Citability

Entity Clarity

Trust Signals

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