AuditsAI readiness audit
Can AI systems reach and read your page?
AI search engines and answer systems can only use what they can retrieve and parse. This audit checks the documented technical foundations of AI search readiness: crawlability, AI crawler access in robots.txt, content that exists without JavaScript and machine-readable structure. Crawler policy is reported as a fact about your site, not as a fault.
What it checks
- Technical foundations for AI search
- AI search crawler access
- AI training crawler policy
- User-initiated AI fetchers
- Content without JavaScript
- Main content and semantic HTML
- llms.txt (informational)
Audit a page for AI readiness
Free, read-only and usually done in about a minute. No account needed for your first audit.
Four layers of AI Discovery
AI readiness is not one switch.
Audit Standard 2026.4 separates what makes a page technically readable from what is a policy choice or an emerging convention. Each layer is treated differently in the report.
Technical accessibility and readability
Scored, like technical SEO
AI systems start where search engines start: a page they can retrieve, a clear canonical URL, a declared language, crawlable links and structured data that parses. These foundations are shared with search and count toward the Technical Score.
Crawler policy (reported, never scored)
Reported, never scored
Whether AI training crawlers may use your content, and which user-initiated AI fetchers your robots.txt names, are policy decisions. MaxiMarket reports them as neutral observations, so opting out never lowers your score.
AI search crawler access
Reported per crawler, never scored
AI search products use their own crawlers. MaxiMarket evaluates robots.txt for them and lists each one that is disallowed: OpenAI, for example, documents that sites blocking OAI-SearchBot are not shown in ChatGPT search answers. Blocking them is still your choice.
Emerging conventions (not required)
Reported, not required
Proposals such as /llms.txt are reported for information only. No documented AI platform requires them, so a missing file is never a problem in the report.
Every AI Discovery rule and observation is listed in the AI Discovery view of the rule explorer.
Machine readability
Content that exists before JavaScript runs.
Not every crawler runs JavaScript. The audit reads the page as served and reports how much text is in that initial HTML, as a neutral observation. When the initial HTML shows that the page builds its content with JavaScript, the audit also renders it, within fixed safety limits, and checks the rendered page; if rendering does not succeed, the report says so instead of scoring an empty page.
What it cannot promise
Ready to be read is not the same as being cited.
Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Google’s AI features, Perplexity or any other system includes or cites a page is decided by those systems, and depends on content, relevance and authority. An AI readiness audit removes technical reasons a page could be missed; it does not guarantee AI visibility. To see exactly which AI crawlers your robots.txt allows, use the AI crawler checker.
Free during the Public Beta
Audit a page for AI readiness
One audit covers search and AI Discovery together: the same page, the same published standard, with AI-specific findings and observations shown in their own view.
Read how a MaxiMarket page audit works or browse the published Audit Standard.