The honest AI search checker.

An AI SEO checker audits whether AI search engines can find, read and cite your page. It differs from a classic SEO tool by checking AI crawler access, content extractability without JavaScript, and structured data consistency, rather than only Google indexing signals.

Classic SEO extensions check how Google sees your page. CiteCheck adds AI search readiness on top, and labels every check with its evidence strength and source. You can see whether a recommendation is documented in platform specs, measured in research, or simply consensus opinion.

CiteCheck reads your robots.txt and evaluates access for the major crawlers operated by OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Google and Microsoft, plus training only crawlers. Crawlers that feed live AI answers affect your score. Training crawlers are reported without scoring, since blocking them is a business choice.

No. CiteCheck is a readiness checker, not a mention tracker. It tells you whether your page is technically capable of being crawled, read and cited, and what to fix if not. Tracking actual brand mentions in AI answers requires a separate monitoring tool.

Yes, completely. There is no paid tier, no trial, no account and no upsell inside the extension. It was built by Mackyclyde SEO for our own client audits and released publicly. The only link out is a credit in the footer.

No. All analysis runs on your device. There is no account, no analytics and no telemetry. The only network requests are reads of the site you are analysing, such as its robots.txt and homepage. Nothing about your browsing ever reaches us. See the privacy policy for detail.

Because independent crawler-log research found that almost no AI bot traffic requests the file, and Google has stated it does not use it. CiteCheck reports whether you have one, since it costs nothing to publish, but scoring it would imply a benefit the evidence does not support.

Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Brave, all from the same extension. Brave users can install directly from the Chrome Web Store. A Firefox version is under consideration. The extension requires no configuration in any browser.

Two scores, one for search readiness and one for AI citability. Each check is weighted by evidence strength: documented signals count triple, research-backed double, consensus single. Passing earns full weight, a warning earns half. Checks that do not apply to your page type are excluded rather than failed.

Yes. Add your agency name, website and accent colour in settings, then generate a branded report and print or save it as a PDF. Reports can also be copied as Markdown or exported as JSON. There is no restriction on commercial or client use.

Generative engine optimisation and answer engine optimisation both describe optimising for AI generated answers rather than ranked links. In practice the terms are used interchangeably with AI SEO. CiteCheck covers the same ground regardless of which label you use.

No. Every check explains what it means, why it matters and how to fix it in plain language, with a link to the source. The verdict line at the top tells you what to address first. SEO professionals get the depth, everyone else gets a readable answer.