Is your site visible to AI search? Check it with one API call

AI assistants — ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Google’s AI Overviews — increasingly answer questions by citing web pages instead of sending a click. Whether your site can be crawled, parsed, and quoted by them comes down to a handful of signals most SEO tools never check:

• Do your robots.txt rules actually let AI crawlers in (GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot)? A surprising number of sites block them by accident.
• Is there an llms.txt pointing models at your key content?
• Is your content marked up with JSON-LD structured data?
• Are your passages written so a model can lift a clean, self-contained citation?

I built a small audit engine that scores a URL 0–100 across exactly these dimensions and tells you what’s failing. It’s keyless to try:

curl -X POST https://citeready-api.sprytools.com/v1/audit 
  -H "content-type: application/json" 
  -d '{"url":"https://example.com"}'

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You get a per-category breakdown — AI crawler access, llms.txt, structured data, citability, technical — with a pass/warn/fail on each check and a concrete recommendation, e.g. “No robots.txt found — you lose the Sitemap hint and explicit AI-bot policy.”

Prefer pasting a URL? There’s a web version: https://citeready.sprytools.com — free tier is 3 audits/day, no signup.

Curious what scores people get here — what’s the most surprising thing it flags on your site?