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AI Visibility Checker

Check how ready your site is to be cited by ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Gemini. Answer eight quick questions to score your AEO and GEO readiness, then get a clear next step. No sign-up, no email.

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Self-assessment

Score your AI visibility

Answer-engine optimisation (AEO) and generative-engine optimisation (GEO) decide whether AI assistants quote your brand or skip it. Tick the boxes that are true for your site, then run the check. Everything runs in your browser.

Your brand or website URL

Tick each item that is true for your site Structured data and schema markup. Your pages use Organization, FAQ, Article or Product schema so machines can read your content. An About page with a named team. Real people, roles and a clear company story, not an anonymous "we". Consistent NAP. Your name, address and phone number match across your site, Google Business Profile and directories. Answer-first content and FAQs. Pages lead with a direct answer and include question-and-answer sections. Third-party mentions. Your brand appears on Wikipedia, Crunchbase, review sites or trusted industry publications. An llms.txt file. You publish a /llms.txt that tells AI crawlers what your site is about and what to prioritise. Original data or quotable stats. You publish first-hand research, numbers or definitions worth citing. A fast, crawlable site. Clean HTML, fast load, no blocking of AI crawlers in robots.txt.

Honest note: no tool can guarantee AI citations. This is a readiness self-assessment, not a ranking promise. Real gains come from the work behind each item above.

Plain English

What AEO and GEO readiness means

Search is splitting in two. People still type into Google, but a growing share ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Google AI Overviews and read a single synthesised answer. If your brand is not in that answer, you are invisible, even when you rank on page one of classic search.

Answer-engine optimisation (AEO) is the practice of structuring your content so it can be lifted directly into those answers: clear questions, direct answers, schema markup, and facts an AI can trust. Generative-engine optimisation (GEO) is the broader work of becoming a source the models reach for, through authority signals, third-party mentions, original data and a clean, crawlable site.

Readiness is not the same as a citation. No agency, and no tool, can force ChatGPT to quote you. What you can do is remove every reason for it not to. The checklist above maps to the signals that consistently separate brands that get cited from brands that get skipped. Want the full picture? Read our guides on answer-engine optimisation, generative-engine optimisation and getting cited by ChatGPT.

Juicy Designs has been building search visibility for South African brands since 2015. We are founder-led, hold a 4.9-star Google rating, and work with 64+ clients across the country. Our AI search optimisation service turns this readiness checklist into a prioritised plan, and pairs it with classic SEO across South Africa so you win both the AI answer and the blue link.

Low score? That is a roadmap, not a verdict.

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Questions

AI visibility questions

What is an AI visibility checker?

It is a self-assessment that scores how ready your website is to be cited by AI answer engines such as ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Gemini. Our free checker asks eight yes or no questions covering structured data, authority signals, content format and technical health, then gives you a readiness score out of eight and a short verdict. It is a starting point, not a ranking guarantee.

Is the AI visibility checker really free?

Yes. The tool runs entirely in your browser, needs no sign-up and collects no email. We built it because no South African agency offered a simple AEO readiness self-check. If you want a detailed, page-by-page plan, that is where our paid AI search optimisation service comes in.

Can any tool guarantee my brand gets cited by ChatGPT?

No, and you should be wary of anyone who promises it. AI assistants decide what to cite using signals no third party controls. What a readiness check does is show you which trust, structure and authority signals you are missing so you can fix the things that actually move the needle. We cover this in detail in our guide on getting cited by ChatGPT.

What is the difference between AEO, GEO and SEO?

SEO optimises for ranking in classic search results. AEO (answer-engine optimisation) optimises your content so it can be lifted directly into AI answers. GEO (generative-engine optimisation) is the broader work of becoming a trusted source that generative models reach for. They overlap heavily, and the strongest brands invest in all three. Start with our explainers on AEO and GEO.

My score was low. What should I do next?

A low score simply means there is clear, fixable work ahead. The fastest wins are usually adding structured data, building answer-first FAQ content and earning third-party mentions. Juicy Designs can turn your result into a prioritised AI search optimisation plan and run it alongside your wider SEO in South Africa. We are founder-led with no long-term contracts. Let's chat or get a quote.