AI-Readability Audit for Your Website
The VISIBLE-7 audit, done by hand, across your whole site, by the person who wrote the method. The method itself is published free on this site, all of it. The free check samples it in minutes. The full instruction file can be handed to your own developer or AI agent. This page is for when you want it done rather than documented.
Why a site can be invisible to AI
A website can look perfect in your browser and be nearly empty to the machines that increasingly decide who gets found. Crawlers and AI assistants do not see the rendered page - they see the raw response your server sends. On many modern sites that raw response is a near-blank shell.
On many modern sites that raw response says, in effect, "run some code to find out what is here." Some machines run it. Many do not.
The cost is quiet. A readable competitor gets recommended instead of you, not because they are better, but because their site could be read.
Three ways to get the same result
There is one method, and it is public. What differs is whose hands run it.
The free check reads your public files and reports what it can verify, in minutes. The published instruction file covers everything: hand it to a developer or an AI coding agent and it audits, fixes, and verifies. The audit is the third path: I run the method across your site myself, and you do nothing except read the report.
If you have a technical team and an afternoon, take the instruction file. It is the same checklist I use, whole, no email required. The audit exists for everyone who would rather have the person who wrote the checklist decide what it means.
The seven checks
VISIBLE-7 runs seven checks, ordered by how much damage failing each one causes.
- 01Rendering - are your actual sentences in the raw HTML, or only assembled by JavaScript.
- 02Titles and descriptions - does every page say what it is.
- 03Link previews - does a shared link show a branded card.
- 04Crawl permissions - does robots.txt allow the right crawlers, including a conscious decision on AI crawlers.
- 05Sitemap and canonicals - can machines find every page, once.
- 06Structured data - does the site introduce itself formally, with schema.
- 07The AI layer - llms.txt, and pages that state what you do in plain sentences rather than implying it through images.
What you receive
Seven areas, each marked pass or fail, with the evidence attached: the actual tag found or missing, the actual response the crawler got. A fix list in damage order, written in plain language for an owner rather than a developer. And findings beyond the seven where they exist, clearly separated.
If an area passes, the report says so and moves on. If everything passes, the report is short, and short is the correct result.
The full method is published as a playbook you can read before hiring anyone: Is Your Website Invisible to AI? The VISIBLE-7 Audit. The audit applies it to your site.
VISIBLE-7 · scored report
- Renderingpass
- Link previewspartial
- Structured datafail
What the checklist cannot see
The checklist is the instrument; the audit is the reading.
An agent running the instruction file checks everything the file names. What it cannot do is weigh the findings. Two sites can fail the same three checks where one failure is cosmetic and one is the reason the site never gets cited, and the file cannot tell them apart.
Reading which is which comes from running this method against real sites every month and measuring what AI assistants actually recommend afterward. That judgment is the audit.
What this will not do
Passing every check means your site stops losing on technical grounds, which is the entry ticket, not the race.
It will not make you win. It is not a ranking-hacks service, and if a check can only pass by faking something, the report says unfixable instead. No manufactured urgency: a healthy site gets told it is healthy.
How the audit runs
You share the URL. The audit runs against all seven areas - nothing is installed, nothing changes on your site.
You get the scored report with the fixes ordered by impact. The audit itself is quick; most fixes are an afternoon of work.
Questions
A check of whether AI answer engines and search crawlers can actually read and cite your website, followed by a prioritised list of what to fix.
Last updated: 15 July 2026
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