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Free tool to check if AI bots can reach your site and fix...

Security

HTTPS enforced with SPF and DMARC, but no HSTS, CSP, frame protection or other hardening headers (4/12 checklist). Client-side processing is a real privacy plus; no audits claimed.

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AI Search Visibility Checker

About this app

The AI Search Visibility Checker is a free, browser-based tool by UK Creative Ventures that helps businesses ensure they are discoverable by AI search assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google's AI features. It analyzes your robots.txt file to see which of 25 AI and search bots are allowed, then generates a fixed version based on your preferences—whether you want maximum AI visibility or to block training bots while staying in AI search. The tool also includes an AI answer test that generates customer questions to see what AI tools say about your business, a business schema generator for structured data, and an optional llms.txt builder. With clear guidance on common robots.txt mistakes and firewall/CDN considerations, it's a practical resource for anyone wanting to stay visible in the age of AI search. No sign-up required, and all processing happens locally in your browser.

Key features

1Checks 25 AI and search bots against your robots.txt and shows exactly which are blocked
2Generates a fixed robots.txt with presets: maximum AI visibility, block training, or custom per-bot
3AI answer test that generates customer questions to see what ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI say about you
4Business schema generator (LocalBusiness, Organization and 20+ types) plus optional llms.txt builder
5Runs entirely in the browser with no sign-up, no server upload, and copy/download output

Target customer profile

Drawn from the product itself, not from a survey.

Demographic

Small business owners and entrepreneurs

Pain points

Uncertain if AI tools can find their website; accidental blocking by robots.txt or CDN; lack of technical expertise.

Primary needs

Simple tool to check and fix AI crawler access; improve online visibility without hiring an expert.

Demographic

SEO specialists and digital marketers

Pain points

Keeping up with AI search trends; ensuring client sites are optimized for AI discovery; avoiding costly mistakes.

Primary needs

Efficient way to audit and fix robots.txt for AI bots; generate schema markup; test AI answers for clients.

Demographic

Web developers and site administrators

Pain points

Managing crawler access across multiple sites; dealing with CDN and firewall settings; preventing accidental blocks.

Primary needs

Quick diagnostics for AI bot accessibility; generate correct robots.txt rules; integrate with existing workflows.

Scout Review

Written by AI from measured evidence, scored out of 100.

The AI Search Visibility Checker does one genuinely useful thing well: it tells you whether AI crawlers can actually reach your site, and it hands you a fixed robots.txt. That's a real problem in 2026 — businesses are getting quietly excluded from AI answers by a single Disallow line they wrote years ago and forgot about. The tool covers 25 bots, offers three sensible presets (max visibility, block training, custom), and backs it up with an AI answer test, a schema generator and an llms.txt builder. It's free, requires no sign-up, and runs entirely in your browser, which is the right call for something you paste your site config into. The weaknesses are structural: mobile performance is mediocre (60/100, LCP 3.3s), security headers are thin (4/12), and accessibility has three failing audits despite a 94/100 score. It's a competent free utility, not a product — and it's buried inside an agency site rather than standing on its own.

Measure by measure

Usability

No sign-up, browser-local processing, example data, and copy/download buttons. Instructions cover Yoast, Rank Math, FTP and Cloudflare — genuinely practical for non-technical owners.

Design

Functional, text-heavy single-page tool with a clear 4-step tab flow. No screenshots or demo video, and the UI reads like a form-first utility rather than a polished product.

Speed

Lighthouse desktop 96/100 but mobile 60/100 with LCP 3.3s, CLS 0.136 and TBT 630ms. Desktop is snappy; mobile is where the content-heavy page drags.

Security

HTTPS enforced with SPF and DMARC, but no HSTS, CSP, frame protection or other hardening headers (4/12 checklist). Client-side processing is a real privacy plus; no audits claimed.

Accessibility

Lighthouse accessibility 94/100, but failing audits for prohibited ARIA attributes, non-sequential headings, and a missing main landmark. No WCAG statement published.

Growth

Real, growing problem — AI crawler visibility — with a free, no-signup wedge covering 25 bots, schema and llms.txt. Domain is young (2024) and it's bolted onto an agency site.

Improvement areas

Mobile performance: Lighthouse 60/100 with LCP 3.3s, CLS 0.136 and TBT 630ms
Security headers: 4/12 checklist, missing HSTS, CSP, frame protection and Referrer-Policy
Accessibility: three failing audits (prohibited ARIA, heading order, no main landmark) and no WCAG statement
No monitoring or re-check: a CDN or firewall change can silently re-block AI bots with no alert

Design & Usability

The AI Search Visibility Checker is a free, browser-based tool from UK Creative Ventures that audits your robots.txt against 25 AI and search bots, then rewrites it based on whether you want maximum AI visibility or to block training crawlers while staying in AI search. It also bundles an AI answer test, a business schema generator, and an optional llms.txt builder. Design-wise it's a form-first utility: four clear tabs, consistent branding with the parent agency site, but no screenshots, demo video, or visual polish beyond functional. Usability is where it earns its keep — no sign-up, everything runs locally, and the instructions cover Yoast, Rank Math, FTP uploads and Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control, which is more practical guidance than most paid SEO tools bother to ship. The 'Try an example' and 'I don't have a robots.txt' fallbacks lower the barrier for non-technical owners. It's not pretty, but it's genuinely usable.

Speed & Security

Speed is a split verdict. Lighthouse desktop performance lands at 96/100, but mobile drops to 60/100 with an LCP of 3.3s, CLS of 0.136 and TBT of 630ms — the content-heavy marketing page is the bottleneck, not the tool logic, which runs client-side. Security is middling: HTTPS is enforced and SPF/DMARC are in place, but the header checklist scores 4/12 with no HSTS, CSP, frame protection, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy or Permissions-Policy. There's no SOC 2, ISO, pen-test or bug bounty claim anywhere on the site. The genuine security strength is architectural: because all processing happens in the browser, your robots.txt and business details never leave your machine. For a free utility that's a reasonable posture, but it's not hardened.

Accessibility & Growth

Accessibility scores 94/100 on Lighthouse, which is strong, but three audits fail: prohibited ARIA attributes, non-sequential heading order, and a missing main landmark. There's no published WCAG statement or accessibility page. Growth is the more interesting question. The problem is real and getting more real — as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google's AI features become discovery channels, a single wrong line in robots.txt can quietly exile a business from AI answers, and most owners have no idea. The wedge is specific: free, no sign-up, 25 bots checked, plus schema and llms.txt in one flow. Against Google Search Console (Google-only), Screaming Frog (desktop, technical) and Cloudflare AI Crawl Control (Cloudflare-only), this is the only free browser-based option that covers the AI-bot question directly. The limit is that it's a one-shot diagnostic bolted onto an agency's free-tools page, with no monitoring, no alerts, and no reason to return.

Conclusion

If you run a small business site and you've never looked at your robots.txt, this is worth ten minutes. Paste your file, pick a preset, copy the output, and you're done — no account, no email, no upsell funnel. The schema generator and llms.txt builder are nice extras, though the site is refreshingly honest that llms.txt is a proposed standard with no confirmed citation benefit, which is more candour than most AI-SEO tools manage. Where it falls short is depth: it's a one-shot check with no monitoring, no history, and no alert if a CDN or firewall later starts blocking bots behind your back — and the site itself warns that Cloudflare can override robots.txt, which is exactly the kind of thing you'd want tracked over time. For a free tool from an agency, it's a solid lead magnet and a genuinely useful diagnostic. Just don't mistake it for a platform.

Suggestions for improvement

Fix the mobile Lighthouse score — LCP 3.3s and CLS 0.136 on a tool aimed at non-technical owners is a bad first impression.
Add HSTS, CSP and frame-protection headers; the 4/12 checklist is thin even for a free utility.
Resolve the three failing accessibility audits (ARIA attributes, heading order, missing main landmark) and publish a short WCAG statement.
Offer an optional saved re-check or email reminder so users can catch CDN/firewall changes that silently re-block AI bots.

How we score

Alternatives comparison

Named competitors, point by point. Nobody paid to appear here or to be left out.

	AI Search Visibility Checker	Google Search Console	Screaming Frog SEO Spider	Cloudflare AI Crawl Control
Price	Free, no sign-up	Free with a Google account	Free tier limited to 500 URLs; paid licence from ~£199/year	Free on Cloudflare plans; advanced controls on paid plans
AI crawler coverage	25 AI and search bots checked, with per-bot allow/block presets	Googlebot and Google's own crawlers only	Configurable user-agent; not AI-bot specific out of the box	AI bot categories managed at the network edge for Cloudflare sites
robots.txt analysis and fix	Paste-and-check, then generates a corrected robots.txt with copy/download	robots.txt tester and report; does not rewrite the file	Flags blocked URLs and directives; no auto-generated replacement	Blocks or allows bots at the edge, independent of robots.txt
Structured data / schema tools	Built-in business schema generator with 20+ business types and validator links	Reports rich-result and structured-data errors; no generator	Validates and extracts existing structured data; no generator	None
Setup and technical skill required	No install, no account; step-by-step guidance for Yoast, Rank Math, FTP and Cloudflare	Requires Google account and DNS or file verification	Desktop install; configuration and crawl analysis need SEO knowledge	Requires the site to be proxied through Cloudflare and dashboard access
Ongoing monitoring	None — one-shot check, manual re-run	Continuous crawl, index and coverage reporting	Scheduled crawls available with the paid licence	Continuous edge-level bot management with analytics

Google Search Console

Provides insights into how Google crawls and indexes your site, including robots.txt testing and indexing issues. While it focuses on Google, it's essential for overall search visibility.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider

A desktop crawler that audits websites for SEO issues, including robots.txt analysis and structured data validation. It offers more comprehensive site audits but requires technical knowledge.

Cloudflare AI Crawl Control

Cloudflare's feature to manage AI bot access at the network level. It provides granular control over AI crawlers but is limited to Cloudflare-protected sites.

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