Is your site visible to AI?
When buyers ask ChatGPT or Perplexity for recommendations, the assistants can only cite sites they can read. Check in seconds which AI crawlers your robots.txt allows — and whether you publish an llms.txt.
Crawl access is step one. Citations are the goal.
This tool tells you whether AI can read you. It can't tell you whether AI recommends you. BusinessMCP's AI-visibility tracking probes ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude with your target prompts every week and reports where your brand shows up — plus which AI crawlers actually hit your site and what traffic AI assistants refer. More background in our AI agents for business guide.
Frequently asked questions
Should I block AI crawlers or let them in?
It’s a real trade-off. Blocking training bots (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot) keeps your content out of model training — but AI assistants increasingly ARE the search results, and being invisible to them means never being cited when a buyer asks "what’s the best X". Most B2B companies now allow at least the user-driven agents (ChatGPT-User, Claude-Web, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot) because those drive cited, referral-style visits.
What is llms.txt?
An emerging convention (llmstxt.org): a markdown file at /llms.txt giving AI assistants a curated map of your most important pages — what your product does, where the docs are, what to cite. It’s cheap to add and only helps. BusinessMCP publishes its own at /llms.txt.
Does blocking Google-Extended hurt my Google rankings?
No. Google-Extended only governs use of your content for Gemini training; Googlebot (search indexing, including AI Overviews) is a separate agent. Blocking Google-Extended does not affect Search rankings.
How do I know if AI assistants actually cite my brand?
Crawl access is the prerequisite; citation is the outcome. BusinessMCP’s AI-visibility tracking asks ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude your target prompts weekly and reports whether — and how — your brand gets cited, alongside the crawl-to-citation correlation.