What exactly is AiVIS Cite Ledger?

AiVIS Cite Ledger is an evidence-backed AI citation audit and remediation system. It measures how AI models, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI, interpret, trust, and cite your web content. The result is a 0–100 CITE LEDGER score across ten weighted families (avs-v3), with BRAG evidence-linked findings and prioritized fixes.

How is this different from Semrush, Ahrefs, or Clearscope?

Traditional SEO tools optimize for keyword ranking in traditional search results. AiVIS Cite Ledger audits citation readiness, the specific signals that determine whether AI answer engines retrieve and cite your content. A page can rank #1 on Google and be completely invisible to AI answer synthesis.

What is BRAG and how does it make findings trustworthy?

BRAG stands for Based-Retrieval-Auditable-Grading. It ties every audit finding to a real, traceable element on your page, a specific heading, schema block, meta tag, or content section, each carrying a unique evidence ID. You can open the element, verify the finding, and recheck it after a fix. No black boxes.

Is the free tier genuinely useful, or just a teaser?

The Observer (free) plan gives you a full composite CITE LEDGER score and all ten family scores (avs-v3), so you can see exactly where you stand and which categories are hurting you. BRAG evidence IDs and prioritized fix packs require a paid plan. Three audits per month, no credit card.

How to Know If AI Can Read My Website | AiVIS Cite Ledger

You cannot see what AI sees on your site. Here is how to check, quickly, specifically, and without guessing.

Manual test sequence (5 minutes)

Test 1, robots.txt: Visit yoursite.com/robots.txt. Search for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, anthropic-ai. If any say 'Disallow: /', that crawler is blocked.

Test 2, View Source: Right-click your page, View Source (not Inspect). Look at the <body>. If it contains mostly script tags with minimal text content, your site is client-rendered. AI cannot read it.

Test 3, JSON-LD check: In View Source, search for 'application/ld+json'. If not found, your site has no structured data. If found, check for @type: Organization at minimum.

Test 4, Meta description: In View Source, search for 'name=\

'. If missing, your meta description is absent.

After manual checks: run a full audit

Manual checks cover the four most critical failure points. But there are 50+ extraction signals across ten scoring families. An AI visibility audit checks all of them in under two minutes, assigns a composite score, and provides prioritized fix recommendations with evidence IDs.

The free audit gives a baseline. Enter any URL and get your extraction readiness assessment with your top blockers identified.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a way to simulate exactly what GPTBot sees?: the audit uses a headless Chromium browser with AI crawler user-agents to fetch pages, simulating the AI crawl experience more closely than standard tools. The rendering and extraction simulation is the closest proxy to actual GPTBot behavior.
My View Source shows some content, but not all of it, what does that mean?: Partial server-side rendering means some content is available to AI crawlers but some is not. The content missing from View Source is JavaScript-rendered and invisible to most AI crawlers. Run an AI visibility audit to see exactly which content is and isn't extractable.