What is an AI visibility check?
It answers two questions: can AI engines read and verify your page, and do they actually name you when a buyer asks who to work with. This free check grades the first from eleven public on-page signals, then runs one live buyer-intent prompt across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity and shows you the answer verbatim.
Which AI engines does the free check cover?
The instant grade reads your page the way an AI crawler would. The live read asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity one buyer-intent question for your profession and city — one run each, answers shown verbatim. The paid AuthorityMap audit expands this to five engines, a full buyer-intent prompt set, and repeated runs.
How is the AI-readiness grade scored?
Eleven public, verifiable checks — HTTPS, title, meta description, a single H1, subheadings, structured data, lists, internal links, an author signal, mobile viewport, and image alt text — each with a fixed weight, scaled to 100. Every check and its result is shown on your report. No private database, no guesswork.
Is this an AEO checker? How is AEO different from SEO?
Yes — this is an AEO (answer engine optimization, also called GEO) checker. SEO is about ranking a page in a list of links; AEO is about being the name an AI assistant includes in its one synthesized answer. The signals overlap, but AEO leans harder on structured data, entity consistency, and public proof the engines can verify.
Why does AI name other loan officers instead of me?
Engines name whoever they can find, connect, and verify from public sources. When your reviews, license details, and mentions are scattered, stale, or inconsistent, the assistant names someone it can verify instead. That is usually a retrieval gap, not a judgment of your work.
Is the check really free?
Yes. The grade is instant with no signup, and the live engine read is free with your email. The full five-engine AuthorityMap audit — full prompt set, repeated runs, competitor comparison, and a 30-day fix queue — is a separate, paid service. No rankings or leads promised either way.