Is your site visible to AI search?
Beacon is an Answer Engine Optimisation checker. Drop in any URL and get a forensic audit of the signals that decide whether you appear in AI answers. Try our sample audit results or scan our own platform to see our AEO standard diagnostics in action.
Findable
HTTPS, robots, sitemap, canonical, AI bot policy.
Structured
JSON-LD depth, OG, Twitter cards, heading hierarchy, semantic landmarks.
Trustworthy
Authorship, citations, internal links, llms.txt, SSR content.
The Beacon AEO Standard
Optimising for LLMs requires precision diagnostics. Beacon audits your content footprint against the strict technical requirements of modern AI models.
Server-Side Render (SSR) Verification
AI crawlers rarely execute client-side JavaScript. We check the raw HTML payload to ensure your copy is visible.
Granular Bot Crawler Analysis
We run a forensic check on your robots.txt against specific user-agents like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and Google-Extended.
Structured Data Schema Depth
Beyond simple tag presence, we recursively audit the depth and typing of your JSON-LD schemas (FAQPage, Org, etc.).
Cognitive Citations & Trust
Confirm outbound references, authorship data, and internal cross-linking that establish domain expertise.
AEO Scan Case Studies
See how high-authority platforms structure their content footprint for AI search optimization. Explore these live analyzed sites:
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about forensic Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) checking.
What is Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO)?
AEO is the practice of structuring and optimizing your website's content footprint to ensure it is discoverable, readable, and highly authoritative for Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI search engines like ChatGPT Search, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Unlike traditional SEO, AEO focuses heavily on raw HTML semantic clarity, schema depth, and structured authorship.
Why does structured JSON-LD matter for AI crawlers?
JSON-LD schema blocks are the most reliable way for AI systems to parse context, relationships, and data without relying solely on heuristic page analysis. By supplying rich types like Organization, WebSite, and WebApplication, you present clean metadata that LLMs can extract to credit and cite your brand.
Why does Beacon verify Server-Side Rendering (SSR)?
AI search engine crawlers rarely execute client-side JavaScript when indexing pages. If your site relies entirely on client-side JS rendering (like standard React single-page apps), the crawler sees an empty container, making the copy invisible to search databases.