Overview
Checks whether your content is structured to be quoted and cited by AI answers.
What this audit checks
Determines how easily AI systems can extract, trust and cite your content, assessing answer-first structure, factual clarity, provenance and machine accessibility.
Extractability
- Confirm key questions are answered directly in the opening lines
- Check content uses clear headings, lists and self-contained statements
- Verify claims are stated concisely enough to be quoted verbatim
- Confirm each page carries one unambiguous primary answer
Trust and provenance
- Confirm facts are supported by sources, data or original evidence
- Check named authorship and clear publication and update dates
- Verify statistics are attributed and verifiable
Machine accessibility
- Confirm AI crawlers are permitted to access the content
- Check content renders server-side without interaction
- Confirm relevant schema reinforces the facts on the page
Answer alignment
- Compare your answers against those AI currently surfaces for the query
- Identify questions where your content is thinner than the cited source
- Confirm your framing matches how the question is actually asked
How to score it
What good looks like
Recommended next steps
Where this fits - and what's next
The SearchScore path from a problem you feel to visibility you can measure.