AI visibility audit
is your page answer-extractable?
Most teams do not need more content. They need answers on the pages they already run that an AI Overview, ChatGPT, or Claude can actually lift. Score a page against the four signals that decide it — in your browser, with no keys and no backend.
What is AI visibility?
AI visibility is how often and how accurately a business appears inside AI-generated answers — AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, and the other assistants that cite sources. It is not the same thing as a ranking. A page can rank first for a term and never be cited, because the model has no short, self-contained passage it can lift. AI Overviews and chat assistants assemble an answer from passages, not pages: they prefer a 2-4 sentence answer that stands on its own, a section heading shaped like the question, a declared Q&A pair, and the entity named in plain text. When those are missing, the model quotes a competitor who supplied them.
The honest consequence is that most teams do not need more content. They need extractable answers on the pages they already run — the same topic, rewritten so the answer can be lifted. The self-check below scores a page against the four signals that most often decide whether that is possible.
Score a page against the four extractability signals
Paste a page title or pick a demo shape, then tick the signals the page actually has. Everything runs in your browser — no network, no keys, no data leaves this page.
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deterministic · offline · no networkExtractability signals
4 / 4| Signal | What the model gets | If it is missing |
|---|---|---|
| Direct answer up top | A self-contained passage to quote | Nothing liftable; the model paraphrases a competitor |
| FAQPage JSON-LD | An explicit question-to-answer mapping | The model must infer the pairing from prose |
| Question-shaped H2s | A query matched to a section | The section maps to no query at all |
| Entity named in text | A citable, attributable passage | A passage with no attribution to carry |
Frequently asked questions
What is AI visibility?
AI visibility is how often and how accurately a business appears in AI-generated answers — AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, and other assistants that cite sources. It is not the same as a ranking: a page can rank first for a term and still never be cited, because the model has no short, self-contained passage it can lift. The lever is therefore not more content, it is extractable answers on the pages you already run.
How do AI Overviews decide which pages to cite?
Answer engines look for passages that answer a specific question in a small number of plain sentences, without depending on surrounding context. Pages that state a direct answer up front, label their sections as questions, declare their Q&A pairs as structured data, and name the entity in text are cheaper for the model to quote. Pages whose answer is buried in a narrative are passed over even when they rank well.
How do I make my page answer-extractable?
Four changes cover most of the gap. First, put a 2-4 sentence direct answer to the page's core question above the fold. Second, write the section headings as the questions your readers actually ask. Third, declare your question-and-answer pairs as FAQPage JSON-LD. Fourth, make sure the product or subject is named in plain body text, not only in a title or an image. Audit each page against those four signals, fix the misses, and re-check.
Does Cody help with AI visibility?
Cody is a private AI assistant that connects to the tools a team already runs, so the same knowledge used to answer a customer is available as extractable answers across the team's docs and help content. Teams use it to keep their answers consistent and current, which is the practical prerequisite for being cited accurately. You can learn more at agentcody.ai.
What is the difference between rankings and AI citations?
A ranking measures where a URL sits in a list of links. An AI citation measures whether a model quotes that URL inside a generated answer. Rankings reward relevance and authority signals across a whole page; citations reward a single liftable passage. You can win the ranking and lose the citation, which is why a page that ranks well can still be invisible in the answer layer.
Make your answers the ones AI cites
Cody is a private AI assistant that keeps a team's answers consistent and current, so the same knowledge that serves your customers can be extracted and cited accurately. The audit above is the first step; connecting it to your real tools is the next.