Can AI engines actually see and cite your website?
Answer engine optimisation (AEO) is how you make your site quotable in AI assistants, not just rankable in blue links. Most AEO tools tell you whether you’re winning in AI search today. We tell you why, and exactly what to fix. Start with the 20-Point AEO Readiness Test, the same machine-verified test from our audit of 50 funded Toronto startups (median: 10.75/20).
Not another vanity scoreboard
Your typical AI-visibility tracker gang stops at a number
The usual crowd of AI-tracking tools count how often AI mentions you and hand you a percentage. That’s a scoreboard. It names the symptom, never the cause, and never the fix. We read your pages the way an AI engine does and tell you exactly why it skips you and what to change.
Typical tracker
- ✗ “You have 12% AI visibility.”
- ✗ A vanity number, updated monthly.
- ✗ No reason. No fix. Nothing you can act on.
Stratezik
- ✓ “AI skips your pricing page: the tiers are buried in prose.”
- ✓ Page-by-page, written like an engineer’s review.
- ✓ The exact sentence, heading, or table to change, and why.
What your email unlocks
What your free analysis reveals
Enter your site and email and we run the full diagnostic stack. Here’s what comes back:
Your AEO readiness score
The 20-point test from our audit of 50 funded Toronto startups, instantly on screen.
Can AI even read you?
Whether your content reaches AI crawlers at all, or vanishes behind JavaScript and blocked bots.
Are AI engines naming you?
We ask AI the questions your buyers ask (without naming you) and check if you come up.
How you beat the competitors you choose
Name your rivals and we score them head-to-head on AI-readiness. See exactly where to leapfrog them.
Why specific pages get skipped
A page-by-page breakdown of what makes AI quote a page, and what’s stopping yours.
Your prioritized fix list
Not “improve your content.” The specific headings, stats, and structure to change first.
Three steps
How it works
Enter your site
Drop your URL and email. No signup, no credit card. Your topline score is free.
We read it like AI does
In ~20 seconds we run the full diagnostic: crawlers, structure, content, competitors.
You get the fixes
A clear breakdown of what’s holding you back in AI search, with the exact changes to make.
Your buyers now start in AI, not a list of blue links
If AI can’t read, understand, and quote your site, you’re invisible at the exact moment a customer is deciding. Most companies are wide open on this. The ones who fix it first win the next decade of search.
FAQ
AEO readiness checker: common questions
- What is an AEO readiness test?
- An AEO (answer engine optimisation) readiness test scores how well your website can be read, understood, and cited by AI assistants and answer engines. Stratezik’s free checker runs eight machine-verified criteria across crawler access, server-rendered HTML, entity presence, Organization and FAQ schema, answer-first copy, llms.txt, and pricing transparency, scaled to a score out of 20.
- Is the Stratezik AEO checker free?
- Yes. Enter your URL to get a topline score and defaults-vs-deliberate split in about 20 seconds with no signup. Enter your email (with consent) to unlock the full eight-criterion breakdown, evidence, and prioritized fix list on screen and by email. Paid options ($10 page report, $49 full-site audit) add AI-visibility queries, competitor benchmarks, and page-level GEO diagnostics.
- What is a good AEO readiness score?
- In Stratezik’s June 2026 audit of 50 funded Toronto startup websites, the median score was 10.75 out of 20 and no company scored above 17. Startups averaged 95% on “default” criteria (crawler access, rendering, presence) but only 29% on deliberate work (schema, copy structure, llms.txt, machine-readable pricing). Beating the median is a start; closing the deliberate gap is where most AI visibility wins live.
- How is this different from AI visibility tracking tools?
- Most AI visibility trackers report whether you were mentioned in an AI answer (a symptom). Stratezik’s checker tests whether your site is technically and structurally ready to be cited (the cause): raw HTML visibility, schema, chunk-friendly headings, trust markers, and information gain. You get specific fixes, not just a percentage.
- What does the 20-point test check?
- Eight criteria, each worth 2.5 points: AI crawler access (robots.txt), JavaScript-free rendering, off-page entity alignment (LinkedIn/Crunchbase), Organization schema, FAQPage schema, answer-first formatting, llms.txt, and pricing transparency. Group A covers what your stack gives you by default; Group B is what you must build deliberately.
- Who built this AEO checker?
- Stratezik Digital, a Toronto digital marketing agency specializing in SEO, AEO, paid media, and growth strategy for startups and SMBs across Canada. The test is the same machine-verified framework published in the Toronto Startup Website Audit 2026 research report.
Research behind the benchmark: Toronto Startup Website Audit 2026. Need help implementing fixes? Book a call.