Robot Visible

A free check of the AI answers your buyers see

See who AI recommends instead of you.Then change the answer.

Robot Visible shows how your brand appears in live AI answers, why competitors win, what to fix next, and whether the change worked.

Enter a public URL. We’ll check its readiness, ask one real buyer question, show which brands and sources appeared, and give you the next move.

No sign-up. One live answer. One next move.

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northloop.example

Illustrative example

Stage 1 of 5 · Measure reality

Read the site the way a crawler does, then ask a real buyer question and record what came back.

38 pass9 warn1 fail1 mark = 1 check

Each mark is one check against the initial HTML we receive, before any JavaScript runs, including exact-URL robots.txt policy for each named AI crawler.

Readable, indexed, and permitted. None of that is evidence that an assistant recommends you. That is what the next stage measures.

NextThe question you were measured on is the answer the next stage reads.

Stage 2 of 5 · See why others win

Read the exact answer, who it named, which role each brand held, and the pages it leaned on.

One of those answers, in full

RivalTrack is the one most often recommended for mid-size remote teams, and publishes its workflow benchmarks openly.
  • RivalTrackRecommendedCitedMentioned
  • PulseMetricsCitedMentioned
  • FlowBoardMentioned
  • NorthloopNot named

Answers by question

3 of 8 questions

  1. What are the best workflow analytics tools?

    PerplexityNot mentionedOpenAINot mentionedClaudeNot mentionedGeminiNot mentioned

  2. How do I measure workflow bottlenecks?

    PerplexityNot mentionedOpenAINot mentionedClaudeMentionedGeminiNot mentioned

  3. Best tools to track team process metrics

    PerplexityRecommendedOpenAINot mentionedClaudeNot mentionedGeminiNot mentioned

NextThe competitor and source that won the answer become the gap the next move has to close.

Stage 3 of 5 · Choose the next move

One ranked opportunity, tied to the gap that was actually observed rather than a generic checklist.

Highest impact

Publish the remote-team workflow analytics use case

The question is about remote teams and the winning source answers it with concrete benchmarks. State Northloop's setup time, workflow metrics, and remote-team use case in the page body.

/remote

What this was drawn from

The cited page names remote-team workflow benchmarks, setup time, and the reporting method in the page body. Northloop's equivalent page describes analytics generally, so the answer had no remote-team evidence to quote back.

The page the answer used instead of yours:

rivaltrack.example/remote-team-benchmarks

Ranked by likely impact, not predicted. Nothing here forecasts what an answer will say next.

NextThe chosen opportunity carries its evidence into the change you ship.

Stage 4 of 5 · Make the change

Paste-ready guidance, or a reviewable change you approve before anything is published.

src/app/remote/page.tsx

- <p>Workflow analytics for modern teams.</p>+ <p>Remote teams can find stage-level wait time, handoff delay, and cycle-time trends in under ten minutes.</p>

Before anything is published

  • Opened as a draft pull request, never merged for you
  • The evidence that produced it travels with the change
  • Ambiguous targets and sensitive claims stay manual
  • You approve it: factually, legally, and for brand

Publishing proves the change is live. Whether it moved the answer is the next stage, and only a comparable check can say.

NextThe published change and its date become the baseline the next check is compared against.

Stage 5 of 5 · Prove what moved

Ask the same question again after the change is live, and record whether the answer improved, held flat, or declined.

The comparable check

0 cited · 12 June4 cited · 3 July

Same question, same provider, same API surface, 21 days later. A comparable check, not a guarantee that the change caused it.

Four citations out of thirty-two answers is a real result and a modest one. A grid that turned mostly green after one change would not be evidence. It would be a promise.

Answers by question

3 of 8 questions

  1. What are the best workflow analytics tools?

    PerplexityCited↑OpenAIMentionedClaudeNot mentionedGeminiCited↑

  2. How do I measure workflow bottlenecks?

    PerplexityNot mentionedOpenAINot mentionedClaudeMentionedGeminiNot mentioned

  3. Best tools to track team process metrics

    PerplexityCited↑OpenAICited↑ClaudeMentionedGeminiMentioned

Back to the startA flat or declined result is not a failure of the loop. It is the next thing to measure.

Example data. The question, answer, roles, sources, change and result are the objects a real check produces; the companies are fictional and use the reserved .example domain.

Measure the answer. Make the change. Prove what moved.

  • Live answer evidence

    A real question, asked of a real answer engine, printed verbatim with its timestamp.

  • Exact source URLs

    The pages the answer leaned on, named rather than summarised.

  • Reviewable GitHub & Shopify changes

    Nothing is published until you approve the diff.

  • Comparable before/after proof

    The same question, the same surface, asked again after the change went live.

One B2B SaaS buyer question

The answer your buyer sees. And the shortlist you missed.

Perplexity · Sonar API · 12 June 2026

Illustrative example

AskedWhat are the best workflow analytics tools for remote teams?

For workflow analytics on remote teams, three tools come up most consistently:

RivalTrack (recommended, cited, mentioned) is the one most often recommended for mid-size remote teams, and publishes its workflow benchmarks openly.

PulseMetrics (cited, mentioned) covers stage-level bottlenecks, and lists its reporting method on its own analytics page.

FlowBoard (mentioned) also tracks team process metrics, though its remote-work guidance is lighter.

Who held what in this answer
BrandRole in this answer, and the source cited
RivalTrackRecommendedCitedMentionedrivaltrack.example/remote-team-benchmarks
PulseMetricsCitedMentionedpulsemetrics.example/workflow-analytics-method
FlowBoardMentionedNo source cited
NorthloopNot in this answerNot recommended. Not cited. Not mentioned.

This is the result the rest of this page is about changing.

Fictional companies, on the reserved .example domain. The evidence shapes are the product's own.

See the shortlist your buyer sees.

Not a ranking we invented. This is who the answers actually named across your buyer questions, how often, and which of their pages did it.

northloop.example

Illustrative example

Share of AI voice

Across 8 answered buyer questions on 12 Jun 2026. RivalTrack appears most often among competitors. You appeared in 2 of 8, and were actively recommended in 1.

13%

of brand appearances are you

NorthloopYou

2 of 81 recommended

RivalTrack

rivaltrack.example

6 of 84 without you4 recommended5 cited

PulseMetrics

pulsemetrics.example

4 of 83 without you1 recommended3 cited

FlowBoard

flowboard.example

3 of 83 without you

Competitors won 6 answers where you didn't appear. Most of those name more than one competitor, so the rows above come to 10 placements across 6 answers.

The answer behind one of those rows

What are the best workflow analytics tools for remote teams?

Your AI consideration set

Suggested by this answer

Companies this answer recommended, mentioned, or cited alongside you, or instead of you.

  • RivalTrack

    rivaltrack.example
    • RecommendedThe answer put this brand forward as an option.
    • CitedThe answer used a page on this brand's site as a source.
    • MentionedThe answer named this brand.
    RivalTrack is the one most often recommended for mid-size remote teams, and publishes its workflow benchmarks openly.
    rivaltrack.example/remote-team-benchmarks

  • PulseMetrics

    pulsemetrics.example
    • CitedThe answer used a page on this brand's site as a source.
    • MentionedThe answer named this brand.
    PulseMetrics covers stage-level bottlenecks, and lists its reporting method on its own analytics page.
    pulsemetrics.example/workflow-analytics-method

  • FlowBoard

    • MentionedThe answer named this brand.
    FlowBoard also tracks team process metrics, though its remote-work guidance is lighter.

Suggested automatically from this one Perplexity answer and the pages it cited. It may be incomplete or wrong, so you decide who actually competes for this question.

A free scan shows the snapshot on the right. Monitor keeps the ranked picture above it: the competitors, your questions, four answer engines, and what moves between checks.

Fictional companies, on the reserved .example domain. The evidence shapes are the product's own.

Find who AI puts ahead of you

From the answer you lost to the result you can check

No aggregate uplift claim. One question, with the dates that make the comparison mean something.

Perplexity · Sonar API · one question, 21 days apart

Illustrative example

Proven win

A published fix improved 3 buyer questions and gained 2 citations.

PR #214 · Measured after publication on 19 Jun 2026.

Share proof
  • “What are the best workflow analytics tools?”not mentionedcited
  • “Best tools to track team process metrics”mentionedcited

Fictional companies, on the reserved .example domain. The evidence shapes are the product's own. See every step of this chain.

A real check, run on ourselvesWe asked Perplexity about our own category. We were not in the answer.6 August 2026 · Sonar API · the exact question, the verbatim answer, the twenty sources it used, and the seven tools it named instead of us.

What you get, grouped by what it is for

MeasureUnderstand

Know what is happening

Scan your pages for AI readiness, then read the live answers, the sources behind them, and the brands appearing beside you.

Decide

Know what to do next

Compare your results against the competitors who won, then take one ranked opportunity at a time with the evidence behind it.

ShipProve

Ship and prove it

Approve the change, publish the fix through GitHub or Shopify, verify it went live, and measure AI visibility afterwards.

What a measured answer does and does not prove
  • A readiness score is not evidence that an assistant recommends you.
  • A provider we did not check is not a negative result.
  • One answer at one moment is a sample, not a trend.
  • Mentioned, recommended, and cited are different outcomes.
  • AI answers vary by provider, API surface, time, location, and personalisation.
  • Published proves the change is live. Only a comparable later check can say whether it moved the answer.

How this is measured

See every capability by loop stage

Who this is for

Built for the people who own non-branded discovery, and can ship the next change.

Start without a consultant. Get the next action in plain language. Keep every change reviewable. Add monitoring when the questions matter enough to track.

Start with evidence. Pay to keep the loop moving.

Annual billing gives you 2 months free.

Free

First measure

$0

Check your AI readiness

  • 1 user included
  • 1 priority page on 1 site
  • Track 3 customer questions
  • AI readiness score across 6 categories
  • Your top 3 issues, ranked by impact
  • 1 AI answer check and 3 scans a month
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Monitor

Repeat measure

$39/month

Track your visibility every week

  • Everything in Free, plus:
  • 3 users included
  • Monitor 25 priority pages across 1 site
  • Track 10 customer questions across OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini
  • Weekly AI answer checks and scan summary
  • Detailed fixes for metadata, schema, and content
  • Track up to 3 competitors
  • Audit 1,000 Shopify catalog resources
  • Shopify SEO fix publishing
  • Unlimited scans and 30 fix plans a month

Then $39/month · Card required · Cancel within 30 days and you are not charged.

Fix & Prove

Close the loop

$129/month

Ship evidence-backed fixes and prove the result

  • Everything in Monitor, plus:
  • 5 users included
  • Turn citation gaps into reviewable content fixes
  • Publish fixes through GitHub draft pull requests
  • Update approved Shopify product and page content
  • Create evidence-backed pages when important content is missing
  • Verify fixes after they go live
  • 100 priority pages across 2 sites
  • 40 questions account-wide and 10 competitors
  • Audit 5,000 Shopify catalog resources

Then $129/month · Card required · Cancel within 30 days and you are not charged.

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Common questions

What to know before your first scan.

What is Robot Visible?
Robot Visible is an answer engine optimisation (AEO) system. It asks real buyer questions of live AI answer engines and records what came back, shows which brands and source pages won each answer, ranks the next change to make, and re-checks the answer afterwards. It also evaluates whether robots.txt permits named search and AI bots to fetch an exact public URL and inspects the initial HTML it receives without executing JavaScript, which is the readiness half of the picture. Readiness and observed answers are reported separately and never conflated.
Who is Robot Visible for?
Anyone who needs to know why an AI assistant recommends someone else and what to do about it, without hiring a consultant or building an AEO function. It is self-serve, priced to start free, and every change it proposes stays reviewable. If you have a live URL but few AI mentions, the free scan shows your readiness, one real answer, and the next move.
How is this different from a normal SEO audit?
Traditional SEO tools often focus on keywords, backlinks, and technical SEO. Robot Visible focuses on crawler policy, the initial HTML its scanner receives, structured data, supporting pages, clear answers, and classic search basics. Its AI interpretation is a grounded simulation; it does not claim to reproduce a provider's crawl.
Do I need to install anything or add a tag to my site?
No. You paste your public URL and run a scan. Robot Visible fetches your public URL like a standard HTTP client and does not execute JavaScript, so it only reads what is already publicly available. There is no script to embed, no DNS change, and no access to your codebase required.
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