From ranking to recommended: get your site ready to thrive in the age of AI agents
Aug 6, 2026Matthew Conroy, Jack Galilee
Summary
Introduces Agent Readiness and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) tools. Agent Readiness provides diagnostics on site accessibility and content discoverability for AI agents, including checks for robots.txt, sitemaps, Markdown versions, and API catalogs. AEO infers industry and category from a site to probe AI assistants (Claude, GPT) with prompts to measure Citation Rate, Prominence, Mention Rate, and Share of Voice. It also tracks AI operator activity on sites, including crawl traffic and errors encountered.
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