How does AI Readiness reports work?
AI Readiness shows you how well your site is built for AI crawlers and answer engines. The AI Readiness score you for being read, understood, and quoted by a model. They work by crawling your site and checking the signals models rely on, then scoring each one, grouping the results into categories, and telling you what to improve.
Best practices:
- Fix accessibility signals first, a model that can’t crawl your site can’t cite it no matter how good the content is
- Work the lowest scoring category, the composite score moves fastest when you close the biggest gap
Reading your readiness score
Head to Reports then AI Readiness in your Cairrot dashboard. The Overall Readiness gauge gives you one composite score out of 100, built from four categories: Accessibility, Technical, Authority, and Content. Next to it the Summary panel pulls out your top highlights and your top suggestions, each tagged with the category it belongs to.
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Overall Readiness
Composite score across Accessibility, Technical, Authority, and Content.
Summary
Highlights
Suggestions
Click a category tag to isolate its items.
Working the four categories
Below the summary each category gets its own section with its own score, a donut showing score against gap, and the full list of highlights and suggestions for that category. Accessibility covers the signals that help AI crawlers discover and read your content, things like robots rules, sitemaps, an AI crawler guidance file, and structured data. Technical covers site performance and implementation. Authority covers trust, ownership, and policy signals. Content covers clarity and coverage of what’s on the page.
Accessibility
Signals that help AI crawlers discover and read your content
Highlights
- Robots rules are in place.
- Sitemap is available for discovery.
- AI crawler guidance file is present.
- Character encoding is declared consistently.
- Structured data is implemented.
Suggestions
Nothing to fix here — this category is clean.
Technical
Site performance and implementation details that influence parsing
Highlights
- Organization details appear in structured data.
- Brand logo is referenced in schema.
- Primary content is accessible without client-side rendering.
Suggestions
- Add SameAs links to verified profiles (target a handful of authoritative destinations).
- Improve initial response time via CDN caching, origin tuning, and database/index optimizations.
- Enable ETag validators to allow efficient client revalidation.
- Send Last-Modified headers on HTML and static assets to improve caching.
Authority
Trust, ownership, and policy signals
Highlights
- Privacy policy is published.
- Terms of Service are published.
- Content attribution is provided.
- Publish or updated dates are visible.
- Social profiles are referenced.
Suggestions
- Provide an Acceptable Use or Usage Policy, especially for SaaS or APIs.
- Document licensing/copyright for your content, assets, and any APIs.
Content
Clarity, coverage, and helpfulness of on-page content
Highlights
- Images include descriptive text.
- Helpful FAQ/How-To content is available.
- Content appears original across key pages.
Suggestions
- Tighten page titles and descriptions for clarity and coverage across key templates.
Tracking readiness over time
The Trends Report has an AI Readiness Evolution tab with two charts. Total Readiness Score plots your overall optimization score, and Readiness by Category plots Accessibility, Technical, Authority, and Content as separate lines, so you can see which category improves after applying suggested fixes.
FAQ
Is AI Readiness included in every Cairrot plan?
Yes, AI Readiness is available across Cairrot plans and is currently in beta.
What does the readiness score measure?
Four categories, Accessibility, Technical, Authority, and Content, combined into one composite score out of 100.
How often does the readiness score update?
It regenerates with your scheduled runs, and the Trends report keeps the history so you can compare against previous scores.
AI Readiness Report
Score your site on the signals models rely on to read, understand, and quote you, then see exactly what to fix first. It’s included in every paid Cairrot plan, and you can start with a free AEO report.