Welcome to the LLM Readiness Score
AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Bing Chat, and Perplexity don’t just index content — they summarize, cite, and answer with it. This audit helps you evaluate whether your content is clear, structured, and valuable enough to be retrieved and quoted by AI — not just crawled. This is different from SEO. LLMs don’t rank pages — they generate answers. If your content isn’t answer-ready, it’s invisible.
🔍 Why It Matters
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the next frontier. LLMs reward:
- Pages that clearly answer questions
- Plain language, structured sections, and defined audiences
- Semantic clarity and real-world usefulness
Being found is one thing. Being the answer is what drives attention and trust.
✅ How to Use This
- Be honest. This is a readiness check — not a performance score.
- Complete it with your content team or writers.
- Use it before publishing new pages, updating copy, or rewriting landing pages.
📌 What You’ll Discover
By completing this, you’ll know:
- If your pages are actually answer-worthy
- Whether your copy is LLM-readable or confusing
- How aligned your content is to buyer/searcher needs
- What’s missing that’s keeping you out of GPT/Claude answers
Assessment starts below. For each question, mark the option that best matches your reality.
📚 TOPICAL AUTHORITY & RELEVANCE
1. How aligned is your content to buyer/searcher questions?
- ☐ No strategy — topics are ad hoc
- ☐ Somewhat aligned, but inconsistent
- ☐ We try to match intent but lack data
- ☐ Most pages target real problems and questions
- ☐ Topics are validated, mapped to ICPs, and SEO/LLM informed
2. How focused are your pages on a single audience or use case?
- ☐ Very broad and general
- ☐ Targeted in some areas, unclear in others
- ☐ We have buyer personas but don’t follow them consistently
- ☐ Each page is clearly built for a persona
- ☐ Content is tightly scoped per use case and audience
3. Do you produce structured content clusters or pillar pages?
- ☐ No — content is one-off
- ☐ We’ve started, but not organized
- ☐ Some clusters exist but aren’t linked
- ☐ We group content by topic
- ☐ Fully structured hub + spoke clusters with internal links
💬 ANSWER FORMAT READINESS
4. Are your pages structured for LLM summarization?
- ☐ No structure — just paragraphs
- ☐ Some bullet points or short sections
- ☐ We sometimes use summaries or callouts
- ☐ Pages use TL;DRs, question headers, bullets
- ☐ Every page has a clear “summary-friendly” format
5. How easy is it for LLMs to extract a full-sentence answer?
- ☐ Pages are abstract or vague
- ☐ There are good insights, but buried
- ☐ Some paragraphs could be quoted
- ☐ Most pages include clear, quotable lines
- ☐ Pages are built for citation — summaries can be copied as-is
6. Do you include FAQs, summaries, or definitions?
- ☐ Never
- ☐ Rarely — and only on long pages
- ☐ We try to include FAQs sometimes
- ☐ FAQs or TL;DRs on most pages
- ☐ Every page includes answer blocks or expandable sections
✍️ CONTENT CLARITY & COMPREHENSION
7. Is your copy written in plain, easy-to-understand language?
- ☐ Heavy jargon and complex sentences
- ☐ Occasional clarity, but too much buzzword use
- ☐ Fairly clear, with some technical language
- ☐ Plain, direct copy that’s skimmable
- ☐ Expert clarity — anyone can understand our value
8. Do you define key industry terms and acronyms?
- ☐ Never
- ☐ Occasionally, but inconsistently
- ☐ We define terms when needed
- ☐ Glossaries or callouts exist on major pages
- ☐ Every page anticipates and explains industry terms
9. Have you tested how GPT/Claude summarizes your pages?
- ☐ No
- ☐ We’ve tried, but inconsistently
- ☐ Some key pages have been tested
- ☐ We actively use GPT to spot clarity issues
- ☐ We test and refine summaries as part of QA
🔎 AI DISCOVERY & PROMPT RETRIEVAL
10. Are your pages being surfaced in ChatGPT, Bing, or Perplexity?
- ☐ No idea
- ☐ We’ve never seen it happen
- ☐ A few pages have shown up
- ☐ We track citations occasionally
- ☐ We monitor, prompt-test, and optimize for visibility
11. Are your titles and metas designed for LLMs?
- ☐ No
- ☐ Traditional SEO only
- ☐ Some tags describe who it’s for
- ☐ Most titles clarify purpose + audience
- ☐ All meta is structured for AI summarization
12. Have you submitted your site to Bing Webmaster Tools?
- ☐ No
- ☐ Not sure
- ☐ Yes, but we don’t monitor it
- ☐ Yes, with occasional reviews
- ☐ Yes, and we actively use it to tune LLM visibility
🔐 TRUST & CONTENT CREDIBILITY
13. Are your authors clearly listed and credible?
- ☐ No author info
- ☐ Team name or initials only
- ☐ Author names, no bios
- ☐ Bios for most contributors
- ☐ Every article includes author credentials, photo, and links
14. Do you update content for freshness and accuracy?
- ☐ Never
- ☐ Only for broken links
- ☐ Occasionally review old posts
- ☐ We have an update calendar
- ☐ We proactively update content every quarter
15. Do you include outbound links to trusted sources?
- ☐ Never
- ☐ Rarely
- ☐ Sometimes, for credibility
- ☐ Most major claims are sourced
- ☐ Pages regularly cite reputable external sources
