About AISeeWhy
AISeeWhy is an independent web service that tests whether AI crawlers and AI search engines can read a web page. It fetches the page as 16 AI and search crawlers next to a real browser, shows what blocks them and how to fix it, and can recheck and monitor the page.
Why we built it
When a company asks why ChatGPT or Perplexity cites a competitor instead of them, the answer is often technical and testable: a firewall answers the crawler with a challenge page, a robots.txt rule blocks it, or the text only appears after JavaScript runs. These problems are invisible in a normal browser. AISeeWhy makes them visible, with evidence.
How the check works
We request the page with each crawler's documented user agent and compare the answers with a real browser. We read robots.txt the way RFC 9309 describes, recognize the major firewalls and bot protection services, and check structured data, answer-first content, freshness, hreflang and llms.txt. Every rule and the score formula are published on the methodology page.
What we do not do
We do not change your site, your code or your settings. We test from our own servers, so a firewall that trusts real crawlers by their IP addresses may treat our requests differently; you can upload an access log to see real crawler visits. We do not promise that any AI product will cite a page: we check and help fix access, which is the part a site owner controls.
Data and privacy
A check stores the address you entered and the report. Accounts use a one-time email code, without passwords. Payments are handled by Paddle, our merchant of record. Details are on the privacy page.
Contact
Questions about the product, plans or data: write to support@aiseewhy.com. We answer every message.