I built a free AEO checker — is your website visible to ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI?
A restaurant owner in my town asked me a question I hear more and more: "When someone asks ChatGPT where to eat tonight, does it say my name?" Honest answer: nobody knows without checking. So I built a free tool that checks — and I open-sourced the logic as an Apify Actor anyone (human or AI agent) can call. After auditing dozens of local business sites, the signal for "will an AI cite you" collapses to 7 technical criteria: Structured data (JSON-LD) — machines read schema.org, not your hero ba…