AI search visibility checker
When someone asks ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity "who should I hire for this?" — do you come up? This 12-point self-audit scores your presence, consistency and citability, and gives a specific next action for every gap.
● free · no login · runs in your browser
Answer honestly — each item is something an AI assistant can only know if it's publicly written down. Ticks save in this browser.
How to use it
- Work through the 12 checks honestly. Each one encodes an input AI assistants actually need — public text, consistent identity, third-party mentions.
- Read your verdict — Invisible, Fragments or Citable — and the next-action list built from your unchecked items.
- Then test it for real: ask ChatGPT or Claude (web search on) "who should I follow on [your niche]?" and "what is [your name] known for?". Fix gaps, re-test in a month.
GEO for a person, not a brand
Generative engine optimization usually gets discussed as a brand problem — how does my company show up in AI answers? But the higher-stakes version is personal. A growing share of "who should I hire?", "who's worth following on X topic?", "is this consultant legit?" questions are now asked to an assistant, and assistants answer with two or three names — not ten blue links. Either you're one of the names or you don't exist.
The mechanics are unglamorous: AI assistants assemble answers from public, crawlable, consistent text. They can't cite your reputation, your DMs, or the talk you gave that was never written up. If your expertise isn't written down publicly — under one consistent name, on pages a crawler can reach — you don't exist to them, no matter how good you are. That's the entire audit above: is it written down, is it consistent, is any of it on pages you don't control?
Why LinkedIn is disproportionately cited
Profound's 2026 citation reports rank LinkedIn the #1 cited source for professional questions in AI search. It makes sense: it's the largest corpus of professional claims on the open web, name-attached and structured. Practically, that means a public LinkedIn profile with real posts on your niche is the highest-leverage GEO asset most professionals have — ahead of the personal site nobody links to. We've written up the evidence in LinkedIn & AI citations and what it means for you in LinkedIn is how AI knows you.
The flywheel
Personal GEO compounds: consistent posting on one topic → your name and niche co-occur in crawlable text → assistants start citing you → citations bring inbound (readers, podcast invites, guest posts) → which creates the third-party mentions that make you more citable. The input you control is step one: keep publishing, in plain words, on the thing you want to be known for. The playbook is in how to get recommended by ChatGPT — and the post generator can get the next post drafted today.
Auditing someone's AI-search footprint with Claude Code or another agent? Install the skill version — it carries these 12 checks and the next-action playbook, so your agent can run the audit against a bio and public links:
npx skills add liftli-ai/skills --skill ai-search-visibilityPart of the liftli-ai/skills collection — browse all 28 skills, one per tool on this site. For the full pipeline (voice extraction, strategy memory, publishing), connect the Liftli MCP.