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Free AI visibility check for Ottawa and Gatineau businesses
Viziblty's free AI visibility check shows Ottawa and Gatineau businesses whether search engines and AI tools can read their site. It starts with the scan below: five checks on your homepage, no card. You get the results on screen, the full report on every check by email if you want it, and a free 15-minute call to walk through your results.
Engines read your site before customers do. Here's what they see.
The free check runs five checks on your homepage: AI crawler access, schema markup, llms.txt, platform, and page weight. Three of them count toward your score; llms.txt and platform are shown for information. No credit card needed, results on screen.
No card needed
What does the free AI visibility check cover?
The free check covers five machine-readability signals on your homepage: AI crawler access, schema markup, llms.txt, your site's platform and page weight. Your score counts crawler access, schema markup and page weight.
The order is deliberate. The scan is the disqualifier check: if AI crawlers are turned away, or your pages render nothing a machine can read, no amount of content or reputation work reaches the engines. The scan reads your public homepage only. It needs no login and changes nothing on your site.
| Check | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| AI crawler access | If the crawlers AI engines search with (OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot) are blocked, those engines cannot read your pages |
| Schema markup | Structured data is how engines confirm your business facts |
| llms.txt | An optional file some sites publish for AI tools. Shown for information, not scored |
| Platform | Some site builders block or bloat what crawlers receive. Shown for information, not scored |
| Page weight & load | Heavy pages get crawled less and abandoned more |
What does the free check give you back?
The free check gives you on-screen results for all five checks, the full report on every check by email, and an optional free call. The call takes 15 minutes, and we use it to walk through your results with you.
A wider look at your site, listings and competitors is the diagnosis that opens the program, covered below. Read SEO in Ottawa and SEO in Gatineau for how those two markets work.
- On screen: a pass or a problem for each check, with what the result means.
- By email, if you leave your name and address: the full report on every check, with what each finding means and why it matters to AI. One email, and we do not share your address.
- On the phone, if you book it: a free 15-minute call to walk through your results and answer your questions.
What does the free check include?
The free check from Viziblty includes the five checks, the emailed report and the call. The deeper diagnosis of your whole site, listings and competitors is month one of the program.
The first column costs nothing and is yours to keep. The second is the diagnosis the program opens with, and it is part of the monthly rate, not a separate purchase. Technical fixes from either can go to any developer, or to our technical SEO work.
| Area | Free AI visibility check | Month one of the program |
|---|---|---|
| Machine readability | The five checks on your homepage | Your whole site reviewed by a person |
| AI answers | Not covered | A fixed question panel, re-run every two weeks across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Mode |
| Business details | Not covered | Your profile and every listing checked in full |
| Competitors | Not covered | A full competitor gap analysis |
| Keywords | Not covered | Keyword and search-intent review |
| What you take away | The full report on every check, emailed | A 6 to 12 month roadmap |
Why does website readiness matter so much?
Website readiness matters because AI engines recommend very few local businesses, and they cannot recommend one they cannot read. In SOCi's 2026 Local Visibility Index, ChatGPT recommended only 1.2% of roughly 350,000 locations.
SOCi's 2026 Local Visibility Index, built from 2,751 multi-location brands and roughly 350,000 locations, found brands in Google's local 3-Pack 35.9% of the time, but only 1.2% of locations recommended by ChatGPT and 11.0% by Gemini. SOCi found AI platforms 3 to 30 times more selective than traditional local search. Those are chain locations, not independent businesses, but the gap is the point: the scan tells you whether you have ruled yourself out on technicalities.
How do you check AI search visibility?
In the program, Viziblty checks AI search visibility every two weeks by asking ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Mode real buyer questions and recording which businesses each engine names and links. QeWebby's published framework (May 2026) recommends 10 to 30 such questions, scored out of 100.
QeWebby's framework (May 2026) calls these "money prompts" and scores them on a 100-point scale, where a score below 60 signals a high risk of AI invisibility. The free check reads the machine signals on your homepage and runs none of these questions. In the program, the same fixed set of questions is re-run every two weeks, so movement can be attributed to the work, engine by engine.
How much does a check like this cost?
Viziblty's check costs nothing. Elsewhere, a standard paid review for a growing local business runs about $800 to $2,000 in the Toronto area, per BizStori's 2026 pricing guide.
The same guide puts a basic review at $300 to $800 and a comprehensive one at $2,000 to $5,000. Those fees usually buy the manual diagnosis, which with us is month one of the program at $2,000 a month, with every number on the pricing page. If a quote for this kind of review lands far outside those ranges, ask what justifies the difference.
Will AI-generated content on my site hurt me?
AI-generated content can hurt your site if it is mass-produced filler. Google's spam policies name "scaled content abuse", including using generative AI tools to generate many pages without adding value, and warn that violating sites "may rank lower in results or not appear in results at all."
The free check reads the machine signals on your homepage and does not grade your writing. Google's policy is still good advice to take on your own: its test is whether a page adds value a searcher can use, whoever wrote it. Fifty near-identical city pages with swapped place names are a liability. Pages that answer real questions with real facts are an asset.
What happens after the check?
After the check, you decide: fix the findings yourself, give the technical ones to a developer, or have Viziblty run the program. The program opens with the full diagnosis in month one, at $2,000 a month.
Running the scan means we keep the URL you submit, and your email if you give us one, so we can follow up. We do not sell your information, and we do not publish your results or pass them on without asking. Our privacy policy says that plainly, and it names the analytics and booking providers we use.
If you hand the technical findings to someone, our technical SEO page explains what each fix involves.
What doesn't the check cover?
The check does not cover execution. It tells you what each of the five checks found and why it matters; it does not ship the fixes, write content or manage listings.
That work is the ongoing program, priced in public. The check also does not test whether Google or Bing has indexed your pages, and it does not show what AI engines currently say about you. Nor does it promise a ranking or a citation, a limit worth stating because plenty of SEO services are sold on the implication of one. If you want the reasoning behind the AI half first, the answer engine optimization guide explains why engines cite some businesses and not others.
Common questions about the free check
The questions about the free check below cover why it is free, switching providers, and French-language sites.
Why is the check free?
The check is free because it is how every engagement with Viziblty starts. It is useful whether or not you hire us. The scan needs no card, and the call that follows is 15 minutes.
Can I get the check if I already have an SEO company?
You can get the check if you already have an SEO company. The scan needs only your public web address, so it needs no logins and touches nothing your provider runs.
Does the check work on a French or bilingual site?
The check's five tests work on a French or bilingual site, because they read machine signals that do not depend on language. The emailed report is in English for now. We serve clients in French, so the free call can be in French.
Get the diagnosis before you pay for the treatment.
The scan at the top of this page needs nothing but a URL. After it, book a free 15-minute call to walk through your results. If you would rather judge the thinking first, read the 100th Meridian case study and the articles where we work through problems like yours, sources and all.