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Will an AI engine cite this?
Paste a piece and see, line by line, whether an answer engine could lift it — the opening, the headings, whether each section names its own subject.
It runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, and there is no signup — so it costs us nothing and stays free.
How it works
Seven checks over the structure of your piece — answer position, heading form, subject naming, sourcing, sentence length. Counted, never scored by a model.
What it doesn’t do
It reads structure, not authority. A piece can pass every check and still not be quoted, because an engine also weighs who you are and what else on the web agrees with you.
Common questions
What makes an answer engine quote a page?
A passage it can lift without editing. Engines extract spans, not pages: a section that answers its own heading in its first sentence, names its subject instead of saying "it," and finishes the thought inside two or three sentences can be quoted as-is. A section that builds to its point across six paragraphs cannot.
Is GEO different from SEO?
It is a narrower job on top of the same foundation. SEO gets a page into the index and earns it authority. GEO is about whether the text inside can be extracted once it's there — position of the answer, form of the headings, whether each passage stands alone when it's pulled out of the page.
Do I need to write in question headings?
Not everywhere, but they help where a real question exists. A heading phrased as the question a reader would ask matches the query directly and tells the engine where the answer starts. Forced everywhere it makes a piece read like a quiz, which is its own cost.
Does this check my live URL?
No — it reads text you paste, and nothing is sent anywhere. That is deliberate: it works on a draft before publication, which is when the findings are cheap to act on.
The reference behind it
Every finding here has an entry that explains it — what it is, why it matters, and when the flag is your voice working.
These tools are yours — if something’s rough, say so. Nothing required, no name needed.
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