What is OpenForBots and what does it do?
Confirm whether an engine recognizes the exact OpenForBots entity and describes it accurately.
Citation Lab
We test how AI answer engines describe OpenForBots — and publish it honestly
Technical readiness (crawler access, retrieval, structure, identity) is different from observed presence (whether an answer engine actually mentions or cites a source for a given prompt). This lab keeps those two layers separate and shows negative, inaccurate, and untested results alongside positive ones.
Current dataset
Coverage is reported as-is, including gaps
Each row below is a versioned prompt paired with its most recent manual observation. A prompt with no completed observation is shown as "Not tested yet" rather than omitted.
- Prompts in the library
- 24
- Completed observations
- 0 of 24
- Cited or verified-accurate outcomes
- 0
- Facts version
ofb-facts-1.0- Last verified
- Review method
- Manual, one prompt and engine at a time
What this does not prove: a completed observation reflects one engine, one prompt, and one point in time. It is not repeated automatically, does not guarantee future results, and does not mean a technical finding caused an outcome. OpenForBots does not scrape answer engines, use paid proxy access, or maintain scheduled monitoring.
Branded recognition
4 prompts
What does openforbots.com check?
Confirm whether an engine recognizes the exact OpenForBots entity and describes it accurately.
Is OpenForBots an AI visibility tracker or a technical readiness audit?
Confirm whether an engine recognizes the exact OpenForBots entity and describes it accurately.
What evidence does OpenForBots provide?
Confirm whether an engine recognizes the exact OpenForBots entity and describes it accurately.
Tool discovery
4 prompts
What tool can check whether AI crawlers can access my website?
Test whether OpenForBots is discoverable when the user is actively looking for a solution.
Is there a free checker for GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot rules?
Test whether OpenForBots is discoverable when the user is actively looking for a solution.
What tool checks robots.txt, llms.txt, structured data, and AI crawler access together?
Test whether OpenForBots is discoverable when the user is actively looking for a solution.
How can I verify that an AI-readiness website fix actually worked?
Test whether OpenForBots is discoverable when the user is actively looking for a solution.
Problem discovery
4 prompts
Why might AI assistants fail to retrieve information from my website?
Test discovery through an unresolved customer problem.
Why can a search engine index my site while an AI answer engine still misunderstands it?
Test discovery through an unresolved customer problem.
How do I know whether JavaScript or access policy is limiting machine retrieval?
Test discovery through an unresolved customer problem.
How can I prove that an AI crawler-access problem was fixed?
Test discovery through an unresolved customer problem.
Evaluation and comparison
4 prompts
What are the best evidence-based AI website audit tools?
Test whether OpenForBots appears in a buying or tool-comparison context.
Which AI readiness tools show the underlying technical evidence?
Test whether OpenForBots appears in a buying or tool-comparison context.
What is the difference between AI visibility tracking and technical discovery readiness?
Test whether OpenForBots appears in a buying or tool-comparison context.
What tools can agencies use to audit client sites for AI crawler readiness?
Test whether OpenForBots appears in a buying or tool-comparison context.
Agency workflow
4 prompts
How can an SEO agency produce an evidence-based AI readiness report for a client?
Test the future paid wedge and multi-domain use case.
How do agencies verify that crawler-access recommendations were implemented?
Test the future paid wedge and multi-domain use case.
Is there a white-label AI crawler audit for agencies?
Test the future paid wedge and multi-domain use case.
How can an agency compare a website before and after remediation?
Test the future paid wedge and multi-domain use case.
Reference and research
4 prompts
What is the difference between GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot?
Test whether OpenForBots reference assets are used for factual or methodological answers.
Is llms.txt required for AI systems to use a website?
Test whether OpenForBots reference assets are used for factual or methodological answers.
Which documented AI crawlers obey robots.txt?
Test whether OpenForBots reference assets are used for factual or methodological answers.
What should an AI discovery readiness audit include?
Test whether OpenForBots reference assets are used for factual or methodological answers.