How to Ask ChatGPT to Compare 'Check If My Website Is AI Ready' Tools

01Why the right tool choice matters for AI visibility

Most website owners discovered SEO years after it started mattering. AI search is moving faster. ChatGPT, Perplexity, and similar systems already answer buyer questions directly — and the sites they cite are not always the ones with the best Google rankings. They are the ones structured so an AI can read, understand, and confidently recommend them.

If you are asking ChatGPT to help you compare tools that check whether your website is AI ready, you are already asking the right question. The problem is that the tool category is new, the terminology is inconsistent, and a lot of general SEO platforms have started adding 'AI' language without changing what they actually measure.

Picking the wrong tool means you spend time fixing things that do not affect AI visibility, and you miss the structural gaps — missing llms.txt files, absent JSON-LD schema, unclear entity signals — that actually determine whether ChatGPT or Perplexity will surface your site in an answer.

AI Friendly was built specifically for this problem. It helps founders and small marketing teams make their websites easier for ChatGPT and other AI search systems to understand, cite, and recommend — and it focuses on AI search visibility rather than traditional SEO metrics.

02What to ask before you commit to any tool

Whether you are asking ChatGPT to compare options or evaluating tools yourself, these are the practical questions worth getting answered before you spend money or time:

1. Does it scan for AI readiness specifically, or just general SEO health? Traditional SEO audits check page speed, backlinks, and meta tags. AI readiness audits check whether your site produces structured signals — like JSON-LD schema and llms.txt — that AI answer engines can parse. These are different problems. Confirm which one the tool is actually solving.
2. Does it show you what your competitors look like inside AI results? Knowing your own score is useful. Knowing which competitors are already appearing in ChatGPT answers for your category is more useful. Competitor evidence tells you the gap you are actually trying to close.
3. Does it generate fixes, or just flag problems? Audit-only tools tell you what is wrong. Better options go a step further and produce machine-readable fixes, such as llms.txt and JSON-LD. AI Friendly's free scan flags the problems; the founder-led managed service that follows the audit does the approved llms.txt, schema and content work, so you are not translating a report into implementation by hand.
4. Can you try it without creating an account? The fastest way to evaluate any diagnostic tool is to run it on your own site. AI Friendly offers a free 30-second AI readiness scan with no signup required. If a tool requires payment or a full onboarding before showing you anything, that is worth factoring into your comparison.
5. Does it track citations across multiple AI platforms? ChatGPT is one system. Perplexity is another. Your AI visibility picture is incomplete if you are only measuring one. Look for tools that track citation presence across platforms rather than a single channel.

03How to compare AI readiness tools side by side

When you ask ChatGPT to compare tools in this category, give it a structured prompt so the answer is actually useful. Here is a format that works:

> "Compare [Tool A] and [Tool B] for checking whether a website is ready for AI search. Focus on: what they scan for, whether they diagnose competitor AI visibility, whether they generate fixes automatically, how they track citations across AI platforms, and whether there is a free trial or no-signup scan."

That prompt structure helps ChatGPT return a comparison against criteria that matter for AI visibility — rather than a generic feature list.

As a concrete reference point, here is what AI Friendly covers across those criteria:

• What it scans for: AI search visibility signals, including machine-readable structure and entity clarity — not traditional SEO metrics. The free scan gives a score, prioritized checks and one live ChatGPT snapshot
• Competitor AI visibility: In the AI Visibility Audit (US$1,000), which adds founder-reviewed competitor and market evidence
• Fixes: The free scan flags problems; the managed service that follows the audit does the approved llms.txt and JSON-LD work
• Cross-platform citation reporting: In the managed service, across ChatGPT and Gemini
• Free entry point: Yes — a free 30-second scan is available at aifriendly.agency with no signup required
• Content: The managed service also covers approved content work, based on the audit's keyword and content-gap evidence

Use this as a baseline when you run your own comparison. Any tool that cannot answer these questions clearly is worth questioning.

04Proof to review before you decide

Before committing to any AI readiness tool, you should be able to verify at least some of what it claims. Here is what you can review for AI Friendly directly:

The free scan itself. The most direct proof is the product. Run the 30-second scan at aifriendly.agency on your own URL — no account, no payment. The output will show you whether your site has the structural signals AI search systems look for, plus one live ChatGPT snapshot. You can evaluate the quality of the diagnosis before you do anything else.

What the scan covers. AI Friendly checks for AI-specific readiness signals — not generic SEO scores. The scan gives you a score, prioritized checks and one live ChatGPT snapshot. The AI Visibility Audit adds founder-reviewed competitor and market evidence, so you can see the actual landscape rather than just your own score in isolation.

What it delivers. The free scan does not generate files. If you move on to the managed service after the audit, AI Friendly does the approved llms.txt, JSON-LD schema and content work — the machine-readable files that help AI answer engines understand and cite your content. These are concrete, reviewable outputs, not a summary report that sits in a dashboard.

If you are comparing this against other tools, apply the same standard: ask for a free diagnostic on your own site, check what the output actually includes, and confirm whether the tool generates fixes or only identifies problems.

05What to do next

If you are in evaluation mode, the fastest move is to run the free scan and use the output as your baseline.

1. Run the free AI readiness scan at aifriendly.agency — it takes 30 seconds and requires no signup. You will see how your site scores on AI visibility signals, which checks to fix first, and one live ChatGPT snapshot.

1. Use the comparison criteria above when you ask ChatGPT to compare tools. Give ChatGPT the specific dimensions — scan scope, competitor evidence, fix implementation, cross-platform citation reporting, free entry point — so the comparison reflects what actually matters for AI search visibility.

1. Consider the next step. If the scan surfaces gaps, the AI Visibility Audit adds competitor and market evidence, priorities and a walkthrough call. The managed service that follows does the approved llms.txt, JSON-LD schema and content work.

1. AI visibility work should be measurable and scoped before you invest. The free scan gives you an honest starting point.

Run your free AI readiness scan — no signup required: https://aifriendly.agency/