Caidance — AI-Readiness Score

When someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity “who’s a good [your industry] near me?” — what does the AI say about your site? If it can’t read you clearly, it doesn’t give you a bad review. It just doesn’t mention you. You never see the miss.

Caidance — AI-Readiness Score scans your active WordPress site for the signals AI search and AI agents look for, gives you a 0–60 score with a clear band (Starter / Builder / Operator / Leader), and tells you in plain English the top three things to fix first.

It runs entirely on your site. No account required, no data sent anywhere, no external API calls.

What gets checked

Ten local checks run against your site:

1. llms.txt — the file AI agents check first
2. Sitemap declared in robots.txt — so AI can find your content
3. Organization schema — so AI knows who you are
4. WebSite schema with SearchAction — so AI can map your site
5. FAQPage schema — direct answers AI can cite
6. Article schema on posts — so blog content gets surfaced
7. Author / Person schema — for E-E-A-T signals
8. Open Graph + Twitter cards — for AI preview generation
9. Canonical tags — to prevent duplicate-content confusion
10. AI crawler access — does robots.txt allow GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, and Google-Extended? (Toggleable.)

Each check returns a clear pass / partial / fail with a plain-English explanation. No jargon, no false alarms.

Industry-aware fix list

Pick your industry from 11 options — Financial Services, Healthcare, Legal, Home Services, Nonprofit, Professional Services, Manufacturing, eCommerce, SaaS, Education, Local Retail & Restaurants — and the fix recommendations are tailored. The fix you see is the fix that actually matters in your industry.

What this plugin does NOT do

• It does not auto-fix anything. The plugin shows you the gaps; you (or your developer) close them. No invisible changes to your site.
• It does not require a Caidance account. Install, scan, see your score.
• It does not phone home. Zero external HTTP calls. Results are stored in your own WordPress database.

Want the full off-site picture too?

This plugin scores your WordPress site itself. If you want to see how AI agents see your business across the whole web — review sites, social, your public footprint — Caidance offers a free 60-second snapshot at caidance.ai/snapshot.

For paid layers (Toolkit, Monitoring), see caidance.ai/pricing.