Tools for clearer next steps
Small checks to see how AI understands, finds, and cites your brand
Run one focused check at a time. Most are free to try, and you’ll get a clear answer plus a practical next step.
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One run with no account. A free account raises the limits.
AI Visibility Checker
Does AI search mention your brand when buyers ask relevant questions?
We turn your homepage into five buyer questions, ask an AI assistant each one, and show:
- How often your brand appears
- Which competitors take the spots instead
- Which sources the answers rely on
This is a spot check, not a guarantee. Run it a few times to see the trend.
▸ Free runs answer from the model's memory. Pro searches the live web; Agency asks every assistant at once.
AI Crawler Check
Can AI systems read your site?
Check whether eight major AI crawlers can access your pages. If something is blocked, BrandKnown gives you a copy-ready robots.txt fix.
▸ Agency adds a live GPTBot fetch — a request using its user-agent, alongside the robots.txt policy.
Phrase Map
What does your website actually tell people and AI?
See the topics and buyer questions already reflected in your titles, headings, and meta descriptions. Find gaps between what you offer and what your pages make clear.
Who Vouches?
Can AI connect your brand to trusted profiles?
Check whether your site links to profiles such as LinkedIn, Crunchbase, Wikidata, or GitHub, and whether your structured data declares those connections clearly.
▸ On Pro and Agency, run it against a competitor and line up your sameAs profiles side by side.
llms.txt Generator
Create a clear summary of your site in about a minute.
BrandKnown reads your homepage and sitemap, selects the pages that matter, and creates an editable draft with your key information and links.
llms.txt is not a magic ranking lever. The useful part is making your brand and important pages easier to understand.
Content Brief Builder
Turn one buyer question into a useful page plan.
Start with a real question your audience asks. Get a recommended page type, answer framework, evidence checklist, outline, internal-link ideas, and structured-data guidance.
No invented search volume. No made-up proof.
▸ Free covers a few briefs a month. Pro and Agency raise the limit.
On Pro & Agency
These run two full scans, repeat work, or fan out across every assistant — so they sit on the paid plans, alongside saved history and re-scans.
Competitor Diff
Pro & AgencySee where a competitor is easier for AI to understand.
Compare your site with another brand across crawler access, entity information, and supporting profiles. The gaps come back ranked, each with a suggested fix.
It runs two full scans, which is why it is on the paid plans.
Multi-Engine AI Visibility
AgencyHow do ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini each answer?
Put the same five buyer questions to every assistant in one run. Where they agree is the part worth trusting; where they differ tells you which sources each one leans on.
Live GPTBot Check
AgencyHow does your server respond to the GPTBot user-agent?
robots.txt states a policy. This sends a request with GPTBot’s user-agent and records the response. It can reveal user-agent filtering, but does not originate from OpenAI’s crawler IPs.
Part of the AI Crawler Check on Agency.
Apply Pack
AgencyEvery fix from a scan, packaged and ready to hand off.
One download with your robots.txt merge, Organization JSON-LD, llms.txt draft, and About-page copy — plus a checklist pre-filled with what the scan found.
Built from a completed scan.
Coming soon
Crawler Change Monitor
Watch a saved brand’s robots.txt and get told when an AI-crawler rule flips. Planned for Pro and Agency, once the alerting is in place.
Backlink Checker
Review referring domains, dofollow links, and potential spam signals. We’re waiting for a link-data source we trust before releasing it.
Keyword Research
See search volume, difficulty, and CPC for a seed keyword. This is coming once we have a reliable data source.
Questions
Is this the full BrandKnown scan?
No. These tools answer focused questions. The full scan reviews your site’s robots.txt, schema, llms.txt, profiles, and other brand signals, then scores the result.
Do I need an account?
The free tools work for a first run without an account or credit card. The AI Visibility Checker needs a free account for a live check. Competitor Diff, the Apply Pack, the live GPTBot check, and multi-engine visibility are on Pro and Agency.
What do the paid plans add here?
Depth and repetition: visibility checks that search the live web and compare every assistant, a competitor diff, a live GPTBot fetch, and the Apply Pack. Pro and Agency also keep your scan history and re-run checks as your site changes.
How reliable is one AI visibility check?
Treat one result as a snapshot. AI answers vary, so the trend across several checks matters more than a single score.
Does llms.txt actually help?
Most AI services do not reliably read it today. BrandKnown treats it as a useful organizing exercise, not a guaranteed ranking signal. The draft still needs to be accurate before you publish it.