Methodology

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Every research-grounded check in this engine cites the primary document it came from — and we re-fetch and hash those documents continuously, so you can see exactly how fresh our rules are. When a cited document changes, the affected checks get re-verified before anything else ships.

Watched primary sources

Checked daily. "Changed" means the document's text moved since we last verified our checks against it.

about.ads.microsoft.com/en/blog/post/october-2025/optimizing-your-content-for-inclusion-in-ai-search-answers verified · last checked 2026-07-07

arxiv.org/abs/2311.09735 verified · last checked 2026-07-07

developers.google.com/search/blog/2025/05/succeeding-in-ai-search changed 2026-07-07 — re-verification queued

developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features changed 2026-07-07 — re-verification queued

developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/search-gallery changed 2026-07-07 — re-verification queued

developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots-meta-tag changed 2026-07-07 — re-verification queued

developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-policies changed 2026-07-07 — re-verification queued

developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/ai-optimization-guide changed 2026-07-07 — re-verification queued

www.bing.com/webmasters/help/webmaster-guidelines-30fba23a verified · last checked 2026-07-07

The rules we hold ourselves to

Cited or called a heuristic. Research-derived findings link their primary source in your report. Claims that failed adversarial verification were never built into checks.

Deterministic scores. Connected data never changes the score — two audits of the same site are always comparable.

We pass our own audit. This site is scored by its own engine; the same findings you get, we fix on ourselves first.

ToS-clean monitoring. AI answer monitoring uses official engine APIs that return citations — never scraped consumer interfaces.