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:
- llms.txt — the file AI agents check first
- Sitemap declared in robots.txt — so AI can find your content
- Organization schema — so AI knows who you are
- WebSite schema with SearchAction — so AI can map your site
- FAQPage schema — direct answers AI can cite
- Article schema on posts — so blog content gets surfaced
- Author / Person schema — for E-E-A-T signals
- Open Graph + Twitter cards — for AI preview generation
- Canonical tags — to prevent duplicate-content confusion
- 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 — and when your own firewall or CDN blocks the scan itself, checks report Unverified and stay out of your score instead of pretending to fail. No jargon, no false alarms.
The Fix Engine — four one-click fixes, applied for you
Caidance now closes four of its checks for you — always with your approval, never behind your back:
- llms.txt — creates the file AI agents check first, built from your real site name, tagline, industry, and a curated key-page list: cart, checkout, account, and legal boilerplate are excluded, homepage duplicates collapse into one Home line, and on WooCommerce stores the shop page and top product category and brand pages lead. Create-only: an existing file or an SEO plugin serving one is detected, named, and left alone.
- Sitemap declaration — appends the missing
Sitemap:line to robots.txt. The sitemap URL is verified live first (your SEO plugin’s index, else the WordPress core sitemap — it must load and be real sitemap XML before the fix is even offered). Works in both robots.txt states: a physical file gets the append with the complete original stored for byte-for-byte restore; a WordPress-generated robots.txt gets a standing output line with no file written and instant revert. Never adds a second line next to an existing declaration. - AI-crawler access — surgically removes robots.txt groups that block only AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, Google-Extended). The complete original file is stored first; one click restores it byte-for-byte. Groups covering other crawlers are never auto-edited.
- Organization + WebSite schema — outputs homepage JSON-LD built live from your real site settings. A pure output switch: no files written, revert is instant, and it goes silent automatically if you install an SEO plugin.
Every fix follows the same flow: preview the exact change → approve → Caidance applies it, re-checks your site, and shows the before/after score → one click reverses it. Every apply, revert, and refusal lands in a local, append-only evidence log.
And the weekly scan now watches for drift: if an applied fix stops holding — a deploy removed your llms.txt, a migration reverted robots.txt — Caidance flags it and offers the one-click re-apply.
Stack Sense — your stack, as an AI operator sees it
The Tools page gains a Stack tab: your active plugins mapped into ten categories (forms, CRM, email, automation, SEO, and more) plus a handful of plain-English observations — two form plugins means intake is split; an automation plugin means alignment matters more, not less. Detected locally, nothing leaves your site, and deliberately unscored: the scored systems diagnostic is the Alignment Review on caidance.ai, which the Stack tab can pre-fill with what it detected.
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 changes nothing without your approval. Every fix shows you the exact change first — the file content, the precise lines, the exact markup — and applies only when you click approve. One click reverses each fix, every action lands in a local evidence log, and anything owned by another tool (an existing file, an SEO plugin’s output) is detected and left alone. No invisible changes, ever.
- 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.