SurfacedBy AI Visibility & GEO Audit

com.surfacedbyPublished by surfacedby.comOfficial publisherv1.0.1Updated Oct 24, 2026

Free AI visibility and GEO audit: see what AI reads on your site and whether its answers cite you.

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Overview

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A free hosted MCP server that audits how AI assistants read a website and whether their answers cite or recommend the business.

What you can do
Plan an ordered AI visibility audit for a site, goal, market and known competitors, with steps, quality bars and remaining request budget. Inspect up to five public pages as an AI crawler receives them, returning readable sections, tables, links, structured data and readiness findings. Check which AI crawlers a site's robots.txt allows, restricts or blocks, plus noindex, llms.txt, Content-Signal and copy-ready fixes. Analyze a pasted AI answer to see whether the brand is cited, only named or absent, and classify each cited source. Show, per AI platform, the mix of source types cited and recent shifts from SurfacedBy's published AI Search Index.
When to use it
Use it when you want to know why AI assistants do or do not mention a business, what an AI system can actually read on its pages, or what to fix first for AI search visibility. It also suits comparing a site's pages with competitors' pages and checking a specific AI answer for citations.
Requirements
A remote Streamable HTTP endpoint; no account, API key or environment variable is needed. Any MCP client that supports remote HTTP servers can connect, and stdio-only clients need a bridge such as mcp-remote. Network access to the endpoint and to the public pages being inspected is required.
Before you install
All tools are described as read-only and free, but they fetch public web pages on your behalf and submit pasted AI answer text for analysis. Page snapshots are cached for up to 24 hours and usage is recorded as daily totals and a hashed per-site count. Shared daily and monthly request budgets can return errors once used up. Pages behind JavaScript, logins or bot challenges are reported as unavailable rather than guessed.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open SurfacedBy AI Visibility & GEO Audit in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/com.surfacedby%2Fai-visibility/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "surfacedby-ai-visibility-geo-audit": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.surfacedby.com/api/v1/mcp/public/"
    }
  }
}

README

ai-visibility-mcp

Find out what AI assistants understand about a business, and whether their answers recommend it. Free and hosted, with no account or API key.

Connect it to Claude, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client, ask for an AI visibility audit of your website, and your assistant works through a complete, ordered audit:

  • Plan the audit. A step-by-step checklist: read the site, check crawler access, build the buyer questions, find the real competitors and the third-party sources AI leans on, weigh the evidence, then deliver prioritized, evidence-linked fixes.
  • Audit website pages the way AI reads them. Products, prices, policies, comparison tables and the structured business data in the page code, from up to five pages at once, plus each page's readiness findings (JavaScript-only rendering, noindex, canonical, schema, answer structure, sources, date and author) with the documentation behind each one.
  • Check AI crawler access. Which AI crawlers your robots.txt allows, restricts or blocks, what that means for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google AI Mode, whether a security challenge answers ordinary requests, and the exact fix.
  • Check whether an AI answer cites or names you. Paste an answer from any assistant. See whether it cites your site, only names you, or leaves you out, what kind of source each citation is, and the likely reason when you are not cited.
  • See where AI platforms get their answers. The mix of sources each AI platform cites and recent shifts, from SurfacedBy's published AI Search Index, with links to the research behind each finding.

Your assistant does the thinking and SurfacedBy supplies the evidence, so every recommendation links back to a page or published source you can check.

https://api.surfacedby.com/api/v1/mcp/public/

Transport: Streamable HTTP. Authentication: none.

Install

Claude Code

bash
claude mcp add --transport http surfacedby-ai-visibility https://api.surfacedby.com/api/v1/mcp/public/

Claude (claude.ai and desktop)

Go to Customize > Connectors, click + Add, then Add custom connector. Name it SurfacedBy AI Visibility, paste the URL above, and choose No sign in. Turn it on in a chat from + > Connectors.

On Team and Enterprise plans an Owner adds it under Organization settings > Connectors first. The Free plan allows one custom connector.

Cursor

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or .cursor/mcp.json in a project):

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "surfacedby-ai-visibility": {      "url": "https://api.surfacedby.com/api/v1/mcp/public/"    }  }}

VS Code

Add to .vscode/mcp.json:

json
{  "servers": {    "surfacedby-ai-visibility": {      "type": "http",      "url": "https://api.surfacedby.com/api/v1/mcp/public/"    }  }}

Other clients

Any client that supports remote Streamable HTTP servers can connect with the URL above. For a client that only speaks stdio, use a bridge such as mcp-remote:

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "surfacedby-ai-visibility": {      "command": "npx",      "args": ["mcp-remote", "https://api.surfacedby.com/api/v1/mcp/public/"]    }  }}

ChatGPT

A ChatGPT app built on this server is in review. Status and details: surfacedby.com/tools/chatgpt-ai-visibility.

Try it

Audit the AI visibility of yourbrand.com. We sell to small accounting firms in the UK.
Can ChatGPT and Perplexity crawl yourbrand.com? If not, what exactly should we change?
I run yourbrand.com. When people ask AI for the best tool in our category,what could stop it from recommending us, and what should we fix first?
Here is what ChatGPT said when I asked about my business: "<paste the answer>".My site is https://yourbrand.com. Does it actually cite us, or only name us?Is anything in it wrong compared with our own pages?
Compare the pricing and feature pages of competitor-a.com and competitor-b.comfor a small business choosing between them. Use only what their pages say,and list what is unknown.
Check https://yourbrand.com/pricing. Which facts on it can an AI system read,and what is missing or unclear?

Tools

All tools are read-only, free, and need no account.

surfacedby_plan_ai_visibility_audit

InputTypeNotes
business_urlstringThe business website. Bare domains are accepted.
goalstring, optionalfull_audit (default), compare_competitors, check_answers or fix_crawler_access.
marketstring, optionalCountry, region or city the business serves.
languagestring, optionalLanguage of the business and its buyers.
competitorsarray of strings, optionalUp to 5 competitors the user already knows.

Returns the ordered checklist for that goal, the tools for each step, the quality bar for the result, the rules to follow, the published research findings that apply, and the remaining request budget. Makes no request to the website.

surfacedby_inspect_page_evidence

InputTypeNotes
urlsarray of strings1 to 5 public HTTP(S) URLs. Bare domains are accepted.

Returns, per URL, the readable content an AI system can extract: title, description, headings, sections, tables, internal and external links and declared structured data, plus the page type, source type and readiness findings, or a clear reason the page was unavailable (crawler access restricted by robots.txt, a bot challenge, an unsupported format, an error). When several pages from the same site are inspected together, it also lists business facts their structured data states differently. Each result carries the remaining request budget and the next step of the audit.

Read-only, idempotent, fetches the open web.

surfacedby_check_ai_crawler_access

InputTypeNotes
domainstringA domain or any URL on the site.

Returns access for each AI crawler (allowed, restricted or blocked, with the robots.txt rule responsible), split by purpose: training crawlers, whose blocks cost no citations, and search-index and retrieval crawlers, whose blocks do. Adds a row per AI platform with the search index it reads and where to submit pages, whether a security challenge answered an ordinary request, homepage noindex, llms.txt and Content-Signal, and copy-ready fixes. It reads the site's public files and one ordinary request, never impersonates a crawler, and cannot see firewall rules keyed to crawlers' own IP addresses.

Read-only, idempotent, fetches the open web (about three requests).

surfacedby_analyze_answer_evidence

InputTypeNotes
answerstringThe AI answer text, up to 64,000 characters. Markdown links are read.
business_urlstringThe business website to look for.
brand_namestring, optionalHelps detect mentions where the name differs from the domain.
languagestring, optionalLanguage of the answer.
platformstring, optionalchatgpt, perplexity, gemini, claude, ai_mode, grok, deepseek or other.
competitor_domainsarray of strings, optionalUp to 10 competitor domains, so their pages are labelled as competitors.

Returns the brand's presence in that one answer (cited, named or not_observed), every visible citation with its source type (review site, best-of list, forum, competitor, your site and others), which source types dominate, and, when the business is not cited, the likely reason and fix. Google and Gemini redirect links are read to the pages they point to.

Read-only, idempotent. Makes no network request unless the answer cites through a Google or Gemini redirect link.

surfacedby_get_ai_source_landscape

InputTypeNotes
platformstring, optionalLimit the result to one AI platform: chatgpt, perplexity, gemini, claude, ai_mode, grok or deepseek. When the index has no figures for that platform yet, the result says so and lists the platforms it does cover.
topicstring, optionalSelect research findings on one topic, such as reddit, crawlers or competitors.

Returns, per AI platform, the share of citations by source category, recent shifts in specific sources and how its answers cite, from SurfacedBy's published AI Search Index, with the data date and a link to the public page, plus research findings with their samples, dates and post links. These are pooled rates across many brands, not measurements of any one business.

Read-only, idempotent.

Prompts and resources

Clients that show MCP prompts get four ready-made commands: Full AI visibility audit, Compare me with competitors, Check how AI answers describe us and Fix my AI crawler access. Each takes the business URL and optional competitors and market.

Two resources are available to clients that read them: surfacedby://method/ai-visibility-audit (the full audit method) and surfacedby://research/findings (the published research findings, each with its sample, date and link).

Track it over time

This server works on the pages and answers in your conversation, and its source data is pooled across many brands. To track how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and other AI platforms mention your brand over time, which competitors they recommend instead, and which sources they trust, use SurfacedBy. Or run a one-off check with the free AI visibility checker.

Pages that need JavaScript, a login or a bot challenge to load are reported as unavailable, never guessed.

Limits and fair use

  • Up to 5 URLs per inspection call. A full audit typically uses about 50 requests across the sites it reads; pages already read in the last 24 hours cost nothing.
  • The server is shared and free, with daily and monthly request budgets and a daily cap per destination website. When a budget is used up, the tools return a clear error until it resets.
  • Fetches use the user agent SurfacedByEvidence/1.0 (+https://surfacedby.com/tools/chatgpt-ai-visibility), respect robots.txt rules for it, and follow only validated public redirects.

Privacy

Page snapshots are cached for up to 24 hours so repeat checks are fast, then deleted. Answers you submit are analyzed in the request and not stored. Usage is recorded as daily totals, plus a hashed per-site count that resets every day to stop one website being hit too often. No prompts, answers or user identifiers are kept. Calls are never linked to SurfacedBy accounts or website visitors.

Privacy policy: surfacedby.com/privacy. Terms: surfacedby.com/terms.

Support

Open an issue in this repository or contact us at surfacedby.com/contact.

About

Built by Ali Khallad at SurfacedBy, which tracks how AI platforms mention, cite and recommend brands.

This repository holds the documentation and registry metadata for the hosted server. The server itself runs as part of the SurfacedBy platform.

License

MIT for the contents of this repository.

Source: README.md at commit e756c33

Tools

5

surfacedby_inspect_page_evidence

Audit website pages the way AI reads them

Read up to five public pages the way an AI crawler receives them, without running JavaScript. Returns sourced sections, table cells, internal and outside links and declared structured data, plus each page's type, source type and readiness findings with the documentation behind them, repeated declared facts to review, and the remaining request budget. Partial or unreadable pages are reported as such. Runs no AI queries and measures no visibility.

Parametersurlsrequired

surfacedby_analyze_answer_evidence

Check whether an AI answer cites or names you

Check one AI answer the user pasted: whether it cites the business with a link, names it without one, or leaves it out. Classifies every cited source, such as review sites, best-of lists, forums, competitors and the business's own pages, reads Google and Gemini redirect links to the pages they point to, summarizes which source types dominate, and gives the likely reason and fix when the business is not cited. Runs no AI queries of its own.

Parametersanswerrequiredlanguageplatformbrand_namebusiness_urlrequiredcompetitor_domains

surfacedby_check_ai_crawler_access

Check AI crawler access

Check which AI crawlers a site allows, restricts or blocks in robots.txt, what that means for each AI platform and the search index it reads, where to submit pages, whether a security challenge answers an ordinary request, homepage noindex, llms.txt and Content-Signal, with copy-ready fixes. Reads the site's public files and one ordinary page request; firewall rules keyed to crawlers' own IP addresses are not visible.

Parametersdomainrequired

surfacedby_get_ai_source_landscape

See where AI platforms get their answers

Show, for each AI platform, the mix of source types it cites, recent shifts in specific sources and how its answers cite, from SurfacedBy's published AI Search Index, with the data date, the public page and related research findings with links. Rates are pooled across many brands and describe each platform, not any one business.

Parameterstopicplatform

surfacedby_plan_ai_visibility_audit

Plan an AI visibility audit

Return the ordered checklist for an AI visibility audit of a business website: each step, the tools for it, the quality bar for the result, the rules to follow, the published research findings that apply to the goal, and the remaining request budget. Makes no request to the website.

Parametersgoalmarketlanguagecompetitorsbusiness_urlrequired

Version history

1
  1. v1.0.1LatestOct 10, 2026

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