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Sofair Scanner —
AI Visibility & Discovery in one click

Instantly see how AI assistants — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity — discover, perceive, and cite your website. Free Chrome extension. No signup. No tracking.

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Why this matters

Search is being replaced by AI answers — your website needs to be discoverable to AI

In 2025, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity collectively answer more than a billion business-related queries every month. When a user asks «best web designer in Tel Aviv» or «who delivers organic produce in Brooklyn», AI assistants no longer link to a page — they synthesize an answer and cite a few sources. If your site is not in that citation set, you don't exist for that user.

AI visibility is the new SEO. Unlike traditional search-engine optimization — links, keywords, page speed — AI optimization is about structured signals: JSON-LD markup, llms.txt manifests, robots.txt rules for AI crawlers, and explicit business profiles. These signals are mostly invisible to a human visitor, but they are everything for an AI assistant deciding whether to cite you.

Sofair Scanner is the first Chrome extension purpose-built to diagnose those signals. One click on any site, and you see exactly what AI assistants see — and what's missing.

How it works

One click. Local probe. Instant score.

Sofair Scanner runs entirely on click. There is no background activity, no automatic scanning, no data sent before you initiate.

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Click the icon on any website

Open any public site in Chrome. Click the Sofair Scanner toolbar icon. The extension activates only on this tab, only for this scan.

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The local probe reads AI-discovery signals

JSON-LD / Schema.org markup, /llms.txt manifest, /robots.txt rules for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, /ai-info.json, /sitemap.xml, meta tags. All reads happen from your browser to the site's own server.

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Get a 0–100 score with fix-it list

A citation-fitness score, 4 category breakdowns, and concrete actionable recommendations. If the site is in Sofair Index, you also see Content Freshness and Category Benchmark.

Diagnostic

4 categories of AI visibility

Every Sofair Scanner scan breaks your site's AI-readiness into four orthogonal categories. Two run locally on any site; two require the domain to be indexed in Sofair.

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Structured Data

JSON-LD blocks parsed from the page DOM. We check for valuable Schema.org types: Organization, LocalBusiness, Article, Product, Service, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList. Each present type increases the structured-data sub-score.

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Discoverability

The /llms.txt manifest, /ai-info.json business profile, /sitemap.xml index, meta description, OpenGraph tags. Plus robots.txt rules for the four major AI crawlers: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended.

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Content Freshness

For sites already in the Sofair Index — how recently has our crawler re-scanned your content? Fresh content ranks higher in real-time AI retrieval. Stale content gets superseded.

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Category Benchmark

For indexed sites — how does your AI-discovery score compare to peer sites in the same business category? Sofair Index groups sites by activity vertical and computes percentile rank.

AI SEO 101

How AI SEO differs from traditional SEO

Traditional SEO is about pleasing Google's search algorithm: links, keywords, page speed, mobile-friendliness. AI SEO is about pleasing the LLMs that increasingly intermediate between users and the open web.

What matters for AI

  • JSON-LD with Schema.org vocabulary — the most important AI signal. Explicit Organization + Services + Contact + Address is worth more than 10 paragraphs of marketing prose.
  • llms.txt manifest — a Markdown file at site root that says «here's what this site is about and which pages matter». Increasingly fetched by major AI vendors.
  • ai-info.json business profile — explicit business data in JSON. Sofair Index uses it for indexed sites.
  • robots.txt for AI crawlers — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended all honor the classic protocol. Block them and you opt out of AI visibility.
  • Content freshness — AI retrieval prefers recent content. Old pages get superseded.

What matters less (vs traditional SEO)

  • Backlinks — still relevant, but indirectly. AI assistants don't compute PageRank.
  • Keyword density — AI assistants read meaning, not keyword frequency.
  • Page speed — relevant for Core Web Vitals, but AI crawlers tolerate slow pages.
  • Mobile-friendliness — important for Google rankings, neutral for AI retrieval.

Use both. Traditional SEO tools (Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz) for Google rankings. Sofair Scanner for AI-assistant citation. The signals overlap partially, but the priorities differ.

Use cases

Who uses Sofair Scanner

Six personas, one extension. Every persona has a slightly different reason — but all benefit from making AI visibility measurable.

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Site owners launching a new site

Pre-launch a new marketing site, scan it with Sofair Scanner, fix the gaps before customers arrive. AI visibility from day one.

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SEO specialists adding AI visibility to audits

Your client is paying for traditional SEO. Add Sofair Scanner output to the quarterly report. Quantify the AI-discovery delta vs competitors.

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Marketers benchmarking competitors

Open competitor sites, click the icon, compare scores. The Category Benchmark category shows where each site ranks among peers in the same vertical.

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Developers diagnosing structured-data issues

Implementing JSON-LD or llms.txt? Sofair Scanner verifies that the parsing works end-to-end, with exact diagnostic messages for missing types.

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Content teams verifying AI-readiness

You publish 20 articles a week. Spot-check whether they're discoverable: JSON-LD Article types, llms.txt references, robots.txt rules for AI crawlers.

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Agencies selling «AI SEO audit»

Differentiate from traditional SEO shops. Run Sofair Scanner during client onboarding. Sell setup and ongoing AI-visibility monitoring.

Coverage

The four AI assistants we cover

Each AI assistant runs its own crawler with a distinct User-Agent string. Sofair Scanner checks the robots.txt rules for all four — block any and you lose the corresponding AI's citation channel.

ChatGPT
OpenAI
GPTBot
Claude
Anthropic
ClaudeBot
Gemini
Google
Google-Extended
Perplexity
Perplexity AI
PerplexityBot
Privacy

Privacy-first by design

Sofair Scanner is built to do one thing and one thing only — diagnose AI visibility on a single tab when you click the icon. Everything else is explicitly off.

No browsing historyThe extension only activates when you click the toolbar icon. We never observe which sites you visit otherwise.
No page contentWe read public metadata (JSON-LD, robots.txt, llms.txt) only. We never read the textual content of pages.
No third-party analyticsNo Google Analytics, no Mixpanel, no Hotjar, no Segment, no Amplitude, no PostHog.
No cookiesThe extension uses chrome.storage.local for scan caching only. No HTTP cookies, no third-party identifiers.
No background activityThe extension is dormant until your click. After the scan, it goes back to sleep until your next click.
No account requiredYou can use Sofair Scanner anonymously, indefinitely. We don't know who you are unless you opt in.

Full privacy policy: sofair.ai/extensions/privacy/sofair-scanner

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is AI visibility?

AI visibility is how well your website is understood and cited by AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity) when users ask them questions related to your content. Unlike traditional SEO — which targets search engines — AI visibility targets the AI-generated answer layer that's increasingly replacing search.

What is AI discovery, and how is it different from AI visibility?

AI discovery is the upstream process — how AI crawlers find, parse, and index your site. AI visibility is the downstream outcome — how well your site shows up in AI-generated answers. Sofair Scanner measures discovery signals to predict visibility.

What is llms.txt and do I need it?

llms.txt is a modern AI-discovery standard introduced in 2024. A Markdown file at your site root that tells AI assistants what your site is about, with curated links to your most important pages. Yes — if you want to be AI-visible, you should publish one.

Which AI crawlers should I allow in robots.txt?

For maximum AI visibility: GPTBot (ChatGPT / OpenAI), ClaudeBot (Anthropic Claude), PerplexityBot (Perplexity), and Google-Extended (Gemini / Bard training). Sofair Scanner checks each one and flags any that are blocked.

Does Sofair Scanner work for any website?

Yes. The local diagnostic (Structured Data + Discoverability) runs on any public site. The two server-side categories (Content Freshness + Category Benchmark) require the domain to be in the Sofair Index — you can submit it for free during pre-launch directly from the popup.

Is Sofair Scanner free?

Yes. The Chrome extension is free. Sofair Index submission is free during pre-launch. Future Sofair products (WordPress plugin, Shopify app) will have their own pricing — see sofair.ai.

Does the extension collect my browsing history?

No. The extension only activates when you explicitly click the icon. Only the domain (not the full URL, not page content) of the current tab is sent to our server, and only at the moment of your click. Full policy at sofair.ai/extensions/privacy/sofair-scanner.

How often should I run an AI visibility audit?

For active sites, monthly. AI vendors update crawlers, indexers, and ranking signals frequently. New best practices emerge every quarter.

How is Sofair Scanner different from Ahrefs, Semrush, or Moz?

Ahrefs / Semrush / Moz optimize for search-engine SEO (Google rankings, backlinks, keywords). Sofair Scanner is purpose-built for AI-assistant visibility. Use both: traditional SEO tools for search-engine traffic, Sofair Scanner for AI-assistant citation.

Can I use Sofair Scanner for agency client reports?

Yes. Open the client site, screenshot the popup, include the score and category breakdown in your audit. Many agencies use Sofair Scanner as a free upsell to traditional SEO audits.

The Sofair Discovery line

One extension today. A full product line for the post-search internet.

Sofair Scanner is the diagnostic step. The full Sofair Discovery line covers the entire AI-visibility workflow — diagnose, fix, monitor — across browsers, content platforms, and storefronts.

Sofair Scanner — Chrome extension

One-click AI visibility & discovery diagnostic for any site. Free, anonymous, no signup.

Live · pre-launch

Sofair Discovery for WordPress

WordPress plugin that publishes the full AI-discovery file set (llms.txt, ai-info.json, robots-ai rules, JSON-LD) directly from your WP admin. One install, AI-ready.

Coming soon

Sofair Discovery for Shopify

Shopify app that AI-optimizes your storefront automatically — Product JSON-LD, llms.txt with product catalog, llms-friendly category navigation.

Planned

Sofair Index

The machine-readable AI agent index at indexforai.net. Free submission during pre-launch. Sofair-indexed sites get richer scores in Sofair Scanner (Content Freshness + Category Benchmark).

Live · pre-launch

We don't track. We don't store. We don't sell.
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