See exactly why AI engines don't cite your site — and how to fix it.
ThreadRank reads your entire website and grades the SEO and AEO signals that decide whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Google can find, understand and cite your business.
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An in-depth, ~18-page report written for your exact site — every issue explained and, more importantly, exactly how to close the gap to your potential score.
- 10 section deep-dives with a score for each
- Prioritised fix roadmap (impact × effort)
- Biggest growth opportunities + quick wins
- A concrete 30-day plan · downloadable PDF
What people ask before they scan
What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of structuring a website so AI answer engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews can retrieve, understand and cite it. AEO differs from classic SEO because the goal is being quoted inside a generated answer rather than ranking as a blue link, which rewards clear factual statements, structured data and self-contained answers.
What does ThreadRank actually check?
ThreadRank crawls a website's public pages and grades two score families: SEO signals such as titles, meta descriptions, headings, internal links, crawlability, sitemaps and page speed hints; and AEO signals such as schema.org structured data, factual clarity, entity definitions, question-shaped headings, content freshness and whether key claims are stated in extractable sentences. Each check returns a pass, warn or fail with the specific fix.
How much does ThreadRank cost?
The ThreadRank scan and score are free and require no signup. The full in-depth report — the complete fix roadmap, per-section scores, prioritised issues and a downloadable PDF — costs $5 as a one-time payment per report.
How long does a ThreadRank scan take?
A ThreadRank scan typically completes in under a minute. ThreadRank fetches the homepage, crawls linked pages, audits SEO signals, checks answer-engine readiness and scores the site, then displays the result on the same page without an email gate.
Do I need to install anything or give ThreadRank access to my site?
No. ThreadRank needs only a public URL. ThreadRank reads publicly available pages exactly as a search engine crawler would, requires no signup, no script tag, no DNS change and no access to any content management system or analytics account.
Why do ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude not cite my website?
AI answer engines usually fail to cite a website for one of four reasons: the content is not crawlable or is rendered only in JavaScript; there is no structured data telling the engine what the business is and what it offers; claims are written as marketing prose rather than extractable factual sentences; or a more clearly structured competitor answers the same question better. ThreadRank identifies which of these applies to a given site.
Is AEO replacing SEO?
No — AEO extends SEO rather than replacing it. The technical foundations of SEO, including crawlability, sitemaps, clean headings and fast pages, remain prerequisites, because an answer engine cannot cite a page it cannot fetch or parse. ThreadRank therefore scores both families and reports them side by side.
Who builds ThreadRank?
ThreadRank is built by Threadlane AI Labs & Research, an applied AI research and product studio that ships its own AI products and delivers enterprise AI systems. Threadlane also builds ThreadOPS, ThreadLion Code and Thread Nimbus, and takes enterprise AI projects from problem framing to production.