Mark McNeece of 365i

AI systems are answering questions about your business right now. When someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity about your services, they either get it right or they guess. Most of the time, they guess wrong — confusing you with competitors, fabricating services you don’t offer, and recommending someone else entirely.
AI Discovery Files fix this. They are machine-readable files at the root of your website that tell AI systems exactly who you are, what you do, and how to refer to your brand. Think of them as <code>robots.txt</code> for AI — except instead of telling crawlers what to ignore, you tell AI systems what to get right.
This is the only WordPress plugin that generates all 10 AI Discovery Files defined in the <a href="https://www.ai-visibility.org.uk/specifications/" rel="nofollow ugc">AI Discovery Files Specification</a>.
<h4>Why your website needs AI Discovery Files</h4>
Without AI Discovery Files, your website is invisible to AI — not ranking poorly, completely absent from AI responses. With AI Discovery Files, you give every major AI system a single, authoritative source of truth about your business. You get mentioned. You get cited. You get recommended.
This is not traditional SEO. This is AI visibility — also called generative engine optimisation (GEO) or answer engine optimisation (AEO). Whatever you call it, it starts with AI Discovery Files.
<h4>All 10 AI Discovery Files</h4>
The <a href="https://www.ai-visibility.org.uk/specifications/" rel="nofollow ugc">AI Discovery Files Specification</a> defines 10 file types across three implementation tiers:
Essential (start here)
<ul>
<li><code>llms.txt</code> — AI-readable business identity (Markdown)</li>
<li><code>ai.txt</code> — AI usage permissions (plain text)</li>
</ul>
Recommended
<ul>
<li><code>identity.json</code> — Structured business identity (JSON)</li>
<li><code>ai.json</code> — Machine-parseable permissions (JSON)</li>
<li><code>brand.txt</code> — Brand naming and terminology rules</li>
<li><code>faq-ai.txt</code> — Pre-answered questions for AI systems</li>
</ul>
Complete
<ul>
<li><code>llm.txt</code> — Compatibility redirect to llms.txt</li>
<li><code>llms.html</code> — Human-readable reference version</li>
<li><code>developer-ai.txt</code> — Technical context for developers</li>
<li><code>robots-ai.txt</code> — AI crawler-specific directives</li>
</ul>
Most competing plugins only generate <code>llms.txt</code>. This plugin generates all 10 files, giving you complete coverage across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and every other major AI system.
<h4>How it works</h4>
<ol>
<li>Install and activate the plugin</li>
<li>Fill in your business details on the settings page</li>
<li>Choose which files to enable</li>
<li>The plugin serves the files at the correct root URLs (e.g., <code>yoursite.com/llms.txt</code>)</li>
</ol>
Files are generated dynamically from your settings — no files are written to disk, and everything updates automatically when you change your settings.
<h4>Key features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Auto-detection — pulls your site name, tagline, pages, theme, and WordPress version automatically</li>
<li>All 10 file types — the only plugin that generates every AI Discovery File, not just llms.txt</li>
<li>Three implementation tiers — start with Essential and expand when ready</li>
<li>Live preview — see exactly what each file contains before enabling it</li>
<li>Validation — checks files against the specification and flags issues</li>
<li>AI Crawler Analytics — see which AI bots read your AI Discovery Files, with visual dashboards and CSV export</li>
<li>Discovery File Access tracking — proof that AI bots are reading the files this plugin generates</li>
<li>robots.txt conflict detection — warns when your robots.txt contradicts your AI visibility settings</li>
<li>Conflict detection — warns if physical files already exist at the same URLs</li>
<li>Directory verification — verify domain ownership for the <a href="https://www.ai-visibility.org.uk/" rel="nofollow ugc">AI Visibility Directory</a> without FTP</li>
<li>No lock-in — disable the plugin and the files simply stop being served</li>
<li>Developer-friendly — filters for every generated file and collected data point</li>
</ul>
<h4>Who needs this?</h4>
Every WordPress site that wants to be found, mentioned, and correctly cited by AI systems. Local businesses, agencies, ecommerce stores, SaaS companies, professional services — if AI is answering questions about your industry, you need to control what it says about you.
Built by <a href="https://www.ai-visibility.org.uk/" rel="nofollow ugc">AI Visibility</a>, the publisher of the AI Discovery Files Specification and the team behind the <a href="https://www.ai-visibility.org.uk/ai-visibility-checker/" rel="nofollow ugc">AI Visibility Checker</a>.

AI Discovery Files – llms.txt & AI Visibility

The only WordPress plugin that generates all 10 AI Discovery Files and shows which AI bots read them. Built by 365i.

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Want ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews citing your WordPress site? AEO God Mode gives you every signal those engines look for. Free forever for the basics. Pro at <a href="https://aeogodmode.io" rel="nofollow ugc">https://aeogodmode.io</a> if you want to measure who’s actually citing you.
This plugin handles Answer Engine Optimization (AEO). Also called Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), AI Optimization (AIO), AI SEO, LLM SEO, Generative AI Optimization (GAIO), AEOSEO, ASEO, AI Search Optimization, ChatGPT SEO. Same job, different acronyms. Get your content structured, accessible, and trusted by the AI engines that are quietly replacing search results.
<h4>🚨 Why Your Site Is Invisible to AI Right Now</h4>
Yoast and Rank Math were built for Google in 2015. They have no idea what an AI answer engine wants. Your site probably has no AI bot allowlist, no schema for AI to parse, no E-E-A-T author signals, no answer-shaped content, no citation tracking. ChatGPT and Perplexity skip you and cite your competitors instead.
AEO God Mode fixes that. It runs alongside Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress, or All in One SEO. Imports their settings on install. Adds the AI visibility layer none of them cover. Never overwrites your titles, meta, canonicals, or sitemaps.
<h4>🆓 What You Get For Free (No Account Required)</h4>
✅ AI Crawler Allowlist (18 bots). Choose which AI engines can use your content. Allow ChatGPT and Perplexity, block the rest, do whatever you want. See screenshot 2.
✅ llms.txt Generator. Auto-writes a machine-readable summary of your most important content. Acts as a “welcome mat” for AI agents that read it during inference (a proposed standard, not a hard requirement, but useful when AI agents do honour it). See screenshot 9.
✅ Schema Engine (FAQ, HowTo, Article, Product, Organization, LocalBusiness, Speakable, more). Auto-tags your content so AI knows what each page is. See screenshot 4.
✅ Schema Conflict Detector. Already running Yoast or Rank Math? Never get duplicate or fighting schema. The detector defers to your existing plugin. See screenshot 4.
✅ Schema Validator. Pass, warn, or fail per page. Fix broken structured data before AI engines or Google penalise you.
✅ Content Gap Scanner. Finds pages without FAQs, schema, or answer-shaped content. Action list with one-click fixes. See screenshot 5.
✅ Editor Panel. Edit AEO settings inside the Gutenberg sidebar where you write. No bouncing between editors.
✅ AI Metadata Generator (10 free credits/month). Writes Search and LLM-optimised meta titles, meta descriptions, and product descriptions in 5 styles. Run on a single post or bulk-generate across many. See screenshot 10.
✅ Robots.txt Manager. Generates the AI bot rules some engines need to find you at all.
✅ AI HTTP Headers. Server-level AI directives some engines respect even when they ignore robots.txt.
✅ AI Crawler Log. Every AI bot visit timestamped. Proof ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity are crawling you. Or proof they’re not, so you can fix it.
✅ AEO Health Dashboard (also a WordPress widget). One score for AI readiness, right on your wp-admin home. See screenshot 1.
✅ Setup Wizard (5 screens, under 5 minutes). Auto-detects Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress, imports settings. See screenshot 8.
✅ Yoast / Rank Math / SEOPress compatibility. Runs alongside whichever SEO plugin you use. Your titles, meta, canonicals, and sitemaps stay untouched.
<h4>⭐ What Pro Adds (Get a license at https://aeogodmode.io)</h4>
⚡ Citation Tracker. The point of all this. Did ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Claude cite your site this week? Citation Tracker queries all four AI engines directly with your customer queries and reports who got cited. You or your competitors. Real proof across every major engine, not just two. No other AEO plugin on WordPress measures this. See screenshot 3.
⚡ Citability Score (0 to 100 per page). Predicts how likely AI engines will cite each page. Based on the 10 signals AI engines actually look for. Per-page action list tells you exactly what to fix.
⚡ AI Referral Traffic Analytics. Visitors arriving from chatgpt.com, perplexity.ai, gemini.google.com, claude.ai tracked as a separate traffic source. Now you can prove how much revenue is coming from AI citations.
⚡ E-E-A-T Author Schema. Author credentials, expertise, education, and trust signals. Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT cite sources with these signals. Without them, your authors look anonymous to AI. See screenshot 6.
⚡ Google Search Console Integration. Indexing status, AI Query Explorer, and Fan-Out Cluster detection inside your AEO dashboard. See screenshot 7.
⚡ Internal Link Builder. AI tells you exactly where to add internal links so AI engines see strong topic clusters and cite you as the topic expert.
⚡ Section Index. AI engines cite paragraphs, not whole pages. Section Index analyses every H2 and H3 so you know which sections are quote-worthy and which need rewriting.
⚡ Bulk Actions. Fix AEO across hundreds of posts in minutes from your normal Posts and Pages screens. Bulk-regenerate metadata, bulk-add FAQ schema, bulk-refresh llms.txt entries.
⚡ Unlimited AI Metadata Generation. No 5-credit-per-month cap. Bulk-regenerate titles and descriptions across hundreds of posts. Test multiple styles across categories.
⚡ AI Crawler Intelligence. 30-day activity charts, Top Crawled Pages, and Blind Spots report (the pages AI bots are ignoring).
<h4>🤖 AI Engines Supported</h4>
Every major AI search engine, every major AI crawler:
✅ ChatGPT and ChatGPT Search (OpenAI). GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User 
✅ Perplexity AI. PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User 
✅ Claude (Anthropic). ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User 
✅ Google AI Overviews and Gemini. Google-Extended 
✅ Microsoft Copilot and Bing AI. Bingbot 
✅ Meta AI (LLaMA). Meta-ExternalAgent 
✅ DeepSeek. DeepSeekBot 
✅ Apple Intelligence. Applebot-Extended 
✅ xAI Grok and every emerging answer engine
18 AI crawler patterns out of the box. New engines added as they launch.
<h4>💪 Why AEO God Mode Beats Other AEO Plugins</h4>
Most AEO plugins for WordPress generate a basic llms.txt URL list and call it a day. AEO God Mode goes further:
✅ Real citation verification (Pro). We ask the actual AI engines who they’re citing. Other plugins guess from crawler logs.
✅ Files live on YOUR site (Free). Your llms.txt, schema, and metadata served from your own domain. Not piped through somebody else’s cloud.
✅ Free forever, no account (Free). The whole AEO toolkit works without signing up. Other plugins gate basic llms.txt behind a SaaS account.
✅ Citability Score (Pro). Per-page predictive scoring no other AEO plugin offers.
✅ Built-in E-E-A-T author schema (Pro). Proper author authority markup. Other plugins skip this entirely.
✅ Yoast / Rank Math compatibility (Free). Imports your existing settings. Never overwrites your titles or meta.
<h4>👥 Who AEO God Mode Is For</h4>
✅ SaaS companies wanting ChatGPT to recommend their software 
✅ Local businesses wanting to appear in AI location answers 
✅ E-commerce stores (WooCommerce + EDD supported) wanting AI shopping visibility 
✅ Agencies managing AEO across many client sites 
✅ Publishers and media wanting to be quoted as a source 
✅ Solo creators and consultants finally getting visible in AI search
<h4>🛠️ Want a Team to Just Run This For You?</h4>
AEO God Mode is the technical layer. Metronyx AI is the team that runs the strategy on top.
We’re a managed SEO + AEO agency built by the same crew who built this plugin. Not a “we’ll set up your llms.txt” service. Full-stack work: AI Visibility Audits, technical SEO, schema engineering, AI crawler config, AEO-BLUF content (Bottom Line Up Front, engineered for AI citation extraction), content rewrites, brand mentions and entity building across Reddit and YouTube, competitor citation tracking, link building, and weekly reporting.
What’s different: smart onboarding. We start executing day one, not after a month of paperwork. Most clients see citations climbing within 90 days. Typical agencies take 12 months to even start.
Every client gets a self-contained dashboard tracking citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude in real time. No guessing what your agency is doing.
Get a free AI Visibility Audit at <a href="https://metronyxai.com/audit/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://metronyxai.com/audit/</a> to see exactly where you stand.
<h4>🚀 How to Get Started</h4>
<ol>
<li>Install AEO God Mode and activate.</li>
<li>Run the 5-step Setup Wizard. Auto-imports Yoast or Rank Math, configures schema, enables AI crawler allowlist.</li>
<li>Watch your AEO health score climb in the dashboard.</li>
<li>Upgrade to Pro at <a href="https://aeogodmode.io" rel="nofollow ugc">https://aeogodmode.io</a> for Citation Tracker, AI Referrals, Citability Score, E-E-A-T Schema, GSC, Internal Link Builder, Section Index, and Bulk Actions.</li>
</ol>
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to external services in the following ways:
License Validation (Pro) 
Requests sent to aeogodmode.io to validate Pro license keys and check for Pro plugin updates. Only the license key and site URL are transmitted. No personal data sent.
AI Content Generation & Analysis 
When you manually start an AI generation task (like creating AI Metadata), the plugin securely sends the post content (title and body text) to aeogodmode.io/wp-json/asgm/v1/ai-assist for processing. Free users get 10 credits per month (no rollover). Pro users get 500 credits per month and unlock the full AI feature set (FAQ extraction, Citability AI, Answer-First content suggestions, advanced schema, Internal Link Builder, GSC integrations). Only activates when you explicitly click the ‘Generate’ or ‘Fix’ button on a post.
Citation Tracking (Pro) 
The Citation Tracker queries the Perplexity, OpenAI (ChatGPT), Google (Gemini), and Anthropic (Claude) APIs to check whether your domain appears in AI-generated responses. Requires explicit opt-in. Only activates after a valid Pro license is entered. API keys stored encrypted in the WordPress database with AES-256 using your WordPress salts. Never shared with any third party.
Google Search Console (Pro) 
The GSC integration routes OAuth token exchanges through a proxy at aeogodmode.io to securely connect your Google Search Console account. Only OAuth tokens and GSC API requests are proxied. No site content transmitted through this proxy.
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