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.

Brad Patshkowski

Show up when ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI answer your customers’ questions.
Your content can rank on the first page of Google and still be completely invisible to AI assistants. CiteWP measures exactly why — and shows you what to fix.
It’s the only WordPress plugin with a public, rubric-based AI citation score. Every signal, every weight, fully documented at citewp.com/cite-score. No black box. No API key required. Scores run locally on your server, free forever.
Works alongside Yoast SEO, Rank Math, SEOPress, and AIOSEO — your SEO plugin gets you ranked; CiteWP gets you cited.
<h4>The Cite Score</h4>
Most AI SEO tools give you a number. CiteWP shows you the number, explains every point, and tells you exactly what to fix.
The Cite Score measures 17 weighted signals across three categories:
<ul>
<li>Structure — heading hierarchy, answer-first formatting, passage length, semantic HTML</li>
<li>Citability — statistics density, named entities, FAQ content, self-contained passages</li>
<li>Authority — schema markup, author signals, internal linking, content depth</li>
</ul>
Every signal is documented at citewp.com/cite-score with research citations for every weight. Unlike competitor “AI scores,” there is no black box — SEO professionals can audit, explain, and defend every recommendation to their clients.
<h4>What’s Included — Free, Forever</h4>
✅ Cite Score — a transparent 100-point AI citation readiness score across 17 documented signals (Structure, Citability, Authority). See the score, the per-signal breakdown, and your top 3 highest-impact fixes — right in the editor and on the dashboard. Every weight is public at citewp.com/cite-score. No black box.
✅ 86 AI crawlers tracked — log visits from GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, DeepSeek, and 80+ other verified AI bots across 19 vendors. See what they fetch, which pages get attention, and which published pages no AI bot has ever touched. Filter by bot, filter by date, export to CSV. Most plugins track a handful — CiteWP tracks 86.
✅ AI Blind Spots — instantly surface published content that AI crawlers have never visited, so you know exactly where your coverage gaps are.
✅ Cite Score Over Time — watch your site-wide and per-post citation readiness trend across your chosen window. Confirm your fixes are actually moving the number.
✅ llms.txt generation — auto-generate /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt from your most important content, with cornerstone prioritization. Respects Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress, and AIOSEO settings automatically, and updates as you publish.
✅ Cite Score in every editor — Gutenberg sidebar plus a universal meta box that brings the score, category breakdown, recommendations, and bot activity to Classic Editor, Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, and Bricks. Check your score without leaving the page.
✅ Schema suggestions + scoring — one-click Article and FAQPage JSON-LD, injected cleanly into the page head (never pasted into your content). Scoring also credits authority-entity schema — Product, Organization, Person, SoftwareApplication, LocalBusiness — so service, product, and landing pages aren’t penalized for not being blog posts. FAQ detection works with Kadence, Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, Bricks, Spectra, and HTML5 accordions.
✅ AI recommendations, ranked by points — the dashboard surfaces your highest-impact fixes, grouped by signal and post type, ranked by recoverable Cite Score points. No guessing what to work on next.
✅ Post list column + dashboard widget — a sortable Cite Score column in All Posts and All Pages, plus an at-a-glance widget for your site-wide average, top crawled pages, and AI bot activity.
Everything above is free, forever — no API key, no external account, no per-analysis cost.
<h4>Why no API key?</h4>
Other AI SEO plugins require you to connect an OpenAI or Anthropic API key just to see your score — meaning every analysis costs you money and sends your content to an external server.
CiteWP scores your content locally on your own WordPress server. No API key. No per-analysis cost. No data leaving your site. The full feature set is free, forever.
<h4>Who this is for</h4>
✅ Bloggers and content publishers — your audience is already asking AI for recommendations. Be the source they cite.
✅ SEO professionals and agencies — measure AI citation readiness across client sites with a transparent, auditable rubric you can explain and defend.
✅ Founders and small-business owners — if you own your WordPress site and want to show up in AI search, this is where you start.
✅ SaaS companies and documentation sites — AI engines cite authoritative reference content. Measure whether yours qualifies.
<h4>White-hat by design</h4>
Some AI SEO plugins work by serving a different, “optimized” version of your page to AI crawlers — a technique that’s functionally cloaking and carries real risk under Google’s spam policies.
CiteWP takes the opposite approach: measure your actual content, find the gaps, fix them. Your real page gets better for AI and humans alike. No separate version for bots. No CDN dependency. No cloaking risk.
<h4>Built by CiteWP</h4>
CiteWP is a dedicated AI search optimization tool built specifically for WordPress. Visit citewp.com for documentation, the full scoring rubric, and blog posts on Generative Engine Optimization (GEO).

CiteWP AI Search Optimizer – Get Cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity & Claude

SEO gets you ranked. CiteWP gets you cited. 17-signal AI citation score, AI crawler tracking, and llms.txt — free, no API key required.

AI Discovery Files – llms.txt & AI Visibility vs CiteWP AI Search Optimizer – Get Cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity & Claude