Description
When someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity “who’s a good [your industry] near me?” — what does the AI say about your site? If it can’t read you clearly, it doesn’t give you a bad review. It just doesn’t mention you. You never see the miss.
Caidance — AI-Readiness Score scans your active WordPress site for the signals AI search and AI agents look for, gives you a 0–60 score with a clear band (Starter / Builder / Operator / Leader), and tells you in plain English the top three things to fix first.
It runs entirely on your site. No account required, no data sent anywhere, no external API calls.
What gets checked
Ten local checks run against your site:
- llms.txt — the file AI agents check first
- Sitemap declared in robots.txt — so AI can find your content
- Organization schema — so AI knows who you are
- WebSite schema with SearchAction — so AI can map your site
- FAQPage schema — direct answers AI can cite
- Article schema on posts — so blog content gets surfaced
- Author / Person schema — for E-E-A-T signals
- Open Graph + Twitter cards — for AI preview generation
- Canonical tags — to prevent duplicate-content confusion
- AI crawler access — does robots.txt allow GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, and Google-Extended? (Toggleable.)
Each check returns a clear pass / partial / fail with a plain-English explanation. No jargon, no false alarms.
Industry-aware fix list
Pick your industry from 11 options — Financial Services, Healthcare, Legal, Home Services, Nonprofit, Professional Services, Manufacturing, eCommerce, SaaS, Education, Local Retail & Restaurants — and the fix recommendations are tailored. The fix you see is the fix that actually matters in your industry.
What this plugin does NOT do
- It does not auto-fix anything. The plugin shows you the gaps; you (or your developer) close them. No invisible changes to your site.
- It does not require a Caidance account. Install, scan, see your score.
- It does not phone home. Zero external HTTP calls. Results are stored in your own WordPress database.
Want the full off-site picture too?
This plugin scores your WordPress site itself. If you want to see how AI agents see your business across the whole web — review sites, social, your public footprint — Caidance offers a free 60-second snapshot at caidance.ai/snapshot.
For paid layers (Toolkit, Monitoring), see caidance.ai/pricing.
Screenshots
The Dashboard widget — your AI-readiness score, band, and top 3 fixes at a glance. 
The full readout at Tools Caidance Scan — all 10 checks with pass/partial/fail and plain-English explanations. 
The Settings page — pick your industry, run a scan, see your scan history.
Installation
- Upload the plugin files to
/wp-content/plugins/caidance-ai-readiness, or install via the WordPress Plugins screen. - Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen.
- Click the activation notice, or go to Settings Caidance and pick your industry.
- Click Run scan now. Your score and top 3 fixes appear in 5–15 seconds.
- Future scans run automatically each week.
FAQ
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Does this plugin send my data anywhere?
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No. The scanner runs entirely in PHP against your own site. Results are stored in your WordPress database. Nothing is sent to Caidance or any third party.
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Do I need a Caidance account?
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No. The plugin is fully usable on its own. The links to caidance.ai are optional — they point to the broader off-site analysis the plugin cannot do from inside WordPress.
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Will this slow down my site?
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No. The scan runs only when you click Run scan now or on the weekly schedule. It runs in the admin context, never on front-end pages.
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My score is lower than I expected. Now what?
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Open Tools Caidance Scan. Each failed check has a plain-English explanation of why it matters and the first step to fix it. The fixes are ordered by impact, so start at the top.
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My site already has SEO covered. Why do I need this?
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Traditional SEO targets Google ten-blue-link rankings. AI search is different. AI agents read schema, llms.txt, and structured signals that do not always overlap with classic SEO. A site that ranks well on Google can still be invisible to ChatGPT. This plugin checks the AI-specific signals.
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What does the AI crawler check do exactly?
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It looks at your
robots.txtand checks whether five major AI crawlers are allowed: GPTBot (OpenAI), ClaudeBot (Anthropic), PerplexityBot (Perplexity), OAI-SearchBot (OpenAI search), and Google-Extended (Google AI). Some sites intentionally block these. If yours does, toggle the check off in Settings. -
Does this work with WooCommerce?
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The 10 universal checks all work on a WooCommerce site. A future version (1.1) will add WooCommerce-specific checks (product schema, breadcrumbs, review aggregates).
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Does this work on a Multisite Network?
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Single-site only for v1. Multisite Network support is on the roadmap.
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Is it compatible with my caching plugin?
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Yes. The scan reads your site the same way an AI crawler would — including any HTML your cache layer serves.
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Contributors & Developers
“Caidance — AI-Readiness Score” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.0
- Initial release.
- 10 local AI-readiness checks (llms.txt, schema family, OG/Twitter, canonical, sitemap, AI-crawler access).
- CDI-aligned 0–60 scoring with Starter / Builder / Operator / Leader bands.
- Industry-aware fix recommendations across 11 industries.
- Three admin surfaces: Settings, Dashboard widget, Tools page.
- Weekly automated re-scan with 12-scan history.