A free check of the website you already have.
We run the same checks on your site that we run on ours before one goes live, then send you what we found in plain words, with the things worth doing first at the top. That covers what Google sees, what somebody on a phone sees, and whether the AI assistants are allowed to read you at all.
Nothing to pay and nothing to sign. The list is yours to keep, and it says exactly how to fix each one.
What do you actually check?
Six things, and each one is a reason somebody who wanted to hire you did not. They are the same checks a site of ours has to pass before it is allowed to go live.
Can a search engine read it at all
Whether the pages load, whether anything links to them, whether the titles and descriptions are the ones you would have written, and whether a crawler that runs no scripts can see the words. A page nothing can read cannot be found and cannot be quoted by an assistant either.
Whether it works on a phone
Whether it is built for a phone at all, whether the page slides sideways, whether anything sits on top of anything else, and whether your pictures shove the text about while they load. Your customers will be looking at it on a phone.
Whether somebody can actually contact you
Whether every page has a way to reach you, whether the phone number is tappable, whether the form fields are labelled properly, and whether you are answering on a free email address rather than your own domain.
Whether it is set up to be quoted
Whether the site tells Google and the AI assistants what the business is, where it works and what it does, and whether it is carrying markup that stopped earning anything years ago or the kind that breaks a rule and costs you a penalty.
Whether the AI assistants are allowed to read you
One file on your server decides whether GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google's own AI crawler may read you, and it is not one anybody opens. One tag in the head of a page can take that page out of Copilot's answers while it carries on ranking normally, so nothing looks wrong.
We read yours, quote the line, and name every crawler that is shut out.
Whether a customer's assistant could actually book you
Google says browser agents now do jobs for people by reading a page's structure and its accessibility tree, which is the same plumbing a blind customer relies on. A form whose boxes are labelled only by the grey text inside them cannot be filled in by either of them.
We check every field, the heading order, the input types and the phone link, and tell you which ones would stop it.
Where do I send my address?
Put your web address in the box below and we do the rest. Every page on your site gets crawled and put through 48 separate checks, the ones that matter get read by a person rather than by software, and the findings come back to you written in plain English.
Why does the AI recommend three firms and never yours?
Assistants keep no separate ranking of local businesses. They run ordinary searches, read what comes back and write the answer out of that, so a business the search engines cannot read properly is a business the assistant never names.
There is no separate AI ranking to buy, and Google says so itself
Google's own guidance for 2026 says that optimising for generative AI search "is optimizing for the search experience, and thus still SEO". The same page has a list headed what you do not need to do, and llms.txt files, special AI markup and rewriting your pages for the AI are all on it.
So there is no separate AI package to buy. Google says it is the same job.
Your own robots.txt may be telling the assistants to stay off the site
One file, usually written years ago by whoever built the site, decides whether GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google's own AI crawler are allowed to read you. Blocking them is normally done to keep the site out of AI training, and it is a bigger switch than that: it takes the business out of the recommendations at the same time.
We read yours and quote the line back to you.
One tag can remove a page from Copilot's answers while it carries on ranking
Microsoft's guidelines say noarchive "prevents content from being used in Copilot responses and grounding results", and that nocache limits Copilot to the URL, the title and the snippet.
A page carrying either still indexes, still ranks and still gets visits, so nothing on your side looks wrong. Both usually arrive in a block of copied code that nobody read.
An assistant booking a job reads your page the way a screen reader does
Google says browser agents complete tasks by inspecting a page's structure and interpreting its accessibility tree. So the work that lets a blind customer book you is now the work that lets somebody's assistant book you. It is the part that gets left out. A box labelled only by the grey text inside it defeats both.
Everything we report sits on your own server, where you can open it
The check quotes the exact line back to you, so you can see it for yourself while we are on the phone.
The same question asked twice comes back with different businesses in it, because the answer is written fresh each time. Google says plainly that no third-party tool has access to its ranking or AI systems.
Every quotation above comes from the search engines' own published guidance rather than from us, and all of it was read on 18 August 2026: Google's AI optimisation guide, Google on AI features and your website, and the Bing webmaster guidelines, which are Microsoft's rules for Copilot. Read them yourself. That is rather the point of citing them.
Where does AI actually fit in a business like yours?
AI earns its place in a small business when it takes one whole job off somebody, not when it is bought as a product. The Government's own UK Business Data Survey, published 18 June 2026, found 40% of sole traders and 51% of small businesses already using it in some form. So the useful question stopped being whether to and became which job first.
Quoting and estimating. Chasing the people who never replied. Reading documents. Answering the same question over and over.
The whole process is written out on the AI implementation page, including what a system costs to run each month and what you get for it. Every project is quoted after somebody has watched how your work really runs. You get a fixed price in writing before anybody builds anything, and the map of that process is yours to keep.
What else is worth reading?
Every page here answers one question properly rather than skimming five. These are the others, and each one says what it is before you click it.
Foothold AI: websites and AI for local service businesses
A website that gets found, a back office that runs the day, and an app for your team. From £295 to set up and £99 a month. Suffolk based, UK wide.
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Twenty towns across Suffolk and north Essex, from Sudbury. Most are twenty or thirty minutes away, and the person who builds your site comes out.
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