Free check · asks Claude live, or Gemini if it is unavailable
Free Claude visibility checker
Buyers ask Claude to help them choose. We send it three of their questions through Anthropic’s API, with web search on. You see whether Claude named you, who it named instead and which pages it read.
How people ask Claude for buying advice
People bring Claude a problem with its context attached: team size, budget, what went wrong last time. They want the reasoning as well as the names. These questions show the pattern.
- We are a 20-person nonprofit. Which donor management software fits a small budget, and what are the catches?
- Explain the tradeoffs between Gusto and a local bookkeeper for payroll at a two-location cafe.
- I sell handmade candles online. Is Klaviyo worth it, or is there a simpler email tool?
- Which accounting firm in Minneapolis understands R&D tax credits for software startups?
- What project management tool suits a law firm that handles sensitive client files?
- Which language school in Chicago works best for adults with full-time jobs?
- Help me pick an ecommerce platform for 300 products: Shopify, WooCommerce or something else?
- Who makes the most durable carry-on luggage for weekly business travel?
The check asks 3. On Growth, Rankli asks 50 of yours every week on ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.
What Claude reads before it names a business
Anthropic documents three visitors that read the web for Claude. Two fetch pages for the answers people ask for. The third gathers pages that can shape what future Claude models know.
The two visitors that fetch pages for answers
Claude-User reads pages while Claude answers someone, and Claude-SearchBot works on the quality of its search results. Anthropic says blocking either one may reduce how visible your site is in those answers.
Your site settings, rule by rule
Anthropic says its visitors follow the settings that let AI visit your site (robots.txt). A rule that blocks every bot you have not named blocks Claude too. The free AI check reads your settings for each Claude visitor by name.
Passages Claude can cite
When Claude searches, its answer cites the passage it drew on from each page. A page that says who it serves, what it costs and why it fits, in its opening lines, hands Claude that passage.
What Claude already remembers
For some questions Claude answers from memory, with no search. ClaudeBot gathers pages for training future models. Block it, and those models learn about you from other people’s pages.
What three Claude answers tell you, and what they leave out
- Ask Claude twice and the shortlist can change. Three answers are one reading. Growth asks Claude 50 of your questions every week, so you see a rate.
- The check asks through Anthropic’s API with web search on. The Claude app can also use a person’s earlier chats and projects, which the API does not see.
- Claude decides for itself when a question needs a search. The report says whether Claude searched for each answer or replied from memory, and the two call for different fixes.
- It looks for your business name and website in the answer. A mention under an old name or a misspelling is not counted, so enter the name buyers use.
Frequently asked questions
How can I see what Claude says about my business?
Ask Claude the questions your buyers ask, with web search on, and read each answer for your name. This page does that for three questions in about a minute. Rankli asks 50 questions on ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini every week, so you see Claude beside the others.
Does Claude search the web when it answers?
It can. Anthropic says Claude may visit websites through its Claude-User visitor when someone asks it a question. This check turns web search on, and each answer in the report says whether Claude searched or answered from memory. Rankli records the same for every question it tracks.
Why does Claude name a competitor instead of me?
The pages Claude read, or the ones it learned from, describe that competitor as a fit in words it could cite. Check that your settings let Claude’s visitors in. Then publish a page that answers the question in its first lines: Rankli finds each question you lose and writes that page.
Can Claude and ChatGPT give different answers to the same question?
Yes. Each has its own model and reads the web through its own maker’s systems. A question you win on ChatGPT can be one you lose on Claude. Rankli records each assistant’s answer separately, every week, so you see where you stand on each.
Does blocking ClaudeBot stop Claude recommending me?
Anthropic says blocking ClaudeBot keeps your future pages out of its training data. Claude-User and Claude-SearchBot are the visitors that fetch pages for live answers. The free AI check tests all three by name, and Rankli’s Fix list names the rule to change.
Is the Claude check free?
Free, with no account and no email. When three questions are not enough, the 7-day free trial asks ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini up to 50 of yours. It writes articles for the ones you lose.
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