What Is Machine Visibility?
Machine visibility is whether the crawlers that feed AI answer engines and assistants are allowed to read your site at all. A site that blocks them is invisible to those engines — it cannot be cited in an answer it never reached. We read the public crawler posture for your site and for every competitor, and report the stance as a measured fact.
What It Reads
The public robots posture at each site — whether the answer-engine and assistant crawlers are welcomed or refused at the root. It is the same crawler-access governance the free scan reads as part of your AI-readiness.
Why a Block Is Signal
A refusal is a measured fact about a site, never a gap in our data. A competitor that refuses a compliant read and also blocks the answer-engine crawlers is invisible to those engines — a measured opening you can be visible in while they are not.
Visible, or Invisible to the Answer Engines
Every finding carries its coverage grade. A blocked crawler is recorded as a block — a measured stance — not drawn as a low score that would read as measured-weak.
The answer-engine crawlers are allowed to read the site — it can be read, indexed, and cited by the machines that answer your buyers.
The crawlers are turned away at the root — the site is invisible to those engines, and that refusal is recorded as the finding it is.
The Questions People Ask
What is machine visibility?
Machine visibility is whether the crawlers that feed AI answer engines and assistants are allowed to read your site. A site that blocks them cannot be cited in answers it never reached.
How is machine visibility measured?
We read the public crawler posture at your site and at every competitor, and record whether the answer-engine crawlers are welcomed or refused at the root — the same governance the free scan reads as part of AI-readiness.
Why is a blocked competitor an opening?
A competitor that refuses a compliant read and blocks the answer-engine crawlers is invisible to those engines. That is a measured opening: a place you can be named while they cannot.
The Rank Codex reads this posture across your whole site and against your cohort — the same governance, decomposed.