Is your site even reachable by AI crawlers?

Three layers, checked in order: robots.txt directives (what you're telling crawlers to do), CDN/WAF edge rules like Cloudflare's "Block AI Bots" toggle or managed bot-fighting rules (which can override a permissive robots.txt before it's ever read), and JS-rendering gaps (content that only exists after client-side JavaScript runs, which several AI crawlers don't execute). Most sites have never checked the second one directly.

I run the check myself and reply directly. Not a queue, not an automated report, not a drip sequence. Within a day, you get an email naming the specific issue I found, or an honest confirmation that access isn't your problem.

Then I tell you that, plainly, and the check is still worth having run: you now know Stage 1 isn't where to spend attention, instead of guessing.

So the reply I send is actually useful to you, whether that's a quick fix you can hand to a developer yourself, or a heads-up that it's part of a bigger rebuild worth budgeting for. It doesn't change whether you get a reply.