AI Search Readiness: can Google and AI assistants read your site?

It is £499, one-off, with no monthly fee. That covers the llms.txt file, crawler rules, structured data for your business, services, prices and FAQs, honest dates, split sitemaps, Google and Bing verification, instant indexing and a before-and-after score for every page. If your site needs rebuilding before any of this will stick, I'll say so on day one rather than bolt it onto something broken.

An llms.txt file is a short plain-text summary of your site written for AI assistants, kept at yoursite.co.uk/llms.txt. It says who you are, what you sell, where, at what price, and which pages answer which questions. It is a young convention, not a rule every engine follows, so I treat it as one useful signal among several. GigXchange keeps one dated and refreshed with live counts, because a stale one does more harm than none.

For most small businesses, yes - if AI assistants can't read your site, they can't recommend you from it. Your robots.txt file is where you say which bots may read what, and Google explains how it works in its robots.txt guide. We allow search and AI answer bots, block admin and private pages, and explain each line so you can change your mind later. If you want AI training blocked but answers allowed, that is a one-line choice.

Structured data is a set of hidden labels in your pages that tell machines exactly what they are looking at - a business, a service, a price, a question and its answer. Without it, Google and AI tools have to guess from the layout. Google lists the labels it understands in its structured data guide. We add the ones that fit your business and test every page type before handover.

It makes it possible; it can't make it certain. Readiness removes the reasons an AI system would skip you - pages it can't parse, no clear facts, no dates. Whether it then quotes you depends on what else it finds, and that changes. I won't promise numbers: GigXchange runs all of this and still saw AI-assistant visits fall in October 2026. The AI Visibility Monitor tells you what is actually happening, month by month.

Yes, on most setups, with some limits on the closed builders. WordPress gives full control. Squarespace and Wix let us add structured data and verify the consoles, but they control the sitemap and robots file themselves, so we work within what they allow and tell you what we couldn't change. If you are planning a new site anyway, Web Development includes all of this from day one.

A login to your website editor, or your web person's time for an hour, plus permission to add the Google and Bing verification records. Both search consoles are set up in your name, not ours, so you keep them if we part ways. We never need your customer data, payment accounts or email. When we finish, you can remove our login and everything we set up keeps working.

The audit measures; this fixes. The AI Visibility Audit asks the AI engines your buyer questions and scores your pages, then hands you a list. AI Search Readiness does most of that list for you - files, labels, sitemaps and indexing. You can start here without the audit; the before-and-after page scores are included either way. If you want both, the AI Search Starter bundle puts them together with three months of monitoring.