# Brandioz — Complete Documentation

AI-powered website analysis and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) platform.

## About Brandioz

Brandioz helps businesses understand how AI systems, large language models, AI search engines, and retrieval systems interpret, retrieve, and cite their websites. We score websites on AI readability across 27 signals, identify why AI crawlers miss or misread content, and generate the structural assets needed to become citable across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews.

## Category

- Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Platform
- AI SEO Tool
- AI Visibility Analyzer
- Citation Readiness Platform

## Primary Users

- Founders and startups
- Marketing teams and SEO professionals
- Agencies and growth teams
- SaaS companies

## Core Capabilities

- GEO auditing and scoring (27 signals, two scores)
- Partial render detection (identifies when AI crawlers receive under 600 words)
- AI crawler permissions audit (robots.txt analysis for 15+ crawlers)
- Real AI perception analysis (live ChatGPT and Perplexity queries)
- Understanding curve analysis
- Common Crawl index verification
- llms.txt generation
- Crawler profile page generation
- JSON-LD schema generation and validation
- About page generation (TSX + HTML)
- Competitor GEO benchmarking

## Core Product Pages

### Main Pages

1. [Homepage](https://brandioz.com/)
   Description: Free GEO analyzer and product overview. Run instant AI readability scores on any website.

2. [Dashboard](https://brandioz.com/dashboard)
   Description: Run a full GEO audit on any URL. Get detailed scores across 27 signals with specific HTML recommendations.

3. [Solutions](https://brandioz.com/solutions)
   Description: Full feature breakdown and use cases for Brandioz. Understand how we solve AI visibility problems.

4. [Methodology](https://brandioz.com/methodology)
   Description: How scoring works, signal weights, and the methodology behind our analysis.

5. [Pipeline](https://brandioz.com/pipeline)
   Description: The 19-stage analysis pipeline. See exactly how we process and score websites.

6. [About](https://brandioz.com/about)
   Description: Company background, team, and mission.

7. [Blog](https://brandioz.com/blog)
   Description: Research and original data on GEO, AI crawlers, and citation strategy.

## Reference Pages

8. [What is GEO](https://brandioz.com/what-is-geo.html)
   Description: Complete GEO explanation with signal weights. Why GEO is the new SEO.

9. [GEO vs SEO](https://brandioz.com/geo-vs-seo.html)
   Description: Signal comparison, conflicts, and overlap between GEO and SEO strategies.

10. [GEO Glossary](https://brandioz.com/geo-glossary.html)
    Description: Every GEO term defined. Complete reference for GEO terminology.

11. [GEO Checklist](https://brandioz.com/geo-checklist.html)
    Description: 27-item implementation checklist for GEO optimization.

12. [AI SEO Tools](https://brandioz.com/ai-seo-tools.html)
    Description: GEO platform comparison. How Brandioz compares to other tools.

13. [Brandioz vs Competitors](https://brandioz.com/brandioz-vs-competitors.html)
    Description: Detailed feature comparison with other GEO/SEO tools.

14. [AI Crawler Directory](https://brandioz.com/ai-crawler-directory.html)
    Description: Every AI crawler, user agent, and robots.txt rules. Complete reference.

## Blog — Research and Original Data (10 posts)

15. [What AI reads on your website](https://brandioz.com/blog/what-ai-reads-on-your-website)
    Tags: TECHNICAL
    Date: Feb 18, 2026
    Read Time: 5 min
    Summary: AI answer engines form a belief about your site in milliseconds. The 5 signals AI weights most and what AI ignores.

16. [Why GEO is the new SEO](https://brandioz.com/blog/why-geo-matters-for-your-brand)
    Tags: ANALYSIS
    Date: Mar 20, 2026
    Read Time: 6 min
    Summary: 11% of domains cited by both major AI platforms. Most brands have no strategy for either. The citation economy explained.

17. [The three files that make your site visible to AI crawlers](https://brandioz.com/blog/crawler-discovery-package-explained)
    Tags: PRODUCT
    Date: Apr 12, 2026
    Read Time: 5 min
    Summary: A semantic HTML page, a sitemap entry, and a robots.txt snippet. Deploy all three in under five minutes.

18. [Why some tech homepages score under 50](https://brandioz.com/blog/why-some-sites-score-low)
    Tags: CASE STUDY
    Date: Feb 20, 2026
    Read Time: 6 min
    Summary: Heavy JavaScript rendering means AI sees fewer than 600 words. We audited 50 enterprise homepages.

19. [Retrieval-first vs parametric AI: citation strategy by platform](https://brandioz.com/blog/perplexity-vs-chatgpt-citation-behavior)
    Tags: RESEARCH
    Date: Feb 22, 2026
    Read Time: 7 min
    Summary: Analysis of 118,000+ AI-generated answers shows retrieval-first platforms average 21 citations per answer vs 8 for parametric-first.

20. [Does llms.txt actually help AI SEO?](https://brandioz.com/blog/does-llms-txt-help-seo)
    Tags: RESEARCH
    Date: Jun 1, 2026
    Read Time: 6 min
    Summary: Most articles claim llms.txt is either the future of AI search or completely useless. Both are wrong. Here's what it actually does.

21. [How ChatGPT actually finds and reads your website](https://brandioz.com/blog/how-chatgpt-finds-websites)
    Tags: TECHNICAL
    Date: Jun 7, 2026
    Read Time: 6 min
    Summary: ChatGPT doesn't browse the web the way you do. How GPTBot crawls, what it reads, and why most sites give it almost nothing.

22. [GPTBot vs Googlebot](https://brandioz.com/blog/gptbot-vs-googlebot)
    Tags: RESEARCH
    Date: Jun 7, 2026
    Read Time: 7 min
    Summary: Googlebot and GPTBot operate on completely different logic. Optimizing for one while ignoring the other leaves half your visibility on the table.

23. [How Perplexity finds its sources](https://brandioz.com/blog/how-perplexity-finds-sources)
    Tags: RESEARCH
    Date: Jun 7, 2026
    Read Time: 7 min
    Summary: Perplexity runs a live web search on every single query. How PerplexityBot crawls, prioritizes, and selects sources.

24. [We audited Stripe, Webflow, Atlassian, Datadog, and Auth0 for AI readability](https://brandioz.com/blog/ai-readability-audit-saas-homepages)
    Tags: RESEARCH
    Date: Jun 29, 2026
    Read Time: 9 min
    Summary: Five major SaaS companies. Stripe 62, Webflow 69, Atlassian 59, Datadog 42, Auth0 57. Here's what's broken.

## AI Crawler Resources

25. [Crawler Profile](https://brandioz.com/crawler-profile.html)
    Description: Machine-readable semantic HTML page for AI crawlers. Includes JSON-LD schema, microdata, and complete organization information.

## Legal

26. [Privacy Policy](https://brandioz.com/privacy-policy)
    Description: Privacy policy and data handling practices.

27. [Terms of Service](https://brandioz.com/terms-of-service)
    Description: Terms of service and usage guidelines.

## Discovery

- [Sitemap](https://brandioz.com/sitemap.xml)
- [Robots](https://brandioz.com/robots.txt)
- [llms.txt](https://brandioz.com/llms.txt)

## Key Facts

- Free tier available — no sign-in required for analysis
- Stack: Next.js, Python/FastAPI, Groq API
- Category: GEO Platform
- Pricing: Free tier + paid plans