Make your business readable to machines.
In plain wordsWhen someone asks ChatGPT or Google for a business like yours, the AI can only recommend what it can read and trust. We make sure it can read you.
The Croutons AI Visibility Layer is a machine-readable map of your crawl paths, schema, feeds, evidence and answer-ready data. Structuring them improves machine interpretation, retrieval eligibility and source evaluation, the working parts of generative engine optimization (GEO).
Visibility starts before the answer.
An AI system goes through six steps before it can cite you. A break at any step means it skips you.
- Crawl
- Render
- Parse
- Extract
- Retrieve
- Cite
Schema is not decoration.
It is a connected entity graph that tells machines who you are, what you sell and what you can prove, plus machine-readable files that sit beside the site.
Organization
Who you are, one stable identity
Website
Where you publish
Products & services
What you sell, with prices
FAQ & evidence
What you can answer and prove
The six breaks we look for.
Crawl waste
Pages crawled but not useful.
Index confusion
Unclear canonical signals.
Schema gaps
Disconnected JSON-LD.
Entity ambiguity
Your business is not clearly identifiable.
Answer gaps
Buyer questions with no structured answer.
Agent friction
Actions and pricing hidden from AI agents.
AI visibility questions, answered
What is AI visibility?
How well search engines and AI assistants can find, understand and retrieve your business: crawl paths, structured data, machine-readable files and the evidence behind your claims, not just ranked blue links.
Is AI visibility the same as SEO?
It overlaps but goes further. SEO optimizes pages for search rankings. AI visibility also structures schema, feeds and evidence so AI assistants and agents can interpret and retrieve the business itself.
Does schema guarantee that AI will cite us?
No. Schema and machine-readable files improve interpretation and retrieval eligibility. No method can guarantee a citation or a trust decision by a third-party AI system.
How long until AI assistants notice changes?
There is no fixed timeline. Crawlers and AI systems revisit sites on their own schedules, often over weeks. We set up measurement so you can see when changes are picked up rather than guess.
Find out what AI says about you.
Send your website address. We check crawl paths, schema and the questions you are missing. 30 minutes, free.