ShipReady
LiveFree SEO and AEO scanner for AI-generated websites
Built by Caden Sorenson · Launched April 2026
What is ShipReady?
ShipReady is a free SEO and AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) scanner built for websites created with AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and v0. It audits your deployed site across seven categories, scores each one with a letter grade, and generates a copy-paste prompt you can feed right back into your AI tool to fix every issue.
How It Works
- Enter a URL - Paste any live website URL
- ShipReady scans it - Fetches the page, follows redirects, grabs robots.txt, sitemap, and llms.txt in parallel
- 35+ checks run - Across Meta & Head, Discoverability, On-Page Structure, Social Sharing, Performance, Structured Data, and AEO
- Get your grade - Overall score (A-F) with per-category breakdowns and pass/warn/fail for each check
- Copy the fix prompt - A single markdown prompt with every issue, code snippets, and guidelines ready for your AI coding tool
Seven Audit Categories
- Meta & Head (23%) - Title, description, charset, viewport, canonical, favicon
- Discoverability (19%) - HTTPS, robots.txt, sitemap, noindex, client-side rendering detection
- On-Page Structure (19%) - Heading hierarchy, image alt text, internal links, content depth
- Social Sharing (14%) - Open Graph tags, Twitter Cards, image dimensions
- Performance (9%) - Render-blocking scripts, text compression, modern image formats
- Structured Data (8%) - JSON-LD validation, schema type detection and suggestions
- Answer Engine Optimization (8%) - AI crawler access, llms.txt, question headings, speakable schema, FAQ/HowTo markup
Why AEO Matters
Traditional SEO tools don’t check if ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Claude can find your content. ShipReady scans your robots.txt for blocked AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and more), checks for llms.txt, looks for question-style headings that answer engines can extract, and verifies you have enough content depth to get cited as a source.
Tech Stack
- Astro 5 with SSR for the scanning API endpoint
- Cloudflare Workers for edge deployment with global low latency
- Cloudflare KV for IP-based rate limiting (10 scans/hour)
- Custom regex HTML parser optimized for Workers’ memory constraints
- TypeScript end to end
Related: best SEO checker tools for developers.
Frequently asked questions
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More about ShipReady
- From the blog How to check if ChatGPT recommends your business How to check whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews name your local business: copy-ready prompts, repeat runs, and a monthly tracking table.
- From the blog How much does local SEO cost for a small business in Utah? What local SEO costs a Utah small business: Vient's Managed SEO price, and when a monthly retainer, a one-time cleanup, hourly work, or DIY is the right fit.
- From the blog How to get your business on Google Maps in Cache Valley How to create, verify, and fill out a Google Business Profile so your Cache Valley business shows up on Google Maps, written for owners, not marketers.
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