Be the footnote AI cites.
When an AI assistant answers a question, the sources it links to are its footnotes. We built Footnoted to help ordinary websites become one of them.
We built a GEO tool for our own use. When we saw what other tools charged, we decided to make our first check free.
Enter a URL to spot crawler blocks, missing metadata and content that is hard to read. You get a score and clear fixes to work through yourself or share with a developer.
Need more detail? The optional extensive audit checks up to 20 pages and gives you a prompt for every fix. See the paid options.
How we work
No guarantees we can't keep
Nobody controls what an AI assistant cites. We tell you what is in your way and how to fix it, and we say plainly that a good score is not a promise.
Plain English
Every check says what we found and what to do about it, in words you can forward to a developer or a client without translating.
Free where it counts
The check that tells you whether AI can use your site is free, with no account. The extensive audit is a single payment; a monthly plan is there only if you audit often.
Polite crawling
We identify our crawler, read only public pages, and our extensive-audit crawl obeys your robots.txt.
Your reports are yours
Share them, download them, switch sharing off or delete them. Reports are kept out of search engines.
Kept up to date
AI crawlers and the signals they use change. We update the checks as vendors publish new crawler names and guidance.
Built by Digital Brainwave
Footnoted is made by Digital Brainwave. Questions, ideas or something we got wrong? Tell us.