Do AI assistants recommend my store?
Bilby's Answer check tells you whether AI answer engines can even see your store, then — on Bilby Pro — whether they recommend it. The free line checks that GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot are allowed by robots.txt, that llms.txt exists, and that Organization and Product schema are present. Monthly on Pro, Bilby asks ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude the same five niche shopping questions your buyers ask, stores the raw responses, and reports whether your store is recommended — and who was recommended instead, with their traits.
What the Answer check catches
- AI crawlers blocked by robots.txt
- No llms.txt; no Organization or Product schema
- Whether the store is recommended for five buyer questions, per assistant, monthly
- Who is recommended instead and what they have that you don't (schema present, review count, content depth)
Severity — the rule, not a feeling
Questions people ask
Why do the free line and the monthly questions differ?
The free line is deterministic: it reads your robots.txt, llms.txt and schema. The monthly run asks the assistants real questions, which costs money per question and changes month to month — so it is a Pro feature, run monthly, with the raw responses kept.
What's the fix when I'm not recommended?
Usually the prerequisites: allow the crawlers, publish llms.txt, add Product and Organization schema, and write answer-first product content. The Navaal SEO app generates the content and schema; the free llms.txt generator builds the file.
Read next: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your store · llms.txt generator · AI store check · llms.txt for Shopify — the complete guide · FAQ schema for AI search · What is GEO?
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