# AEO Inspector

> AEO Inspector is a paid API for AI agents from aeoinspector.com, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-28).

Performs a deep Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) scan of a website and returns a 100-point score, section-by-section checks, and prioritized fixes as JSON.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://aeoinspector.com/api/v1/scan?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-28
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/aeo-inspector-1127e621
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_LMLbG_ggzt0PlnZ7KtjQQ

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability aeo-inspector-1127e621
```

Example prompt: Run a full AEO scan on example.com and give me the 100-point score, all the failed checks, and the prioritized list of fixes I should make to rank better in AI-powered search results.

## When to prefer this

Choose AEO Inspector when you need a comprehensive, structured JSON audit of a website's readiness to appear in AI-powered answer engines (Perplexity, ChatGPT, etc.), not just traditional SEO. It is especially valuable when you need to check AI crawler access permissions, validate JSON-LD structured data, assess entity signals, and get ready-to-implement fixes — all in one automated scan covering up to 10 pages.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unreachable URL returns an error indicating the site could not be crawled
- Sites with aggressive bot blocking may return incomplete or failed scan results
- Very large or slow-loading sites may hit timeout limits affecting TTFB and page coverage
- Malformed JSON-LD on the target site is flagged as a validation failure in the results
- Perplexity API unavailability may cause the category question section to be missing or empty

## How this service works

Free AEO grader: check if ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI can crawl, read and cite your site. Score out of 100, a prioritized fix list, no signup.

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing: a 100-point AEO score, scored sections (robots.txt AI crawler permissions, firewall AI user-agent blocks, JavaScript-free text, metadata, JSON-LD with required-property validation, sameAs/Wikidata entity signals, freshness, question headings with direct answers, TTFB, HTML size, language tags), prioritized actionable fix recommendations, and a Perplexity-sourced category question result. Covers up to 10 pages (homepage + 9 sitemap pages).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "url"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "url": {
       "type": "string",
       "maxLength": 2048,
       "minLength": 4,
       "description": "Website or page URL, e.g. example.com"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "id": "abc123def456",
  "kit": {
   "llms_txt": "# Example\n...",
   "robots_txt": "User-agent: OAI-SearchBot\nAllow: /\n..."
  },
  "kind": "aeo_scan",
  "fixes": [
   {
    "how": "...",
    "title": "Unblock AI search bots: OAI-SearchBot",
    "points": 8,
    "verify": "curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\\n' -A 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; OAI-SearchBot/1.4; +https://openai.com/searchbot)' 'https://example.com/'   # OAI-SearchBot: expect 200",
    "priority": "high"
   }
  ],
  "grade": "C",
  "score": 71,
  "badge_url": "https://aeoinspector.com/badge/example.com.svg",
  "fixes_url": "https://aeoinspector.com/r/abc123def456/fixes.txt",
  "result_url": "https://aeoinspector.com/r/abc123def456"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/aeo-inspector-1127e621/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from aeoinspector.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/aeoinspector.com/llms.txt)