How I Built a Free AI-Powered Article Analyzer That Scores Content for AI Search Readiness

Most SEO tools tell you if your content ranks on Google. None of them tell you if ChatGPT can cite it. I built the AEO Article Analyzer to solve that problem. It scores any article against 10 criteria that determine whether AI search engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews — can extract, parse, and cite your content. This is the technical story of how I built it, what I learned, and why the 10 scoring criteria matter. The problem I work as an SEO engineer for SaaS companies. Part of my job involves auditing content for AI search readiness — what the industry calls AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation) or GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation). The manual process was slow. I'd open an article, check for a definition block in the first paragraph, look at the heading hierarchy, check for FAQ sections, look for author credibility signals, and mentally score it. Then do it again for the next article. And the next. I wanted a tool that could do this in seconds, consistently, acro