AICanary
● Public methodology

How AICanary measures AI-readiness.

AICanary separates two questions: can AI systems read and use the site, and do assistants actually recommend the business in answers?

Published by PX7 Digital so the benchmark can be cited, challenged, and repeated.

What the foundation score measures

Crawler access

Can a crawler fetch the public homepage, and do robots rules allow common AI and search crawlers to inspect it?

Readable content

Does the raw public response contain useful text without needing a browser-only app shell? AI systems cannot cite copy they cannot read.

Classic SEO basics

Title, description, canonical URL, headings, Open Graph, viewport, language and indexability are checked because assistants still depend on web retrieval quality.

Agent-facing signals

llms.txt, markdown, API catalog, MCP, OAuth, A2A and commerce signals are scored when relevant to the site's goals.

What deep analysis measures

Presence in answers

AICanary asks real category questions across supported AI engines and records whether the monitored business appears in the answer.

Competitors mentioned instead

When the business is absent, AICanary extracts the names that get recommended, creating a practical share-of-answer view.

Sources and framing

Reports identify the sources that shape the answer and summarize whether the business is framed positively, neutrally, negatively or not at all.

Trend, not single verdict

Assistant answers are non-deterministic. AICanary stores samples and trends them over time instead of treating one answer as a final truth.

What the public benchmark is

Outside-in scan

The country reports scan public primary domains from the outside. They do not use private data, vendor access, surveys or company participation.

Company scope is explicit

Each country page states the number of companies in scope and the index or selection used. It is a benchmark sample, not every business in the country.

Failure can be deliberate

An invisible result may reflect deliberate bot protection. The result still matters: it describes what an AI crawler experiences from the public web.

PX7 Digital publishes the method

The Danish benchmark is the anchor report and evidence base for PX7 Digital's AI visibility reviews with Danish leadership teams.

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