How to use the Platform Readiness Lead

A step-by-step guide for customers who already have the Platform Readiness Lead in one of their seats.

By Al, BuzFind founderUpdated Portland, Indiana (Reading, PA roots)
Platform Readiness Lead AI agent - AI Crawler Access Checks
The Platform Readiness Lead - AI Crawler Access Checks

This guide shows you how to run the Platform Readiness Lead, what to type, and how to read what it sends back. To see what it checks and which plans include it, read the Platform Readiness Lead page.

Before you start

  • Your main site address, typed the way you want visitors to reach it, with or without www.
  • A way to edit your robots.txt file and your sitemap, through your site editor, your hosting panel, or a developer.
  • The Platform Readiness Lead picked in one of your seats under My AI agents, then Save selection.

Step by step

  1. Sign in and open My AI agents in the dashboard menu. Click the Platform Readiness Lead to put it in one of your seats, then click Save selection.
  2. Open the Dashboard page. In the chat box, type what you need in plain words and include your website address.
  3. Wait while the check runs. The answer shows in the chat, and the full report is saved under Audit reports & fixes.
  4. Make the changes you agree with, then send the same request again to see what is still open.

What to type in the chat

Copy one of these requests and change the details to match your business.

“Is yourbusiness.com ready for AI search? Check it”
Use this to start the AI Search Visibility Audit, which reads up to 8 pages plus your robots.txt rules and sitemap.

“Check if ChatGPT can reach yourbusiness.com”
Plain wording like this also starts the AI Search Visibility Audit.

“Run a full site audit on yourbusiness.com”
Use this when you want every agent at once. It reads up to 15 pages.

How to read the results

  • Issues come from your robots.txt rules, your sitemap, status codes, redirects, and cache headers. Each one names the page or file.
  • If an issue says a crawler is blocked, it names the bot, such as GPTBot or Googlebot.
  • The report has a score out of 100. Issues from the AI Visibility Auditor and the Entity Schema Engineer show as Locked if those agents are not in your seats.

What to do next

  • Change robots.txt only for the bots you mean to allow or block, then run the check again.
  • If a page returns an error or redirects more than once, fix the link or the redirect, then run the check again.
  • If a link in your sitemap fails, update it or remove it so the sitemap lists only live pages.

Tips

  • Do not type robots.txt or sitemap.xml in your request. The chat can read the file name as a website address, so type only your site address.
  • Run it right after you move to new hosting or a new domain, when redirects and robots.txt rules often change.
  • Blocking a bot is your choice. The report tells you what is blocked, and you decide if that is what you want.

Questions about using it

Why does it check the http and www versions of my address?

Visitors and bots can arrive at any of them. They should all end at one address, so the check follows each one and flags any that do not.

I fixed robots.txt, but the issue is still there. Why?

Some hosts and caches keep an old copy for a while. Open yourbusiness.com/robots.txt in your browser to see the live file, then run the check again.

Agents work better together. Here are specialists that pair well with the Platform Readiness Lead:

  • Technical SSR Sentinel - Checks your pages for technical SEO problems that stop search engines from finding, crawling, or indexing them.
  • AI Visibility Auditor - Checks your pages for the signals that help AI search tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity understand and cite your business.
  • Speed Optimizer - Finds what makes your site slow, especially on phones, and gives you a fix list with the biggest wins first.

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