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Can AI find your business?

When someone asks ChatGPT, Claude or Google for what you do, does your name come up? Send me your website and I’ll audit it and email you a report with what I found and what to fix. Free, and no login needed.

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Example reportCrawler access · robots.txt

Finding

ChatGPT’s search crawler is blocked.

Google SearchGooglebot: Allowed
Microsoft Bingbingbot: Allowed
ChatGPT searchOAI-SearchBot: Blocked

Recommended fix

Update the OAI-SearchBot rule in robots.txt to allow access to your public pages.

Illustrative example · Your findings will vary

Alex TongPreviously at Amazon and The New York Times

Your request comes straight to me, and I’ll reply within one business day.

Prefer email? alextongme@gmail.com

What’s in the report

I work from your public website only, so there’s nothing to log in to and nothing to share. Here’s what you get, and what it leaves out.

A report about your website: What search engines and AI crawlers can read, what your pages tell them, and the issues I find.
Findings you can act on: Each finding comes with the affected page, why it matters, and a recommended fix. Anything I couldn’t verify is clearly marked.
A clear place to start: Recommendations in priority order, so you know what to tackle first. Keep the report, make the changes yourself, or share it with whoever looks after your site.
What it doesn’t check: Rankings over time, what every AI assistant says about you, your Google Business Profile, and how you compare with competitors. Those need access to your accounts or more time, so they belong to the full audit, which I quote separately.

From your website to your report

Send me your website. I’ll audit it and email you a report with the findings and recommended fixes.

01 / Audit

A look under the hood.

I check your public pages, search signals and AI-crawler access to see how your website can be read and understood.

02 / Findings

The evidence, page by page.

Your report ties each finding to the page or setting behind it. You’ll see what I found and what I couldn’t verify.

03 / Fixes

What to tackle first.

Recommended fixes in priority order, with a clear next step. You decide whether to do the work yourself or ask for help.

All three are part of your free report.

What I found when I looked

Two checks I ran myself before offering this. Each one says how I checked, when, and how far the result goes.

Test 01 · September 2026

16 therapy practices, 7 markets, one assistant

How I checked: In a logged-out ChatGPT session, I asked for the best therapists or therapy practices (in one market, child psychologists) in 7 markets in New Jersey and New York, one question per market, all on one day in September 2026. Then I looked for 16 practices in the answers and noted every source ChatGPT cited.
What I found: Six of the 16 were named. In 6 of the 7 markets, every source ChatGPT cited was a directory or a local blog, such as Psychology Today, never a practice’s own website. In one market, a practice’s own site was cited as the source. Whether a practice was named showed no relationship to the state of its own website.
What it means: For most local businesses, ChatGPT is reading listings you don’t own, so your website is only part of the picture. The report covers the part you control, and what it would take for your own site to be one of the sources.
Limits: One assistant, one day, a small sample. It points at a pattern worth checking. It doesn’t prove a rule.

Test 02 · September 2026

My own name, asked two ways

How I checked: On one day in September 2026, I asked ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google’s AI search the same two questions about me. Four of them answered.
What I found: Asked “who is Alex Tong,” three of the four led with a different Alex Tong (a researcher). Asked about “Alex Tong, the engineer who was at The New York Times,” all four named me and cited alextong.me.
What it means: A name on its own is a weak identifier. Adding one specific fact to the question was enough for all four to find the right person, and my own site was the source they cited. Checking is how you learn whether your pages carry the facts that tell you apart.
Limits: One day, one run, one website. Answers change from run to run, so yours may differ. It shows where I stand today.

Want help with the fixes?

If you’d like me to make the changes, or to run the full audit, I’ll scope and quote that work before we start. I work with Squarespace, Wix, Shopify, WordPress and custom-built sites.

How it’s priced

The report is free. Small fixes are $150 an hour. The full audit is a flat quote after a free 30-minute scoping call, agreed before work starts. You get a measured starting point and a prioritized list with a price on each item, then you decide what happens next. I don't sell ranking guarantees.

I’m Alex Tong. I was an engineer at Amazon and then The New York Times, where I taught 500+ engineers how to get more out of Claude. These days I build websites and help businesses get found.

Questions

Straight answers before you send anything.

What does AI visibility mean?

Your business coming up when someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Google’s AI Overviews for what you do. An assistant can only draw on what it can read about you, which includes your own website and directories or listings you don’t own. In my own test, ChatGPT mostly cited the listings. The free report covers your website, the part you control. I don’t sell ranking guarantees.

Do you do SEO?

Yes, the on-site kind. SEO (search engine optimization) is the work that helps Google find and understand your pages: page titles, structured data, sitemaps, speed, and the profiles Google reads, like Google Business Profile. The free report covers what I can check from your public website. I don’t sell link buying or ranking guarantees.

What do you need from me?

Your name, your email and your website’s address. I work from your public website only, so there’s no login to share and nothing to install.

What happens after the report?

You keep it. Make the changes yourself, share it with whoever looks after your site, or ask me to quote the fixes. I won’t follow up with a sales pitch. If you want help, reply to the report.

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