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SCANNED AUGUST 1, 2026 · ALL REPORTS

CITED IN 0 OF 9 AI ANSWERS
B85/100AI readiness

ai-sites-git-main-jason-mayhews-projects.vercel.app is invisible to AI shoppers.

We ran 3 real shopper queries across 4 AI enginesChatGPT (API), Perplexity (API), Gemini (API), Claude (API). Not one answer cited your dealership. Your competitors were cited.

Free to get published. No card, no call.

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ai-sites-git-main-jason-mayhews-projects.vercel.app website
WHAT AI READS INSTEAD
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// no llms.txt
// no price, no vin
// nothing to cite
0 / 9
AI answers that cite ai-sites-git-main-jason-mayhews-projects.vercel.app
7
Vehicle pages on your site
WHO THE ENGINES CITED INSTEAD

25 other dealerships got cited in these answers. ai-sites-git-main-jason-mayhews-projects.vercel.app got cited zero times.

Every name below is a source an AI engine cited in the 9 answers we ran for you. Click any one of them to open the citation.

their own website was citednamed in Google’s answer panel+13 more not shown
ai-sites-git-main-jason-mayhews-projects.vercel.app was cited in 0 of 9 answers.
WHERE THE CITATIONS SEND SHOPPERS

105 citations across those 9 answers. None send the shopper to you.

Every source an AI answer cites is a door the shopper can walk through. Here's where each of those 105 doors actually leads:

37
68
0land on your site37land on aggregators (AutoTrader, CarGurus…)68land somewhere else (competitors, media)
FOLLOW ONE — A REAL CITATION FROM YOUR ANSWERS
cargurus.ca/Cars/l-Used-2024-Tesla-Cybertruck-Ottawa-c33128_L412564?utm
cargurus.ca/Cars/l-Used-2024-Tesla-Cybertruck-Ottawa-c33128_L412564?utm
ai-sites-git-main-jason-mayhews-projects.vercel.app's car
RIVAL
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YOUR CAR
RIVAL
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Your one car, ringed by competitors — on cargurus.ca

Used 2024 Tesla Cybertruck for Sale near Ottawa, ON - CarGurus.ca” — the shopper who clicks this citation lands on cargurus.ca's results page: every dealer's vehicles in the region, ranked and monetized by cargurus.ca — not ai-sites-git-main-jason-mayhews-projects.vercel.app's. The engine did its job; the aggregator took the shopper. (Page above is an illustration — click it to see the real thing.)

THE PART THAT COSTS YOU
Your car is the bait. Their competitors are the catch.

A shopper searched for a vehicle ai-sites-git-main-jason-mayhews-projects.vercel.app has. cargurus.ca earned the citation with your car — then wrapped it in a page of every rival dealer's inventory, ranked and monetized by cargurus.ca. The buyer you attracted is now one scroll from a dozen competitors, on a page that works for cargurus.ca and against you.

THE TEST EVERY SHOPPER RUNS NOW

We asked ChatGPT (API) what buyers ask every day

Is a used 2024 Tesla Cybertruck a good buy near Ottawa? Which dealers have one?
CHATGPT (API) · REAL ANSWER
Here’s what I found as of August 1, 2026, regarding used 2024 Tesla Cybertruck listings in or near Ottawa, and whether it’s a good buy:
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Available Listings Near Ottawa
1. CarGurus (Ottawa area)
Listing: 2024 Tesla Cybertruck Crew Cab AWD, 21,326 km, located in Ottawa (~6 km away). Priced at $118,000, with no reported accidents or damage ([cargurus.ca](
2. CarGurus (wider Ontario)
2024 Tesla Cybertruck “Cyberbeast” Crew Cab AWD, 9,200 km, from Saint‑Eustache, QC (home delivery to Ottawa available). Price: $140,208 ([cargurus.ca](
2024 Tesla Cybertruck Crew Cab AWD, 37,960 km, from North York, ON (delivery to Ottawa possible). Price: $117,052 ([cargurus.ca](
3. AutoTrader.ca (Ontario-wide)
cargurus.caautotrader.caapnews.com
THE FULL TEST — EVERY QUERY, EVERY ENGINE
A CAR ON THEIR LOT · backed by 1 of their vehicles
Is a used 2024 Tesla Cybertruck a good buy near Ottawa? Which dealers have one?
ChatGPTAbsentGeminiAbsentPerplexityAbsentClaudeUnreachable
THEIR CATEGORY · backed by 3 of their vehicles
used SUV under $60,000 for sale near Ottawa
ChatGPTAbsentGeminiAbsentPerplexityAbsentClaudeUnreachable
BUYER RESEARCH · backed by 4 of their vehicles
can I get a car loan with bad credit near Ottawa?
ChatGPTAbsentGeminiAbsentPerplexityAbsentClaudeUnreachable
ai-sites-git-main-jason-mayhews-projects.vercel.app is not in this answer. We ran 3 shopper queries across 4 AI engines — not one of the 9 answers cited you.
THE FIX — HOW VIN INDEX WORKS

We make ai-sites-git-main-jason-mayhews-projects.vercel.app the answer — and the click lands on you.

Aggregators win those queries because they publish thousands of structured, machine-readable pages. So do we — for your inventory. Here's the same question the aggregator just took from you, answered by a page you own:

ai-sites-git-main-jason-mayhews-projects.vinindex.ai/answers
ai-sites-git-main-jason-mayhews-projects.vinindex.ai/answers
VIN INDEX ANSWER · ai-sites-git-main-jason-mayhews-projects.vinindex.ai
Is a used 2024 Tesla Cybertruck a good buy near Ottawa? Which dealers have one?

ai-sites-git-main-jason-mayhews-projects.vercel.app has matching vehicles near Ottawa — including a 2021 Mercedes benz g-class-g63-amg-4matic-l4-007, each on its own page built for AI to read, quote, and route the shopper to you.

2021 Mercedes benz g-class-g63-amg-4matic-l4-007
On your VIN Index page
YOUR LOT
The rest of your matching inventory
Every unit its own citable page
YOUR LOT
Every row is yours

PREVIEW — BUILT FROM YOUR REAL INVENTORY ONCE YOUR FEED IS CONNECTED

THE SYSTEM BEHIND IT

Not a one-time cleanup — a system that keeps ai-sites-git-main-jason-mayhews-projects.vercel.app in the answers as your inventory, and the questions shoppers ask, keep changing.

TRACKwhat shoppers ask
OPTIMIZEevery VIN
BUILDthe answer pages
DISTRIBUTEfeeds + agent tools
MEASUREwho got cited
…and repeat.
1Every VIN optimized — not a sample

Your whole feed is rebuilt for AI: a fast, server-rendered page per vehicle with full Vehicle schema, a plain-text twin crawlers can read, structured specs, market position, financing scenarios, and an answer-first summary engines can quote — refreshed within an hour of every inventory change.

EVERY VIN · ~1H FRESH
2The facet factory

For every question shoppers actually ask — “best used truck under $40k near Ottawa”, “AWD SUV for winter”, “SUV that seats seven”, “financing with bad credit” — we build the page that answers it, stocked with your matching vehicles, real payment math, and eligibility rules. The generic searches no single listing can win, you win.

A PAGE PER SHOPPER QUESTION
3We track the real queries — demand builds the pages

You just saw the first turn: we ran 3 live queries on ai-sites-git-main-jason-mayhews-projects.vercel.app across the AI engines and watched whether you were named. Every gap becomes the next page we build — track, build, measure, build more, a loop that compounds your coverage.

CHATGPT · AI MODE · PERPLEXITY · GEMINI
4We hand AI agents a direct line to your inventory

Beyond pages, your live inventory is exposed as a tool AI assistants and shopping agents can call directly. When one goes looking for matching cars, it queries your stock in real time and routes the shopper straight back to you — structured, current, and attributed to you.

MCP + WEBMCP AGENT ENDPOINT
5We publish where shoppers already are

Syndication feeds push your vehicles into ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Google's shopping surfaces on a rolling refresh — so you show up inside the tools shoppers already use, not only when they happen to land on your site.

SYNDICATED · CHATGPT · COPILOT · GOOGLE
6Your lead — and the proof it's working

The shopper routes to your surface and the lead lands in your inbox or CRM — never brokered, never shared with another dealer. And you get first-party proof: which engines cited you, which agents pulled your inventory, which pages earned the visit.

FIRST-PARTY ATTRIBUTION
WHY THIS HAPPENS

What shoppers see vs. what AI can read

Vehicle page as shoppers see it
SHOPPERS SEE THIS
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AI READS THIS
STEP BY STEP

3 things standing between your inventory and AI answers

1Agentic capabilityNEEDS WORK

An assistant can read some of your data, but most actions a buyer asks for, like financing scenarios or a structured lead, have no machine interface to call.

2llms.txt / sitemap / discoveryNEEDS WORK

Discovery files are present, but your sitemap does not list individual vehicle pages, so AI crawlers cannot reliably find your whole lot, they only see the cars linked on a page they happen to land on. A VDP-listing sitemap is the highest-leverage fix here.

3Content qualityNEEDS WORK

We could read some vehicle copy. Assistants prefer specific, factual descriptions over templated spec dumps. This is the most improvable area and the easiest to lift.

WHAT AN ASSISTANT CAN DO TODAY VS ON VIN INDEX
What an assistant can doYour siteVIN Index
Found
Search your inventory by criteria
Get a single vehicle by VIN
Real-time availability
Convert
Financing scenarios
Trade-in appraisal
Structured lead with attribution
Be discovered
Zero-setup discovery files
ChatGPT Shopping feed
Copilot / UCP feed
VIN Index adds every missing capability automatically. A means the capability is not externally detectable, we could not verify it from outside your site.
DON'T TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT
B
AI Readiness: B · 85/100
Your site grades B. AI engines cited you in 0 of 9 answers.

Paste the prompt into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini and it will independently check the findings above against your live site.

For your website person

The six checks behind the grade, with the evidence for each. Hand this to whoever manages your website — every finding is a provable fact about what an AI crawler received.

Agentic capability

Can AI do anything with your inventory?

Needs work

An assistant can read some of your data, but most actions a buyer asks for, like financing scenarios or a structured lead, have no machine interface to call.

The fixVIN Index does this

VIN Index exposes an agent endpoint and a live feed, so an assistant can search your stock, pull a VIN, and start a lead, not just read a page.

See the detail

What we checked

Whether an assistant has a machine interface to act, search your stock, pull a VIN, request financing, or submit a lead.

How we tested

We look for an agent endpoint (MCP / WebMCP) or structured action declarations exposed by your site.

What it means

Without one, an assistant can describe your cars but can’t do anything, so every buyer action dead-ends at a human form.

Search your inventory by criteria
Detected
Get a single vehicle by VIN
Detected
Real-time availability
None detected
Financing scenarios
None detected
Trade-in appraisal
None detected
Structured lead with attribution
None detected
Zero-setup discovery files
Detected
ChatGPT Shopping feed
Not externally detectable
Copilot / UCP feed
Not externally detectable

llms.txt / sitemap / discovery

Can AI discover you the modern way?

Needs work

Discovery files are present, but your sitemap does not list individual vehicle pages, so AI crawlers cannot reliably find your whole lot, they only see the cars linked on a page they happen to land on. A VDP-listing sitemap is the highest-leverage fix here.

The fixVIN Index does this

VIN Index publishes llms.txt, a sitemap, and IndexNow pings, giving agents a machine-readable map straight to every VIN.

See the detail

What we checked

Whether you publish the discovery files agents look for, llms.txt, an agent card, and a sitemap that actually lists your vehicle pages.

How we tested

We fetch /llms.txt and agent-discovery files, and walk your sitemap to see whether it enumerates individual VDP URLs.

What it means

These conventions are emerging with no proven citation lift yet, but a sitemap that lists every VDP is how index crawlers find your whole lot.

/llms.txt
Found
/.well-known/mcp.json
Not found
/.well-known/agent-card.json
Not found
/.well-known/ucp
Not found
<link rel="mcp-server">
Not found
<link rel="agent-card">
Not found
Sitemap lists vehicle pages
None found

Content quality

Is your vehicle text worth citing?

Needs work

We could read some vehicle copy. Assistants prefer specific, factual descriptions over templated spec dumps. This is the most improvable area and the easiest to lift.

The fixVIN Index does this

VIN Index enriches each listing with a factual condition narrative and market context an assistant can lift verbatim into an answer.

See the detail

What we checked

Whether your visible vehicle descriptions are fact-dense and self-contained enough for an engine to quote.

How we tested

We score the visible inventory text for specific, complete, citable detail, real specs and no mid-sentence truncation.

What it means

Thin or truncated descriptions give an engine nothing quotable, so it summarizes a competitor’s listing instead of yours.

Readable inventory text
Yes
Visible text length
3,898 chars

Page rendering

Can AI read your vehicle pages?

Passing

A no-JavaScript crawler received 185,757 characters of HTML with readable vehicles in it. Your inventory survives the way AI assistants read it.

See the detail

What we checked

Whether your vehicles are present in the raw HTML an AI crawler receives, and whether the named AI crawlers are allowed in.

How we tested

We fetch your page with no JavaScript (the way GPTBot and ClaudeBot read), count the readable vehicles, and probe whether specific AI crawler user-agents get through.

What it means

If your cars only appear after JavaScript runs, most AI crawlers see an empty page and have nothing to cite when a buyer asks.

Bytes returned to a no-JS crawler fetch
185,757 chars of HTML
Vehicles readable in that HTML
Yes

Structured data

Can AI trust your vehicle facts?

Passing

Validated Vehicle data is present, with price and currency. Engines can trust and cite your listings.

See the detail

What we checked

Whether your pages carry machine-readable structured data (schema.org Vehicle and Offer) an engine can quote with confidence.

How we tested

We parse a real vehicle detail page for JSON-LD Vehicle/Offer markup, including price and currency.

What it means

Without structured data an engine can read your prose but can’t reliably extract price, mileage, or specs, so it hedges or skips you.

Vehicle (schema.org)
Found
Offer / price
Found
AutoDealer / Organization
Found
Valid JSON-LD blocks
5

Robots / crawler access

Is AI even allowed in?

Passing

Your robots.txt allows the AI crawlers that matter. Nothing here is turning assistants away.

See the detail

What we checked

Whether your robots.txt permits the crawlers that feed AI search (and doesn’t quietly wall them out).

How we tested

We read your robots.txt and check the rules that apply to AI and search engine user-agents.

What it means

A disallow here removes you from the indexes AI assistants pull from, no matter how good the rest of your site is.

GPTBot
Allowed
OAI-SearchBot
Allowed
ChatGPT-User
Allowed
ClaudeBot
Allowed
Claude-SearchBot
Allowed
PerplexityBot
Allowed
Google-Extended
Allowed
Googlebot
Allowed

Per-crawler probe (real user-agents)

Search index crawlers

Build the indexes ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot answer from. A block here is the serious one — it keeps you out of AI search.

OAI-SearchBotGooglebotbingbotPerplexityBot

On-demand fetchers

Fetch your page when a shopper asks an assistant to “check this dealer.” A block breaks that.

ChatGPT-UserClaude-User

Training crawlers

Crawl to train models. Blocking these only opts you out of free training — you stay citeable in search.

GPTBotClaudeBot

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The free plan publishes your inventory structured for AI to read — the foundation, at no cost. No card, no call, live in about an hour.