Terms of use

Acceptable use

Audit only websites you own or are authorised to test. The service makes real requests to the address you submit, and submitting a site you have no relationship with causes traffic to a third party in your stead.

You must not use the service to:

• Probe, scan, or enumerate infrastructure you do not control.
• Attempt to reach private, internal, or non-public network destinations.
• Place automated load on the service beyond the published rate limits, or attempt to circumvent them.
• Disrupt the service or degrade it for others.

What the score means

• The score is produced by AI Detective using our own published methodology. It is not used by, endorsed by, or affiliated with OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Perplexity, Microsoft, or any other platform.
• It is not an official ranking factor for any search engine or AI system.
• Improving it does not guarantee that a site will appear in or be cited by any AI answer.
• Some checks are heuristic and can report a signal as missing when it is present but expressed unusually. The report labels these.

Monitoring requests

You may ask us to watch a website and tell you when its score changes. Two conditions apply, and both exist to stop the service being used against the site being watched:

• The email address you give must be one the website itself publishes.
• Monitoring does not begin until that address confirms by following the link we email to it.

Submitting a website you have no relationship with, using an address you do not control, is a misuse of the service. We may decline or remove any monitoring request, and we will remove one on request from the operator of the website concerned without requiring a reason.

Monitoring is a convenience, not a commitment. We do not guarantee that every change will be detected or that any particular email will be delivered, and you should not treat the absence of an email as evidence that a website has not changed.

Reliance

Reports are provided for information. They are generated automatically, may contain errors, and are not professional advice. Verify a finding before acting on it, particularly before making changes that are difficult to reverse. You remain responsible for decisions you take about your website.

Availability

The service is in free beta. It may be unavailable, rate limited, or changed without notice, and checks, weights, and the methodology version may change as calibration continues. Scores from different methodology versions are not directly comparable.

Liability

The service is provided “as is”, without warranties of any kind. To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for loss arising from use of, or reliance on, the service or its reports.

Contact

Questions about these terms: hello@example.invalid.