AIQ grades
How is the AIQ graded?
The 13-step AIQ grade ladder from A+ to F, the five identity labels from AI-Ready to Invisible, and what it takes to earn an AgentRank Certificate.
A site is graded on a 13-step ladder from A+ down to F, the same steps a school report card uses, so a real estate agent can read the result without a glossary. Each of the 5 letter families also carries an identity label that says in two words what AI systems can do with the site. The number is the share of applicable points earned across 40+ checks, and the ladder simply names the ranges.
What score earns which grade?
| Grade | AIQ | Label |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 97–100 | AI-Ready |
| A | 93–96 | AI-Ready |
| A− | 90–92 | AI-Ready |
| B+ | 87–89 | Citable |
| B | 83–86 | Citable |
| B− | 80–82 | Citable |
| C+ | 77–79 | Visible |
| C | 73–76 | Visible |
| C− | 70–72 | Visible |
| D+ | 67–69 | Barely Found |
| D | 63–66 | Barely Found |
| D− | 60–62 | Barely Found |
| F | below 60 | Invisible |
What do the identity labels mean?
- AI-Ready (90 and up): AI can reach the site, read it cleanly, identify who you are, and has something worth quoting. This is where recommendations come from.
- Citable (80 to 89): readable and mostly well-marked. A handful of fixes, usually in the AI signals or the real estate layer, moves a B site into A territory.
- Visible (70 to 79): AI can get in, but the site gives it little to work with. Typical of a decent template with no structured data and thin writing.
- Barely Found (60 to 69): hanging on by a thread. Something fundamental is missing or blocked, and what remains is not enough to be cited.
- Invisible (below 60): to an AI system, the site does not exist. A blocked crawler, a JavaScript-only shell or a noindex switch usually explains it in one line.
How do I earn the AgentRank Certificate?
A grade of A− or better on your homepage, meaning an AIQ of 90 or more, unlocks a one-page certificate carrying your score, your grade, the date, and a link back to the live report so anyone can verify it. AgentRank is the issuing authority, and the certificate page and its download appear on the homepage report the moment a score crosses 90. Certificates are issued for a site’s homepage only: a report for an inside page shows its score and every check, but no certificate. Below 90 the report stays quiet about certificates and simply lists what to fix; a re-check after the work takes about 15 seconds.
Why did the same site get two different scores?
Three honest reasons. The site changed, which is the usual one: a plugin update, a theme switch or a new firewall rule can move a score by 20 points in under 24 hours, and a re-check takes about 15 seconds to show it. A different page was checked; a subpage is scored as the page you gave us, with robots.txt and llms.txt always read from the root. Or the rubric moved between checks; every report records its rubric version, and the re-check line on the score block shows the difference against your previous report for the same domain, matched on the domain itself rather than the exact address.