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, meaning an AIQ of 90 or more, will unlock 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. Below 90 the certificate stays greyed out with the score you need to reach. The certificate download is arriving in a later release; the eligibility is already recorded on every report.
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.