How it works

Grade any page the way Google and AI judge it — before you find out the hard way.

ArticleGrade reads the live page Google and AI answer engines actually see, scores it with two independent models, and tells you whether it's good enough to get surfaced — then fixes what isn't. Any site, any CMS.

WordPressShopifyWixSquarespaceGhostHeadlessCustom
Why it matters

The signals we grade are the signals that decide whether you're seen.

Being live is not the same as being found. The bar for getting surfaced at all — by Google's ranking systems and by AI answer engines — went up, and it's the same bar for every website owner, on any CMS.

The quality signals ArticleGrade grades — E-E-A-T, factual depth, clean non-slop writing, structure, schema and author data — are exactly what both Google's ranking systems and AI answer engines like Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Copilot reward when they decide what to surface and cite. So "will my page be seen at all — by Google and by AI?" is the question this pipeline answers, page by page.

The pipeline

From a live URL to a pass/fail verdict — in one call.

Four moves take a page from a link you paste to one that clears the bar you set: fetch it, score it, gate it, and loop the fixes until it passes.

01

Fetch the live rendered page

We pull the rendered URL exactly as Google and AI crawlers index it — not your draft or your CMS preview. Schema, author block, meta and links are extracted from what actually ships, and recovered even when a site blocks ordinary bots.

live fetchrendered HTMLschema + author
02

Score with two independent AI engines

The page is graded 0–100 across six dimensions and 26 gates. One engine evaluates quality and facts; a second evaluates SEO and structure — two independent reads, not one model marking its own work.

26 gates6 dimensionsdual-LLM
03

Gate it against your threshold

You get a pass/fail verdict against the bar you set, the score, and a list of phrase-level issues — each with the exact text, a High / Med / Low severity, and a one-line fix. Delivered as JSON via API or in the dashboard.

pass / failphrase-level fixesAPI or UI
04

Re-audit until it clears the bar

Where you opt in, ArticleGrade applies the fixes — tightening claims, adding sourcing, removing AI artifacts — then re-fetches and re-scores. The remediate-and-re-audit loop repeats until the page passes your threshold, so nothing ships below the line.

apply fixesre-scoreloop to pass
What we score

Six dimensions. Twenty-six gates. One honest score.

The headline score rolls up the buyer-legible signals below — the same ones search and AI both reward, built from the dimensions Google's own quality guidance describes.

E-E-A-T

Experience, expertise, authority and trust — the framework Google's raters use, its core ranking reflects, and AI answer engines scrutinize before they cite.

author & bylinesource authoritytrust signals

AI-artifacts & voice

The tells of unedited generation — hedging, filler, repetition, template leakage and a flat machine register — the slop both Google and AI answers skip over.

human voicereadabilityartifact detection

Factual depth

Whether claims are specific, sourced and verifiable — or thin, vague and unsupported. The difference between a page an answer engine cites and one it ignores.

factual depthclaim sourcingcontent width

SEO & structure

Title, meta, heading hierarchy, internal links, schema and formatting — the on-page fundamentals that frame everything else and let both crawlers parse the page fast.

SEO structurelinks & metaCMS artifacts
Why two models

One model can't both write and grade itself.

We split the job across two independent models, each doing what it's best at — and we screen with the cheap one before spending on the expensive one.

Quality + facts

Deep quality engine

Judges whether the content is actually good: E-E-A-T, factual depth, sourcing, and the artifacts of unedited AI. This is the verdict that drives the headline score and the remediation loop.

→ the deep audit
SEO + structure

Fast SEO engine

Judges the technical layer — title, meta, headings, links, formatting and CMS artifacts — fast and cheaply. It runs on every page as a screen, and never fact-checks (so it can't "correct" from stale training data).

→ the free screen
The economics

Screen everything cheaply. Deep-audit only what matters.

A two-stage architecture keeps quality high and cost low — a near-free structural screen on every page, the full dual-LLM deep audit only where it counts.

~$0.0003
to screen a page with the free SEO pass — run it on everything you publish.
~$0.17
in compute for the full deep audit — only on the pages that need it.
~20s
to return the free grade: a 0–100 score, verdict, top issue and issue count.
Built to run on live pages

Fetching the open web, safely.

Grading a live URL means fetching arbitrary pages — so the fetch layer is hardened against the things that go wrong when you do that at scale, on any CMS.

SSRF-hardened

Private, loopback and cloud-metadata addresses are blocked, with DNS pinned at connect-time to close rebinding — every redirect hop re-validated.

Reads what bots are blocked from

When a WAF blocks a normal fetch, we recover the page's schema and author from its public structured data instead of guessing.

Your content stays yours

We audit the page and store the result for your dashboard. We don't train on your content, and the model providers are configured not to retain it.

The system, not the prompt

A single call can't reproduce the loop.

Anyone can ask a model "is this good?". The defensible part is everything around the question: a live-fetch harness that survives the open web, a 26-gate rubric tuned on hundreds of real audits, two-stage screening that makes it economical, and a remediate-and-re-audit loop your pipeline integrates via POST /api/v1/audit — reading back {"verdict":"pass","score":82} to gate anything under your bar before it goes live.

See it run on your own page.

Paste any URL and watch the real pipeline score it — free, no signup, in about twenty seconds. Find out what Google and AI actually see.