Is your site usable as grounding evidence for AI?
Bing now says the unit of value for AI answers isn't the page — it's groundable information: discrete, supportable facts with clear provenance. Enter your URL and we'll check whether your site provides it, across the five dimensions Bing's May 2026 post describes.
What this tool checks (and why)
In May 2026, Bing published Evolving role of the index: From ranking pages to supporting answers. The post draws a sharp line between traditional search (“which pages should a user visit?”) and grounding (“what information can an AI system responsibly use to construct an answer?”) and lists five dimensions the index must now measure differently:
- Factual fidelity. Does the indexed representation preserve meaning?
- Source attribution. Is provenance clear? Do sources carry varying evidentiary weight?
- Freshness. Stale facts produce wrong answers, not just bad ranking.
- Coverage of high-value facts. Are the facts people ask about actually retrievable?
- Contradictions. Does the index detect conflict instead of silently arbitrating?
This tool runs a single-page check across all five — plus a quick look at AI crawler access in your robots.txt. It's the technical pre-condition for being cited. The demand side (whether AI actually surfaces you for queries customers ask) is what Aiso's main product measures.
FAQ
What is AI grounding?⌄
Grounding is the process of an AI system retrieving specific, verifiable information from indexed sources to support an answer. Bing put it directly: the unit of value shifts from documents to groundable information — discrete, supportable facts with clear provenance.
How is this different from a standard SEO audit?⌄
A standard audit asks whether a page ranks. This audit asks whether the page can serve as evidence when an AI system commits to an answer. The signals overlap (canonical, schema, freshness) but the scoring is different — for example, a stale fact only hurts ranking in SEO, but in grounding it produces a confidently wrong answer.
Where do the five dimensions come from?⌄
From Microsoft Bing's May 2026 post, "Evolving role of the index: From ranking pages to supporting answers". The post breaks index quality into factual fidelity, source attribution, freshness, coverage of high-value facts, and contradiction detection.
Does this tool guarantee my content will be cited?⌄
No. It checks the technical pre-conditions that make a page usable as grounding evidence. Whether you actually get cited depends on demand for your topic, competing sources, and your authority signals — which is what Aiso's main product measures across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot.