SurfacedBy AI Visibility & GEO Audit MCP server

ai-visibility-mcp

Find out what AI assistants understand about a business, and whether their answers recommend it. Free and hosted, with no account or API key.

Connect it to Claude, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client, ask for an AI visibility audit of your website, and your assistant works through a complete, ordered audit:

• Plan the audit. A step-by-step checklist: read the site, check crawler access, build the buyer questions, find the real competitors and the third-party sources AI leans on, weigh the evidence, then deliver prioritized, evidence-linked fixes.
• Audit website pages the way AI reads them. Products, prices, policies, comparison tables and the structured business data in the page code, from up to five pages at once, plus each page's readiness findings (JavaScript-only rendering, noindex, canonical, schema, answer structure, sources, date and author) with the documentation behind each one.
• Check AI crawler access. Which AI crawlers your robots.txt allows, restricts or blocks, what that means for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google AI Mode, whether a security challenge answers ordinary requests, and the exact fix.
• Check whether an AI answer cites or names you. Paste an answer from any assistant. See whether it cites your site, only names you, or leaves you out, what kind of source each citation is, and the likely reason when you are not cited.
• See where AI platforms get their answers. The mix of sources each AI platform cites and recent shifts, from SurfacedBy's published AI Search Index, with links to the research behind each finding.

Your assistant does the thinking and SurfacedBy supplies the evidence, so every recommendation links back to a page or published source you can check.

https://api.surfacedby.com/api/v1/mcp/public/

Transport: Streamable HTTP. Authentication: none.

Install

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http surfacedby-ai-visibility https://api.surfacedby.com/api/v1/mcp/public/

Claude (claude.ai and desktop)

Go to Customize > Connectors, click + Add, then Add custom connector. Name it SurfacedBy AI Visibility, paste the URL above, and choose No sign in. Turn it on in a chat from + > Connectors.

On Team and Enterprise plans an Owner adds it under Organization settings > Connectors first. The Free plan allows one custom connector.

Cursor

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or .cursor/mcp.json in a project):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "surfacedby-ai-visibility": {
      "url": "https://api.surfacedby.com/api/v1/mcp/public/"
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Add to .vscode/mcp.json:

{
  "servers": {
    "surfacedby-ai-visibility": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.surfacedby.com/api/v1/mcp/public/"
    }
  }
}

Other clients

Any client that supports remote Streamable HTTP servers can connect with the URL above. For a client that only speaks stdio, use a bridge such as mcp-remote:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "surfacedby-ai-visibility": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["mcp-remote", "https://api.surfacedby.com/api/v1/mcp/public/"]
    }
  }
}

ChatGPT

A ChatGPT app built on this server is in review. Status and details: surfacedby.com/tools/chatgpt-ai-visibility.

Try it

Audit the AI visibility of yourbrand.com. We sell to small accounting firms in the UK.

Can ChatGPT and Perplexity crawl yourbrand.com? If not, what exactly should we change?

I run yourbrand.com. When people ask AI for the best tool in our category,
what could stop it from recommending us, and what should we fix first?

Here is what ChatGPT said when I asked about my business: "<paste the answer>".
My site is https://yourbrand.com. Does it actually cite us, or only name us?
Is anything in it wrong compared with our own pages?

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.