Terms of use

Terms

These terms cover the free tools, this website, and the paid plans. Refunds and cancellation are set out in full on the refunds page — thirty days, no conditions, the whole amount back. The paid plans, Starter and Pro, are on sale — bought from the account page at app.answermend.com, with payment handled by Paddle as merchant of record — and those refund terms apply to them from the first charge. What a subscription buys, how it renews and how it ends are under The paid plans below.

Last updated 5 September 2026. Answermend is a product of AdModifier LLC, 30 N Gould St #40766, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States. Contact: hello@answermend.com.

Governing law. These terms and any dispute arising from them are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules.

What you may do with the tools

Every free tool on this site — all twenty of them, whichever ones are listed on the free tools page on the day you read this — is free to use, for your own sites and for sites you work on for other people. No attribution is required to use them. Output you generate is yours — paste it into a client’s site, put it in a deliverable, charge for the work. We claim nothing over it.

The generators carry no usage limit, because they never leave your machine. The three site checks do: they take a web address and fetch it from our server, which costs us something per use, so they sit behind a per-address request limit. Hit it and you get an explicit refusal that says so — never a made-up result.

Three tools are limited hardest — the AI Visibility Checker, the AI Share of Voice and the AI Citation Sources — because each spends money with somebody else each time it runs: they put questions about your site to ChatGPT and Gemini through paid API keys of ours, and we are billed for every one. So each is capped by the hour and by the day per internet connection, under one ceiling on the whole day’s engine spend shared by everyone using all three. Those limits are enforced on our server and we change them as the bill and the abuse require; the current numbers are not a promise. An office or a household sharing one connection shares one allowance.

What you may point a check at

The AI Crawler Checker, the AI Readiness Score and the Render Check make ordinary GET requests to the address you give them, from our server rather than from your browser, and read what comes back. That is the same thing any crawler or link checker does, and the site you name will see our server in its logs rather than you.

Point them at sites you own, sites you are working on, or sites you would be comfortable being seen to look at. Do not use them to hammer a third party’s site, to work around a block that site has put in your way, or as one leg of anything aimed at making a site slower for everyone else. Doing so is a misuse of this site and of the other one.

The AI Visibility Checker goes further than a fetch, and the rule for it is narrower. It fetches the address you give it, reads that page to work out up to five questions a customer of that business would type, puts those questions to ChatGPT and Gemini, and reports what came back. All of that happens on our servers, and it has to: querying an AI engine from your browser would mean handing our API keys to every visitor.

Only run it against a site you own or have been authorised to check. A scan takes somebody’s business name to two AI companies, asks them questions about it, and keeps what they answered. That is a reasonable thing to do to your own site or a client’s, and not a thing to do to a stranger’s because you were curious.

What is recorded when you run one is set out on our privacy page, not here, and that is deliberate: nothing on this page is your agreement to us publishing or sharing a scan. Permission to do anything with it beyond running your check would be asked for separately, in plain words, and can never be bundled into a terms page.

What a check reports is what one server saw on one occasion. Edge and bot rules can differ by network, by region and by minute; the pages say this where it matters, and a single check is not a trend.

What the tools do and do not promise

No vendor controls what an AI model answers, and we do not claim to. Adding schema, a robots.txt rule or an llms.txt file makes your site easier for a machine to read correctly. It does not guarantee that any assistant will mention you, cite you or recommend you, and anyone promising otherwise is selling something they cannot deliver.

The generators check that what they produce is well formed. They do not check that it is true. A schema block describing a business that does not exist is valid markup and a bad idea; that judgement is yours.

The AI Visibility Checker reports what two engines said on one occasion, and we do not control either of them. The answers come from ChatGPT and Gemini, which are run by OpenAI and Google. We cannot see how they decide, cannot make them mention you, and are not responsible for what they say about your business or anyone else’s — a result is a record of their answer, never our opinion of you and never something we adopt. The same question asked twice can come back differently: the models change, the pages they search change, and each answer is generated fresh. A free check asks each question once. That is a single pass, so a result is a snapshot rather than a trend. Where an engine could not be reached, the result says not measured and that question is left out of the counts rather than counted as a no. An unrun check is not a zero, and we will not print it as one.

Specifically on llms.txt: Google’s documentation states the file is not used for Google Search, and an independent study of 137,000 domains found 97% of valid files were never requested. The tool ships anyway because people ask for it, and the page says all of this plainly.

Accuracy, and the limits of it

The guides and tool pages are written carefully and corrected when they are wrong — several were corrected the day before this page was written. They are still general information about a fast-moving area, not advice about your particular business, and no page here creates a professional relationship.

The paid plans: Starter and Pro

There are two paid plans, Starter and Pro, each sold monthly or annual. What each one includes and what it costs live on the pricing page and only there. You buy by creating a free account at app.answermend.com and upgrading from the account page.

A subscription is a service, not a result. A paid plan buys the measurement the pricing page describes for that plan, recorded honestly — including the answers that say not measured — and what it produces is yours to use, the same as the free tools’ output. It does not buy a mention. Everything in What the tools do and do not promise above applies to a paid plan word for word: no vendor controls what an AI model answers, we cannot make an assistant mention you, cite you or recommend you, and a paid scan that brings back bad news is the product working, not the product failing.

Billing. Payment is handled by Paddle, our merchant of record: the charge on your statement comes from Paddle, and your card details are held by Paddle — no card number is ever stored on our servers. A monthly plan is billed month by month. An annual plan is billed twelve months up front, which is why the rule about us ending a subscription mid-term, below, is written down rather than assumed.

Renewal and cancellation, in one place so nobody has to hunt. A subscription renews automatically at the end of each period — a monthly plan every month, an annual plan every twelve months — and it keeps renewing until you cancel. To cancel, write to hello@answermend.com and we will cancel it. Your account page also opens the payment provider’s own page for cancelling, changing a card and downloading invoices, once there is a subscription for it to open. Cancelling ends the renewal, never the period you paid for — access runs to the end of it, and nothing is charged after that. Changing plan is not cancelling: a switch made from the account page takes effect at once, a move up is charged the difference for the rest of the period and a move down is credited for the unused part, in the figure Paddle shows before you confirm. Refunds work as the refunds page says: thirty days from a charge, no conditions, the whole amount. And if a subscription ends because of us rather than you, the unused part of the period comes back — that rule is under Suspending or stopping access below.

Availability

This is a small operation. Pages and tools may be unavailable, changed or withdrawn without notice. Nothing here is offered with an uptime commitment, and none is implied by the tools happening to work when you tried them.

The AI Visibility Checker has more ways to be unavailable than the rest, and they are worth naming: it depends on two other companies’ APIs, on our keys with them staying in good standing, and on a daily budget that can run out before the day does. Any of the three can stop it, and we can switch it off entirely without notice. None of that entitles you to anything, and none of it is a fault on your website.

No warranty, and what that means in practice

The tools and this site are provided as is. To the extent the law allows, there is no warranty of any kind, and we are not liable for loss arising from using them — including anything that follows from publishing output they generated. Check what you paste before you paste it, exactly as you would with any file from any source.

That covers the AI Visibility Checker in particular, so it is spelled out: it is provided as is, with no warranty that it will be available, that an engine will answer, that what an engine says about you is accurate, complete or fair, or that anything you change afterwards will alter what an assistant says next month. It reports what came back on the day. Decisions you take on the strength of it are yours, and the results are not advice.

Nothing in these terms limits liability where the law does not permit it to be limited.

Acceptable use

Do not use the tools to generate markup that misrepresents a business, to attack this site or its infrastructure, or to script the pages at a volume that degrades them for anyone else. Two of those are worth separating. The generators never leave your browser, so the only harm they can do at scale is the first one — and it is the one most likely to get a site distrusted by the engines it was aimed at. The three site checks spend our server’s time and someone else’s bandwidth every time they run, so scripting them, or aiming them at a site that has not asked to be fetched, is squarely out of bounds; the request limit is there to make that awkward rather than to stop anyone using the tool properly.

The three engine tools — the AI Visibility Checker, the AI Share of Voice and the AI Citation Sources — sit a step past that again, because a run of any of them buys metered calls from OpenAI and Google out of a fixed daily budget. A scripted loop there is not an inconvenience to us; it is those tools closing for everybody else until the day rolls over. So: do not script them, do not cycle addresses or connections to get around a limit, and do not point them at a site you have no business checking.

We may rate-limit a check, refuse one, or withdraw the tool from anyone, at any time. A refusal says what it is and when it clears. A refusal is not a result. It is not a low score, it is not a zero, and it means nothing about your website — it means we did not ask anybody anything on your behalf that time.

Your own site, your own obligations

What you publish on your site is governed by your own legal position — your privacy notices, your customer commitments, your jurisdiction. Output from a tool here does not change any of that.

Who owns what

The site, the tools, their code, wording and design are ours. What a generator writes for you is yours — the schema block, the robots.txt, the llms.txt. You may publish it, change it, or bill a client for it, and we claim nothing in it. That is stated above and it is repeated here because it is the question people actually ask: the output is yours, the machine that produced it is not.

Do not copy the tools themselves, or run a service off our infrastructure and present it as your own. Our name and logo are ours; using them to imply we endorse you is not covered by anything above.

The limit of what we owe you

Beyond the as is position above: to the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, for lost profit, lost revenue, lost data, or for business interrupted by anything on this site — whether or not we were told such loss was possible.

Where liability cannot be excluded, it is capped at the greater of the amount you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or US$100. The cap is deliberately tied to real money: for a paying customer it is the twelve months of subscription they actually paid, and for someone who has only used the free tools — where the first figure is zero — the US$100 floor is what applies, so that free never quietly means no recourse at all. Either way the number scales with what actually changed hands, which is the honest way to size a cap, and it is the reason the paragraph above matters more than this one.

Nothing here limits liability for fraud, for fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else the law does not permit to be limited.

If your use of the tools causes us a problem

If someone brings a claim against us because of how you used the tools — markup that misrepresented a business, a site check aimed at a site that did not want fetching, output published somewhere it should not have been — you agree to cover the reasonable cost of dealing with it, including legal fees. This is the counterpart of the acceptable-use section, and it applies to that section’s subject matter, not to ordinary use of a free tool.

Suspending or stopping access

We may rate-limit, block, or withdraw access to the tools without notice if a request pattern is degrading them for others, attacking the infrastructure, or costing us money at a rate a free tool cannot carry. For the free tools nothing is billed and there is nothing to cancel, so a block there is a technical measure, not a contractual one. A paid subscription is different: a block does not touch your right to cancel or to a refund, which work as the refunds page says. If you think a block caught you unfairly, write to us — the address is at the top of this page.

If we end a paid subscription mid-term for any reason other than your own breach of these terms, we refund the unused part of the period pro rata. That covers every ending that is our doing — we withdraw the product, retire a plan, close the business, decide we no longer want to serve you. Paid for a year, ended by us after five months: seven months comes back, through Paddle, to the card that was charged. Inside the first thirty days the refunds page’s rule is better than this one — the whole amount — and it is the one that applies. The single carve-out is a termination for your breach of these terms; breach is the exception here, not the default, and nothing outside these terms counts as one.

We may also stop offering any tool, or the whole site, at any time. See Availability above — and for a paid subscription, the pro-rata rule in the last paragraph.

Who may use this

The tools are for business use and you must be 18 or over. Nothing here is directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect anything from them — see the privacy page for what is collected at all, which is very little.

Disputes

Wyoming law governs, as stated at the top. Any claim goes to the state or federal courts sitting in Wyoming, and you agree to that venue. Claims are brought individually, not as part of a class or representative action.

Before filing anything, write to hello@answermend.com and give us thirty days. Most of what would reach a court is a misunderstanding about what a tool measured, and that is faster to settle in an email than anywhere else.

The rest of it

If a court strikes out part of these terms, the rest still stands. Not enforcing something once does not waive it. You may not transfer your rights under these terms; we may transfer ours if the business is sold, and the terms travel unchanged. These terms, plus the privacy page, are the whole agreement between us about the site and the tools.

Changes

These terms may change. The date above is the only version marker. Continuing to use the site after a change means the current version applies.

5 September 2026, later the same day. Three gaps the morning’s rewrite left open. First, the paid service had no terms of its own — money changed hands and this page still only governed the free tools — so The paid plans: Starter and Pro now exists: what a subscription buys and does not (a service, never a guaranteed mention), how Paddle bills it, that it renews automatically and at what cadence, and that you cancel in the same place you bought. Second, the suspension section could withdraw access without notice while no document said what a paying customer beyond the thirty-day window got if we ended their subscription mid-term; now one does — the unused part of the period back, pro rata, with your own breach of these terms as the only carve-out. The refunds page states the same rule. Third, the renewal facts were scattered; they now sit in one paragraph, because several US states require exactly that and because hunting for them was never reasonable.

5 September 2026. The paid plans, Starter and Pro, went on sale — bought from the account page at app.answermend.com, billed through Paddle, renewing until cancelled. Every line here that said there was nothing to buy has been rewritten to say what is now true: the refund terms on the refunds page apply from the first charge, the liability cap’s rationale no longer leans on nobody having paid us, and the suspension section separates a technical block on a free tool from a paid subscription. Separately, the rule about tools that spend engine money now names all three that do — the AI Share of Voice and the AI Citation Sources joined the AI Visibility Checker on 3 September, and this page had not caught up.

2 September 2026. The AI Visibility Checker went live on 1 September and this page did not mention it. It was covered in general — it is one of the free tools — and named in none of the specific rules, which is not good enough for the one tool that spends money, calls two other companies and can be pointed at somebody else’s business. The sections on what you may point a check at, what is and is not promised, availability, warranty and acceptable use now say so directly.