What Does an AI Actually See When It Reads Your Website? I Built a Tool to Find Out

You've spent hours perfecting your portfolio. The colors, the layout, the animations. But when an AI recruiter bot visits it, it doesn't see your CSS. It sees a mangled wall of raw text. The Gap Nobody Talks About As developers, we build for human eyes. We see rendered DOMs, perfectly spaced flexboxes, and interactive state changes. But a massive portion of web traffic today isn't human. It’s AI scrapers, summary bots, and automated recruiters. These agents don't see your animations. They see raw text nodes, aria labels, and mangled markup. This gap between human rendering and machine reading is why "optimizing for AI" is becoming its own discipline. If an AI agent can't understand your personal site, it can't recommend you. So, I built a Go server that shows you exactly what an AI sees when it visits any URL—and streams the AI's honest, brutal summary back to you live. How AI Bots Actually Read Websites Most AI scrapers do not execute JavaScript. Firing up a headless Chromium instance