AI readiness leaderboard · HR and payroll

AI readiness of charliehr.com: 85/100

85/100

We checked charliehr.com on 2026-10-18 with our free checker: six scored tests plus evidence for each finding. The score reflects the site on that date. The site may have changed after that date.

Test	Result	Points
llms.txt	No	0 of 15
JSON-LD schema on the homepage	Yes	20 of 20
Meta description	Yes	10 of 10
Text readable without JavaScript	Yes	20 of 20
Sitemap	Yes	10 of 10
AI crawlers allowed in robots.txt	8 of 8	25 of 25

Compared with HR and payroll

charliehr.com ranks 12 of 18 hr and payroll sites in this scan (ties share the order by domain name). The median score in this group is 100. 10 of 18 have an llms.txt file.

Findings with evidence

FixHomepage serves a bot challenge page to automated clients

Our checker got a challenge page instead of your content: CharlieHR - HR software built to be your first HR hire. Findings below describe that page, not your real homepage.

Fix: AI crawlers get the same challenge and cannot read your site. In your CDN or firewall (Cloudflare, Akamai, Imperva), allow verified AI search bots, or lower the bot protection level on public pages.

FixNo llms.txt

GET /llms.txt returned 404.

Fix: Create /llms.txt: a # title, a > one-line summary, then ## sections that list key pages as [name](url). Draft one free at checkaiready.com/llms-txt-generator.

FixJSON-LD: 1 block, types SoftwareApplication, Offer, Organization, ImageObject, PostalAddress, Review, Person

Offer is missing required price, priceCurrency. Person is missing recommended url.

Fix: Fix the listed properties, then retest at validator.schema.org.

FixServer responded in 2159 ms

Time to response headers from our checker, after 1 redirect. Final URL: https://www.charliehr.com/

Fix: Slow responses can make crawlers give up. Add page caching or a CDN in front of the homepage.

17 checks passed or noted

PassGPTBot (OpenAI, training): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

PassOAI-SearchBot (OpenAI, ChatGPT search): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

PassChatGPT-User (OpenAI, live fetch for users): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

PassClaudeBot (Anthropic, training): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

PassClaude-SearchBot (Anthropic, Claude search): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

PassPerplexityBot (Perplexity, search index): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

PassGoogle-Extended (Google, Gemini training control): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

PassCCBot (Common Crawl, open dataset): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

PassTitle, 54 characters

<title>CharlieHR - HR software built to be your first HR hire</title>

PassMeta description, 112 characters

content="With Charlie, you can automate your HR tasks and build a high-performing team that drives your business forward."

PassOpen Graph tags present

og:title: CharlieHR - HR software built to be your first HR hire
og:description: With Charlie, you can automate your HR tasks and build a high-performing team that drives…
og:image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/64a2860c0b70d52794033399/6501c6aca1e13c5f83f2db79_Home…

PassCanonical link set

<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.charliehr.com">

PassLanguage declared: en

<html lang="en">

Pass1 H1 heading

<h1>HR software built to be your first HR hire</h1>

Pass7,928 characters of text without JavaScript

Text starts: "CharlieHR - HR software built to be your first HR hire Charlie Charlie for CEOs, founders &amp; MDs Product Employee onboarding software Leave management syste…"

PassSitemap found, 191 URLs

robots.txt: Sitemap: https://www.charliehr.com/sitemap.xml
GET https://www.charliehr.com/sitemap.xml returned 200.

PassHTML size 72 KB, 18 script tags

2 render-blocking scripts in <head>: https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/webfont/1.6.26/webfont.js

Fix: Add defer or async to scripts in <head> that are not needed for first paint.

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Scoring: llms.txt 15, JSON-LD 20, meta description 10, readable text 20, sitemap 10, AI crawler access 25. Want this page changed or removed? Email [email protected].

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