See exactly who is beating you in AI search and why.

Yes. CaijoBot crawls every competitor domain fresh at the time of your scan. There is no cached data, no pre-existing database of domain scores, and no estimated scores based on domain authority or other proxy signals. Every domain in your comparison is crawled using the same browser profile, the same scoring model, and the same methodology as your own site.

This means two things. First, the scores are genuinely comparable because they were calculated by the same process on the same day. Second, the results reflect the current state of each site rather than a historical average. If a competitor made significant changes last week, your next scan will show the updated score.

Yes. You can add any domain to a comparison scan regardless of industry, geography, or size. The comparison is based purely on the AEO signals CaijoBot finds on each site. AEO scoring does not depend on topical relevance between domains, only on the structural and content signals that AI engines use to understand and trust any site.

Cross-industry comparisons are actually useful for establishing benchmark scores. If you want to understand what a genuinely well-configured site looks like in absolute terms rather than relative to your direct competitors, comparing against a brand known for technical excellence gives you a calibration point. Agencies sometimes do this to show clients what the ceiling looks like before starting an AEO programme.

CaijoBot uses realistic browser fingerprinting, rotated browser profiles, and standard crawl headers that identify it as a legitimate web crawler. Most sites that block crawlers do so using robots.txt directives or aggressive bot detection. CaijoBot respects robots.txt. If a competitor's robots.txt explicitly blocks all crawlers, CaijoBot will not crawl those pages and the scan will reflect whatever is publicly accessible.

In practice, very few business websites actively block legitimate crawlers. Those that do are inadvertently also blocking AI engine crawlers, which means their AEO scores would reflect that restriction. A site that blocks AI crawlers will score poorly on Technical Accessibility regardless of what their other pages look like. The comparison result would accurately reflect that self-imposed limitation.

If CaijoBot encounters a crawl failure on a competitor domain, your scan results will show the reason clearly: HTTP error code, robots block, or access restriction. You will never receive a fabricated score for a domain that could not be crawled.

Monthly is the right cadence for most brands and agencies. AEO scores change when sites change, and most sites do not change fast enough for weekly comparisons to show meaningful movement. Monthly gives you a clear trend line without overwhelming you with data that shows no change.

Run a comparison whenever you make a significant batch of AEO changes to your own site. Before the changes, the comparison shows your gap. After, it shows whether the changes closed it. That before/after framing is genuinely useful for reporting to stakeholders or clients.

AGENCY users can set up scheduled automatic rescans so the comparison updates without any manual work. Monthly scheduled rescans on each client domain mean you always have a current competitive picture without having to remember to scan. Score history tracks the movement over time automatically.

No. Competitor comparison requires PRO+ or AGENCY. Free users get their own domain scan with the full 100-point score and category breakdown, but the competitor comparison feature, which requires additional crawls for each competitor domain, is a paid feature.

The practical reason is that each competitor domain in a comparison scan requires CaijoBot to run the same full crawl it would run on your own domain. Adding nine competitor domains to a scan is equivalent to running ten full scans. That resource cost is reflected in the plan structure rather than in a per-scan charge.

PRO+ gives you three competitor domains per scan at $39/month, which is a meaningful competitive intelligence capability at a price most individual brand owners can justify. AGENCY at nine domains per scan is designed for agencies running competitive audits as part of a client service.

Yes. You can add, swap, or remove competitor domains on every scan. There is no commitment to a fixed competitor set. This is useful for agencies who want to run different competitive analyses for different purposes: core competitors one month, aspirational benchmarks the next, a new entrant to the market the month after that.

For ongoing monitoring of a consistent competitive set, you can add the same competitors each time or use scheduled rescans on AGENCY which will automatically re-crawl the same domains on your chosen schedule. Score history tracks changes on your own domain across scans regardless of which competitors you included in each one.