firstround.com 37 F
🛡️ SEO 46 🤖 GEO 45 ⚡ Perf 59 🏗️ Arch 78

firstround.com — Global SEODiff Score 37/100

firstround.com
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With only 15/100 on the AI-Readiness Index, firstround.com is at severe risk of being overlooked by AI-powered search and answer engines. Compared to other infrastructure sites (avg score: 57), firstround.com is trailing the benchmark, indicating room for competitive improvement. The low ghost ratio (5%) confirms that what crawlers see matches what users see — a hallmark of strong SSR implementation. A 36.5× token bloat ratio means crawlers must process significantly more tokens to reach the actual content — a drag on extraction efficiency. No structured data was detected, which means AI systems must infer all entities and relationships from raw HTML alone. A full AI bot restriction means AI-powered search and answer engines cannot currently crawl and index this domain's content.

37
F — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Significant improvement opportunities. Start with AI Readiness (45).
🎯 Top Fix: Allow GPTBot + ClaudeBot in robots.txt → lift the score cap
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)46 × 0.25 = 11.5
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)45 × 0.40 = 18.0
⚡ Performance (20% weight)59 × 0.20 = 11.8
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)78 × 0.15 = 11.7
Weighted sum = 11.5 + 18.0 + 11.8 + 11.7
⚠️ Fatal multiplier: All major AI bots blocked → ×0.5
Global SEODiff Score = 37 (F)
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Gatekeeper Rule: Score cannot exceed 15. Both GPTBot and ClaudeBot are blocked in robots.txt. No major AI assistant can cite this site. Allow at least one major AI crawler to lift the cap. See Bot Access →
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
20
Bot Access
avg 92
99
Rendering
avg 93
11
Structure
avg 35
0
Schema
avg 9
70
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 5%
Rank #54625
+62 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 67%
Score 15/100

firstround.com punches above its weight in AI — AI visibility exceeds Google ranking. This is a competitive moat worth protecting. ACRI measures technical crawler readiness. Read the methodology →

Why firstround.com ranks here

Tech stackNext.js
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage0 blocks
Token bloat36.5×

Fastest improvements

  • Allow GPTBot in robots.txt so AI crawlers can access your pages (see Crawl Access).
  • Allow ClaudeBot (many assistants rely on it) — blocking it often correlates with “AI invisibility.”
  • Add basic Organization and WebSite JSON-LD to fix “0 schema blocks” (see Schema Coverage).
  • Reduce token bloat (navigation/footer/code) so agents reach your main content faster (see Token Bloat).
  • Create an llms.txt file so AI crawlers can discover your content structure without heavy crawling. Generate llms.txt →
  • Run a full entropy audit to find which DOM regions waste the most tokens. Run Entropy Audit →
🧪

JavaScript Rendering Check

We check what AI crawlers miss when they skip JavaScript execution.

Running headless browser to simulate AI extraction…
🛡️

Traditional SEO

46/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

18 chars
Too short

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

168 chars
Too long

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 12
  • ✓ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

  • ✗ Canonical tag present
  • ✓ No noindex directive
  • ✓ Meta viewport set
  • ✓ HTML lang attribute → en
  • ➖ Hreflang tags — N/A (single language site)
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed by robots.txt

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — Home | First Round
  • ✓ og:description — First Round is a venture capital firm that works with founders exclusively at the earliest stages of company building, often when all they have is an “imagine if.”
  • ✓ og:image — preview
  • ✓ twitter:card — summary_large_image
📐 How the SEO Pillar score is calculated

SEO Pillar = Title (20 pts) + Meta Desc (20 pts) + Heading Hierarchy (20 pts) + Indexability (20 pts) + Social/OG (20 pts)

Each sub-score is derived from the checks above. Canonical tag, lang attribute, og:image, and a single H1 are the highest-impact items.

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AI Readiness / GEO

45/100 40 % of Global Score 🟡 Medium Confidence

This pillar aggregates citation share, hallucination risk, bot access, schema health, and content extractability. The individual diagnostic sections below contribute to this score.

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Citation Alternatives

Research
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Insight: In the infrastructure sector, safely.co.jp (ACRI: 90) currently has stronger AI extractability. AI models tend to prefer sources with higher semantic structure and schema coverage. Domains with ACRI < 40 see 3.5× more hallucinations. Read the research →
firstround.com
24
Your ACRI Score
90
Industry Peer ACRI
AI models prioritize pages with strong semantic structure and schema coverage. safely.co.jp has schema coverage of 3 blocks and uses WordPress. Improve your score by implementing the remediation patches below.
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison →
🚨

Hallucination Risk

Research

Is AI lying about your brand? This panel measures how likely LLMs are to hallucinate facts when extracting information from your page.

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🤖 Bot Access Matrix

GPTBot (OpenAI)
Blocked
ClaudeBot (Anthropic)
Blocked
CCBot (Common Crawl)
Blocked
Google-Extended
Blocked
Googlebot
Allowed
💡GPTBot is blocked. To appear in ChatGPT citations, add Allow: / under User-agent: GPTBot in your robots.txt.
💡ClaudeBot is blocked. To be cited by Claude, allow ClaudeBot in robots.txt.

👻 Rendering (Ghost Ratio) Docs

Ghost Ratio 5%
0% — Safe 50% 100% — Risk
Status Server-Side Rendered (Safe)
Rendering Type SSR

📊 Structure & Information Density Docs

Structure Grade 11/100 — Poor
Structured Elements 5 elements (5 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words1386
Raw Density0.4%
💡Low structure score (11/100). Your content appears as a wall of text with few structured HTML elements. You have 5 list items, 0 table rows, 0 table headers. Convert features into <ul> lists and data into <table> elements to help AI models extract structured information.

🏷️ Schema Health Docs

Organization Schema ❌ Missing
Product / Service Schema ⚠️ Not Found
Total Schema Blocks0 — No JSON-LD detected

Schema Coverage Map

0/7 schema types detected
❌ Organization
❌ Product/Service
❌ Breadcrumb
❌ FAQ
❌ Article
❌ WebSite
💡Organization schema missing. AI models cannot identify your brand entity. Without it, your brand won't appear in Knowledge Panels or be associated with your content.
💡Product / Service schema missing. AI models don't know this is a SaaS product. Add Product or SoftwareApplication schema so AI understands what you offer and can surface pricing/features.
💡BreadcrumbList schema missing. AI cannot understand your site hierarchy or how pages relate to each other.
💡FAQ schema missing. Adding FAQPage schema lets AI models directly extract Q&A pairs for Featured Snippets and chatbot answers.
💡WebSite schema missing. Add WebSite + SearchAction so Google can generate a Sitelinks Search Box for your brand in AI results.

📐 AI Efficiency Metrics Docs

31
AI Extractability
High
Crawl Cost
Critical
Blocklist Risk
Extractability31/100 — AI models can barely extract answers from this page
Crawl CostHigh (80/100) — expensive for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskCritical — 4 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

2%
🗑️ 98%
Useful Content (8.3 KB)Bloat (295.5 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio36.5× — Bloated

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context8% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage4 / 53 images have alt text

TDM Rights

TDM-Reservation HeaderNot set
X-Robots-Tag: noaiNot set
💡Your HTML is 303.8 KB, but only 8.3 KB is text. 2% useful / 98% bloat. AI crawlers have limited context windows (e.g. 128k tokens). This level of bloat (36.5×) risks context-window truncation by ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Reduce inline scripts, CSS, hydration payloads, and tracking code.
💡Only 8% of images have alt text. Add descriptive alt attributes so multimodal AI (ChatGPT Vision) can understand your images.

🔥 Structural Entropy Check Research

0 Entropy
Poor Token Bloat: High
Noise Ratio: 97.3% · SNR: 0.03 · Signal: 2130 / Noise: 75638 tokens

🔬 AI-Crawler Simulation

See your website the way AI crawlers do. CSS stripped, structure labeled, content chunked.

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This is what humans see — styled, branded, visual.
Toggle to "AI Agent View" to see what GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and other AI crawlers actually extract from this page.
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AI Answer Preview

NEW

See how AI models summarize your site. Left: your actual content. Right: what the LLM extracts and says about you.

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🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkNext.js
AI-Readiness Score70/100
ServerVercel
CDNvercel
HTTP Status200
Load Time523 ms
Raw HTML Size303.8 KB
Visible Text Size8.3 KB

Performance & Speed

59/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

523 ms
Acceptable — room for improvement

Google considers <200 ms "good". AI crawlers may have even shorter timeouts.

📦 Page Weight

1162
DOM nodes
304 KB
HTML payload
Heavy page — consider reducing DOM complexity

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → public, max-age=0, must-revalidate
  • ✗ CDN cache status
  • ✓ CDN detected → vercel

🔬 Tracker Tax

0
tracker scripts
0
third-party domains
0.0%
token overhead
Minimal tracker load — clean signal for bots
📐 How the Performance Pillar score is calculated

Perf Pillar = TTFB (35 pts) + Page Weight (25 pts) + Cache/CDN (20 pts) + Tracker Tax (20 pts)

TTFB <200 ms = full marks. DOM >3000 or payload >300 KB incurs heavy penalties. Tracker scripts beyond 5 reduce score.

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Architecture & Trust

78/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✓ Sitemap declared in robots.txt → https://www.firstround.com/sitemap.xml
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✗ GPTBot allowed
  • ✗ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

75
internal links
4
external links
Good internal linking — helps crawlers discover content

🔒 Security & Trust

  • ✓ HSTS header (Strict-Transport-Security)
  • ✗ Content-Security-Policy header
  • ✓ HTTP status 200 OK (got 200)

♿ Accessibility Signals

  • ✓ HTML lang attribute → en
  • ✓ Meta viewport for mobile
  • ✓ Single H1 for screen readers
📐 How the Architecture Pillar score is calculated

Arch Pillar = Sitemap & Robots (30 pts) + Linking (25 pts) + Security (25 pts) + Accessibility (20 pts)

Having a valid sitemap, allowing AI bots, HSTS, and a good internal link count are the highest-impact items.

🏅 AI-Verified Trust Badge

Your site scores 24/100. Reach 80+ to unlock the green "AI-Verified" badge. Fix the issues below to improve your score.

AI-Verified badge for firstround.com
Pending Audit — score below 80 threshold
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� Deep Crawl Analysis 76 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
24
Single-page score
+13
Subpages outperform homepage
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
38
Avg across 76 pages · Range 0–74
Topical Cohesion
6%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
55777
Avg Bloat
87.2×
RAG Fractures [?]
8
⚠️
8 RAG-Chunking Fractures Detected

Poorly formatted tables or pricing grids on 8 pages will be split incorrectly during RAG chunking, causing AI models to hallucinate prices and features.

Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://firstround.com/ai/figma
The Art of Evals: How Figma Put People at the Center of Its AI Product | First Round
other 74 9.6× 3785
https://firstround.com/ai/linktree
Scale Smarter, Not Bigger: How Linktree is Using AI to Accelerate | First Round
pricing 74 8.3× 5048 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://firstround.com/levels
Levels of PMF | First Round
pricing 74 7.7× 13248 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://firstround.com/ai/brex
Agent + Human Ops: How Brex is Changing Roles and Workflows | First Round
pricing 74 8.4× 4311 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://firstround.com/ai/warp
Start With a Prompt: Inside How Warp’s CEO Follows His Own AI Coding Mandate | First Round
pricing 74 8.4× 4888 💰 Pricing
https://firstround.com/ai/shopify
From Memo to Movement: Shopify’s Cultural Adoption of AI | First Round
other 64 11.8× 3589
https://firstround.com/who-we-back
Who We Back | First Round
pricing 61 16.6× 2150 💰 Pricing
https://firstround.com/team/investing/bill-trenchard
Bill Trenchard
about 53 43.8× 577
https://firstround.com/team/operating/arielle-jackson
Arielle Jackson
about 53 44.3× 512
https://firstround.com/team/investing/josh-kopelman
Josh Kopelman
pricing 53 34.3× 823 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://firstround.com/team/investing/liz-wessel
Liz Wessel
about 53 41.6× 560
https://firstround.com/team/investing/todd-jackson
Todd Jackson
about 53 40.1× 656
https://firstround.com/team/investing/meka-asonye
Meka Asonye
pricing 53 39.9× 657 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://firstround.com/pmf
PMF Method | First Round
pricing 53 27.2× 1434 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://firstround.com/angel-track
Angel Track | First Round
pricing 53 36.9× 1097 💰 Pricing
https://firstround.com/how-we-work
How We Work | First Round
pricing 53 26.6× 1223 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://firstround.com/team/operating/an-vu
An Vu
about 43 53.9× 305
https://firstround.com/team/investing/nyle-sykes
Nyle Sykes
about 43 64.7× 262
https://firstround.com/team/operating/erin-van-der-meer
Erin Van Der Meer
about 43 66.7× 253
https://firstround.com/team/operating/emery-rosansky
Emery Rosansky
pricing 43 52.1× 348 💰 Pricing
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Health by Sub-Directory
Average ACRI and top issues aggregated by URL path prefix
Path Pages Avg ACRI Ghost % Bloat Top Issue
/team/ 54 40 1% 95.4× Bot Blocked
/ai/ 5 72 0% 9.3× High JS Bloat
/products/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/at-investment/ 1 26 0% 1231.7× High JS Bloat
/about/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/docs/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/case-studies/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/faq/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/who-we-back/ 1 61 0% 16.6× High JS Bloat
/levels/ 1 74 0% 7.7× High JS Bloat
/blog/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/angel-track/ 1 53 1% 36.9× Bot Blocked
/contact/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/integrations/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/pmf/ 1 53 1% 27.2× Bot Blocked
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 76 pages
linkedin.com ×66
youtube.com ×66
instagram.com ×66
x.com ×65
jobs.firstround.com ×65
review.firstround.com ×65
businessinsider.com ×3
techcrunch.com ×2
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

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Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to firstround.com. Copy and paste these into your codebase to improve AI visibility. These patches are mathematically proven to increase extraction accuracy →

Add Organization JSON-LD
High Impact ⏱ 5 min
AI models cannot identify your brand entity without Organization schema. This is the #1 fix for AI visibility.
html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Organization",
  "name": "Firstround",
  "url": "https://firstround.com",
  "logo": "https://firstround.com/favicon.ico",
  "sameAs": []
}
</script>
Add WebSite + SearchAction JSON-LD
High Impact ⏱ 5 min
Enables the Sitelinks Search Box in Google and allows AI to understand your site structure.
html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "WebSite",
  "name": "Firstround",
  "url": "https://firstround.com",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": "https://firstround.com/search?q={search_term_string}",
    "query-input": "required name=search_term_string"
  }
}
</script>
Allow GPTBot in robots.txt
High Impact ⏱ 2 min
GPTBot is blocked — your content cannot appear in ChatGPT citations. Add this to your robots.txt:
text
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
Allow ClaudeBot in robots.txt
Medium Impact ⏱ 2 min
ClaudeBot is restricted — Claude may not be able to cite your content. Many AI assistants rely on it.
text
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
Reduce Token Bloat
Medium Impact ⏱ 1–2 hrs
Only 2% of your HTML is useful content. AI crawlers waste context window tokens on bloat.
html
<!-- Move inline CSS to external stylesheets -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/main.css">

<!-- Move inline scripts to external files with defer -->
<script src="/js/app.js" defer></script>

<!-- Remove duplicate navigation blocks -->
<!-- Keep only ONE <nav> in the <header> -->

<!-- Ensure <main> wraps your primary content -->
<main>
  <!-- Your content here — this is what AI sees first -->
</main>
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Projected Impact

ROI EST.

If you apply the patches above, here's the estimated improvement for firstround.com:

Current Score
15
Projected Score
46
Improvement
+31 pts
Allow GPTBot +8 pts
Allow ClaudeBot +5 pts
Add Organization schema +6 pts
Add WebSite schema +4 pts
Reduce token bloat +5 pts
Add FAQ schema +3 pts

*Estimates based on SEODiff's scoring model. Actual results depend on implementation quality.

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