The ocean is a free AI search check by bernard. Put your web address in and Bernard fetches your front page exactly the way a robot does — no JavaScript run, no allowances — and shows you what survives, as bubbles you pop one by one.
It runs fifteen honest checks in three tiers. First, whether a robot can readyou at all: your title, the description AI search repeats, your headings, the words that exist before JavaScript, your pictures’ captions, the weight of the page. Second, whether a robot should trustyou — who’s behind the site, who vouches for you, the word of your customers, the signs of expertise — the conditions Google’s E-E-A-T guidelines describe and AI answers lean on when they choose who to quote. Third, whether the house is tidy: the padlock, phone-fit, sharing cards, your one true address. Google’s own stopwatch arrives last, carried in by a ray.
Every finding says plainly whether it’s good or needs work, and what Bernard would do about it. Being readable isn’t the same as being chosen — that honesty is the point.
Maybe — many sites publish most of their words through JavaScript, which many AI crawlers never run. The ocean fetches your page the way a robot does, with no JavaScript, and shows you exactly what survives: your title, your description, your headings, your words, your pictures' captions and your machine-readable labels.
Fifteen honest checks in three tiers: can a robot read you (readable words, titles, descriptions, headings, picture captions, page weight), should a robot trust you (who's behind the site, who vouches for you, customer words, signs of expertise — the signals Google's E-E-A-T guidelines describe), and is the house tidy (secure connection, phone-fit, sharing cards, canonical address). Google's own PageSpeed stopwatch arrives separately, carried in by a ray.
No. Being readable is the entry ticket; being chosen leans on trust — who is behind the site, who vouches for it, and the body of work it shows. The ocean tests both, and says plainly which is which.
The same findings you saw on screen, by email, in the order Bernard would fix them: reading problems first, trust second, tidying last. Asking for it costs an email address and sends exactly one email — follow-ups only ever happen if you separately confirm you want them.
bernard keeps a couple of essential cookies so you stay signed in. With your okay we'd also switch on analytics — Google Analytics for anonymous page stats, and Microsoft Clarity for anonymised heatmaps and session replays — no ad tracking, just so we can tell which bits actually help. Change your mind any time on our privacy page.