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Design Tools AEO Readiness

Visual design, prototyping, and creative collaboration

15 of 15 sites scanned · ranked by overall readiness score

#SiteGradeScoreAEO
1
Figma
figma.com
B
8463
2
Sketch
sketch.com
B
8163
3
Framer
framer.com
B
8156
4
LottieFiles
lottiefiles.com
B
8163
5
Pitch
pitch.com
B
8056
6
Penpot
penpot.app
B
8075
7
Zeplin
zeplin.io
C
7956
8
Miro
miro.com
C
7844
9
Whimsical
whimsical.com
C
7844
10
Lucidchart
lucid.co
C
7750
11
Rive
rive.app
C
7644
12
InVision
invisionapp.com
C
7456
13
Spline
spline.design
C
7250
14
Canva
canva.com
D
6956
15
Adobe Creative Cloud
adobe.com
D
6963

Cited by AI answer engines

In the week of Oct 11, 2026, b/cited asked OpenAI (gpt-4.1-mini), Anthropic (claude-sonnet-4-6) and Perplexity (sonar) 5 design tools buying questions and recorded which sites each answer cited. 15 of 15 prompt-and-engine pairs completed.

This is engine output, not a scanner score. A citation is not a recommendation or an endorsement, and the prompts are a sample, not a census. Counts are out of the prompts each engine actually answered that week.

SiteOpenAIAnthropicPerplexityBest rank
Figma5 of 54 of 51 of 5#1
Adobe Creative Cloud5 of 52 of 51 of 5#2
Canva2 of 52 of 50 of 5#1
InVision2 of 50 of 50 of 5#3
Zeplin1 of 51 of 50 of 5#3
Sketch1 of 50 of 50 of 5#4
Framer0 of 51 of 50 of 5#7
Also cited, not on the board
  • bilt.me — cited on 2 of 15 pairs, best #1 (Perplexity)
  • fueler.io — cited on 2 of 15 pairs, best #1 (Perplexity)
  • nngroup.com — cited on 2 of 15 pairs, best #2 (Anthropic)
  • smashingmagazine.com — cited on 2 of 15 pairs, best #2 (OpenAI)
  • marq.com — cited on 2 of 15 pairs, best #3 (Anthropic, Perplexity)
  • uxdesign.cc — cited on 2 of 15 pairs, best #4 (OpenAI)
  • visme.co — cited on 2 of 15 pairs, best #4 (OpenAI, Anthropic)
  • worldmetrics.org — cited on 2 of 15 pairs, best #4 (Perplexity)
  • rapidnative.com — cited on 2 of 15 pairs, best #7 (Perplexity)
  • launchtry.com — cited on 1 of 15 pairs, best #1 (Perplexity)

How scores are calculated

Each site is scanned for 30+ signals across nine categories: indexing, metadata, social cards, structured data, AEO (llms.txt, ai.txt, AI crawler stance, FAQ/HowTo schema), international, mobile, security headers, and Core Web Vitals.

The AEO score weights the signals that specifically influence whether AI engines can cite a page — llms.txt presence, AI crawler allowance in robots.txt, and citation-friendly structured data like FAQPage and Author schema.

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