cadvex.com is one of the cleanest software sites we have crawled: all 72 URLs return 200 with correct canonicals, and AI crawlers can read every page. What is missing is volume and proof. There are 3 articles and 5 short comparison pages, and not one customer is named. AI assistants named CadVex in 2 of 7 buyer questions we asked. Competitors with 151 to 370 guide pages took the other answers.
We listed the questions a shop owner or estimator asks before buying quoting software. The sources were your own product pages, the comparison tables you publish, competitor pages and live AI answers. Then we matched each question to the best CadVex page. A thin page exists but is too short, too buried or written for a different question. A missing question has no page at all.
Editorial pages counted in each site's XML sitemap on 5 November 2026: /blog/ URLs for CadVex, CloudNC and Paperless Parts, /guides/ URLs for QuotedPart. Your 12 user-guide pages are counted separately because they explain the product to people who already use it. Third-party
| Buyer question | Intent | CadVex page | Coverage | Page that answers it today |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| best CNC machining quoting software for a small job shop | commercial | / (homepage) | covered | paperlessparts.com/cnc-machining/ |
| Paperless Parts alternative | commercial | /compare/paperless-parts | thin | quotedpart.com/paperless-parts-alternative |
| CloudNC Quote Agent alternative | commercial | /compare/cloudnc-quote-agent | thin | quotedpart.com/cloudnc-alternative |
| CNC estimating software that runs offline for ITAR / NDA parts | commercial | /product/desktop | covered | CadVex is the named answer |
| quote CNC parts from a STEP file | commercial | /blog/quoting-from-a-step-file-checklist | thin | cloudnc.com/quote-agent |
| estimate CNC machining time from a 3D model | informational | /docs/machining-plan | thin | quotedpart.com/guides/calculators/cnc-machining-time |
| CNC machine hourly rate / quote cost calculator | informational | No page | missing | quotedpart.com/guides/calculators/machine-hourly-rate-calculator |
| DFM analysis software for machine shops | commercial | /blog/dfm-checks-that-change-cnc-part-price | thin | cloudnc.com/quote-agent/dfm |
| machine shop quoting software with published pricing | commercial | /pricing | covered | CadVex is the named answer |
| quoting software that connects to JobBOSS / ProShop / E2 | commercial | No page | missing | paperlessparts.com/blog/not-all-integrations-are-the-same/ |
Six checks were measured directly on cadvex.com on 5 November 2026. You said ChatGPT sent 5 visitors last week and 2 signed up, so this channel already converts. The score shows which parts are ready and which are holding it back.
Crawler access and crawl guidance get full marks, which is rare. You publish llms.txt and llms-full.txt, and all eight AI crawlers we tested got HTTP 200. The score loses most of its points on proof. An assistant has no customer, result or named expert on cadvex.com to quote, so it falls back on sites that have them.
| Component | Weight | Raw Evidence | Score | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI crawler access | 20 | robots.txt allows all public pages; 8 of 8 AI crawler user agents fetched a comparison page with HTTP 200 | 20 | Verified · high |
| Entity and business schema | 20 | Organization with legalName and 8 sameAs profiles; SoftwareApplication + Offer on both product pages; FAQPage on /faq; comparison pages have BreadcrumbList only | 17 | Verified · high |
| Answer-ready content | 20 | /faq 2,334 words and 12 user-guide pages; 3 blog posts; comparison pages 415-478 words | 13 | Verified · high |
| Trust and proof AI can quote | 15 | 0 testimonials, 0 case studies, no named founder or author, /about returns 404; comparison sources dated 28 October 2026 | 4 | Verified · high |
| Entity consistency | 15 | "CadVex" on marketing pages vs "Cadvex" on legal pages; a GetApp listing describes the product as CAD file management | 10 | Verified · high |
| Crawl guidance files | 10 | llms.txt and llms-full.txt live; sitemap referenced in robots.txt; no crawl-delay | 10 | Verified · high |
| Composite | 100 | 20 + 17 + 13 + 4 + 10 + 10 | 74 |
On 5 November 2026 we asked a web-search AI assistant 7 buyer questions that did not mention CadVex. CadVex was named twice: for “best quoting software for a small job shop” and for “estimating software that runs offline for ITAR / NDA parts”. It was absent from the answer to “best alternatives to Paperless Parts”, even though you have a page on exactly that. It was also absent from the answer to “which quoting software publishes its pricing”, though your prices are public. Hosts cited, counted once per answer:
| Domain | Answers citing it | Source |
|---|---|---|
| cloudnc.com | 6 of 7 | Sampled |
| paperlessparts.com | 5 of 7 | Sampled |
| digifabster.com | 3 of 7 | Sampled |
| mtisystems.com | 3 of 7 | Sampled |
| quotedpart.com | 2 of 7 | Sampled |
| cadvex.com | 2 of 7 | Sampled |
Twelve weighted dimensions, each scored from the crawl of all 72 sitemap URLs, Lighthouse lab runs, competitor sitemaps and the sampled AI answers. Hard caps apply where the evidence requires them. Slow mobile LCP caps Mobile UX at 60, and having no GA4 property caps Analytics at 30.
The technical scores are high, as they should be for a product built by an engineer. The score is held down by everything a new domain has to earn: content volume, customer proof, links into the pages that sell, and mobile speed.
Most sites we audit need a technical cleanup before content can help. CadVex does not. Keep these as they are and build on them.
Every sitemap URL returns 200 and has a self canonical, index,follow and exactly one H1. No title or description is duplicated. English and French pages are paired with hreflang. The static HTML is prerendered, so Google sees the same title and copy as a browser.
llms.txt (9,883 bytes) and llms-full.txt are live. All eight AI crawler user agents we tested got HTTP 200. The schema covers 16 distinct JSON-LD types, including SoftwareApplication with Offer pricing on both product pages and FAQPage on a 2,334-word FAQ. CloudNC has no llms.txt at all.
Each comparison page has a feature table, a “where they are strong” section, dated sources (“as of 28 October 2026”) and a correction email. Assistants prefer to cite pages like this. CadVex is already the named answer for offline / ITAR estimating, the one claim your site states clearly.
You already have comparison pages and G2 and Capterra profiles, both linked from your llms.txt. These moves start from what exists and fix why it is not working yet.
Each comparison page is linked from exactly one other page, the /compare hub. They run 415 to 478 words, have no French version and carry BreadcrumbList schema only. Link them from the homepage, both product pages, pricing and every blog post. Expand each to a worked example: the same part quoted in both tools, with screenshots. Add FAQPage and SoftwareApplication schema. Then add one list page, “Paperless Parts alternatives”, which is the exact question where AI left CadVex out. QuotedPart has 34 pages like this.
QuotedPart publishes 25 calculators, including a CNC machining-time calculator, a machine hourly rate calculator and a quantity-break calculator. CadVex already computes minutes per feature and the cheapest route by quantity, which is the same maths. One page per calculator targets the shop owner who is not yet looking for software, and each result can end in “quote the whole part in CadVex”.
No page on cadvex.com names a customer, shows a result or quotes a user, and /about returns 404. Two of the five ChatGPT visitors signed up, so you have users to ask. Three short stories would give assistants something to cite. Each needs the shop, the part, the quote time before and after, and one quote from the estimator. The same users can leave the first reviews on the G2 and Capterra profiles that already exist.
“Runs on your computer, nothing uploaded” is the claim AI already credits to CadVex, and no competitor we checked offers it. Build a short cluster around it: quoting ITAR and NDA parts without uploading CAD, Desktop vs cloud data handling, and checklists for customer data agreements. Your /docs/data-and-privacy page is already the technical source for all three.
Asked which quoting software publishes its pricing, the AI assistant named six tools and left out CadVex, though your /pricing page and product schema are public. Write a dated, sourced pricing comparison in the same format as your comparison pages: who publishes prices, who charges per analysis, and who needs a sales call. Put a one-line pricing summary on every comparison page.
A GetApp snippet describes CadVex as “CAD management software”. GetApp and Capterra share one listing network, so the wrong category can spread to Capterra too. Correct the category to quoting and estimating software, use “CadVex” on the legal pages (they currently say “Cadvex”), and keep the product description identical to llms.txt everywhere.
These are one-time fixes for whoever ships cadvex.com. None needs a rebuild.
We picked the three domains that came up most often across the 7 AI answers and the sampled web results for the core quoting queries. Every number comes from each site's own sitemap and homepage code, collected on 5 November 2026. Third-party
| Signal | CadVex | Paperless Parts | CloudNC | QuotedPart |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Editorial pages in sitemap | 3 blog posts | 254 blog URLs | 151 blog URLs | 370 guide URLs |
| Competitor / alternative pages | 5 | 0 found | 0 found | 34 |
| Customer story / case study URLs | 0 | 89 | 21 | 0 |
| Calculators | 0 | 0 found | 0 found | 25 |
| Homepage JSON-LD types | 4 | 15 | 8 | 10 |
| Review / rating schema | No | AggregateRating + Review | No | No |
| llms.txt | Yes, plus llms-full.txt | Yes | 404 | Redirects (301) |
| Named in 7 sampled AI answers | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 |
CadVex is a new domain: its sitemap dates begin in September 2026. Some results are certain once the work ships. Others depend on how fast Google trusts a new site. We separate the two.