Gap year programmes
Do AI assistants recommend your gap year programmes?
A gap year is planned by an 18-year-old and paid for by a parent, and the two of them ask very different questions. Under-25s use AI assistants more than any other age group — and the parent checks the answer.
Languages measured: English, German, Spanish.
Gap year, in the wider audit
- >1,700
- educational travel websites audited
- 27%
- carry a critical fault
- 20%
- have a server refusing an AI crawler
- 21%
- publish an llms.txt
Median readiness score 67 out of 100. Audited 8 August 2026.
Two buyers, one answer.
The student asks what is worth doing. The parent asks whether it is safe and who is responsible if something goes wrong. Both questions get answered by an assistant reading whatever it can reach on your site.
More than a quarter of educational travel websites carry a fault serious enough to keep them out of that answer entirely.
The kind of questions we ask
- “What are the best gap year programmes for someone taking a year before university?”
- “Are gap year companies safe, and what happens in an emergency?”
- “¿Cuáles son los mejores programas de año sabático en el extranjero?”
- “Which gap year providers include insurance and in-country support?”
The five assistants we ask: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Mistral. The first four search the web while they answer; Mistral answers from what it already knows. That contrast is deliberate — it separates what AI can find about you from what it remembers, and the gap between those two is usually the most useful number in the report.
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Four out of five sites we audit have at least one fault we can name. The typical site has two or three. The free score gives you your score and the most serious one, in plain English, with the fix. The rest come with the full audit — along with the half of the picture the free score cannot see: whether AI assistants actually recommend you, and who they recommend instead.
What the full audit covers
- 60 real questions from students and their parents, across 5 AI models in 3 languages.
- Every question asked three times.
- How AI answers the safety, support and value questions parents ask.
- Which providers get recommended instead of you, and how often.
- Which directories and review sites the models actually trust.
- A written action plan you can hand straight to a developer.
Read what we can and cannot measure — our method →
Find out what AI tells a student — and their parent — about your programmes.
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