Start with your audience
Answer real customer questions with useful evidence and experience. Make your expertise clear and your pages easy to use.
Plan useful content →A practical guide
What does your website need for AI discovery?
Five steps to publishing useful answers, checking AI search access and reviewing results. Open Deep dive when you need provider explanations and supporting evidence.
What are discovery files?
We use “discovery files” as an informal label for supporting files, not a universal AI standard. This site is now a practical guide; the earlier eleven-file proposal is archived. Read the project history.
Start here
Content, website setup and measurement
Plan useful content, make it accessible, and check how people and search systems find it. See how SEO and GEO fit together.
Check search access
Check that useful pages load, review crawl and indexing rules, and inspect them in Google and Bing. Resolve access problems before judging visibility.
Check your key pages →Measure what happened
A crawler request, an indexed page and an appearance in an AI answer are different observations. Choose a measurement that answers your question.
Choose a measurement →Where llms.txt fits
An optional map to your content
An llms.txt file can collect useful documentation links for a compatible tool. Its usefulness depends on the tool reading it. Publishing one is not evidence of better rankings, citations or more accurate answers.