
Your Website Is Invisible to ChatGPT. Here's the Fix.
AI systems are answering questions about your business right now. When someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini about your services, they either get it right — or they hallucinate. Most of the time, they hallucinate. The problem isn't that your site lacks content. It's that AI systems have no structured way to discover who you are, what you do, or how to refer to you. robots.txt tells crawlers what to ignore . There's nothing equivalent that tells AI systems what to get right . Until now. AI Discovery Files AI Discovery Files are a set of machine-readable files you place at the root of your website. They give AI systems a single, authoritative source of truth about your business. Think of them as robots.txt for AI — except instead of blocking crawlers, you're telling AI systems exactly who you are. The AI Discovery Files Specification defines 10 file types across three tiers: Tier 1 — Essential (Start Here) File Purpose llms.txt Plain-text project summary for LLMs llms.html Human-readab
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