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    The AI Discoverability Stack

    Four files. One system. Together they control how AI models discover, read, and represent your brand. This is the only complete guide to the topic — written by the team that built the infrastructure.

    Most brands have a robots.txt written for Google in 2019 and nothing else. No llms.txt. No structured identity file. No signal to AI models about who they are or what they do.

    The result? AI reconstructs your brand from fragments — third-party reviews, competitor comparisons, outdated articles. The AI Discoverability Stack fixes this with four machine-readable files that give you control over how models perceive your brand.

    Layer 1robots.txtStart here

    Your robots.txt Is the Front Door for AI

    Most robots.txt advice blocks AI crawlers. This guide takes the opposite approach — with a free template that welcomes the bots shaping buyer perception.

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    Layer 2llms.txt

    The File That Tells AI How to Read Your Site

    LLMs can't execute JavaScript or parse nav menus. llms.txt gives them a token-efficient table of contents — structured for how models actually consume content.

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    Layer 3llms-full.txt

    Structuring Your Content for AI Retrieval

    The companion to llms.txt. While the index tells crawlers what exists, llms-full.txt provides the RAG-ready deep content — semantically chunked for retrieval.

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    Layer 4ai-agent-manifest.json

    Give AI Your Official Brand Identity

    The difference between AI finding information about you and AI knowing your official position. A machine-readable identity file that declares who you are.

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    See a working example

    Optimly's own site implements the full Discoverability Stack. View our llms.txt, llms-full.txt, ai-agent-manifest.json, and robots.txt — all live and serving AI models right now.

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    See How AI Describes Your Brand Right Now

    The stack controls discoverability. But what are AI models actually saying once they find you? Search our directory to find out.

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