← CITEDO.DEV

The AI visibility field notes

Short, plain-language notes on why AI engines ignore websites — and what actually fixes it. Every claim comes from live tests we run ourselves. No dashboards were harmed.

Case study — citation gap

CASE STUDY · ANONYMIZED · 6 MIN READ

Case: How a Furniture DTC Closed Its AI Citation Gap

2 of 36 AI answers cited this brand. The anonymized 12×3 matrix, who got cited instead, and the 3 fixes that mattered most.

Case study — local service

CASE STUDY · ANONYMIZED · 5 MIN READ

Case: Known on Google, Invisible to AI — A Local Service Story

Google #1, AI knew the name 33% of the time but cited the offer in 5% of answers. The menu that lived behind JavaScript.

Lines of code on a dark screen

JS RENDERING WALL · 7 MIN READ

Is Your Website a Blank Wall to AI? The JavaScript Rendering Test

Most AI crawlers never run your JavaScript. A two-minute test shows exactly what they see instead — and how to fix it if the answer is “nothing”.

Lines of code on a dark screen

AI CRAWLER SIGNALS · 6 MIN READ

llms.txt: What It Is, What It Isn't, and Whether You Need One

The file everyone in AI-SEO keeps talking about — what it actually does, three myths worth killing, and a copy-paste template to write yours in ten minutes.

Lines of code on a dark screen

CRAWLER ACCESS · 8 MIN READ

Why ChatGPT Doesn't Recommend Your Website (and How to Fix Each Reason)

You rank #1 on Google and you're invisible in AI answers. Usually the cause is one of five things at your site's front door — here's how to check all of them yourself in under an hour.

2026-08-23

Want us to run these checks — plus 12 live buyer questions across 3 AI engines — on your site?

Get my diagnosis →

one page · ≤7 fixes ranked by impact · human-reviewed