{
  "name": "AI Discovery Field Guide Research Record",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "updated": "2026-07-27",
  "canonicalUrl": "https://marco-is-my-friend.marcohergee813.chatgpt.site/research/ai-discovery-field-guide",
  "verdict": {
    "potential": "credible",
    "technicalFoundation": "strong",
    "externalAuthority": "limited",
    "observedDemand": "pending",
    "summary": "The site has original utility and strong retrieval architecture, but traffic and citation outcomes remain unproven."
  },
  "findings": [
    {
      "finding": "Crawler permission is necessary, not sufficient.",
      "source": "https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "applied": "OAI-SearchBot access, stable pages, sitemap, and public bot policy."
    },
    {
      "finding": "Useful original material matters more than AI markup.",
      "source": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/ai-optimization-guide",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "applied": "Original benchmark, synthetic fixtures, formulas, MCP tools, and measured research."
    },
    {
      "finding": "New citations can take time.",
      "source": "https://www.semrush.com/blog/how-fast-do-ai-search-platforms-cite-new-content/",
      "sourceType": "empirical",
      "applied": "A 30-day, 40-prompt Citation Pulse with positive, negative, and missing results."
    },
    {
      "finding": "Crawling and human traffic are different outcomes.",
      "source": "https://ahrefs.com/blog/ai-chatbot-traffic/",
      "sourceType": "empirical",
      "applied": "Separate counters for AI crawlers, user-triggered agents, human referrals, and citations."
    },
    {
      "finding": "AI bot activity is measurable, but attention is not trust.",
      "source": "https://blog.cloudflare.com/radar-2025-year-in-review/",
      "sourceType": "empirical",
      "applied": "Aggregate request classification with declared and platform-verified labels kept separate."
    },
    {
      "finding": "User-triggered retrieval has its own agent identity.",
      "source": "https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/perplexity-crawlers",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "applied": "PerplexityBot and Perplexity-User are measured as different actor classes."
    }
  ],
  "architecture": [
    "question",
    "canonical record",
    "reproducible evidence",
    "agent interface",
    "measured result"
  ],
  "boundary": "No source supports a guarantee of crawling, indexing, citation, recommendation, referral traffic, media coverage, or founder attention."
}