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- Ed. 07October 15, 2026 · 6-min read
None of the Georgia Fortune 500 robots.txt files we could read block an AI crawler. Three would not let us read the rule.
We fetched robots.txt for all 16 Georgia Fortune 500 headquarters on 15 October 2026. Of 13 readable, none block any of seven AI crawlers. Three returned a firewall denial or challenge instead.
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- Ed. 06October 8, 2026 · 8-min read
We measured every med spa in East Cobb. Half are invisible to AI search.
We measured all 20 med spas in the East Cobb zips on 8 October 2026. Ten got zero citations across four local AI queries, and the crawler setting everyone fixes first was not the reason why.
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- Ed. 05September 12, 2026 · 6-min read
Building a GEO tool taught me AI search ranks passages, not pages.
The retrieval unit is the paragraph, not the page. That changes three things: self-contained paragraphs, question-shaped headings, answer in sentence one.
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- Ed. 04September 9, 2026 · 7-min read
AI search quoted a passage, not a page. Only 3 of 14 came from the first paragraph.
We traced 14 AI answers to the passage they used. Median depth: 9.3% into the page. Only 3 were the opening paragraph. Nine sat under a question heading.
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- Ed. 03August 8, 2026 · 6-min read
Nothing is reading your llms.txt yet. Add it anyway, but know why.
No major AI engine reads llms.txt in production yet. Not OpenAI, not Google, not Perplexity. It is cheap hygiene, not a visibility lever. The honest read on the emerging standard.
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- Ed. 02July 27, 2026 · 6-min read
We counted every claim in 15 AI answers. Fewer than 4% said where they came from.
We counted 112 factual claims across 15 AI answers. Fewer than 4% named their source in the sentence, and every one that did was quoting an original statistic. Being in the source list is not being cited.
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- Ed. 01June 2, 2026 · 6-min read
10 Southeast US B2B SaaS sites, audited. Half are invisible to ChatGPT.
Citably's first internal benchmark: Calendly, SalesLoft, OneTrust, Pendo, Bandwidth, Rithum, nCino, FullStory, Florence Healthcare, Mailchimp. What the numbers actually say.
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