The AI Edge Journal

Essays on being found by machines.

On staying visible as search moves to AI. Every experiment here was run on my own business first, receipts and all.

I scored 55 on my own tool.

I built a free tool that scores how visible a business is to AI. Then I did the scary part: I ran my own business through it, and published the number. The score isn't a grade on your business. It's a starting line.

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The shortlist you never see.

Buyers ask AI who to hire, get three names, and call those names. In a real audit, the AI named giant firms and software. Zero independent consultants. There is no impression count for not existing.

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AI invented a case study. I almost published it.

A planned project sat in my own files written like a finished one. My AI repeated it as fact in nine documents before I caught it. The machine checks whether writing is good. It cannot check whether writing is true.

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