When an AI assistant is asked who to hire, book or buy from, it does not browse. It asks for a short list of machine-readable files at fixed addresses, and it decides from what comes back. Most businesses publish none of them, so the assistant recommends whoever did. This is the live check — run it on any domain, including your competitor's.
Fail one and the rest never happen. Almost every business fails at the second.
Plenty of sites quietly turn AI crawlers away and have no idea. If the door is shut, nothing else on this page matters.
A plain-language briefing an assistant can load in one request: what you do, who you serve, what you charge, what makes you the right answer.
Structured facts instead of marketing prose — services, service area, hours, credentials — so the assistant states them correctly rather than guessing.
A published way for software to actually do something: check availability, get the booking target, start the appointment. Reading is not buying.
Agents now carry their own funds. Businesses that can take a machine's money get the transaction; the rest get a phone number.
These standards moved three times this year. A file published once and forgotten is worse than none — it teaches assistants something false.
A customer asks an assistant for the best option in your city. The assistant reads your competitor's structured profile, cannot make sense of your site, and names them. You never see the search, the click, or the customer. There is no report showing what you lost.
The same question returns your name, your real services, your real hours — and a way for the assistant to move straight to booking. You show up in the one place that increasingly decides who gets called, and you did not have to build, install or maintain anything.
The set of files an AI assistant reads before it decides whether a business exists, what it offers, and whether it can act on it. A person lands on a homepage and reads. Software does not — it asks for a short list of machine-readable files at fixed addresses. If those files are missing, the assistant has nothing to work with and quietly recommends somebody else.
Search rankings decide which links a person sees. They do not decide what an assistant can do. An assistant that cannot read a structured description of your services, your hours, and your booking target will summarise you badly or skip you entirely, no matter where you rank.
No. It sits underneath it. Your site keeps selling to people; the front door lets software understand and use the same business without a human reading anything.
Most local businesses score close to zero — the files simply are not there. Anything above eighty-five means machines can find you, read you, and act on you.
Yes, and that is the only way we do it. You do not install anything, edit anything, or learn anything. We publish it on your own domain, keep it current as the standards move, and prove it with this same check. Text Rudy and it is handled.
Text Rudy the word FRONTDOOR and your website. You will get your score back, and if you want it fixed, we publish the whole thing for you.
TEXT RUDY · FRONTDOOR