Discovery Chain Benchmark: 13 AI Models, 96% Recognition Rate

A benchmark tested 50 company websites against 13 AI models to measure business recognition rates, finding most businesses are nearly invisible to AI. The study introduces the 'Discovery Chain'—a set of machine-readable files (meta tags, robots.txt, sitemap.xml, llms.txt, agents.json, JSON-LD)—that boosted one site's recognition from 25% to 96%. Common issues include blocked AI crawlers (38%), missing JSON-LD (52%), and absent llms.txt (89%).