# AI Discoverability Foundations

URL: https://www.onsomble.ai/guide/ai-discoverability-foundations

Updated: 2026-09-14

Help AI find your website and understand what your business offers.

<p>Start with the information customers need, then make it clear and accessible to AI. Work through practical examples, try the self-assessments, and use the platform guides to discuss improvements with your website provider.</p>

Level: Beginner · 0.38333333333333336 hours

## How AI Gets Information About Your Business

Training, conversation context and web search all contribute to an AI answer. Understand where your website fits.

- Explain three sources of information behind an AI answer
- Understand why current website information matters
- Distinguish a confident answer from an answer supported by evidence

[Read this module](https://www.onsomble.ai/guide/ai-discoverability-foundations/how-ai-gets-information)

## Can AI Understand Your Brand?

Make your business clear through its messaging and page structure. Try the same kind of assessment on your own website.

- Separate brand clarity from visual polish
- Recognise the page information AI needs to understand your offer
- Use a prompt to assess your own website and prioritise improvements

[Read this module](https://www.onsomble.ai/guide/ai-discoverability-foundations/can-ai-understand-your-brand)

## Are You Letting AI Crawlers In?

Read your website's robots.txt instructions and check whether the main search and AI discovery crawlers are allowed in.

- Understand User-agent, Allow and Disallow in plain language
- Recognise the difference between a whole-site block and a selective rule
- Run a short robots.txt assessment and share findings with your provider

[Read this module](https://www.onsomble.ai/guide/ai-discoverability-foundations/ai-crawler-access)

## Making Your Website Accessible to AI: Platform Guides

Turn the assessment into a practical conversation with your website provider. Choose the guide for your platform.

- Find the guide that matches your website platform
- Give your provider a specific issue to review
- Retest the public website after a change

[Read this module](https://www.onsomble.ai/guide/ai-discoverability-foundations/website-platform-guides)