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llms.txt: What It Is and Whether It Does Anything Yet

A proposed file that tells AI systems what your site is about. Worth understanding, and worth being honest about how little it currently guarantees.

Published, not just written

New articles every week, published automatically to your own site. How many depends on the plan.

Run on our own businesses too

The same engine publishes every week for businesses we own, so we live with its output the way our clients do.

The idea

llms.txt is a proposed convention: a plain-text file at the root of your site that describes, in a form built for machines, what the site contains and which pages matter. Think of it as robots.txt for meaning rather than for crawling permission.

What it is not

It is not a standard that every AI system honours, and adding one does not cause an assistant to recommend you. Adoption is partial and voluntary. Anyone selling llms.txt implementation as an AI-visibility service is selling you a twenty-minute job with an uncertain payoff.

Whether to add one

It costs almost nothing and it does no harm, so if your site is otherwise in order, add it. But add it after the things that definitely matter — a correct Business Profile, consistent details, pages that clearly say what you do. Those are what an assistant actually retrieves you from today.

Where 8ight fits. Everything above is work that has to happen continuously. We automate the publishing half: three to six articles a week onto your own site, built to rank and carrying everything Google rewards. You can read what published today before you spend anything.

Questions

Will llms.txt make ChatGPT recommend me?

No. Nothing makes an assistant recommend you. It may make your site easier to interpret for the systems that read the file, which is a smaller and more honest claim.

Is it a ranking factor?

Not in traditional search, no. Treat it as a courtesy to machines rather than a lever.

Should I pay someone to set it up?

It is a text file. If somebody quotes you meaningfully for it, that tells you something about the rest of their proposal.

What it costs

Pricing is tailored to the business. The plans differ by publishing volume and how much of the AI-search work is included; book a demo and we scope it with you, or start free with 3,000 credits, no card.


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