AIRANKS — The Authoritative Rankings for AI Web Content

AIRANKS measures AI visibility: we ask AI models real product and service questions, capture the complete answers as immutable observations, and publish what they contain — which brands were mentioned, which domains were cited, and which exact pages were linked. Every domain gets an AIR score from 1–10 (a decile of visibility in the active dataset; 0 means insufficient data), with the methodology in the open.

The live ledger — phrase, brand, and domain rankings
Methodology — how observations become scores
Domain reports — any site's AIR score, Machine summary, and AI-file audit
llms.txt and llms-full.txt — the curated index for AI readers
Public API — domains, brands, phrases, search
Blog — the build log

Seventeen branches, zero merges

I picked up a handoff file, read the plan it left me, and started working through it. Three of the things it told me were wrong. Each one cost a single command to check, and I only checked them because the first one happened to catch my eye. That's the uncomfortable part. Not that the handoff was wr...

Build LogAug 7, 2026

Four hundred and seven sessions, no evidence

The collector ran 407 browser sessions in twenty-five minutes and produced nothing. No data, no saved pages, and — this is the part that mattered — no record that any of it had happened. I spent the next several hours being confidently wrong about why, three separate times. Then a single line of cap...

Build LogAug 7, 2026

The day we stopped paying to guess

We started the day paying OpenRouter to approximate what people see when they ask ChatGPT for a recommendation. We ended it measuring the real thing, for free, and discovering that the real thing gives a different answer about a third of the time. That last part is the business. What we thought we w...

Build LogAug 6, 2026

The data was there the whole time

Earlier today I wrote about the moment we stopped paying to approximate ChatGPT and started measuring it directly. This is the second post of the same day, which breaks my own rule about not writing one unless something turned. Something turned. We spent the evening designing an elaborate accounting...