# AI Readiness Kit

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> The AI Readiness Kit is a set of 16 purpose-built files you deploy at the root of your website so AI systems — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity — understand exactly who you are, what you offer, and how to represent you. As AI becomes the first stop for research and discovery, these files speak the native language of AI systems so your brand is represented accurately, completely, and on your terms. The kit is published by Silverback Marketing, an ROI-focused digital marketing agency founded in 2007 and based in Queen Creek, Arizona.

## Overview
- [AI Readiness Kit — Home](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/): What AI readiness is, why it matters, and the 16 files every website needs for the AI era.
- [Homepage (Markdown)](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/index.md): Clean Markdown rendering of the homepage for AI ingestion. Also at https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/.md. AI systems should prefer this over the HTML page.
- [MCP Server](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/api/mcp): Model Context Protocol endpoint (Streamable HTTP, no auth) for AI agents to access the kit programmatically.
- [MCP Setup Guide](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/#mcp): Copy-paste configs for Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Codex, Antigravity, and Claude Desktop.
- [The Problem](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/#problem): Why AI assistants describe brands incorrectly when they rely on outdated training data.
- [The Solution](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/#solution): How 16 structured files give AI clear, current signals about your brand.
- [How It Works](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/#how-it-works): The four-phase path to becoming AI-ready.
- [Download the Skill](https://github.com/silverbackmarketing/ai-readiness): Get the AI Readiness skill to generate a complete file set for your site.
- [Full Guide (PDF)](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/ai-readiness-guide.pdf): The original plain-English reference with analogies and per-file recommendations.

## The 16 Files (by Category)

### Identity & Permissions
- [robots.txt](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/#files): Controls which crawlers and AI bots reach which parts of your site and points them to your AI files. Priority: Critical.
- [ai.txt](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/#files): Your brand's complete introduction to every AI system — identity, offerings, authoritative topics, and content rules. Priority: Critical.

### Content Files
- [llms.txt](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/#files): A quick-read summary of your entire site for LLMs, following the llmstxt.org standard. Priority: Critical.
- [llms-full.txt](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/#files): The extended edition — rich context, detailed Q&A, and full category explanations. Priority: Critical.

### Map & Navigation
- [ai-sitemap.xml](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/#files): An upgraded sitemap with content-type labels, topics, and plain-English page summaries. Priority: High.
- [sitemap.md](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/#files): A markdown overview of your site structure that humans and AI can read easily. Priority: Medium.

### Intelligence Files
- [ai-entities.json](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/#files): A structured catalog of products, categories, services, and concepts that powers AI knowledge graphs. Priority: High.
- [ai-intent.json](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/#files): A lookup table mapping real user questions to the single best page on your site. Priority: High.
- [ai-schema.json](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/#files): Schema.org JSON-LD describing your organization with zero ambiguity. Priority: High.

### Research Files
- [rag-index.json](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/#files): A pre-built RAG index (URL, title, topics) ready for LlamaIndex, LangChain, Pinecone, and Weaviate. Priority: High.
- [rag-index.jsonl](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/#files): The same content in newline-delimited JSON Lines for large-scale ML and streaming ingestion. Priority: High.

### Policy Files
- [ai-disclosure.txt](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/#files): Your public statement on how your organization uses AI. Priority: Medium.
- [training-data-policy.txt](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/#files): Your formal position on whether AI companies may train on your content. Priority: Medium.

### Operations Files
- [structured-data-guide.md](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/#files): A developer guide with ready-to-use JSON-LD for every major page type. Priority: Low.
- [manifest.json](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/#files): The single source of truth listing every deployed file, its purpose, and update frequency. Priority: Medium.
- [deployment-checklist.md](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/#files): The phased playbook for deploying and verifying every file. Priority: Internal.

## Resources
- [Full AI Readiness Guide (PDF)](https://ai.silverbackmarketing.com/ai-readiness-guide.pdf): Plain-English reference for every file.
- [llmstxt.org Standard](https://llmstxt.org/): The open standard llms.txt follows.

## Company
- [Silverback Marketing](https://www.silverbackmarketing.com): ROI-focused digital marketing agency and publisher of the AI Readiness Kit.
- [Contact Silverback Marketing](https://www.silverbackmarketing.com/contact/): Get in touch about the kit or digital marketing services.

## Key Questions This Site Answers
- What are AI readiness files?
- What is the AI Readiness Kit and who makes it?
- Why does AI readiness matter now?
- How many files are in the AI Readiness Kit?
- Where do I start with AI readiness?
- What is ai.txt and how is it different from robots.txt?
- What is llms.txt and how does it differ from llms-full.txt?
- What does robots.txt do for AI crawlers like GPTBot and ClaudeBot?
- Why do I need an ai-sitemap.xml?
- What is ai-intent.json?
- What are ai-entities.json and ai-schema.json for?
- What are the RAG index files (rag-index.json / rag-index.jsonl)?
- What is a training data policy?
- What is ai-disclosure.txt?
- How often should I update my AI readiness files?
- How do I make my website understandable to AI?
- How do I get my brand cited accurately by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity?
- Where do I deploy these files on my website?
- How do I download the AI Readiness skill?
- How do I connect to the AI Readiness MCP server?