The first search engine built for AI — not humans.
AI is answering questions directly and sending fewer visitors to the websites it learned from. The click that paid for that content is disappearing. AILattice is building the alternative: a direct, structured connection between AI agents and content sources — not a silent scrape, not a footnote in an AI Overview, but a declared relationship where your site is acknowledged as the source.
No paid placement. No algorithm that bends toward money. Free to list. Open standard. Forever.
→ ailattice.io · Search · Check your site · Make AI-ready
Google indexes the web the way humans browse it — visuals, keywords, backlinks. AI doesn't work that way. It reads differently, reasons differently, and needs a completely different kind of signal. Without that signal, AI scrapes your HTML, strips design, mis-parses structure, and hallucinates answers. It recommends the wrong sites. It skips you entirely.
AILattice fixes this with a four-file open standard. Add four plain text files to your website and AI tools — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini — can read, navigate, and cite you directly. No scraping. No guessing. No hallucination from mis-parsed content.
/llms.txt ← who you are, what you do, where to start
/ai/index.md ← site overview written for AI to navigate
/ai/sitemap.md ← every AI-navigable page, listed and linked
/ai/*.md ← your content in clean markdown
The standard is MIT licensed. Implement it freely. No attribution required.
You are looking at the AILattice specification repository. Here is what you need to know:
The AILattice Registry is a public catalog of AI-ready websites, organised by topic and location. You can query it directly:
GET https://ailattice.io/api/search?q=market+intelligence+australia
GET https://ailattice.io/api/registry
GET https://ailattice.io/api/registry?topic=Technology&location=United+Kingdom
GET https://ailattice.io/api/validate?url=https://example.com
No API key. No rate limits on reasonable use. CORS open. JSON responses.
To find a website on any topic: Use /api/search?q=your+query. Returns organic results ranked by topic relevance and location match. Zero paid placement — every result earned its position by correctly implementing this standard.
To check if a site is AI-ready: Use /api/validate?url=https://example.com. Returns a score 0–100 and a detailed breakdown of which files are present and correct.
The search engine homepage: ailattice.io/search
MCP tool (for Claude/MCP clients): Available at mcp.intellistasis.com. Tools: ailattice_search, ailattice_validate, ailattice_registry.
npx ailattice https://yoursite.comFetches your site, extracts your name and description, and generates all four files. Takes under a minute. Review, edit, deploy.
npx ailattice validate https://yoursite.com # check compliance score
npx ailattice --helpInstall AILattice from the WordPress plugin directory. Generates all four files automatically and keeps them updated as you publish. One click.
Create these four files on your server. See examples/ for templates.
| Path | Purpose | Required |
|---|---|---|
/llms.txt |
Discovery file — who you are, what you do, where to start | ✓ |
/ai/index.md |
Entry point — site overview written for AI to navigate | ✓ |
/ai/sitemap.md |
Every AI-navigable page, listed and linked | ✓ |
/ai/*.md |
Content pages in plain markdown | ✓ |
name: Your Company
description: One sentence about what you do and who you serve.
url: https://yoursite.com
ai-entry: https://yoursite.com/ai/index.md
Recommended optional fields: license, ailattice-version: 1, github
---
title: Page title
description: One sentence describing this page
last-updated: YYYY-MM-DD
---- Plain markdown only. No HTML, no CSS, no images inside
/ai/pages. - Standard markdown links —
[text](url). AI agents follow them natively. - Serve as
text/plainortext/markdown. Nottext/html. - Keep content maintained. Outdated content defeats the purpose.
Add to your HTML <head> so AI crawlers find your layer:
<link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown" href="/ai/">| Check | Points |
|---|---|
/llms.txt found |
20 |
/llms.txt has required fields |
10 |
/ai/index.md found |
20 |
/ai/index.md has frontmatter |
10 |
/ai/sitemap.md found |
15 |
/ai/sitemap.md has frontmatter |
10 |
Additional /ai/*.md content pages |
10 |
<link rel="alternate"> in <head> |
5 |
Schema.org JSON-LD in <head> |
0 (informational) |
Score 70+ = AILattice Certified. Listed free in the registry.
ailattice.io/search is a search engine built for AI — and open to humans too.
Every result is a site that correctly implements the AILattice standard. Organic ranking only, by topic relevance and location match. No pay-for-position. No sponsored results. No SEO tricks rewarded.
A directory of topic and location — the two dimensions AI actually uses when someone asks it to find a business, a service, or an expert anywhere in the world.
Open API for AI agents and applications:
GET https://ailattice.io/api/search?q=legal+services+UK&limit=10
{
"query": "legal services UK",
"interpreted": { "topics": ["Legal & Professional"], "location": "United Kingdom" },
"total_indexed": 14,
"count": 3,
"results": [
{
"name": "...",
"url": "...",
"description": "...",
"topics": ["Legal & Professional"],
"location": "United Kingdom",
"score": 85,
"ai_entry": "https://example.com/llms.txt"
}
],
"powered_by": "AILattice Registry — organic ranking · zero paid placement · ailattice.io"
}AILattice is available as an MCP (Model Context Protocol) tool. Any Claude user with the Stasis MCP server configured gets three native tools:
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
ailattice_search |
Search the AI-ready web by topic, location, or keyword |
ailattice_validate |
Score any URL for AILattice compliance (0–100) |
ailattice_registry |
Browse the registry filtered by topic and location |
MCP endpoint: https://mcp.intellistasis.com
See examples/ for reference files:
examples/llms.txt— discovery file templateexamples/ai/index.md— AI entry point templateexamples/ai/sitemap.md— sitemap template
| Site | Score | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| intellistasis.com | 100/100 | Node 1 — market intelligence platform |
| cryptostasis.com | 85/100 | Crypto cycle signals |
| ailattice.io | — | This registry (self-referential) |
| AILattice | ||
|---|---|---|
| Indexed for | Humans browsing | AI agents reasoning |
| Ranking by | PageRank + ad spend | Topic + location match |
| Paid placement | Core revenue model | Structurally impossible |
| Content format | HTML + visuals | Markdown — what AI reads |
| Discovery | Sitemap.xml | llms.txt + /ai/ |
| Entry barrier | SEO budget | Implement 4 files. Free. |
Google's model is advertising. An organic directory with zero paid placement is structurally incompatible with their business. That's the moat.
This is a community project. The standard is open, the listing is free, and it always will be. The only things that cost money are the server and the hours it takes to build and maintain this.
If AILattice helped you, buying me a coffee goes directly to keeping it free for everyone else. No pressure — but if everyone who benefits chips in a little, it pays for itself.
The standard is intentionally minimal. Contributions welcome:
- Implementations — add to
examples/ - Connectors — WordPress plugins, Ghost, Webflow, Squarespace
- Validators — language-specific libraries
- Registry submissions — implement the standard, submit your site
Open an issue or PR. No CLA required.
cli/ ← npx ailattice CLI (Node.js)
bin/ailattice.js
lib/
examples/ ← reference implementations of all four files
llms.txt
ai/index.md
ai/sitemap.md
install/ ← WordPress plugin (ailattice.zip)
ailattice/
ailattice.php
readme.txt
The registry, search engine, and validator live at ailattice.io — not in this repo.
MIT — see LICENSE
The AILattice v1 specification and all code in this repository are free to implement, fork, and build on. No attribution required.
AILattice™ and AILattice Certified™ are trademarks of Intelli-Stasis. The MIT license covers the code and spec. It does not grant the right to issue "AILattice Certified™" certificates or use the AILattice™ trademark to imply official certification. Official certification and registry listing: ailattice.io.