The AI Participation Layer

AI systems are classifying your website.You may not know how.

Every model decides whether your content can be discovered, read, and attributed. Aater derives that participation state from observable structure — and shows you exactly what's holding you back.

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215 domains classified so far

shopify.comClassification
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Reachability
Can AI access it?
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Legibility
Can AI read it?
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Authority
Can AI trust it?
Participation state
Authoritative
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The Participation State Standard

Three structural gates resolve every domain to one of five participation states.

Participation is not scored. It is derived from server-delivered signals — the same structure AI systems see when they decide what to read and trust.

Reachability01
Can AI systems access the content at all?

Crawl permissions, render strategy, and HTTP access — whether the page is reachable without executing JavaScript.

Legibility02
Can they extract and segment it?

Content density, semantic structure, and machine-readability — whether claims and entities can be extracted.

Authority03
Will they trust and attribute it?

Authorship, dates, schema, and external references — whether the content is treated as a trusted, attributable source.

Absent
Marginal
Capturable
Emerging
Authoritative

Not structurally observable by AI systems under current conditions.

Reachable, but structural constraints limit what AI systems can use.

Accessible and legible, but lacks the authority signals for citation.

Readily discoverable. Authority signals present but still uneven.

Strong authority signals — consistent discovery, attribution, and citation.

Participation states are relative — classification reveals where your domain stands today, and the single constraint holding it back.

Pulse · Live

Classification is a snapshot. Pulse is the recording.

A one-line beacon shows which AI agents actually reach your content — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot — at what frequency, and whether your participation state is improving or regressing over time. The dataset compounds. Nobody else has it for your domain.

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GPTBot
14230d
ClaudeBot
8830d
PerplexityBot
3130d
Google-Extended
1930d

Illustrative. Your data populates within 24–72 hours of install.

Who it's for
Brands
See how AI sees you

Know your participation state, fix what blocks AI access, and watch which agents actually visit.

Agencies
Turn AI visibility into a service

Score every client, show before/after, and produce AI-readiness reports that justify retainers.

Developers
Build on the participation layer

Query any domain’s state via API + MCP and instrument agent access with Pulse.

//Participation state is queryable by AI agents over MCP at/api/mcp

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