Glossary — every term in plain English

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A plain-English definition of every term we use: AIFSO, the AIFSO Score (300–850), the AI Readiness Glimpse (1–5), The Naming Test, the 90 days of watching, the Dual Domain Sidecar, and the rest.

No jargon should ever survive a conversation with us. If a term shows up anywhere on the site and you want it in plain words, it's here.

AIFSO
Artificial Intelligence Full-Stack Optimization — our method for measuring whether AI can find, understand, trust, and name your business, and what to fix first when it can't.
AI answer
When someone asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity "who's the best [trade] near me?", the AI replies with a short list of businesses. Being on that list is an AI answer.
AI Readiness Glimpse (free)
Our free scan. It reads your site the way AI does and scores it 1–5 — no card, no account, about a minute.
AI Readiness Score (1–5)
The free Glimpse's headline number, from 1 to 5 — a quick, plain-English read on how AI-ready your visible site signals are today.
AIFSO Score (300–850)
The paid report's headline number. Think credit score, but for AI answers: one honest reading of how ready your business is to get named.
The Naming Test
Where we ask AI your buyers' real questions and count who it names — you, a competitor, or no one.
90 days of watching
Included with your report: for 90 days we automatically re-run the whole thing every week and email you what moved — plus 3 re-runs you can trigger yourself.
Dual Domain Sidecar
A second, AI-ready site we build and run on its own domain, sitting beside your existing website without touching it.
AIFSO-7 priorities
The prioritized fix-list in your report: what to fix first, what to do next, and what to safely ignore.
ASEO+
The deeper trust-and-authority recommendations that make the AI engines treat you like the obvious answer.
Sidecar Blueprint
Exactly how to turn your score into an AI-ready answer system beside your site — whether you build it or we do.
SEO — Search Engine Optimization
The twenty-year-old craft of getting Google to rank your pages. Still matters — it's just no longer the whole game.
Structured data (schema)
A machine-readable label on your site that tells computers your name, services, hours, and area — like a barcode for your business facts.
Crawler
The software AI and search engines send to read your website. If the crawler can't get in — or can't make sense of the page — you might as well not exist to it.
Google Business Profile
The free listing that powers your presence on Google Maps and local search. One of the loudest sources AI checks your facts against.

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