We tested how AI agents see our own website. It was humbling.
Summary
Fibr AI's founder shares an experiment testing how AI agents like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude perceive their website, finding most sites are built only for humans, and launches a product plus a free checker tool to diagnose AI readability of web pages.
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