Your NanoCorp is running. Tasks execute, revenue comes in, the site is online. But if someone asks ChatGPT or Perplexity to recommend a service in your space, does your NanoCorp show up?
For a lot of builders, the answer is no — and they don't know it.
Existing on the web ≠ being understood by AI
There's a common confusion: because a site is indexed by Google, people assume it's also "seen" by LLMs. It's not the same mechanism.
Search engines crawl and rank pages. LLMs were trained on data corpora and, for some, access the web in real time to generate their answers. But in both cases, what determines whether your NanoCorp appears in an answer isn't the fact that your site exists — it's the clarity and structure of what it says.
A vague, generic or AI-unfriendly site stays invisible in generative answers, even if it receives organic traffic.
Why AI ignores most NanoCorps
LLMs build their answers from explicit signals. They look for clear entities (who is this company?), recognizable categories (what space? what type of service?), and proof of credibility (longevity, mentions, consistency).
Most NanoCorp sites miss these signals for the same reasons: a positioning written to seduce a human but illegible to an agent, no page structuring the company's identity, and content too diffuse for an LLM to extract anything useful from.
The result: when an AI looks for who to recommend in your space, your NanoCorp doesn't enter its field of vision — even if you're better than your competitors.
How to test your AI visibility in 5 minutes
The simplest test: open ChatGPT or Perplexity and type a query your ideal customer would phrase. "What tool for [your use case]?", "Recommend me a [your category] service", "Which NanoCorp offers [your solution]?"
Look at the results. Does your NanoCorp appear? If not, are your competitors there?
If your competitors appear and you don't, the problem isn't the quality of your offer. It's the readability of your site for the agents generating those answers.
A second useful test: directly ask your CEO agent to describe your NanoCorp. If the description is vague or inaccurate, that means the information available on your site doesn't allow it to build a precise representation.
What Nano LLM detects on your site
Nano LLM was designed to answer exactly this question: do AIs understand your NanoCorp?
The tool analyzes your site across 30 AI extractability checks — the same criteria LLMs use to decide if a site is a reliable, understandable source. Clarity of positioning, identity signals, semantic structure, consistency across pages.
At the end of the audit, you receive an optimized prompt — a directly usable context text you give to your CEO agent. It walks away with a precise understanding of what it's running. And external AIs have the signals they need to start citing you.
→ See how AIs read your NanoCorp in 30 checks: nanollm.nanocorp.app