Field reports from a working GEO agency. Live case studies, methodology, and what we learn measuring ourselves first.
A live experiment: we turned on Cloudflare's Markdown for Agents on a real high-traffic site and instrumented the edge to find out which AI bots actually request the markdown - and which just keep taking the HTML.
A live experiment: we planted a fact only in a page's JSON-LD structured data, where no human can see it, to test whether AI answer engines ingest and cite what lives in the source but not the render.
A live experiment: a noindexed page, never linked or listed, pushed out only by hand off-web - to test whether the AI engines ingest it anyway, and whether sharing alone is a route into AI answers.
We logged what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity actually fetch when you paste them a URL. Every one is JavaScript-blind - server-side proof for GEO and AEO.
We just turned llmcartel.com into a clean-slate experiment. The site is brand new. No external citations. No press. We started a clock to answer a question every founder asks: how long does it take an LLM bot to discover a new business entity?
