What we've been
thinking about.
Insights
Working notes from Aivium Digital on search, AI visibility and the systems behind growth: what's changing, what's working and what we'd do about it. Written to be useful whether you hire us or not.
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Robots.txt and AI visibility: is your website quietly blocking ChatGPT, Claude, and Google?
Your robots.txt file may be quietly blocking ChatGPT, Claude, and Google AI. How the 2026 AI crawler landscape actually works, the misconfigurations we keep finding in audits, and the five-layer check that decides whether AI engines can reach your business.
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The best AI visibility tools in 2026 (and what none of them can do for you)
We run AI visibility audits for a living, so we have opinions about the trackers. Here are the tools worth paying for in 2026, matched to your stage, plus the uncomfortable truth about what a dashboard cannot fix.
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AI search is now part of how your customers decide. Here are the numbers.
37% of consumers now start with AI instead of Google, and 30% of Americans have used AI to inform a purchase. The July 2026 numbers on AI search and buying decisions, and what they mean for your business.
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