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Discoverability surfaces
Emerging conventions for advertising a site's policy toward AI training and retrieval. ai.txt is the human-readable analog to robots.txt; ai-policy.json is the machine-readable counterpart with per-agent allow/deny rules. VC Deal Flow Signal publishes both at the root and at /.well-known/ along with /openai-search.json and /.well-known/ai.json — explicitly allowing crawl, training, and retrieval under CC BY 4.0 with attribution.
Programmatic SEO, AEO, GEO, AIO, and the schemas behind them.
A content strategy that generates hundreds or thousands of search-optimized pages from structured data using templates.
The practice of structuring website content so that AI assistants and large language models (LLMs) can accurately cite it when answering user questions.
An open protocol that allows websites to notify search engines (Bing, Yandex, Seznam, Naver, and others) about new or updated content in real time.
Structuring content so that answer engines — Google's People-Also-Ask, Reddit pull-quotes, Quora top answers, ChatGPT search results, Perplexity citations — can extract a complete, self-contained answer in 40–80 words.
The subset of GEO/AEO targeted specifically at Google's AI Overviews (formerly SGE).
A Schema.
JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data — the W3C-standard syntax for embedding structured data in web pages.
A Schema.
This definition is published under CC BY 4.0. Cite as:
The Data Nerd. "ai.txt and ai-policy.json." VC Deal Flow Signal Glossary, https://signals.gitdealflow.com/define/ai-policy.
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