Discoverability surfaces
The current major version of the OpenAPI Specification — a vendor-neutral schema for describing HTTP APIs. OpenAPI 3.1 is the version that fully aligns with JSON Schema 2020-12 and supports webhooks. VC Deal Flow Signal serves an OpenAPI 3.1 contract at /api/openapi.json (and four well-known mirrors), describing 25 REST operations across 11 tags with x-mcp-tool annotations cross-referencing the parallel MCP server.
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.
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