# AI Discovery Files

> A practical guide to AI search: publish useful answers, check website access and measure results, with the SEO foundations needed for that work.

AI Discovery Files (discoveryfiles.ai) is operated by Generell AI. This optional navigation file does not establish that an AI provider uses it.

The original eleven-file specification is archived. The current site is a practical guide to website discovery and supporting files, not a smaller replacement specification or a universal AI standard.

Last updated: 2026-09-13
Language: en-GB

## Quick guide

- [Quick guide](https://discoveryfiles.ai/guide): Five steps: choose customer questions, publish useful answers, check search access, choose supporting formats and measure results
- [Choose customer questions](https://discoveryfiles.ai/guide/#strategy): Start with a few decisions customers need to make and save a baseline
- [Publish useful answers](https://discoveryfiles.ai/guide/#website): Improve the relevant pages with facts, evidence and clear next steps
- [Check search access](https://discoveryfiles.ai/guide/#access-checklist): Crawl and indexing rules, firewall access, Google’s AI inclusion setting and separate Google/Bing inspections
- [Choose supporting formats](https://discoveryfiles.ai/guide/#files): Use formats for a specific purpose; llms.txt remains optional
- [Measure results](https://discoveryfiles.ai/guide/#measurement): What to check, where to check it and what to record
- [FAQ](https://discoveryfiles.ai/faq): Short answers to common questions

## Deep dive

- [Deep dive](https://discoveryfiles.ai/in-practice): Supporting explanations and provider evidence
- [AI search and model training](https://discoveryfiles.ai/in-practice/ai-search): Provider comparison, with source fetch and review dates
- [Crawler reference](https://discoveryfiles.ai/in-practice/ai-crawlers): Documented search, training and user-request controls
- [Social platforms and AI search](https://discoveryfiles.ai/in-practice/social-platforms): Platform access routes, dated robots rules and documented partnerships
- [Local search and business profiles](https://discoveryfiles.ai/in-practice/local-search): Location context, service areas, profile eligibility, identity records and local measurement

## Optional

- [llms.txt guide](https://discoveryfiles.ai/llms-txt/): Explanation, generation prompt, publishing checks and dated upstream updates
- [Agent instruction files](https://discoveryfiles.ai/in-practice/agent-instructions): Project guidance for coding agents, separate from search discovery
- [What discovery files means](https://discoveryfiles.ai/guide/#discovery-files): The informal name and archived proposal
- [Project archive](https://discoveryfiles.ai/archive): Earlier experimental specifications, original templates and the explanation of retired site files
- [llms.txt proposal](https://llmstxt.org/): Current independent upstream proposal
- [Contact](https://discoveryfiles.ai/contact): General enquiries at info@discoveryfiles.ai
- [Privacy](https://discoveryfiles.ai/privacy): Privacy enquiries at privacy@discoveryfiles.ai
- [License](https://discoveryfiles.ai/license): Licensing and attribution
- [Sitemap](https://discoveryfiles.ai/sitemap-index.xml): Site pages