An AI-ready website is one that has been structured to be understandable by AI systems in addition to human visitors. It implements the machine-readable standards that allow AI search engines, answer engines, and agents to correctly identify what the site is about, who created it, and whether its information can be trusted.

The core requirements of an AI-ready website include: clean semantic HTML, schema markup, a llms.txt file, AI endpoints, an AI sitemap, clear authorship and entity signals, and content organized for topical authority rather than keyword density.

AI Web Ready™ is a certification framework built around these requirements.