Surfaces · Step 3 of the method
Align everywhere you speak with your canon
Where do the AIs read about you? First where you write yourself: your site, your profiles, your listings. Surfaces keeps that list, and keeps it in phase with your canon.
A registry, not a guess
A surface is every place where your business speaks in its own name: the website, the GitHub organization, the LinkedIn page, the X account, the YouTube channel, the Wikidata entity, directories, app stores. The registry tracks them per project, with a per-type checklist ticked language by language, and a status derived from facts: aligned, never aligned, or the canon moved since.
- Nine surface types, each sheet carrying the languages the surface serves
- Alignment is a dated statement of fact, frozen against a canon version in an append-only journal
- When the canon changes, every surface that lags shows it: re-propagation becomes a checklist
How you align your surfaces
Register them
List every place you speak: type, address, languages served. The registry is your map of where your story lives.
Work through the checklist
Each type has its checklist, ticked per language: title tags, descriptions, the llms.txt of a website. It guides the work, item by item.
Mark aligned, dated
When a surface actually carries the current canon, mark it: the version and the date are frozen in the journal. When the canon moves on, the status says which surfaces need an update.
Its place in the method
Surfaces is step 3: your canon exists, your baseline is running, now every place you own should tell the same story. What third parties then repeat is the next step, and your curves say what changed.
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What is a surface in AI visibility?
A surface is every place where a business speaks in its own name: its website, its GitHub organization, its LinkedIn page, its X account, its YouTube channel, its Wikidata entity, its directory listings, its app store pages. Surfaces are the owned half of your story; what third parties say about you is corroboration, the earned half.
Where do AI assistants read about my business?
On your surfaces first: your site and your profiles are what they crawl and quote most readily. Then in the sources they cite when they answer: press, directories, reviews. Your trackers extract those cited sources, so you see which ones actually shape the answers on your market.
Why keep every surface consistent with the canon?
Because the AIs cross-read everything. Five surfaces telling five variations dilute your story; the same wording everywhere is corroboration you own. The registry makes consistency a measurable state instead of an intention.
Which surfaces should I align first?
Your website, then the profiles your market actually reads. The registry keeps the order honest: register everything, align the current canon version where it matters most, and let the status column drive the rest of the queue.
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