Sprint 02 · Search agent · one week
Be found on Google and in AI answers.
For businesses ready to show up in ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews. Most are still missing today, so early movers gain ground at low cost.
Sprint 02 of five · the Flow Engine · Previous: Sprint 01, Flow Intelligence · Next: Sprint 03, Content agent
What your team gains
Your name in the answers buyers read first.
Aggarwal et al., KDD 2024. Illustrative answer.
Six deliverables. One week.
Fixed scope, built with your team, all inside the week.
- 01AI-crawler access
robots.txt opened to the nine crawlers that matter.
- 02llms.txt
Written and served at root and /.well-known/.
- 03Structured data
Organization, offers, FAQ and page schema.
- 04Citability pass
On your five most important pages.
- 05Sitemap hygiene
Sitemap, canonical and feed, cleaned.
- 06Search submission
IndexNow plus a Search Console walkthrough.
How the week runs.
Three checkpoints in one week.
- Audit
A crawl and citability audit that reads your site as an answer engine does.
- Ship
Crawler access, schema, llms.txt and page fixes go live.
- Hand over
A before-and-after report and filed submissions, with the checklist your team keeps.
Feeds the Content Engine sprint: the cluster plan tells the engine exactly what to publish next.
Evidence.
Open source, and running on this site right now. Read the case study, then inspect the live output.
Questions.
What happens in the first week of the AI-search sprint?
The written scope comes first: your search and AI-search visibility assessed in writing, gaps ranked. Then we build every deliverable here with your team inside the week, closed by a documented handover.
Do I need to hire anyone to run this afterwards?
No. Your team runs the system monthly with a human review, and the handover shows exactly how. Prefer Flow to run it? Running the Flow Engine monthly covers that.
How is this different from buying the same work from an agency?
The marketing engineer builds it with your team, on a scope and week fixed upfront. Everything is documented and portable, so it stays yours, outside any retainer.
Let’s start the AI-search sprint.
Fixed scope, one week. If another system fits better, Flow will say so and we start there instead.
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