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The Agent-Native Web Standard

A versioned, open specification defining how a website becomes legible to AI search engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews. Five signals. Hard thresholds. The crawler allow/block matrix that 73% of sites get wrong.

Read Version 1.0 →Raw markdownTest a URL

What this is

The Standard is a written contract. A site either passes every MUST in the document, or it doesn’t. We publish it openly, version it like a software release, and license it CC BY 4.0 so any agency, contractor, or in-house team can build to it without paying us a cent.

We use it ourselves on every Grow build. The /check scanner enforces the scored portion; the rest is the human-readable specification you’re looking at.

Why a standard

AI engines cite documents that other documents cite. The web is full of opinions about “GEO best practice” — what it lacks is a single, versioned, machine-citable specification anyone can point to. RFCs work this way. The web platform works this way. We built one for the agent-readable web.

If you implement against the Standard, link to the version you built against. That’s the only attribution the license requires.

Versions

  • Version 1.0current · 2026-05-22

    geo-standard@2026.05

    Initial publication. Five-signal scoring contract, crawler matrix, llms.txt + JSON-LD requirements, performance budget, delivery checklist.

    Read →.md

License & citation

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. You may copy, redistribute, remix, and build on the Standard for any purpose — including commercial — provided you credit the source.

grow.contact (2026). The Agent-Native Web Standard, Version 1.0. geo-standard@2026.05. https://grow.contact/standard/v1

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