robots.txt explicitly welcomes AI crawlers (GPTBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, ClaudeBot…)
robots.txt points to sitemap
llms.txt present (housekeeping — not a lever, just hygiene)
www → apex redirect (canonical host)
What this proves — and what it doesn't. This is Tier 1: the work is demonstrably done. It does not yet prove rankings or AI-citations — those are Tier 2 (weeks) and Tier 3 (months), and we'll track them on this very domain as they accrue. That honest split is the whole model. See the full strategy →
Tier 2 & 3 — tracked from today
Search Console impressions & average position (weeks 4–12)
AI share-of-voice baseline across ChatGPT / Perplexity / AI Overviews (needs ~4–8 wk baseline)
Real rank positions + AI-citation share (months 3+)