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title: "Why your website should be readable by AI assistants"
url: "https://sitesbyagents.com/blog/why-ai-readable"
updated: "2026-10-13T02:45:56.905Z"
description: "People now ask ChatGPT and friends for a local florist or physio. Here is what those assistants read, and how a small business site can help them."
type: "posts"
site: "Sites by Agents"
---

# Why your website should be readable by AI assistants

> People now ask ChatGPT and friends for a local florist or physio. Here is what those assistants read, and how a small business site can help them.

When someone asks an AI assistant for a childcare centre near Schofields, the assistant reads websites to answer. If your site is a heavy page builder with your hours inside an image, it may simply skip you.

## What assistants look for

- A plain-text (Markdown) version of each page
- An llms.txt file listing the pages that matter
- Structured business details: name, address, hours and services

Every site we build publishes all three automatically, including every blog post you add later, like this one.

> Try it: add .md to the end of this page's address.