Lab log 001: the lab opens
On 27 October 2026 the sudosapient.si knowledge hub was built with 16 AI-search experiments wired in. It is not live yet. Week 0 starts on the day Bing Webmaster Tools and Google Search Console verify the domain.
What exists on day zero
- About 80 HTML pages, each with a Markdown twin
- 34 glossary terms, 25 answers, 6 long-form entries, a playbook, a timelines page, a readiness checklist and one original dataset
- llms.txt (root and per section), llms-full.txt, an MCP server, an A2A card, an API catalog, an agent skills index and an RSS feed
- Logging of AI-bot requests, split by bot family
Baseline
- Indexed pages: 0 in both Google and Bing. The domain has not resolved yet.
- Entity: in an earlier check (20 October 2026), ChatGPT identified Sudo Sapient only through its LinkedIn page. No AI engine cited any page of our own sites for AI transformation prompts.
- Competition for our target prompts: "best AI transformation firms" answers were built almost entirely from listicles, several written by vendors that ranked themselves first. "Who can take an AI pilot to production in weeks" answers cited firms that state explicit timelines on their own pages.
Hypotheses for the first eight weeks
- Bots before people. Search-indexing bots (OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Bingbot) will reach the site within 14 days of verification. GPTBot, the training crawler, may not come at all. One new site reported exactly that.
- llms.txt gets near-zero organic requests unless someone points an agent at it.
- The timelines page will be our first cited page, because it states specific, checkable numbers for a question with few direct answers.
- Disambiguation takes longer than eight weeks to change how engines describe the company. We expect the first improvement in Perplexity, which retrieves live, before ChatGPT.
- Term pages index more slowly than answer pages. If fewer than 30% of term pages are indexed by week 8, we merge them back into the glossary.
- Citations will not equal clicks. We expect Bing AI citations to grow faster than referral visits.
Next entry
Week 1, the first Monday after DNS goes live: bot first-seen dates, check-bots results and the first prompt-tracker run.
The studio behind the lab: sudosapient.com.