Public Research Log
Changelog
The evolution of idea-lab.ai as an AI-visibility research lab — every shipped experiment, tool, methodology update, and infrastructure change that affects how LLMs retrieve and cite this site.
Score Evolution · idea-lab.ai
From F to D — and counting
Three full AI Visibility Score reports document the rebuild in public. Each is a complete IdeaLab AI Visibility OS audit — click through to read the full report.
Baseline established
The official baseline. idea-lab.ai existed as a product landing page with none of the AI-visibility infrastructure LLMs read. Content Depth, Earned Media, and Entity Recognition near zero.
Read full report →02 · Independent re-scorePost-rebuild independent audit
After three quick fixes (canonical domain, llms.txt generator, JSON-LD scaffolding) an independent crawl scored the site 32/100 — out of the F band, into D. Stronger brand and crawlability, still thin content and no earned media.
Read full report →03 · Progress auditProgress audit · v1.1 framework
Live-crawl audit using IdeaLab AI Visibility OS v1.1. Brand Clarity and Content Depth lifted the composite to 45/100. D4 Citation Network (24/100) and D3 Entity Recognition (31/100) remain the defining suppressors.
Read full report →AI Visibility Scorer page redesigned
Shipped a full UI refresh for /ai-visibility-scorer: added a two-column Sample Report section with a live scorecard preview, priority-fix callouts, and dimension breakdowns; rebuilt the audit form with gradient background, social proof, trust strip, and full-width CTA; improved navbar contrast, hover states, and keyboard accessibility with visible focus outlines and a Skip to Content link.
Navbar contrast fixes, keyboard focus states, Skip to Content link, and a two-column sample report preview.
ECCR Calculator promoted to standalone page
The Employee-to-Compute Ratio Calculator moved from a homepage section to its own canonical URL at /eccr, with dedicated JSON-LD (SoftwareApplication), Open Graph, and sitemap entries to improve direct retrievability by AI crawlers.
Standalone /eccr page with JSON-LD, OG tags, and sitemap coverage.
ECCR (Employee-to-Compute Ratio) framework published
Introduced the ECCR metric — the exchange rate between human capital and GPU infrastructure — as idea-lab.ai's first proprietary, citable AEO framework.
First proprietary AEO framework for solopreneur AI labs.
AI Visibility OS Experiment series launched
Began the public, longitudinal experiment tracking how a solopreneur AI lab earns LLM citations. Newsletter, audits, methodology, and changelog wired together as one content surface.
Public longitudinal experiment tracking LLM citations begins.
llms.txt generator shipped
Released a free tool that generates llms.txt and llms-full.txt files, lowering the barrier for sites to declare LLM-readable content maps.
Free llms.txt and llms-full.txt generator shipped.
Site rebuilt from F to B (AI Visibility score)
Repositioned idea-lab.ai from a multi-product showcase to a focused AI-visibility research lab. Removed entity-graph contamination from legacy crypto/trading products and rebuilt the JSON-LD graph, sitemap, and llms.txt from scratch.
Site repositioned and rebuilt from F to B AI Visibility score.
JSON-LD graph for solopreneur sites
Documented the WebSite + Organization + Person + WebPage @graph pattern used across idea-lab.ai so other solo operators can replicate the entity scaffolding LLMs read.
WebSite + Organization + Person @graph pattern documented.
Brand audit format defined
Published the first AI Visibility Brand Audit template and shipped /audits with per-brand subpages, dynamic sitemap entries, and Report JSON-LD.
Brand audit template and dynamic /audits subpages launched.
idea-lab.ai canonical domain set
Cut over the canonical domain to idea-lab.ai across Helmet, JSON-LD, sitemap, and prerender pipeline. Trailing-slash and lowercase URL hygiene enforced site-wide.
Canonical domain cut-over and URL hygiene enforced site-wide.