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Strategic guide — October 30, 2026

# What Information Does an AI Agent Actually Need From a Business?

An AI assistant cannot accurately explain a business using facts the business never published. The real challenge is deciding which information belongs in that explanation.

By Optiview · Sources checked October 30, 2026

[Download this article (.md)](https://optiview.ai/resources/ai-agent-content-requirements.md)

Imagine a prospective customer asking an AI assistant whether your business can solve their problem. The question sounds simple. The answer may depend on several pieces of information: what you offer, who qualifies, where you operate, which restrictions apply and what happens next.

A conventional website often distributes those facts across product pages, FAQs, policies and company information. An assistant may retrieve only part of that material. A useful publishing strategy therefore starts with a business-information inventory, not an assumption that any particular AI system will discover everything.

The inventory below is an Optiview-recommended planning tool. It does not imply that every agent requires the same fields, follows the same retrieval process or will use every fact you publish.

## 1\. Establish who the business is

Start with the organization's canonical name, website, business description, relevant operating entities and official contact channels. Distinguish the company from its products, brands, subsidiaries and partners. A customer asking about a product should not have to infer which organization provides it.

*   Official name and primary domain.
*   Plain-language statement of what the business does.
*   Names and relationships of significant brands or offerings.
*   Primary locations or operating geography, where relevant.
*   Authoritative contact and support destinations.

The [Schema.org vocabulary](https://schema.org/) provides established types for organizations, products, services and their relationships. Its usefulness here is conceptual as well as technical: business facts become easier to maintain when each fact belongs to a defined entity.

## 2\. Explain what the business provides

List offerings by customer problem rather than relying exclusively on internal product terminology. For each, document what it does, important capabilities, prerequisites, boundaries and where detailed documentation lives.

| Information | Question it helps answer |
| --- | --- |
| Offering | What can this business provide? |
| Use case | Which problem does it address? |
| Audience | Who is it designed for? |
| Requirements | What must be true before someone can use it? |
| Limitations | When is it not an appropriate solution? |

A product description that lists features without explaining their relationship to customer needs may leave important interpretive work unresolved.

## 3\. Record the conditions that change an answer

Eligibility, availability, location, pricing conditions and policy exceptions often determine whether a recommendation is accurate. If a service is restricted to certain regions, or an offer requires a particular qualification, that context belongs with the main claim.

*   Geographic availability and service boundaries.
*   Eligibility or account requirements.
*   Important product compatibility conditions.
*   Pricing units, billing periods and relevant exclusions.
*   Restrictions that would change a reasonable purchase decision.

These are examples of editorial information requirements, not universal legal disclosure rules. Business owners should confirm applicable obligations with appropriate specialists.

## 4\. Make trust information traceable

A statement such as 'secure,' 'certified' or 'industry-leading' is difficult to evaluate without supporting context. Maintain the exact claim, the evidence that supports it, its owner and any time or scope limitation.

*   Documented certifications and their applicable scope.
*   Published policies and official documentation.
*   Verifiable qualifications and credentials.
*   Evidence supporting material performance claims.
*   Dates and ownership for information requiring periodic review.

Google's [helpful content guidance](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/creating-helpful-content) emphasizes useful and trustworthy information. A business-information inventory translates that broad objective into an internal maintenance responsibility.

## 5\. Define what the customer can do next

An accurate description is only part of a useful answer. Customers may need a demonstration, purchase, quote, eligibility check, appointment or support channel. Connect each relevant action to an authoritative destination and state what happens there.

1.  Select five questions prospective customers frequently ask.
2.  Identify the minimum facts needed to answer each question without guessing.
3.  Locate the authoritative source and responsible owner for every fact.
4.  Mark missing, contradictory or unapproved information for correction.
5.  Publish approved information on the relevant pages and verify the rendered source.

For organizations managing reviewed content through a publishing layer, the [Optiview Publish guide](https://optiview.ai/docs/setup/) describes the distinction between website source preparation, approved supplemental information and delivery. Use [Website Preview](https://optiview.ai/demo/) to inspect a supported public page, while remembering that preview output is not proof of a subsequent AI answer.

## Additional source context

Publish the facts, relationships, qualifications and actions needed to answer real customer questions. Organize them as a coherent business explanation rather than a disconnected collection of claims.

Make your brand easier for AI to understand.

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## Additional page links

- [AI doesn’t have one view of your website.](https://optiview.ai/resources/what-ai-services-see/) — Continue reading
- [Keep the meaning. Simplify the format.](https://optiview.ai/resources/html-versus-markdown-for-ai/) — Continue reading
- [The AI-Readable Website Audit: 25 Checks Before You Optimize](https://optiview.ai/resources/ai-readable-website-audit-checklist/) — Continue reading
- [Preview a page](https://optiview.ai/demo/) — Continue reading
- [Read the setup guide](https://optiview.ai/docs/setup/) — Continue reading


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# Published brand narrative

# Site-wide brand information

## Who we are

### Optiview — Parse, Retrieve and Publish for AI

Optiview helps businesses and developers make website information easier for AI to use. Parse converts supplied HTML into clean Markdown and source metadata. Retrieve fetches an eligible public HTTPS webpage and prepares its content. Publish helps a verified business prepare its own website content and make approved Narrative Graph context available through a supported connection.

Parse and Retrieve use application keys and a prepaid developer wallet. Publish has separate website setup, ownership checks and a subscription. Optiview does not control whether an outside AI service discovers, uses or cites the resulting content.

Applies to: Optiview

## Why we matter

### A clearer source, from website content to business context

Webpages mix useful information with navigation, layout and application code. Businesses may also have important qualifications, answers and context that are not clearly published.

Optiview gives developers a way to prepare source content for their applications, and gives businesses a way to publish the context their teams approve. Your application chooses how to use Parse and Retrieve results. Your business controls what it publishes through Publish.

Clearer publishing makes information available; it does not determine an AI system’s answer. Each outside service chooses its own retrieval, recommendations and citations.

## What we offer

### Three products, with separate jobs and clear pricing

- **Optiview Parse:** Supply complete HTML and a source URL. Receive clean Markdown, source and output hashes, parser details and processing warnings. Parse does not fetch the URL or execute JavaScript. A successful page uses 1 credit.
- **Optiview Retrieve:** Supply one eligible public HTTPS URL. Optiview checks supported access and publisher policies, fetches anonymous static HTML and parses it. It does not search the web, execute JavaScript, bypass a login or access private networks. A successful page uses 5 credits total, including parsing.
- **Developer credits:** USD $20 buys 20,000 credits shared by Parse and Retrieve. There is no developer subscription, automatic recharge or scheduled credit expiration. Failed jobs consume no credits. Applicable taxes and the total appear at checkout. Source size, quotas and retention limits apply.
- **Optiview Publish:** USD $99 per website per month plus applicable tax. Connect a verified website, review the prepared source and optionally maintain approved Narrative Graph context in Identity, Story, Offerings, Trust, Knowledge and Actions. Choose site-wide or exact-page scope. Saving drafts does not publish them. Eligible AI tools can receive prepared Markdown or HTML through supported delivery, while ordinary visitors keep the normal website.

Developer credits do not purchase Publish subscriptions. Parse and Retrieve do not add a customer’s private Narrative Graph to arbitrary third-party pages. See https://optiview.ai/pricing/ and https://optiview.ai/developers/ for the current offer and limits.

## Why trust us

### Inspect the output and understand what the evidence establishes

Developers can inspect the prepared Markdown, job status, source metadata, processing warnings and credit ledger. Retrieve records the public source response it observed; Parse identifies supplied HTML rather than claiming to verify the current origin.

Publish administrators can review parser output, the combined published-output preview, source checks and publication history. A preview is separate from a recorded live delivery. Saved edits remain separate from the active publication until explicitly published.

Our experiment pages contain selected first-party AI conversations and source comparisons. Delivery records establish what was served, not downstream ingestion, recommendations, citations or revenue. Observed language matches do not establish causation or a consistent visibility improvement. Explore the evidence and limitations at https://optiview.ai/proof/.

## Helpful knowledge

### Common questions about the three products

**Which product should I use?**
Use Parse when you already have HTML. Use Retrieve when you need Optiview to fetch one eligible public page first. Use Publish when your business wants to prepare its verified website and publish approved context.

**Do Parse and Retrieve require website ownership or DNS changes?**
No website connection is needed for these developer products. You remain responsible for source rights and permitted downstream use. Public availability does not grant a reuse license.

**How do developer accounts and keys work?**
Create a developer workspace and save the personal sign-in key and offline recovery code. Create scoped service keys for server-side applications. Email is an unverified contact identifier, not account-ownership proof or an email-only recovery method. Keep all credentials private.

**Can my agent use Optiview?**
The authenticated developer API returns prepared content for your application or model. A downloadable JavaScript client and local MCP adapter are available. Your host must authorize sources and any credit expenditure. Compatibility does not establish adoption or a partnership with an AI provider.

**Does the API include my private Narrative Graph?**
Parse and Retrieve are source-only. Verified website publishing and approved publisher context belong to the separate Publish workflow.

**Does Publish replace our website or CMS?**
No. Your website stays in its existing system. Your web team establishes and tests a supported connection. Your team reviews and explicitly publishes any Narrative Graph additions. Ordinary visitors retain the normal website experience.

**Does every AI tool get the prepared version?**
No. Delivery depends on the website connection, source eligibility and the request. Some tools explicitly request Markdown; supported AI requests may also receive prepared Markdown or HTML through eligible delivery paths. Traditional search crawlers retain the original website response. A claimed tool name does not prove the requester’s identity.

**Does the demo publish or save to our workspace?**
No. The public demo is a separate preview. Its AI-generated examples require review and do not transfer automatically into an approved publication.

**Will Optiview guarantee citations or recommendations?**
No. Optiview prepares and publishes sources. Outside AI services choose what to retrieve, use and cite.

## What to do next

### Choose your starting point

- [Compare Parse, Retrieve and Publish](https://optiview.ai/products/) to choose the right workflow.
- [Create a developer workspace](https://app.optiview.ai/developers) for self-service Parse and Retrieve, then add credits and create an application key.
- [Read the API quickstart and agent-tool setup](https://optiview.ai/developers/) for request examples, supported sources, errors, quotas and downloads.
- [Review pricing and terms](https://optiview.ai/pricing/) for prepaid credits and the separate Publish plan.
- [Preview your website](https://optiview.ai/demo/) to inspect prepared content and explore unapproved narrative examples without connecting or publishing.
- [Plan Publish setup](https://optiview.ai/onboarding/) with your web team. Publishing requires ownership checks, review and a supported connection; contact [hello@optiview.ai](mailto:hello@optiview.ai) for assisted setup.

Already using Publish? Review your Narrative Graph, publish approved changes explicitly, inspect the combined source in Markdown and check recorded delivery in Activity. Keep your existing visibility tools to study downstream AI answers.