#925,697 OF 2,692,846 IN TECHNOLOGY
SCORE HISTORY BEGINS 2026-09-20
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AI Visibility Scorecard
Before the Record
beforetherecord.com · Technology
Borderline visible. AI bots can crawl Before the Record, but the structured-data signals are thin - you are at real risk of being skipped when buyers ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity for a recommendation.
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In the Engagemii AEO index
#925,697 of 2,692,846 in Technology for AI visibility
5
AEO Visibility
iBorderline · 4.9/10
40
Muse Index Score
iAI agent readiness
Agent-ready · 40/100
2
AI Adoption
iBasic · 2/100
About Before the Record
from our crawl and measurement
Before the Record. Prehistory, with the sources attached., based in London, describes itself simply: "Before the Record investigates the ancient civilisations that came before the written record, using machine learning on open remote-sensing and ancient-text data, and publishes what it." When AI engines look at it, they find little to work with. It scores 4.9 out of 10.
Our crawl found structured data on the page (Organization, WebSite), a sitemap and a readable heading structure. It is missing an llms.txt file.
The 6 signals AI reads
Higher is better · 0-10
Structured Data
6
Organization / LocalBusiness JSON-LD that AI can read.
Content Structure
10
Clear headings and answer-style content.
Entity Clarity
7
How clearly your brand identity reads to AI.
E-E-A-T Signals
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust
3
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust markers.
Technical AEO
7
robots.txt, llms.txt, and AI-bot crawl access.
AI Discoverability
9
Sitemaps and entity links AI can follow.
Off-page authority
How the web signals your brand to AI
Backlinks
1
Inbound links from other sites.
Domain Authority
0
Little domain authority yet.
Reference Presence
0
Not in AI knowledge graphs yet.
News & Press
0
No press coverage found yet.
Community
0
No community discussion yet.
Social Mentions
0
No social discussion found yet.
What this score means
Your AEO score measures whether AI search engines - ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini - can actually read your site and cite it in answers. Roughly two-thirds of sites are invisible to them. At 4.9/10, Before the Record is crawlable but under-signaled - fixable, and the signals above are where to start.
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Source & Attribution
Scored by Engagemii on September 20, 2026. Methodology: engagemii.com/aeo/methodology
Source URL: https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/beforetherecord
Cite this score: Engagemii (2026). "AEO Score for Before the Record." Retrieved from https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/beforetherecord
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