Chris Dobis for Michigan State House — District 26

Chris Dobis for Michigan State House District 26 describes itself simply: "I'm committed to creating opportunities for every family, supporting our local businesses, investing in our schools, and making District 26 a place where everyone can thrive." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, though, it is barely visible: it scores 4.0 out of 10.

On the page itself the strengths are clear: a clearly stated business identity and sitemaps and entity links AI can follow. It is passable on a workable page structure and a few credibility markers. What holds it back is the technical files AI engines look for, such as llms.txt or an open robots.txt and structured data describing the business.

Off the page there is only faint evidence that only a handful of sites link to it. Beyond that, the domain does not yet read as established, AI engines do not yet recognise it as a distinct business, there is no press coverage to draw on, nobody is discussing it where AI engines look and it does not come up on Reddit. Those are earned elsewhere on the web, not fixed on the site itself.

AI crawlers have visited 2 times in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic) and Applebot (Siri). The site links to no social profiles, so there is nothing tying the brand to a wider presence.