Cory Hess

Cory Hess is a business whose own site puts it this way: "I’ve created digital experiences for some of the biggest brands in the world, including Sony, Apple, Zenefits, Quiksilver, and Qualcomm. I have over 17 years of experience in design." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, though, it is barely visible: it scores 4.3 out of 10.

On the page itself the strengths are clear: a clearly stated business identity, crawler access and the files AI engines look for and sitemaps and entity links AI can follow. It is passable on some structured data, a workable page structure and a few credibility markers.

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 once in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic).