Refraction Networking

Refraction Networking is a business whose own site puts it this way: "Ongoing work Published research Get involved Refraction Networking Internet freedom in the network’s core What is refraction networking?." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, though, it is barely visible: it scores 4.2 out of 10.

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

Away from its own site, other sites link to it. There is some, but not much, sign that the domain is only lightly established and there is little discussion of it. Beyond that, AI engines do not yet recognise it as a distinct business, there is no press coverage to draw on 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). The site links to no social profiles, so there is nothing tying the brand to a wider presence.