Eight One Customz

Eight One Customz is a business whose own site puts it this way: "Eight One Customz specialise in custom trainers and other footwear. All our designs are unique to you. Trainers, shoes, boots, all designs." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, though, it is barely visible: it scores 4.1 out of 10.

On the page itself the strengths are clear: crawler access and the files AI engines look for. It is passable on a workable page structure and partial sitemap and link coverage. What holds it back is structured data describing the business, a clearly stated business identity and credibility markers like credentials or reviews.

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).