Central Ohioans for Rational Inquiry

"Central Ohioans for Rational Inquiry promotes critical thought and science education in Columbus, Ohio." That is how Central Ohioans for Rational Inquiry introduces itself. To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, though, it is barely visible: it scores 4.7 out of 10.

On the page it is passable on partial sitemap and link coverage. What holds it back is a heading structure that lays out what it offers, a clearly stated business identity, structured data describing the business, credibility markers like credentials or reviews and the technical files AI engines look for, such as llms.txt or an open robots.txt.

Away from its own site, other sites link to it. There is some, but not much, sign that the domain is only lightly established. Beyond that, 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). There is not much on the page to read either, about 146 words.