Referendumapp.com

Referendumapp.com is a business whose own site puts it this way: "top of page ReferendumDownload the AppPrivacy PolicyWork With UsInformed Choices, Empowered DemocracyDemocracy works best when citizens are informed and engaged." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, though, it is barely visible: it scores 3.0 out of 10.

On the page it is passable on a workable page structure and basic crawler access. What holds it back is structured data describing the business, a clearly stated business identity, sitemaps and entity links AI can follow 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 2 times in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic). The business dates to 2024.