Start

Start is a business whose own site puts it this way: "We're a venture studio that builds companies from the ground up. Vision, product, brand, tech, growth, we lead it all and build it to scale." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, though, it is barely visible: it scores 4.0 out of 10.

On the page itself the strengths are clear: a clear heading structure and sitemaps and entity links AI can follow. It is passable on some structured data and a partly stated business identity. What holds it back is credibility markers like credentials or reviews and the technical files AI engines look for, such as llms.txt or an open robots.txt.

Off the page there is only faint evidence that only a handful of sites link to it and 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.

The business dates to 2025.