Subterra LLC

Subterra LLC is a business whose own site puts it this way: "Geotechnical investigations, modeling, design and operations support for open pit, underground excavations and surface mining facilities." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, though, it is barely visible: it scores 3.1 out of 10.

On the page it is passable on a workable page structure and basic crawler access. What holds it back is a clearly stated business identity, credibility markers like credentials or reviews, sitemaps and entity links AI can follow and structured data describing the business.

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.

AI crawlers have visited 2 times in our tracking, including Applebot (Siri). The site links to no social profiles, so there is nothing tying the brand to a wider presence. The business dates to 2016.