Virtual Planet Technologies

Virtual Planet Technologies is a business whose own site puts it this way: "We turn sea level rise, flooding, and climate adaptation data into VR and web experiences cities, NGOs, and tribal nations can walk through." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity it is partially visible, scoring 6.7 out of 10, readable in places and missing in others.

On the page itself the strengths are clear: a clear heading structure, a clearly stated business identity, visible credibility markers, crawler access and the files AI engines look for and sitemaps and entity links AI can follow. It is passable on some structured data.

Away from its own site, other sites link to it and the domain reads as 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 5 times in our tracking, including GPTBot (ChatGPT), Meta AI and ClaudeBot (Anthropic). It does link out to several social profiles, which helps engines tie the brand together. The business dates to 2018.