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The Michai Index.

A privacy-safe benchmark for what public business websites make visible to search engines, AI answer systems, and ready-to-act buyers.

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Public aggregates unlock at 10 opted-in scans. Industry and market cuts require at least three scans in a cohort.
Updated 2026-07-15 · Method v1.0 · United StatesAnonymous aggregates only · Minimum n=10
— Publication gate

No fake benchmark.

The pilot cohort has not reached the minimum sample, so Michai is not publishing a misleading average or pretending a handful of scans represent a market.

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— Methodology

Visible rules. Conservative claims.

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Inputs

Public homepage HTML and response headers, plus standard robots.txt, sitemap.xml, and llms.txt locations. No credentials or private analytics.

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Weights

Search 30%, AI answer visibility 25%, demand conversion 25%, and technical delivery 20%. Each check exposes its available points.

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Privacy

Reports are unlisted. Aggregate consent is opt-in. Emails, companies, hostnames, and report-level findings never appear in the Index.

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Thresholds

Overall results require n≥10. Industry and market cuts require n≥3. Thin cohorts remain unpublished rather than overinterpreted.

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Limitations

Observed response time is one server-side sample. The Index does not measure rankings, backlinks, demand, field Core Web Vitals, CRM outcomes, or revenue.

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Versioning

Method v1.0 is frozen for the pilot. Material scoring changes will create a new version rather than silently rewriting historical comparisons.

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