AI-First Web:Practical guidelines for making your site readable by AI assistants

Most people still design websites only for browsers — not for the world we actually live in now, where a huge portion of users ask AI assistants first (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) instead of navigating the web manually.

I’ve started a small open guide called AI-First Web: https://ai-first-guides.github.io/first.ai/

The idea is simple:

AI assistants need structure, clarity and semantics, not heavy JS

Clean HTML, good metadata, proper JSON-LD

Content designed to be understandable, interpretable and citable by LLMs

Think of it like “SEO, but for AI assistants”

It’s a living document and I’d love feedback or contributions from devs who build modern web apps, static sites, docs, or content platforms.

If you have thoughts on AI-readable markup, JSON-LD best practices, or examples of sites that are already “AI-first”, jump in.