Glossary

How LLMs Work

AI Agent

An AI agent is a system where a language model autonomously plans and executes multi-step tasks using tools, searching the web, browsing pages, calling APIs, writing files, iterating until a goal is met. Agents increasingly perform research and purchasing tasks for users, making them a new audience that evaluates brands without human eyes on your website.

From chatbot to agent

A chatbot answers; an agent acts. Given a goal, "find and shortlist three CRM options under our budget", an agent decomposes the task, calls tools (web search, browser, code, APIs), evaluates intermediate results, and loops until done. Reasoning models supply the planning ability; tool-use frameworks and protocols like MCP supply the hands.

Deep research features, computer-use assistants, and autonomous shopping or booking flows are all agents, and their share of commercial research is growing fast.

When the visitor is an agent, not a person

Agents visit websites as automated readers: fetching pages, parsing structure, extracting pricing and specs, comparing vendors, then reporting conclusions to a human who may never see your site. Design, animations, and persuasion aimed at human attention are invisible to them; machine-readable clarity, clean HTML, structured data, explicit facts, accessible pricing, is everything.

This shows up in analytics as rising bot traffic from AI user agents, traffic that converts indirectly, by determining whether the agent's report recommends you.

Making your brand agent-ready

Audit your site as an agent experiences it: can key facts be extracted from raw HTML without JavaScript gymnastics? Is pricing stated, not gated? Do comparison-relevant specs exist in parseable form? Add llms.txt and schema markup, and keep AI crawlers permitted. Agent-readability is rapidly becoming a conversion factor.

The agent ecosystem also creates new interfaces for your own data: Geonimo exposes its visibility analytics through an MCP server, letting your team's AI assistants query brand-mention data directly inside their own agentic workflows.

Frequently asked questions

What is an AI agent in simple terms?

An AI agent is a language model given tools and autonomy: it plans a task, takes actions like searching, browsing, and calling APIs, checks results, and iterates until the goal is done. Unlike a chatbot that just replies, an agent executes multi-step work, including product research, on a user's behalf.

How do AI agents affect marketing and websites?

Agents research vendors, compare options, and draft recommendations with no human viewing the pages involved. Sites win by being machine-readable: clean HTML, structured data, explicit pricing and specs. Your conversion event becomes the agent's recommendation, shaped entirely by extractable facts and third-party evidence, not visual persuasion.

How do I prepare my website for AI agents?

Ensure core facts, pricing, features, comparisons, contact paths, are present in server-rendered HTML and schema markup, not locked behind JavaScript or forms. Allow AI crawlers and user-triggered fetchers in robots.txt, consider llms.txt, and verify an LLM reading your raw pages extracts your story accurately.

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Last updated: 2026-06-11

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