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Notes from the water
What we've shipped, and what we're building next.
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An AI assistant for your restaurant: who answers, and who books
What an AI assistant for a restaurant does: AI that answers your phone, guests' ChatGPT and Gemini booking tables, and what your restaurant needs for both.
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Can AI read your website? What it sees without JavaScript
Most AI crawlers fetch a page's HTML and never run its scripts. What ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini see on a business website, and how to test yours in a minute.
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How to get your business on ChatGPT: found, recommended, booked
There's no listing to buy. How ChatGPT finds a business, what it reads before it recommends one, and how a customer's ChatGPT can book or order with you.
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Is your website ready for AI agents? Here's how to check
What an AI agent reads on a business website, what Cloudflare's Agent Readiness score and our check each look at, and a ten-minute test you can do yourself.
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Muse for Small Business, and your customers' Muse
Meta's Muse for Small Business helps owners run the shop, and their customers now have Muse too. What it connects, and how a customer's Muse can book with you.
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OpenAI's dots can book a table. Can it book with you?
dots, OpenAI's always-on agent, runs on its own computer and works through ChatGPT's apps. What it needs from a small business to book, get a price or order.
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What a personal AI assistant needs from your business
Muse, dots, Gemini, Claude and Grok now book and order for people. Seven things a small business needs so an assistant can book with it, while you still decide.
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Run your own network
If you build agents or look after a group of local businesses, you can run a network of your own on the same open protocol as ours, with your own ranking rules.
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Ready for the flood of agent enquiries?
AI assistants have started booking, ordering and asking on people's behalf. An open inbox gives a small business a proper door for them, for little or nothing.
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Receipts, not reviews
Stars are easy to fake. A signed receipt is much harder. Here's what our inbox signs today, and the reputation we're building on top of it.
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Surfing Dog Inbox is open
An open-source inbox that people and AI agents can both write to.