Everyone's getting markdown versions of their websites for the wrong reason. The REAL use case is building an internal AI knowledge base and it's a game changer. #AI #MarketingTips #AITools #AgencyLife #ContentStrategy
Should you have a markdown version of your website? Well, probably, but not for the reason most people are saying. If you don't know what I'm talking about, let's back up a little bit. Markdown is just a simple way to format a text file. The reason everyone's suddenly talking so much about markdown is because it's the preferred format of AI or large language models. If you're trying to share information with AI, markdown is the most efficient way to do it. And so for years now, there have been services that'll take the content of your website and make a markdown version. For each HTML page you have, it'll make a markdown equivalent. It'll show the HTML version to humans and the markdown version to AI. Cloudflare even recently built this service into their platform. And it makes sense, right? This just makes it easier for the AI to understand the content on your website. The issue ult
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Should you have a markdown version of your website? Well, probably, but not for the reason most people are saying. If you don't know what I'm talking about, let's back up a little bit. Markdown is just a simple way to format a text file. The reason everyone's suddenly talking so much about markdown is because it's the preferred format of AI or large language models. If you're trying to share information with AI, markdown is the most efficient way to do it. And so for years now, there have been services that'll t...
ng to realize how valuable it is to have all important information in a markdown version, not so much for being discovered by AI, but for internal use. Developers are now writing their developer docs in markdown. Even Google, who has been telling us for years, we don't need a markdown version of our website, just rewrote their developer docs in markdown. This is because if you're utilizing AI the right way, it almost never makes sense for a human to read this kind of documentation, or really any documentation. Y...
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Markdown versions of important business information may help internal AI systems use company knowledge more efficiently, even if public AI discovery value is still uncertain.
AI-readable documentation / markdown · asserts
ng to realize how valuable it is to have all important information in a markdown version, not so much for being discovered by AI, but for internal use. Developers are now writing their developer docs in markdown. Even Google, who has been telling us for years, we don't need a markdown version of our website, just rewrote their developer docs in markdown....
Public markdown mirrors may have a trust problem because AI systems cannot easily verify that markdown content matches the HTML version without fetching both.
AI discovery / trust contradiction · asserts
Should you have a markdown version of your website? Well, probably, but not for the reason most people are saying. If you don't know what I'm talking about, let's back up a little bit. Markdown is just a simple way to format a text file. The reason everyone's suddenly talking so much about markdown is because it's the preferred format of AI or large langu...
A structured markdown knowledge base can act as a reusable “brand ambassador” context layer for agency/client processes and be updated with PDFs, feedback, documents, and new information.
AI operations / brand ambassador · asserts
ng to realize how valuable it is to have all important information in a markdown version, not so much for being discovered by AI, but for internal use. Developers are now writing their developer docs in markdown. Even Google, who has been telling us for years, we don't need a markdown version of our website, just rewrote their developer docs in markdown....
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