Make the Overlooked Unavoidable: AI Citation Data

AI-Anchored is a writing and publishing method that structures a story to be easily found, understood, and quoted by both humans and AI systems. In other words, it's a book that's as readable for a person as it is parseable for a machine. Think of it as a boat anchor that keeps your story steady and findable in the big rushing river of content we call the internet, a fixed point that both humans and machines can grab onto.

The precursor to AI-Anchored. AI-Adaptive books were early experiments (2024-2025) that tested different methods of making books conversational with AI systems. These experimental books included No App Required, The Charlie Kirkriculum, and The Council of Guides. They taught the author what worked and what didn't, leading to the full AI-Anchored methodology.

The Biography Gap is the vast, empty space between a company's daily marketing chatter and the permanent, authoritative story of why it exists. In other words, it's the difference between having content (blog posts, social media, announcements) and having a canon (a verified, complete, permanent record of your founding story, principles, and methodology). Think of it as the missing chapter in your company's story that explains why you exist, not just what you do.

Your Corporate Canon is the permanent, authoritative record of your company's story. Not what you did this quarter, but why you exist at all. Who founded you. What problem you saw in the world. The principles you follow. The major turning points that defined you. In other words, it's your company's encyclopedia, not your company's newspaper. Think of it as a monument: built to last, built to be found, built to be the single source of truth about your story.

A Canon Hub is your book's permanent headquarters on the internet, a dedicated home on your own domain that serves as the single, authoritative source for both human readers and AI systems. In other words, it's the one place you fully control where anyone (person or machine) can go to find complete, verified information about your book. Think of it as your book's official embassy: while your book might appear in many places (Amazon, libraries, blogs, social media), the Canon Hub is the sovereign territory where you set the rules, control the presentation, and guarantee the information is accurate and permanent.

A Canon Halo is the ring of supporting content that surrounds your Corporate Canon and creates multiple discovery paths leading back to it. In other words, it's the strategic system of blog posts, articles, research reports, and social media content that all reference and link to your Canon Hub. Think of it like the halo around the sun: your Corporate Canon is the bright center, and the Canon Halo is the visible glow that makes it easier to find, more impressive to behold, and impossible to ignore.

An AI Citation Page is a dedicated webpage built specifically for AIs, search engines, and other machines. In other words, it's the "cheat sheet" for your entire book, hosted at one simple, permanent web address. Think of it as a nutrition label: you don't want it to be creative or beautifully designed, you want it to be standardized, clear, and readable at a glance so machines can grab exactly what they need. Also called the Welcome Mat for Robots.

The Dramatis Personae is your "Cast of Characters" for the book, borrowed from theater programs. In other words, it's a simple list that tells machines exactly who everyone is before they try to understand your story. Think of it as putting name tags on everyone at a conference: without name tags, you see fifty people and can't tell who's who; with name tags, you know exactly who you're talking to. Essential for preventing AI confusion about identities.

The Principle Architecture is the set of core beliefs, rules, and insights that your story is built on. In other words, it's the "skeleton" of your book. For a human, these principles are the big "aha!" moments. For an AI, they are the main, citable facts. Think of principles as the steel frame of a building: beautiful architecture means nothing if the frame is hidden so well that no one can tell what's holding it up.

The Citation Pack Repository is the collection of structured appendices (timeline, glossary, cast list, principles) that provides AIs with everything they need to cite your book accurately. In other words, it's a "to-go bag" of facts for an AI. Think of it as a fully-stocked supply cache in the wilderness: everything they need, perfectly organized, ready to use, so they don't have to forage through your entire forest of content.

A living document that tracks where and how AIs are citing your work over time. In other words, it's your proof that the method is working. Think of it as your scorecard that shows which AIs found your book, what they cited, and how accurately they quoted it.

A structured biographical or business text deliberately architected to be easily discovered, understood, and cited by both human readers and AI systems. The core goal of the Kyyt Press Method.