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The Nerd Corner.
For the nerds and geeks among us. This is our wiki on how AI is moving local business from search engine optimization (SEO) to Agent Execution Enablement (AXE).
From SEO to AXE: the white paper
The long version: why search got businesses found, why AI agents change who gets hired, and what it takes for a real-world service to be booked, verified and finished by an assistant.
Want it the day it lands? Email info@prufloop.com with "white paper" in the subject.
From SEO to AXE
The work of making a business something an AI agent can choose, book, verify and pay, not just find. SEO got you found. AXE gets it done.
| SEO | AEO / GEO | AXE | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goal | Rank on a page of links | Be quoted in an AI answer | Be chosen, booked and finished by an AI agent |
| Success looks like | A click | A citation | A completed, proven job |
| The business pays for | Clicks and leads | Content and visibility | Real work, charged when the job is marked done |
GEO gets you cited. AXE gets you hired. The full explainer is here.
A naming note: spell it out as Agent Execution Enablement (AXE) the first time. Plain "AXE" collides with a body spray brand and a popular accessibility testing tool, and AI systems can mix them up. AXE is a category term, like SEO. It isn't a Prufloop product or trademark.
The five AXE enablers
- VerifyLicense, insurance and track record an agent can check.
- ExposeReal prices, fees, hours and open times, published plainly.
- BookA real slot on the pro's calendar, in one step.
- ProvePhotos, the customer's word and a matching invoice.
- PayThe fee follows the finished job, not the lead.
How each one works, in more detail.
Glossary
One definition per term, each with its own link you can share.
- The Done Economy
- The shift from finding services to getting them finished, as AI agents act for people.
- Agent Execution Enablement (AXE)
- The work of making a business something an AI agent can choose, book, verify and pay, not just find. SEO got you found. AXE gets it done.
- The five AXE enablers
- Verify, expose, book, prove, pay.
- The wall
- Where lead sites stop: they find and connect, but don't book, verify or get paid on completion.
- Done Engine™
- What Prufloop is: the system that gets real-world jobs booked by AI assistants and proven done.
- Proof of Done™
- Prufloop's standard for a finished job: the pro's photos, the customer's confirmation, and an invoice that matches the published terms.
- Pay-per-Proof™
- Pros pay a share of invoiced work on jobs Prufloop sends, charged when the job is marked done. Never for leads.
- It's handled.™
- Ask your AI assistant, and a verified pro is booked at a posted price and the job is proven done.
- Selection receipt
- The plain explanation an assistant gets with every match: needs matched, why this pro, the trade-off, two alternatives.
- Search engine optimization (SEO)
- Getting a business to rank on a page of search results so a person clicks through. It got businesses found.
- AEO and GEO
- Answer engine optimization and generative engine optimization: getting a business quoted or cited inside an AI answer. GEO gets you cited. AXE gets you hired.
- AI agent
- An AI assistant that acts for a person instead of just answering: it can fill out forms, hold a calendar, place calls and make bookings.
- llms.txt
- A plain-text file at the root of a website that tells AI systems what the business is and which pages matter. Ours is at /llms.txt.
- Structured data
- Labels in a web page's code (schema.org) that tell machines exactly what a price, an hours block, an article or a business is.
- Prufloop
- The name comes from the German word prüf, "to inspect," plus loop. In software, a loop is code, or an AI model, that keeps running in the background without getting in anyone's way, handling the work it was built for. Prufloop is that loop for the real world: infrastructure that quietly gets the hard jobs done, starting with the skilled trades and reaching into the other services and goods that are still hard to buy without a phone call.
How we talk to AI
- Open to every assistant. No exclusive deals. Any assistant that follows the rules can book a Prufloop pro.
- Plain facts, one source. Every number and definition here comes from one facts file, so people and machines get the same answer.
- Machine-readable. llms.txt, a sitemap and schema.org structured data on every page.
- Selection receipts. With every match, the assistant gets a plain explanation: the needs matched, why this pro, the trade-off and two alternatives.
Reading list
The Done Economy, our nine-part series:
- From found to done: a short history of looking for help
- SEO got you found. AXE gets it done.
- How AXE works: verify, expose, book, prove, pay
- How we've been thinking about the leap
- Honesty and transparency at the center
- Why fixing a house is the hardest thing to automate
- What "done" means for a leaky pipe
- What does the user really want, and what can AI give them?
- The last frontier: why we built for every pro and every assistant
Plus Industry Watch, our daily pick of AI assistant, home services and legal news, and What is AXE?
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