{ "$schema": "https://sightbox.co/beacon/.well-known/beacon.schema.json", "spec": "beacon-canonical-source/1", "generatedFrom": "index.html", "canonicalUrl": "https://sightbox.co/beacon/", "updated": "2026-06-01", "product": { "name": "Beacon", "version": "V1.1", "tagline": "The structured presence layer for AI discovery.", "oneLiner": "Beacon turns your website into one canonical source of truth that both humans and AI agents can read clearly — beautiful pages for visitors, clean machine-readable surfaces for Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, and every agent that comes next.", "category": "Structured presence / AI discoverability layer", "maker": { "name": "Sightbox", "url": "https://sightbox.co", "description": "Sightbox builds the structured presence layer for AI agents.", "agentReadableSurface": "https://sightbox.co/llm" }, "contact": { "email": "beacon@sightbox.co", "talkToUs": "https://sightbox.co/beacon/talk-to-us" } }, "problem": { "headline": "Agents are reading your site before humans are.", "summary": "AI coding agents and assistants — Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity — now discover, evaluate, and recommend companies long before a person ever opens a tab. They read your homepage, your docs, your changelog, and form an opinion in milliseconds." }, "solution": { "headline": "One structured layer. Two audiences.", "summary": "Beacon is the structured presence layer underneath your site. You write content once, in one canonical place. Beacon generates two synchronized outputs: clean human pages and clean machine surfaces, with native integration on your own domain — no weird subdomains." }, "howItWorks": { "headline": "Four moves. One coherent presence.", "steps": [ { "n": 1, "title": "Curated content foundation", "detail": "We work with you to build the canonical source: company facts, products, pricing, docs — all in one structured, versioned place." }, { "n": 2, "title": "Automatic markdown + llms.txt", "detail": "The canonical source is published as agent-optimized markdown plus an llms.txt manifest at the root of your domain." }, { "n": 3, "title": "Native domain integration", "detail": "Machine surfaces ship on your own domain alongside your human pages — no weird subdomains, proper canonical tags." }, { "n": 4, "title": "Agents read clearly", "detail": "Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity and every agent that follows read your company with full fidelity." } ] }, "liveProof": { "headline": "See exactly what agents see.", "url": "https://sightbox.co/llm", "agentView": "https://sightbox.co/beacon/llm", "summary": "sightbox.co/llm is the live, agent-readable surface of our own company, running on Beacon. Every page on Sightbox has a machine companion exactly like it.", "signals": ["valid llms.txt", ".md mirror", "JSON-LD", "canonical tags", "X-Beacon-Proxy header"] }, "practice": { "headline": "Vision for venture, extended to vision for agents.", "tagline": "Beacon is narrative architecture for the agent layer.", "summary": "Sightbox has spent fifteen years helping founders turn a vague idea into a venture the market can see — a practice we call narrative architecture: building the story, the structure, and the surfaces that make a company legible to the humans it wants to reach. The audience has changed; the agents are here. Beacon applies the same discipline, structure, and voice to a new reader. This narrative layer is the part of Beacon that is uniquely Sightbox.", "wordmark": "Vision for venture®", "discipline": "narrative architecture" }, "products": [ { "name": "Beacon", "role": "structured presence layer", "detail": "Turns your site into one canonical source of truth, readable by humans and agents with equal fidelity." }, { "name": "Loop", "role": "change-aware sync engine", "detail": "Keeps the canonical source and every generated surface fresh as your company changes." }, { "name": "Pilot", "role": "agent-readiness diagnostics", "detail": "Scores how legible a site is to agents and shows exactly what to fix." } ], "scan": { "headline": "Run the scan. See the score.", "freeToolUrl": "https://sightbox.co/beacon/#scan", "summary": "Beacon scores any site live across discoverability, content negotiation, and bot access control — measuring how well it speaks to agents. Your score is the share of checks you pass.", "categories": ["discoverability", "content negotiation", "bot access control"], "checks": ["llms.txt", "robots.txt AI-crawler rules", "sitemap", "JSON-LD structured data"] }, "diagnostic": { "headline": "Every point traces to a real check.", "model": "Overall score is the share of enabled checks passed — the same model as Cloudflare's agent-readiness scan.", "levels": "0 (Basic Web Presence) → 4 (Agent-Native)", "totalChecks": 6, "categories": [ { "name": "Discoverability", "checks": 3, "detail": "robots.txt, Sitemap, and HTTP Link headers — validated against soft-404s, not just a 200 response." }, { "name": "Content", "checks": 1, "detail": "Markdown for Agents — whether Accept: text/markdown returns a real markdown version of the page." }, { "name": "Bot Access Control", "checks": 2, "detail": "AI-bot rules in robots.txt (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot…) and Content Signals declaring ai-train / search / ai-input preferences." } ] }, "audience": { "headline": "Built for teams that already care about clarity.", "note": "Beacon doesn't fix bad content. It amplifies good content for a new audience.", "segments": [ { "title": "Devtool companies", "detail": "Where the buyer is an engineer, often arriving through an agent recommendation." }, { "title": "Documentation-heavy products", "detail": "If your docs are your front door, they should be readable by every agent that knocks." }, { "title": "AI-forward brands", "detail": "Companies betting their distribution on the agent layer, and acting like it." }, { "title": "Teams that ship DX", "detail": "If you sweat the details for developers, you'll sweat them for agents too." } ] }, "pricing": { "headline": "Three ways to get started.", "note": "We're still shaping pricing with our first partners. The ranges below are relative; exact figures are scoped on our call.", "tiers": [ { "n": 1, "name": "Foundation", "timeline": "4–6 weeks", "billing": "Entry · one-time", "summary": "A solid, production-ready Beacon layer, quickly, with minimal ongoing commitment.", "includes": [ "Full structured knowledge base", "llms.txt + agent-optimized markdown", "Basic read-only MCP endpoint", "1–2 primary surface integrations", "90-day content sync support", "Team training" ] }, { "n": 2, "name": "Beacon + MCP", "timeline": "6–8 weeks", "billing": "Most popular · one-time + monthly", "recommended": true, "summary": "For teams serious about staying ahead of agent-driven discovery: production MCP, continuous sync, ongoing optimization.", "includes": [ "Everything in Foundation", "Production MCP server (auth + rate limits)", "Custom agent surfaces & query handling", "Automated sync pipeline", "Monthly performance reports", "Priority support + quarterly reviews", "Ongoing optimization as standards evolve" ] }, { "n": 3, "name": "Enterprise", "timeline": "Custom", "billing": "Custom · scoped to you", "summary": "Maximum agent leverage: heavy customization, internal KB exposure, analytics, SLAs, or white-label.", "includes": [ "Everything in Beacon + MCP", "Internal knowledge-base exposure", "Advanced analytics", "SLAs", "White-label options" ] } ] }, "faq": [ { "q": "Will this hurt SEO or confuse Google?", "a": "No. Beacon adds clean machine surfaces alongside your human pages with proper canonical tags and structured data. Google's own guidance points toward this direction — generative search and agent discovery are now first-class layers." }, { "q": "Do we have to rebuild our site?", "a": "No. We integrate with your existing stack — Next.js, Astro, Webflow, Ghost, Sanity, Contentful, custom CMS. Beacon sits as a structured layer underneath; the public site keeps its current design." }, { "q": "What is llms.txt, exactly?", "a": "A simple, agent-native manifest served at the root of your domain that tells AI agents what your company is, where the canonical content lives, and how to read it. Think of it as a sitemap.xml for the agent era." }, { "q": "How long until we see results?", "a": "Beacon scores move within days of going live. Behavioral impact — agents pulling your content into answers — typically shows up within 4–8 weeks as crawlers re-index." }, { "q": "Who owns the content?", "a": "You do, entirely. The canonical source is exportable as plain markdown and structured JSON whenever you want it. No lock-in." }, { "q": "Can we block specific agents?", "a": "Yes. Per-agent allow/deny policies are first-class. Beacon respects robots.txt, supports per-bot rules, and gives you an audit trail of who read what." } ], "cta": { "headline": "Be the answer. Not the dead end.", "summary": "We're working with a small number of companies right now. If your team cares about being legible to the agent layer — and ahead of the people who aren't yet thinking about it — let's talk.", "pilotCohort": "Q3 2026", "slots": "6 / 10 slots filled", "email": "beacon@sightbox.co" }, "surfaces": { "human": "https://sightbox.co/beacon/", "agentView": "https://sightbox.co/beacon/llm", "llmsTxt": "https://sightbox.co/beacon/llms.txt", "llmsFull": "https://sightbox.co/beacon/llms-full.txt", "canonicalJson": "https://sightbox.co/beacon/beacon.json", "discovery": "https://sightbox.co/beacon/.well-known/beacon.json" }, "narrative": { "problem": "https://sightbox.co/beacon/llm/narrative/problem", "solution": "https://sightbox.co/beacon/llm/narrative/solution", "howItWorks": "https://sightbox.co/beacon/llm/narrative/how-it-works", "proof": "https://sightbox.co/beacon/llm/narrative/proof", "diagnostic": "https://sightbox.co/beacon/llm/narrative/diagnostic", "practice": "https://sightbox.co/beacon/llm/narrative/practice" } }