When an AI system is asked "what is Acme?" it extracts the answer from the first clear definitional sentence it can find on your homepage. A hero that reads "Reimagine Your Workflow" gives it nothing to quote, so the assistant either hallucinates a description, cites a competitor, or refuses to answer. Without a concrete name + category + function statement, your product is structurally uncitable regardless of how much downstream content exists.
Critical because a missing definitional statement makes the site uncitable at the root, blocking every downstream AI answer.
Add a one-sentence definition to the hero section that answers what the product is, what category it belongs to, and what it does, in under 25 words. The statement must appear in server-rendered HTML within the first content section. Update src/app/page.tsx or the marketing route file.
<section className="hero">
<h1>AuditBuffet</h1>
<p>A library of adversarially-tested audit prompts for AI-built projects.</p>
</section>
ID: geo-readiness.content-citability.entity-self-definition
Severity: critical
What to look for: Read the homepage's visible content — specifically the first two paragraphs or the hero section plus the first content section. Before evaluating, extract and quote the exact text of the hero heading (H1) and the first paragraph or sub-heading below it. Look for a concrete definitional statement that follows the pattern: "[Product name] is a [category/type] that [what it does]" or equivalent. The statement must contain all 3 elements: (1) the product/site name, (2) what category of thing it is, and (3) what it does or who it serves.
Pass criteria: Count all definitional statements in the first 2 visible content sections. The homepage must contain at least 1 clear, concrete statement that defines what the product is and what it does, containing all 3 required elements (name, category, function). Report: "X of 3 required elements found (name, category, function)." A tagline plus an explanatory sub-heading counts (e.g., H1: "AuditBuffet" + subtext: "A library of adversarially-tested audit prompts for AI-built projects"). The definition must be specific enough that someone unfamiliar could summarize the product in 1 sentence of no more than 25 words. Do NOT pass when the hero section contains only the product name and a vague emotional tagline without any functional description.
Fail criteria: The homepage is purely aspirational or emotional with no concrete explanation. Brand name + vague tagline alone fails (e.g., "Welcome to Acme — The Future is Here"). Feature lists without a framing definition fail. The homepage has no text content (image-only hero). The definitional statement is missing at least 1 of the 3 required elements (name, category, function).
Skip (N/A) when: Project is an API-only service with no public-facing homepage (project type detected as api).
Detail on fail: "Homepage hero says 'Reimagine Your Workflow' with no explanation of what the product actually is or does — 0 of 3 definitional elements present. AI systems cannot extract a definition." or "Homepage content begins with customer logos and testimonials — no product definition found in first 2 content sections, only 1 of 3 elements (name) present"
Remediation: AI systems need to understand what your product IS before they can cite it. Add a clear definitional statement near the top of your homepage:
<section className="hero">
<h1>AuditBuffet</h1>
<p>
A library of adversarially-tested audit prompts for AI-built projects.
Run security, SEO, accessibility, and performance audits — get scores
and benchmark your project against the community.
</p>
</section>
The definition should answer: What is it? What does it do? Who is it for?