🚧  RetrieveAI is currently under active development. This prototype demonstrates a Retrieval Intelligence Engine. Access is limited and features are evolving.

AI Retrieval Engineering · Systems Prototype

Engineer How AI Systems Retrieve Your Brand.

RetrieveAI is a scoped-first Retrieval Intelligence Engine designed to measure AI visibility, entity strength, prompt coverage, and commerce-readiness inside generative systems.

RetrieveAI prototype — Overview dashboard showing AI Visibility Score, Entity Strength, Retrieval Coverage, and Prompt Simulation status

Prototype Interface Walkthrough

Real screens from the RetrieveAI prototype — validating the retrieval scoring architecture, scope management, and commerce intelligence layers across the full audit pipeline.

RetrieveAI Screen 1 — Overview and AI Visibility dashboard with composite scoring and audit job status
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Overview & AI Visibility

Composite scoring dashboard showing AI Visibility Score, Entity Strength, and Retrieval Coverage as normalized 0–100 metrics with trend overlays. Audit job status and recent simulation run history are surfaced at the top level.

RetrieveAI Screen 2 — Snapshot and Volatility tracking panel with score delta visualization across audit runs
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Snapshot & Volatility Tracking

Score delta visualization across audit runs over time. Surfaces volatility in LLM retrieval behavior per entity. Identifies which scoring dimensions are stable across simulation runs and which are prompt-sensitive — enabling targeted remediation.

RetrieveAI Screen 3 — URL Discovery and Scope selection panel with crawl depth controls and scope type assignment
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URL Discovery & Scope Selection

Crawl depth controls, URL type classification, and scope mode assignment interface. Shows how the system maps site architecture into auditable surfaces before any prompt simulation begins. Handles single_page through full_site mode transitions.

RetrieveAI Screen 4 — Commerce Layer audit panel with purchase-intent signal density and product catalog intelligence scoring
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Commerce Layer Audit

Purchase-intent signal density scoring, product catalog intelligence assessment, and AI-assisted commerce surface analysis. Evaluates how effectively structured product data performs in post-search generative discovery environments like conversational shopping.

What the Engine Measures

Six precision-engineered scoring modules that audit, quantify, and surface how generative AI systems understand and retrieve a brand at inference time.

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AI Visibility Score

Measures how prominently a brand surfaces across LLM inference paths. Combines entity recall rate, prompt match frequency, and representation density into a normalized composite using deterministic simulation runs.

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Entity Strength Score

Evaluates semantic depth and disambiguation clarity of a brand entity across structured data coverage, knowledge graph co-occurrence signals, and contextual representation quality in LLM-accessible content.

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Retrieval Coverage Engine

Maps all retrievable surfaces — product pages, category clusters, FAQ nodes — and verifies each is correctly accessible, contextually coherent, and structured for AI retrieval pipelines and vector index ingestion.

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Structured Clarity Audit

Validates schema markup completeness, JSON-LD fidelity, and data structure correctness. Ensures pages communicate unambiguously to AI crawlers, embedding generators, and RAG context construction pipelines.

Prompt Simulation Engine

Runs deterministic, temperature-zero LLM prompt simulations against scoped content using real-world query patterns. Identifies retrieval gaps, hallucination entry points, and entity coverage blind spots across each audit surface.

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Commerce Readiness Layer

Audits product catalog intelligence, purchase-intent signal density, and AI-assisted commerce surface quality. Scores how effectively a brand converts within post-search generative discovery environments.

Scoped-First Audit Architecture

Every audit begins with intelligent scope definition — matching audit depth to the specific use case, controlling API budget consumption, and enabling progressive intelligence layering across pipeline stages. No blind full-site sweeps.

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URL Discovery

Automated crawl mapping via sitemap parsing, Playwright-driven link extraction, and DataForSEO graph enrichment. Produces a typed, classified URL inventory before any LLM work is dispatched.

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Context Bundle Generation

Semantically related pages are bundled into retrieval contexts before prompt dispatch — reducing token waste, improving simulation fidelity, and enabling cross-URL entity coherence scoring within the same job.

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Scope Type Assignment

Four scope modes each carry distinct page caps, prompt universe sizes, scoring weight distributions, and API cost envelopes. Scope selection is the first architectural decision in every audit configuration.

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Progressive Audit Depth

Scores are computed in ordered layers — shallow visibility scores first, deep simulation and recommendation generation last. No LLM work is dispatched until prior pipeline stages pass validation and caching.

single_page context_cluster ✦ recommended category full_site
Scope — context_cluster · 6 URLs
URL Retrieval Audit Results
/products/ai-engine94
/solutions/commerce88
/about/brand-entity71
/faq/ai-retrieval65
/catalog/products48
/blog/llm-context77
Context Bundle Health
78%
2 URLs require structured data enrichment before simulation dispatch.

Built With Defensive Engineering.

Production-grade reliability primitives designed into the audit pipeline from the start — not retrofitted as patches after the architecture solidified.

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Audit Orchestrator

Centralized job coordination layer sequences crawl, extraction, prompt simulation, and scoring tasks with dependency graph awareness, partial failure recovery, and idempotent job replay support.

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Circuit Breaker Protection

Automatic fault isolation prevents cascading failures across audit jobs. Services trip independently and recover via exponential backoff without requiring full orchestrator restarts or manual intervention.

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Timeout Budget Enforcement

Every LLM call, Playwright crawl, and external API request operates within explicit timeout budgets. Partial results are preserved and flagged — timed-out stages are never silently dropped.

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Postgres Semaphore Concurrency

Advisory locks and semaphore-based concurrency control in PostgreSQL ensure parallel audit jobs never corrupt shared scoring state, exhaust connection pools, or produce race-conditioned results.

Cache Versioning

Content-addressed cache keys with version stamps allow incremental re-audits without invalidating prior work. Changing one URL re-scores only its affected context bundle — not the full site.

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Deterministic LLM Calls

Temperature-zero, seed-controlled prompt dispatch ensures every run produces bit-reproducible scores. Score deltas between audit runs reflect content changes — not model stochasticity.

The Retrieval Intelligence Pipeline

Eight deterministic stages transform raw URLs into actionable retrieval scores, entity models, and structured recommendations — each stage dependent on validated output from the previous.

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URL Discovery
Sitemap + Playwright
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Scope Selection
4 Scope Types
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Context Bundle
Semantic Clustering
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Crawl & Extract
Playwright + Parser
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Prompt Intelligence
Query Generation
Simulation
Deterministic LLM
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Scoring
Multi-Dimension
Recommendations
Ranked & Typed

Powered By

Chosen for production reliability, AI workload compatibility, and vector retrieval performance — not convenience defaults.

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Node.js
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React / Next.js
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PostgreSQL
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pgvector
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Playwright
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Opaque Token Auth
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DataForSEO
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Bright Data

LLMs are the new discovery layer. Brands have no visibility into it.

When a user asks an LLM to recommend a product, compare services, or explain a concept, the model retrieves from its training context and any available RAG surfaces. SEO rank is irrelevant inside that retrieval.

Traditional analytics measure what happens after a click. SEO tools measure position in a ranked list. Neither instrument the prior question: does the model retrieve your brand at all?

RetrieveAI was built to close that instrumentation gap — with scoped audits, deterministic prompt simulation, and entity-level scoring that gives engineers a measurable model of brand retrievability inside generative systems.

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LLMs Are Replacing Traditional Discovery

Generative AI interfaces are becoming the primary touchpoint for product discovery and comparison. Brand retrieval inside LLMs is now a measurable, improvable business surface.

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SEO ≠ AI Retrieval

Search ranking and LLM retrieval are architecturally distinct. Optimizing for PageRank does not optimize for token-level entity representation inside a language model's inference context.

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Determinism Is Non-Negotiable for Scoring

Without temperature-zero, seed-controlled dispatch, score deltas between audit runs are indistinguishable from model variance. Determinism is what makes regression tracking scientifically valid.

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Scoped Audits Outperform Full-Site Sweeps

Most retrieval problems are localized to specific intent surfaces. Scoped audits produce higher signal-to-noise ratios, lower API overhead, and faster iteration cycles than site-wide crawls.

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Engineering-First Architecture

Reliability primitives — circuit breakers, semaphore concurrency, timeout budgets, cache versioning — were designed in from day one. Defensive engineering is a discipline, not an afterthought.

Scope Modes

Scope is the first architectural decision in every audit. Each mode defines a distinct envelope of page caps, prompt universe size, scoring weight distribution, entity reinforcement depth, and API cost control.

single_page

Single Page

Surgical audit for one URL. Maximum signal concentration for a single intent surface.

Page Cap1 URL
Prompt Universe5–10 queries
Scoring WeightsFull weight on single entity
Entity ReinforcementIsolated — no cross-URL signal
Cost ControlMinimal API cost
category

Category

Full category-level audit including sub-pages, facets, and filter surfaces.

Page Cap25–150 URLs
Prompt Universe50–100 queries
Scoring WeightsCategory + sub-category weights
Entity ReinforcementHierarchical entity model
Cost ControlModerate — semaphore-gated
full_site

Full Site

Complete site-wide retrieval intelligence with full concurrency and budget controls active.

Page CapUnlimited
Prompt Universe100–500+ queries
Scoring WeightsDomain-wide normalization
Entity ReinforcementFull site entity graph
Cost ControlPostgres semaphore + budget cap
Scope Mode Entity Disambiguation Context Bundling Cross-URL Scoring Semaphore Concurrency Commerce Layer
single_page Partial
context_cluster
category Partial
full_site

Frequently Asked Questions

Architecture and design decisions explained clearly.

Is this an SEO tool?01

No. SEO tools optimize for search engine rankings — crawl coverage, backlink authority, keyword density. RetrieveAI audits how LLMs retrieve and represent a brand inside generative inference. These are architecturally distinct problems requiring different instrumentation and different remediation paths.

How is retrieval different from ranking?02

Ranking measures position in a sorted result list. Retrieval measures inclusion in a model's consideration set. A brand that never appears in an LLM-generated response has zero retrieval coverage — regardless of search rank. RetrieveAI measures retrieval directly using scoped prompt simulation, not search index proxies.

Why scoped audits instead of full-site always?03

Full-site sweeps are expensive in LLM API calls, Playwright compute time, and result noise. Most retrieval problems are localized to specific intent surfaces. Scoped audits produce higher-fidelity, lower-noise signals faster and at lower cost per actionable insight generated.

Why deterministic LLM scoring?04

Without temperature-zero, seed-controlled dispatch, score changes between audit runs could reflect model stochasticity rather than content changes. Determinism makes the scoring system scientifically valid — a delta in AI Visibility Score means the content changed, not the random seed. This is a foundational architectural requirement.

Prototype Roadmap

Active development progress across all pipeline modules. Features are being built, tested, and validated against real audit runs.

URL Discovery Engine

Sitemap parsing, Playwright-based link extraction, URL classification and deduplication. Produces a typed URL inventory as the first pipeline stage input, handling redirects and canonical resolution.

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Context Cluster Generator

Semantic clustering of URL sets into coherent retrieval contexts. Bundles related pages before prompt dispatch to reduce token overhead, improve simulation fidelity, and enable cross-URL entity coherence scoring.

Complete

AI Visibility Score Engine

Composite scoring system combining entity recall rate, prompt match frequency, and representation density into a normalized 0–100 visibility score per URL and context cluster.

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Prompt Simulation Engine

Deterministic, temperature-zero LLM prompt dispatcher. Generates real-world query patterns per scope, dispatches with seed control, and parses structured retrieval results for downstream scoring stages.

Complete
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Commerce Layer v2 — In Progress

Purchase-intent signal density scoring and AI-assisted product catalog intelligence. v1 ships basic commerce surface detection; v2 adds generative shopping simulation and structured product data schema validation.

In Progress
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Prompt Commerce Transactions — Planned

End-to-end simulation of purchase-intent prompt flows through generative AI interfaces. Models how AI-assisted commerce surfaces retrieve, recommend, and convert product entities from the retrieval layer.

Planned

An Engineering-First Approach to AI Retrieval.

RetrieveAI is an active portfolio prototype. If you're working on retrieval infrastructure, AI visibility tooling, or post-search commerce systems — this architecture may be relevant to your work.

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