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Introducing Seedfile: Planting Your Flag in the AI Era

By Brent Passmore 3 min read

For as long as the web has existed, we've had ways to communicate with machines: sitemaps tell search engines what to index, robots.txt tells crawlers where to go and where not to. These files are quiet infrastructure, working in the background so the visible surface of your site can do its job.

The AI era needs the same kind of infrastructure. And right now, most websites don't have it.

What is llms.txt?

The llms.txt standard is a simple, emerging convention: a plain-text file hosted at the root of your domain that tells large language models — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and others — what your site is about, who you are, and how your content can be used. A companion file, llms-full.txt, goes further: it includes the full text of your site's key pages in a structured, AI-readable format.

The idea is straightforward. When an AI system needs to understand your content before surfacing it in an answer, these files give it something clean to work with rather than crawling raw HTML, wrestling with JavaScript rendering, or skipping you entirely.

What Seedfile does

Seedfile is a new Had A Farm product that takes the complexity out of the process. You enter your domain, Seedfile scans your site, runs a series of AI visibility diagnostic checks, and generates both your llms.txt and llms-full.txt files ready for download and deployment.

The diagnostic layer is what separates Seedfile from a file template. Before generating your files, it evaluates your site against a set of AI visibility signals: whether your key pages are crawlable, whether your content is structured in a way AI systems can parse, whether you have the basic signals in place that make a site worth citing rather than overlooking.

You get the diagnosis. You get the files. You drop them at the root of your domain and you're done.

Why now?

Answer engine optimization isn't a future concern anymore. It's a present one. A growing share of search queries are answered directly by AI systems, and those systems are making choices about which sources to cite and which to skip. The sites that get cited share common traits: clean structure, clear authorship, well-organized content, and the technical infrastructure to signal all of that.

llms.txt is part of that infrastructure. And right now, the overwhelming majority of websites don't have one.

That's a gap Seedfile closes in minutes.

Getting started

Seedfile is live at seedfile.app. Enter your domain, run your diagnostic scan, and download your files. Pricing is simple and the first scan gets you oriented.

This is one more seed planted with intention. We hope it grows something good for your operation.

Questions from the field.

What is Seedfile?

Seedfile is a Had A Farm tool that scans your website, runs AI visibility diagnostics, and generates llms.txt and llms-full.txt files for download. These files follow an emerging open standard for telling large language models what your site covers and how your content can be used.

What is an llms.txt file?

An llms.txt file is a plain-text file hosted at the root of your domain that describes your organization and links to your most important pages with brief descriptions. It gives AI systems a clean, structured way to understand your site without crawling raw HTML. Think of it as a robots.txt for the AI era.

Do I need technical skills to use Seedfile?

No. You enter your domain, Seedfile scans your site and runs the diagnostics, and you download the generated files. Deploying them is as simple as placing two text files at the root of your web server. No coding required.

Why does my site need an llms.txt file?

AI-powered search tools are increasingly choosing which sources to cite in their answers. Sites that are easier for AI systems to parse and understand are more likely to be cited. An llms.txt file is one of the clearest signals you can send that your content is organized, authoritative, and ready to be referenced.

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