Tell AI who you are and what you do

Ask an assistant about your company today and it answers. Not from you: from a directory entry, an old article, a page someone else wrote. You are being described by sources you did not write, and there is no address where your own account of yourself is waiting to be read.

The answer already exists

Assistants field questions about companies, organisations and people all day. To answer, they draw on what they can fetch and parse: a listing, a press mention, a profile, a comparison published by a competitor. Some of it is right. Some of it is three years old. None of it is yours.

Your own site is supposed to settle it, and often it cannot. It may render through scripts that a fetcher receives as an empty page, sit behind a bot challenge, or describe what you do in words written for someone who is already interested, rather than for a machine answering someone who is not.

A page written for a reader that is a machine

A Markleex page is your own account of yourself, at an address you keep: markleex.com/@yourname. You write it in plain words. It is served as HTML and, at the same address with a .md suffix, as the exact text you wrote. There is nothing to execute and nothing to guess.

Three things follow from that, and an About page rarely gets to do them.

It is read whole

No scripts, no layout to interpret, no consent wall in the way. A machine asks for the address and receives your text, from the first word to the last.

You are not the only one speaking

A page you write alone says what you say. Markleex also carries what two parties state together: a relationship is published once both entities have confirmed it, and either one can withdraw it. The addresses you declare are read by the platform itself, which publishes what it saw and the day it saw it. Those are facts a site cannot award itself.

It is dated

Every version is kept and chained to the one before it. The page carries the day it was first published, as the platform saw it, alongside the day it last changed. What you said about yourself a year ago is still there, and still readable.

What to put on it

Write the answers you would want read back to someone who has just asked about you.

• Who you are, in one sentence you would accept hearing recited.
• What you do, and what you do not. The edge of your work is what gets guessed wrong.
• Who you do it for, and where you do it.
• How you work: what you sell, on what terms, at what price when you publish one.
• Since when. A date is what tells a reader you from a company founded last month.
• The questions you actually get asked, one page each, question and answer.

How to do it

1. Claim your Markleex Name. It becomes your address: markleex.com/@yourname.
2. Write your main page: who you are, what you do, and who you do it for.
3. Declare your website. Markleex reads it and publishes the day it saw your link back.
4. Declare your relationships. Each one appears once the other entity confirms it.
5. Add one page per question you are actually asked.

Your own assistant can do all of it for you: connect it to Markleex and ask it to take your site up into pages.

What it costs

A space is $0.83 a month, with 10 pages included, and it holds everything published under your name. See the pricing.

See one live: markleex.com/@markleex.