The Direct Answer
Use llms.txt to declare your most-citable buyer-facing pages to AI search tools — pillars, anchor compares, and authoritative answer pages. Pair with llms-full.txt for full passage-level citability.
The Slightly Longer Explanation
llms.txt is the AI-search equivalent of sitemap.xml — a structured file at site root that lists the canonical knowledge resources you want AI tools to cite from.
For wholesale procurement, the highest-citability pages are pillar guides (size, brand, certification, delivery) and the structured answer pages — not the homepage or category pages.
Pair llms.txt with passage-citable formatting: short paragraphs, named entities, specific figures, and direct answers in the first line of each section.
Buyer Checklist
Before you act on the answer above, run through this:
- Publish llms.txt at site root
- List pillar guides and authoritative answer pages, not navigation pages
- Pair with llms-full.txt for full passage-level content
- Format pages for passage-level citability (short paras, named entities, direct answers)
Where This Sits In The Bigger Picture
This is an answer page — short by design, anchored to one question. The longer-form reasoning lives in the linked pages below.
Related reading:
The qualification wizard is the next step when you’re ready to turn the answer into a quote.
