How AI assistants read poe.com
What a machine reading this site receives: identity files, schema, crawler policy, the entity behind the name. Read weekly by a crawler, no model call. For the people who run Poe; the catalogue page is for the people who choose it.
60/100
- Entity25/25
- Machine-readable5.6/35
- Retrieval access17/20
- Footprintnot read
No structured data on the site
criticalThe heaviest thing this reading found wrong, named in the words our fix list uses. Read off the site itself, not from a model.
40/100
Does anybody use it: audience (Tranco list, Chrome UX report, estimated organic visits), installs from registries, referring domains. Never votes, never reviews.
- Audience16.1/40
- Installsnot read
- Referencesnot read
not read yet
Is anybody home: the homepage answers, the content moves, something ships, somebody hires. Each part a dated reading from a public place; a part not read is left out and the total rescaled.
- Answersnot read
- Content movesnot read
- Shipsnot read
- Hiringnot read
- Poe60
- AI assistants medianof 12 rated62
- Atlas medianof 20921 rated61
The homepage did not answer when swept. robots.txt and llms.txt live at their own addresses and were still read.
- Retrieval botspartialrefused: OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-SearchBot, Perplexity-User, Claude-Userverify
Whether the bots that decide citations are let in. Training bots are a separate list and are not counted here.
- llms.txtnoverify
A plain-text index at /llms.txt. Optional; read by some tools.
- Organization schemanot read
schema.org Organization markup on the homepage, which is what a resolver reads a company's name and links from.
- Wikidata itemQ117196078Wikipedia article
Matched on the official website, never on the name. The substrate under the knowledge graph an engine resolves names against.
- Server-rendered wordsnot read
What a reader without JavaScript receives from the homepage.
- Identity score16/100swept
The analyzer's crawl-only section, 0-100: identity files, schema, crawler policy, sitemap. Not the analyzer score.
16/100
identity score
Not measured with the analyzer.
The full run asks four engines about this company by name. It runs on request, not on a schedule.
What is Poe's Atlas Readiness?
60 of 100 on 2026-10-15, computed from four parts — entity, machine-readable, retrieval access, footprint — out of 80 of 100 points — footprint not read. It places #7 of 11 rated AI assistants tools.
Does Poe let AI retrieval bots in?
Partly. On 2026-10-15, poe.com disallowed OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-SearchBot, Perplexity-User, Claude-User and let the others in.
Does Poe publish an llms.txt?
No: there was no /llms.txt at poe.com on 2026-10-15.
Is Poe a Wikidata entity?
Yes: Q117196078, matched on its official website.
How to read a row
- swept
- Read by a crawler: HTTP and parsing, no model call. Every tool, every week.
- measured
- The full analyzer run, asked of four engines. Shown only where the company agreed to show it.
Can a retrieval engine find, resolve and quote this site? Four parts, each read by the sweep, each shown beside the total.
Entity 25 · Machine-readable 35 · Retrieval access 20 · Footprint 20
A part that was never read is left out and the total is rescaled to what was. It is never counted as zero.