Why agents are reading your HTML wrong, and what we did about it.

I was watching an agent answer a simple question.

The question was small. Three sentences would have covered it. The agent loaded the page, parsed the HTML, walked through nav bars, footer links, cookie banners, a sticky "subscribe to our newsletter" modal, three paragraphs of preamble, and finally, found the part it needed.

Twenty thousand tokens.

For three sentences.