How AI reads your website, and what that means for the people who build it

By Takeshi Yokoyama — Onecarat Labs

Hi. I'm Yokoyama, and I build a local-first AI text editor as a side project, along with a few other experimental tools. Working on them, I keep running into the same question about where the web is going. This post is one observation, plus a small experiment I built to test it — including a Chrome extension you can actually try.

The short version: I think websites will increasingly be read through AI agents, reshaped per reader, on the fly. And once that happens, there's a clear gap between sites that are easy for an AI to read and sites that aren't.

What's starting to happen

Until now, people read websites as websites. You open the top page, follow the menu, read the body, click a button — tracing the path the maker designed.