southernsky.ai
Kristina's international maritime AI consultancy.
The problem
Most professional services websites are invisible to AI systems. JavaScript-rendered content that crawlers cannot read, no AI discovery file, no schema, entity descriptions contradicting each other across platforms. The machine builds a fragmented picture and withholds its recommendation, at the exact point where credibility matters most.
What we built
Two separate entity sites, one for the practice and one for Kristina as founder, each crawlable and linked to the other. Static HTML on every page, generated at build time. AI discovery file linked from robots.txt. JSON-LD schema implemented and validated for organisation and website. Corroborating source network maintained across four credibility categories: directory listings, media coverage, scholarly recognition and speaking engagements.
The outcome
AI systems can now read the practice, understand it accurately, and recommend it. A finding during configuration: the infrastructure provider was silently blocking AI crawlers at platform level despite correct site-level permissions. Identified through direct crawler behaviour testing, and resolved. Without that resolution, a correctly built AEO site would have been indistinguishable from one never configured at all.
