FiredUp! - The Startup Marketing Podcast
FiredUp! is the show for marketers working in early and late-stage startups. Each week, we walk through fresh strategies and tactics to build brand and drive demand for your startup. Featuring interviews with marketing leaders, our take on the latest trends, and practical tips about PR, content marketing and growth marketing, we promise plenty of signal with some noisy fun along the way.
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FiredUp! - The Startup Marketing Podcast
Boosting AI Search with an LLM Cache with Jeff Reine
Traditional SEO is undergoing its biggest transformation in decades. We are moving from a world of "Search and Discover" to one of "Ask and Answer". If your brand isn't properly indexed by AI crawlers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude, you risk becoming invisible to your best B2B prospects. On this episode of FiredUp!, we tackle the "impatient" nature of AI search bots and explain why your website might be actively blocking the very AI agents you want to reach. This week, episode 123 of the FiredUp! podcast is about boosting AI search with an LLM cache!
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In this episode of the FiredUp! Podcast, Jeff Reine shares how AI search is changing the way we find answers on the internet and actionable steps you can take right now to optimize your website for AI searches.
Jeff Reine is the co-founder of Everything Machines, a company at the forefront of the "AI internet". Jeff is a veteran of the tech industry with a deep focus on how large language models (LLMs) and semantic search are reshaping discovery. His current mission is helping brands build an "AI cache"—a specialized, bot-friendly version of their web content—to ensure maximum visibility and accuracy in AI-generated answers.
Jeff and Morgan discuss:
- Search is no longer about listing links for humans to click; it’s about LLMs synthesizing a single, finite answer for the user. If you aren't in that one answer, you don't exist in that session.
- Unlike Google, which might wait for your site to load, AI crawlers often have 1-3 second timeouts. They bias toward clean, text-heavy, authoritative HTML and rarely execute the JavaScript that powers your modern site's bells and whistles.
- Trying to satisfy both humans and AI bots on one site results in a compromised experience for both. The solution is a "shadow website" or AI cache that serves static, JS-free HTML specifically for crawlers.
- The next era of marketing is 1:1. You should structure your website content around specific personas so that when an AI "fans out" its query, it can find and deliver exactly the right messaging for that specific stakeholder.
- Every AI-ready site needs three baseline optimizations: JS-free static HTML, semantic descriptors from schema.org, and a well-structured content hierarchy.
Is your website accidentally hiding its best content from the AI agents that are currently building your prospects' vendor lists? Don't let your "perfect" brand design be the reason your company gets left out of the next Perplexity search result.
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