Nick Bair
Co-founder · Engineering
Co-founder of Sandcastle Labs, leading engineering. Builds Collimer and the agent machinery the studio leaves behind with clients.
Guides by Nick
Check your own AI visibility from Claude or Cursor: the MCP workflow
You can run an AI-visibility scan on any domain from inside Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, or VS Code. Collimer ships an MCP server with exactly one tool, installed with a five-line config block. Below: the setup, three prompts that work verbatim, and an unedited transcript of a real session, including our own unflattering score.
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot: which AI crawlers to allow, and what each one does
Every major AI vendor runs separate bots for training, for its search index, and for live user-triggered fetches. Blocking the wrong one makes you invisible in AI answers without actually opting out of anything. A verified, bot-by-bot reference, as of August 2026.
How to tell whether a GEO fix actually worked
A single re-check cannot distinguish a real visibility change from run-to-run noise. The honest method: freeze the prompt panel, re-probe with a confidence interval, and report one of five outcomes, including the null.
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