Manuals and 3D guides that AI and search can read.
Each guide has a public text version with structured steps and warnings word for word. Your team approves it once, and every format follows.
Built to be read as text.
In every guide
- A public text version of each guideA server-rendered page with steps, parts and warnings word for word, with the manual's page and signal word.
- Structured data and an llms.txt entryStructured data describes the steps and product, and the guide is listed in llms.txt.
- Ask, inside the guideAnswers from the brand's approved content only. Online answers are labeled AI answer.
AI answers come from the guide your team approved.
Your team approves the page
Each page sits beside its source. Warnings stay word for word with the manual's signal word.
Every format reads that revision
Print files, 3D guide, text page, structured data and Ask all come from one approved revision.
AI answers stay inside it
Ask answers from the approved guide only, each labeled, pointing back to the manual's warnings.
A new revision replaces the old
The text page and guide change together, on the same address and box code.
Research on step design behind the 3D guide.
Stanford researchers tested step-by-step design principles against factory and hand-drawn instructions. The principles cut assembly time by about 35% and errors by about 50%.
shorter assembly time, on average, for instructions built on the principles (30 people in the study).
SOURCE: STANFORD USER STUDY OF THE PRINCIPLESfewer assembly errors, on average, for the same instructions.
SOURCE: STANFORD USER STUDY OF THE PRINCIPLESThese figures come from the published study, not from our guides.
Sources: Stanford user study of the principles and Agrawala et al., SIGGRAPH 2003. Bars show the published percentages against a baseline of 100.
What we do not promise.
We do not control other tools
Whether a search engine or AI assistant cites a guide is up to that tool. We promise no placement.
No Google rich results
Google retired how-to rich results. The structured data stays for Bing and AI engines. We promise no ranking.
AI answers can be wrong
Each is labeled AI answer. The manual's warnings and printed instructions come first.
Print instructions come first
If the guide and the printed manual differ, readers are told to follow the printed one.
FAQ
Questions about AI and 3D guides
Can AI assistants and search engines read our manual?
Each 3D guide has a public text version with structured steps, parts and warnings word for word, plus an llms.txt entry. Whether any search engine or assistant shows it is up to them, and we make no promise about it.
Why does a PDF manual read poorly for AI?
Many manuals today are PDFs, often scanned images. AI tools read those poorly or not at all. A text page with structured steps gives them the content as text.
Why is the 3D guide easier to build from than a paper manual?
It follows step-by-step design principles that Stanford researchers found cut assembly time by about 35% and errors by about 50% in their study (Agrawala et al., SIGGRAPH 2003, and the follow-up user study). That is the research on the principles, not our measured result. We have not measured our own guides yet.
Do AI answers inside the guide come from our approved content?
Yes. Ask answers questions inside the guide from your approved content only. When you turn on online answers, each one is labeled AI answer. Answers can be wrong, so the guide points readers back to the manual's warnings.