Why I Built KodeCite.AI

Over A Thousand Hours Later, I Couldn't Stop

I've owned a local window treatment business for 23 years. I've bought the websites, the SEO packages, the “done-for-you” marketing — and watched most of them ignore the infrastructure that actually decides who gets recommended.

A couple of years ago I told myself I needed to figure out AI — not in a vague “keep up with the times” way, but really understand how it was going to change marketing for my business.

So I started pulling threads.

Over a thousand hours later, I couldn't stop.

What started as curiosity about my own business turned into a full obsession with how AI systems discover, read, and decide who to cite. Then how large language models actually process information. Then the agent‑to‑agent economy — how autonomous AI agents will need digital rails like Solana and Ethereum to buy compute and settle tasks without humans in the loop. Then how all of it connects.

The Test That Changed Everything

One simple test changed the direction of everything.

I started running Google Rich Results tests on local businesses. HVAC companies. Realtors. Window treatment shops. Contractors. All kinds of businesses across all kinds of markets.

Almost nothing. Virtually zero structured data. No schema. No machine-readable signals. No llms.txt. No agent.json. Just websites built for humans — completely invisible to the AI systems that are increasingly deciding which businesses get recommended and which ones don't.

And I realized: nobody is doing this. At least not at the local level.

The Opportunity Nobody Saw

While national chains and private equity roll‑ups are quietly building the infrastructure to dominate AI search at scale, the independent local businesses that built their reputations over decades have no idea the ground is shifting beneath them.

That's when it clicked. This is a business.

Not just any business — a chance to take something I genuinely love and turn it into something that actually helps people. Independent business owners who have earned their reputations one customer at a time deserve to know that their local knowledge, their community trust, their years of real experience — that's exactly the raw material AI systems are learning to reward.

They just need someone to help them structure it.

What We Do

That's KodeCite.AI.

We build the hidden scaffolding — fast edge infrastructure, clean structure, and AI‑ready schema — that makes AI choose your business, not your competitor's. We start with a free AI Scaffolding Audit so you can see exactly where you stand before the rush really begins.

If you own a local or regional business and you've ever wondered whether AI is going to help you or hurt you — we'd love to talk.