Cohere: Make Your Documentation Discoverable by AI
AI Can't Find Your Documentation on Cohere? Here's why it happens, the fix, and how to prevent it.
Cohere Context
Position your brand for visibility in Cohere-powered enterprise AI applications and search systems.
Focus on enterprise-relevant content and solutions
Create comprehensive documentation and resources
Implement structured data for clear content understanding
Why This Problem Matters
Users ask AI for help with your product but it can't find or cite your documentation. Get your docs into AI knowledge.
Why This Happens in Cohere
Documentation is only usable if Cohere can reach it through the documents and search sources each deploying company connects. Docs behind a login, on a blocked subdomain, or rendered client-side are invisible however good they are.
Signs You Have This Problem in Cohere
Cohere answers questions about your product without citing your docs
Cohere gives generic answers instead of citing your docs
Users report AI couldn't help them with your product
Technical questions get wrong or incomplete answers
Competitor documentation gets cited instead of yours
How to Fix This in Cohere
Follow these Cohere-specific solutions:
Keep pages crawlable by standard search bots (Cohere documents no crawler of its own), on your docs subdomain too
Serve docs as server-rendered HTML with one task per page
Make documentation publicly accessible without login
Publish docs as HTML pages, not just PDFs or apps
Implement proper heading hierarchy in docs
Link documentation prominently from your main site
Add TechArticle and HowTo schema to doc pages
Cohere Technical Details
Cohere states it does not use its own bots or user agents to crawl the web. Its models answer from documents the deploying company supplies (RAG), so visibility depends on being in the sources those companies connect.
Source: docs.cohere.com
Prevent This Problem in Cohere
Design documentation for both humans and AI
Test AI's ability to answer questions from your docs
Maintain clear documentation structure
Monitor documentation crawling in server logs
Helpful Resources
How-To Guides
Checklists
Need Help Fixing Cohere Issues?
Get expert help resolving this and other Cohere visibility problems.
Get Your AI Visibility AuditFrequently Asked Questions
Why is this happening in Cohere?
Documentation is only usable if Cohere can reach it through the documents and search sources each deploying company connects. Docs behind a login, on a blocked subdomain, or rendered client-side are invisible however good they are.
What is the first fix to prioritize in Cohere?
Keep pages crawlable by standard search bots (Cohere documents no crawler of its own), on your docs subdomain too