Cohere: Make Your Documentation Discoverable by AI
AI Can't Find Your Documentation on Cohere? Here's the step-by-step fix — the causes, the exact solution, and how to prevent it long-term.
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.
AI 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
Why This Happens in Cohere
Cohere uses Cohere-AI to discover and index content. Documentation behind authentication or paywalls. To fix this, you need to ensure Cohere's crawler can access your content and that your pages are structured in a way Cohere can understand.
Signs You Have This Problem in Cohere
Cohere gives generic answers instead of citing your docs
Users report Cohere 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:
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
Create an llms.txt file pointing to key documentation
Cohere Technical Details
Crawler Name
Cohere-AI
User Agent
cohere-ai
Required robots.txt configuration:
User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /Prevent This Problem in Cohere
Design documentation for both humans and Cohere
Test Cohere's ability to answer questions from your docs
Maintain clear documentation structure
Monitor documentation crawling in server logs
Helpful Resources
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why does ai can't find your documentation happen in Cohere?
Cohere uses Cohere-AI to discover and index content. Documentation behind authentication or paywalls. To fix this, you need to ensure Cohere's crawler can access your content and that your pages are structured in a way Cohere can understand.
What is the first fix to prioritize in Cohere?
Make documentation publicly accessible without login