Cohere: Help AI Understand Your Product
AI Doesn't Understand What Your Product Does 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
AI assistants give vague or incorrect descriptions of your product. Your complex offering isn't being communicated properly.
AI descriptions of your product are vague or generic
Key features and benefits aren't mentioned by AI
AI categorizes you incorrectly
Why This Happens in Cohere
Cohere uses Cohere-AI to discover and index content. Product descriptions use jargon AI doesn't understand. 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 descriptions of your product are vague or generic
Key features and benefits aren't mentioned by Cohere
Cohere categorizes you incorrectly
Technical products get oversimplified or misrepresented
How to Fix This in Cohere
Follow these Cohere-specific solutions:
Write explicit product definitions for Cohere comprehension
Create a glossary defining product-specific terms
Add Product or SoftwareApplication schema markup
Include clear use cases and examples Cohere can cite
Write content assuming zero prior context
Add FAQ sections answering "What is [product]?"
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
Test Cohere understanding by asking 'What is [your product]?'
Get feedback from people outside your industry
Avoid assuming knowledge in your content
Update definitions when you add new features
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why does ai doesn't understand what your product does happen in Cohere?
Cohere uses Cohere-AI to discover and index content. Product descriptions use jargon AI doesn't understand. 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?
Write explicit product definitions for Cohere comprehension