What an AI company sees
What they receive
Section titled “What they receive”| Where | What |
|---|---|
| A search row | the short, signed projection of one record: name, prices by country, category, dates, location, your business name, the record’s origin hash, and your AI policy bits in force (what you permit, and the contexts you block) |
| A fetch | your record exactly as you sealed it, your seal, MasterDB’s signed sidecar, your sealed AI policy, and — for your Business & Brand file — the texts you wrote about how you want to be represented |
| Your certificate | public to anyone: your legal name, your country, that MasterDB verified you and since when, and your status. Nothing about how you were verified |
What they never receive
Section titled “What they never receive”- Anything about the people at your business: no names, no roles, no grants, no key holders. No response names a person.
- Your internal identifiers (your account’s id inside MasterDB).
- Net or gross amounts, take rates, or anything about your money.
- Whether you have blocked them.
- How you were verified.
How they find you
Section titled “How they find you”AI companies search with their own queries, filters and sort. MasterDB never ranks: there is no default order and no relevance score MasterDB chooses. What decides whether your record is found is what you published — accurate categories, prices in each country you sell in, clear names and descriptions — and the query the AI company wrote. Paid placements (sponsored items, ads) are always marked as paid and never change the order of a search.
At most 50 rows answer any search, with no second page. A business with a large catalogue is found by the details that distinguish its products.
Who is asking
Section titled “Who is asking”Your analytics show which AI companies are asking about you — by name, by country — and what they fetch. GET /v1/analytics/who-is-asking answers the same to your own systems.
Blocking an AI company
Section titled “Blocking an AI company”An owner or admin can block an AI company in the portal. The block applies to the company’s whole group — every affiliate and every key, including keys it registers later — in every region within seconds. From then on its searches never include your records, and its fetches of them are answered exactly as a record that never existed.
The blocked company is never told. Nothing in any response or in its portal says so. Unblocking is the same one action in reverse.
Two limits: a blocked company could infer a block from outside MasterDB — by comparing results with another company, or from your own website — and blocking does not recall what it retrieved before the block. See the security model.