This page is the running record of what Laurelin Labs has built and published: 13 articles, 15 free tools and lab builds, 10 services, 6 frameworks and the site changes behind them, 53 dated entries since June 2026, each linked to the topic hub it belongs to. The most recent is Readable source and a teapot on 26 August 2026. Entries are added when something real ships and never backdated.
What shipped in August 2026?
- Site changeTechnical Foundations
Readable source and a teapot
View-source now shows every page one element per line, with an ASCII portrait of the author in the opening comment, and /coffee returns HTTP 418 as the standard intends.
Laurelin Labs MCP server
A remote MCP server at /api/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no sign-in, read-only): search the site, read the OKF bundle, list hubs, get the build log, score a page, get contact details. Connect from Claude, Claude Code or Cursor.
Latest: the dated build log
This page: everything shipped, newest first, grouped by month, with a hand-kept changelog of site work.
- ArticleTechnical Foundations
418 I'm a teapot: the HTTP status code that refuses to brew coffee, and why it will never be deleted
Where HTTP 418 came from (an April Fools RFC in 1998), how a fifteen-year-old saved it from deletion in 2017, why RFC 9110 now reserves it forever, the other status codes with a sense of humour, and why laurelinlabs.com/coffee refuses to brew.
- Site changeTrust Signals
Every page rebuilt to the perfect page template
Bylines with dates, direct answers marked speakable, question headings, one schema graph per page, absolute links, contact and editorial policy pages, and a build gate that fails on any template violation.
- Site changeGuardrails, Agentic & Future-proofing
Open Knowledge Format bundle published at /okf/
One OKF v0.2 concept per hub, page, article and entity, generated from the same content records as the pages, exposed in every head and footer.
- Site changeGuardrails, Agentic & Future-proofing
WebMCP tools live on every page
Five read-only tools (site search, topic hubs, OKF concepts, Non-Commodity Score, contact) registered for browser agents, plus declarative attributes on the homepage score form and a Chrome origin trial token.
Eight topic hubs get their own pages
Each AI search visibility topic now has a hub URL with a direct answer, its services, frameworks, tools, articles and audit checks, and FAQs.
WebMCP: how a website hands its tools to an AI agent, and what laurelinlabs.com now exposes
What WebMCP is, where the W3C draft and the Chrome origin trial stand in August 2026, the five tools this site now registers for browser agents, and an honest read on what it is worth.
- ArticleTopical Content
The Perfect HTML Page: How Search Engines, AI Answer Engines and Humans Read Your Markup
The perfect HTML page, element by element: how on-page SEO and AEO markup decides whether search engines, AI answer engines and humans choose your page.
The Open Knowledge Format: What OKF Means for Modern Search and Content
What Google's Open Knowledge Format (OKF) is, how its provenance and trust model works, and what it really means for modern search, content teams and the agentic web.
- Site changeTechnical Foundations
Fix packs 1 and 2 shipped
Legacy WordPress 301s, search page noindexed, dead citations replaced on five audit checks, IndexNow cron for unindexed URLs, GA4 key events.
What shipped in July 2026?
- Free toolTechnical Foundations
IndexNow Submitter
Verify once, push new and updated URLs to Bing, Yandex and the AI engines behind them in one call.
SEO / AEO Deliverables Planner
97 deliverables across a five-stage engagement journey, with the 14 retired ones on record.
- ArticleTechnical Foundations
I built a URL submitter for Google, Bing and Brave. Only one of them wanted it.
The honest state of URL submission in 2026: what Google actually accepts, why IndexNow is the only real API, what happened when we automated the Brave form, and the free tool that came out of it.
We reviewed 216 SEO deliverables from our 2018 playbook. We retired 14 of them.
What SEO and AEO agencies actually sell in 2026, what demand data says about the services themselves, and the line by line review that rebuilt our own catalogue, published as an interactive planner.
- Site changeTopical Content
Topic-first information architecture
Blog and Insights replaced by one /topics hub anchored to the Four Pillars, ordered by live UK search demand; AGENTS.md rulebook added.
How this site was built: an AI agent, a vault, and a rulebook
This site is not hand-coded page by page. It is built by an AI agent working against a structured vault and a rulebook every change must pass, and the rulebook is the real product.
- ArticleTopical Content
Search-led information architecture: how we sized our own site by demand
Most sites are organised by their own org chart, not by how people search. The demand-weighted method we use to fix that, first on a client, then on ourselves.
- ArticleTrust Signals
We took our own medicine: scoring our own site 60 out of 100
We ran the Non-Commodity Score and the 330-check audit on laurelinlabs.com, published the whole thing, and turned the findings into the rulebook every new page now passes.
AI Search Visibility (AEO / LLMO)
Be the answer, not just a result.
- ServiceTechnical Foundations
Technical AEO Audit
A 330-point, Google-cited audit of what is holding your pages back in AI search.
- ServiceTopical Content
Non-Commodity Content Audit
Find the pages an AI would never bother to quote.
AEO + LLMO Strategy
A joined-up 12-month roadmap tied to commercial targets.
- ServiceMeasurement & Attribution
Competitor & Opportunity Analysis
Quantify the prize and the gap.
- ServicePaid Media & Integration
PPC Audit & Strategy
Stop the waste, then build the blueprint.
- ServiceTopical Content
Content & Newsroom Strategy
AEO-optimised content production at scale.
- ServiceMeasurement & Attribution
Site Performance OS
Prove which activity caused which result.
AI Integration & Training
Find the highest-value AI wins and stand up the capability.
Instant AEO
A full programme in one premium engagement.
The Four Pillars Framework
A strategic frame for generative search visibility.
- FrameworkAuthority Network
Entity Authority (Pillar 4)
Make genuine authority legible to the machine.
- FrameworkTopical Content
Query Fan-Out
Why the unit of optimisation is the cluster.
Google AI Search Optimisation
What Google actually says, and what it debunks.
- FrameworkMeasurement & Attribution
The Site Performance Operating System
Inputs, outputs, and the honest join between them.
The Agentic OS
Turning an assistant into an operating system.
- Lab buildTechnical Foundations
IndexNow Submitter
Push new pages to Bing and AI search the moment they ship.
SEO / AEO Deliverables Planner
Our real 2026 service catalogue, published as a planning tool.
- Lab buildMeasurement & Attribution
AI Search Query Capture
Watch the searches ChatGPT and Claude run for you.
- Lab buildAuthority Network
AEO Schema Scanner
See the structured data a page is missing.
- Lab buildMeasurement & Attribution
EventCapture
Turn an event into attributed content the same day.
- Lab buildTechnical Foundations
AEO Graph View
Your whole site as a living node graph.
- Lab buildTopical Content
The Auto-Research Loop
Skills that improve themselves against a number.
- Lab buildAuthority Network
Knowledge Graph Gap Analysis
Find the original insight in the gaps.
- Lab buildMeasurement & Attribution
Domain Gap Alert
Turn invisibility into urgency.
- Lab buildTopical Content
Seasonal & Trend Validation
Publish at the moment of maximum demand.
- Lab buildTechnical Foundations
Internal Linking Intelligence
Real links from real crawl data.
- Free toolTopical Content
Non-Commodity Score and free 10-page site audit
Score any page 0 to 100 on how far it sits from generic content, with quoted evidence; run it across ten pages for a hosted report.
- ArticleTopical Content
We built a score to catch generic content. Its first casualty was our own spec.
The Non-Commodity Score is a pre-publish gate for generic, commoditised content. Its v0 spec failed its own test. Here is the teardown and the rebuild.
What shipped in June 2026?
Building an LLM-native wiki: the system I use to run workflow, time and projects
How I turned scattered notes into a single, queryable source of truth, and added a personal knowledge management layer on top to run a small operation.
- Site changeTechnical Foundations
The 330-check AEO audit published
Every check as its own page, cited to a primary source, grouped into the Four Pillars.
- ArticleAuthority Network
I built a Chrome extension that shows you the structured data a page is missing
Reads any page’s structured data and shows what is present, what Google has deprecated, and what is missing for AI search. On-device, open source.
- ArticleMeasurement & Attribution
I built a Chrome extension to see the searches ChatGPT and Claude run for you
The web-search queries and cited sources ChatGPT and Claude use when they browse, captured live and on-device.