Intellectual Frontiers Press Fieldbooks

Discoverability Engineering

A Fieldbook for Being Found by the Humans and AI Assembling Complex Supply Chains

A finder that can’t qualify you from public evidence moves on to the next supplier.

A capture team needs three qualified small businesses for a work package, and it has 45 days. Its AI sourcing agent searches the web, SAM.gov, supplier portals, and answer engines, and builds a shortlist. A supplier that fits the job perfectly doesn’t make it, because its certifications are in a photo, its past performance is in an emailed PDF, and its government record is under an old name.

Forthcoming. The book is in review; its companion and tools are open now.

A prime contractor can’t team with a supplier it can’t find, and more of the finding is now done by AI.

Search finds documents. An answer engine has to explain a company. An agent has to decide whether the company can do the job. This fieldbook shows how to build the public evidence that lets a careful human or machine find you, understand you, check your claims, decide you qualify, and reach the right person.

What you will be able to do

• Write a Finder Specification for the people and AI agents looking for what you do
• Replace keyword lists with the questions finders actually ask
• Tie every public claim to evidence a finder can check
• Keep one consistent story across your website, SAM.gov, supplier portals, and directories
• Test answer engines and agents on a schedule and score what they get wrong
• Run the system with one engineer, one operator, and an AI Workforce