The 11-Stage AI Visibility Lifecycle (v0.7): A Framework for Understanding AI-Mediated Content Discovery
Abstract
This paper defines the AI Visibility Lifecycle, a structured framework describing how modern AI systems discover, interpret, trust, and repeatedly surface websites. It replaces ranking-centric SEO assumptions with lifecycle-based visibility states grounded in admissible infrastructure evidence. Version 0.7 represents a pre-certification, pre-standardization release intended to establish terminology, lifecycle boundaries, and ambiguity constraints prior to broader industry adoption.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Information Retrieval and Search Behavior
Web visibility and informetrics
Digital Marketing and Social Media
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Publication date
- 30 January 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Preprint