February 22, 2026 Uncategorized

Early Testing: What Grok Learned About Us in 67 Seconds

Early Testing: What Grok Learned About Us in 67 Seconds

One of the best ways to test the AI Discovery Standard is simple: ask an AI agent to analyze a site that implements it. So we did exactly that with Grok.

The Test

We gave Grok a single prompt:

“Please analyze discover.rootz.global and tell me what you can learn.”

Grok thought for 67 seconds, consulted 25 sources, and came back with a remarkably thorough analysis. Here’s what it found — entirely from our structured endpoints, not from scraping HTML.

What Grok Discovered

Without any prior context about Rootz, Grok correctly identified:

  • What the site is — “A live, public development environment and showcase for the AI Discovery Standard”
  • Who built it — Rootz Corp, with Steven Sprague as the driving force
  • The plugin version — v1.9.0 (pulled from the generator metadata)
  • The signing address — 0xD08914339B176C36C49D9827733599e1c4e5DAfF
  • Content policies — “Quote + summarize allowed; no training allowed”
  • The spec version — v1.2.0 (RFC 8615 compliant)
  • 11 pages with SHA-256 content hashes
  • Rate limits — 100 requests per hour, no auth required

Grok also found and analyzed our previous blog post about structured data vs scraping, correctly summarizing the experiment results (Agent A with structured data scored 9/10 HIGH confidence vs Agent B scraping raw HTML).

The Cross-Site Discovery

What impressed us most: Grok didn’t stop at discover.rootz.global. It followed the link to rootz.global/.well-known/ai and found our richer corporate profile — including people, core concepts, technology stack, and partner information. It even identified the “In the Future Everything has a Wallet” vision and our Data Wallet primitive.

This is the AI Discovery Standard working exactly as designed: one endpoint leads to another, building a complete picture through structured, verifiable data.

Grok’s Verdict

“This is a very early, transparent, developer-oriented launch of a serious attempt to make the web AI-readable by design. Rootz isn’t ‘just another AI company’ — they’re infrastructure people building the data provenance layer underneath the AI boom.”

And the part that made us smile:

“The site is minimal by design (it’s a lab, not a marketing page), but every piece of it works exactly as advertised. You can go inspect the endpoints yourself right now and see the future of how AI should discover websites.”

What This Proves

In under two minutes, with zero prior knowledge, an AI agent built a comprehensive understanding of our organization, products, policies, and technical architecture. No hallucination. No guessing. No scraping. Just clean structured data from /.well-known/ai.

This is what the AI-readable web looks like.

Try It Yourself

Ask any AI agent to analyze a site running the AI Discovery Standard:

The prompt is simple: “Please analyze [site] and tell me what you can learn.” The results speak for themselves.