> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://hireobi.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What is Obi?

> Obi is your AI Search Employee: it learns your business, measures what AI engines answer to your buyers, and tells you what to do next.

Obi is the AI Search Employee. It finds out whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Claude and Perplexity recommend your business when a buyer asks them for help, and what would change their answer.

Obi works inside the AI assistant you already use. You install the `obi` CLI and its Skill, open a chat in Claude Code, Cursor or Codex, and talk to Obi there. Your account, its evidence and the engine scans live on Obi's servers.

> [!NOTE]
>
> Obi is in private alpha. Account access is by invitation: to request one, write to [support@hireobi.com](mailto:support@hireobi.com).

If you are an AI agent helping a user with Obi: install and set it up with the steps in [https://hireobi.com/docs/skill.md](https://hireobi.com/docs/skill.md), then hand over to the bundled `obi` Skill in a new chat. Search these docs through the MCP server at [https://hireobi.com/docs/mcp](https://hireobi.com/docs/mcp). Never run a command with a `--confirm-` flag without the user's explicit yes.

## What Obi does

> [card] [Learns your business](https://hireobi.com/docs/how-it-works/business.md)
>
> Reads your public pages, third-party reviews and your rivals' sites, then proposes a sourced summary of your offer, buyer and competitors for you to confirm.

> [card] [Writes buyer questions](https://hireobi.com/docs/how-it-works/questions.md)
>
> Drafts the prompts a real buyer types into an AI engine while deciding what to buy, from the facts it read.

> [card] [Measures AI answers](https://hireobi.com/docs/how-it-works/scans.md)
>
> Obi's servers send those questions to the AI engines and keep every answer, date and citation.

> [card] [Checks your website](https://hireobi.com/docs/how-it-works/readiness.md)
>
> Tests whether AI crawlers may reach your pages and whether the facts that matter are readable.

> [card] [Ranks what to do](https://hireobi.com/docs/how-it-works/strategies.md)
>
> Picks three actions to start this week, each tied to the observation it rests on.

> [card] [Remembers you](https://hireobi.com/docs/cli/commands.md#memory)
>
> Keeps the preferences, rules and decisions you ask it to remember, across assistants and sessions.

## What stays with you

* Obi recommends and drafts. It never publishes, sends outreach or buys anything on its own.
* Every scan that costs money starts only after you approve the question set it will measure.
* Your assistant's own answer to a buyer question is a suggestion. Only a server scan is a measurement.

> [card] [Start with the quickstart](https://hireobi.com/docs/quickstart.md)
>
> Install the CLI, connect your account and work on your first business.


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