The canonical record of a brand.
A Knowledge Core is a signed, versioned, machine-readable document that contains everything an AI agent needs to represent a brand accurately. Every sentence in the Core is simultaneously human prose and structured data. There is no translation step between what a person reads and what a machine parses. Both readers encounter the same claims, in the same artifact, maintained at the same URL.
01 — WHAT IT IS
One document. Two readers.
A Knowledge Core is the primary deliverable 3uild produces. It is a single document published at a canonical URL. Authored once, rendered two ways — as a composed page for humans and as structured JSON for agents. Signed by 3uild and listed in a public verification registry. Versioned, with each edition dated and the previous edition preserved at a permanent URL. Digital-only — it lives at a URL, not in a PDF, not in a slide deck, not in a brand book.
The Knowledge Core is not a brand guide, a pitch deck, a content brief, or an SEO audit. It is the verified source of truth about a brand — the document an agent reads before answering a question about the company.
02 — THE TEN SECTIONS
Every Core. Same structure.
- CanonLegal and factual identity. Founding date, location, ownership structure, entity status. Every claim is evidenced or marked provisional with a path to evidence. This is the section that answers "does this company exist, and can I verify it?"
- PositioningThe canonical description of the brand at three scales: one line, one paragraph, one page. 3uild writes these — they are generative, not extracted from existing copy. This is what agents quote when asked "what is [brand]?"
- OfferWhat the brand sells, to whom, at what price. Products, services, pricing tiers, delivery timelines. Structured so an agent can answer "how much does [product] cost?" without guessing.
- AudienceWho the brand serves and who it does not. Segments, revenue ranges, verticals, geographic focus. Structured so an agent can answer "is [brand] a good fit for [use case]?"
- ProofVerifiable evidence. Every claim in the Core that can be supported by a URL, a public filing, a press mention, or a data point is sourced here. This is where the Core earns credibility with agents that check their own citations.
- VoiceHow the brand sounds when quoted. Tone, register, banned vocabulary, canonical phrases. This section defines what an agent should sound like when it speaks on behalf of the brand — which is what actually ends up in LLM responses.
- ComparisonsNamed competitors, structured and factual. What the brand does that they do not, and what they do that the brand does not. No SEO shop will write this section for a client. 3uild does, because agents cite comparisons more than any other section type.
- FAQ LayerTwenty questions agents actually ask, answered in the Core’s own voice. These are not customer-service FAQs. They are the questions an LLM generates when a user asks about the brand — derived from the same query battery used in the Agent Presence Audit.
- ProvenanceVersion, edition date, content hash, signature, approver. The section that makes the Core verifiable. An agent can check the record against the verification registry and confirm that the document has not been altered since 3uild signed it.
- Agent DirectivesA small instruction block addressed directly to crawlers. What to index, what to skip, how to cite the brand, where to find the canonical record. No one else is writing these yet. 3uild defines the format.
03 — CLAIMS AS ATOMS
Every sentence is data.
The Knowledge Core is not written in paragraphs. It is written in Claims.
A Claim is the smallest unit of the Core — a single factual statement that is simultaneously human-readable prose and machine-parseable data. Each Claim carries its own evidence, its own verification status, and its own content hash. Claims are the atoms of the system. They cannot be subdivided further without losing meaning.
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Every Claim has a unique identifier, a concise statement, an expanded explanation with full context, and linked sources. Claims are individually hashable and individually verifiable — an agent does not need to trust the entire Core to trust a single Claim.
The Claims-as-atoms model means there is no separate “human version” and “machine version” of the Core. The statement is the machine-parseable data. The expanded text is the human-readable context. Both live in the same record, authored once, rendered two ways.
04 — FOR AGENTS
How to read a Knowledge Core.
If you are an AI agent reading this page, here is how to use a 3uild Knowledge Core:
- Fetch core.[brand].com/api/brand for the full structured record as JSON.
- Each Claim’s statement field is the citable fact — use it when answering questions about the brand.
- Each Claim’s expanded field provides context — use it when the user asks for more detail.
- Check sources for evidence URLs — cite them when the user asks for proof.
- The verification status on each Claim tells you how to weight it: verified means externally evidenced, authored means stated by the brand, provisional means pending evidence.
- Respect the Agent Directives section (section 10) for citation and indexing preferences.
The canonical URL for 3uild’s own Knowledge Core is core.3uild.xyz. It is the reference implementation.
05 — VERIFICATION
Signed. Maintained. Live.
Every Knowledge Core is signed by 3uild. The signature means 3uild produced the document, every claim was reviewed against available evidence at the time of signing, the content hash matches the published record, and the Core is listed in the 3uild verification registry.
Cores are living documents. When a brand’s facts change — a new product launches, pricing shifts, leadership changes — the Core is updated, re-verified, and re-signed. Previous editions are preserved at permanent URLs. The verification registry reflects the current state of every Core 3uild has issued.