When voters ask AI about candidates, AI guesses. We fix that.
400 million people use AI chatbots. Increasingly, they ask about politicians — positions, voting records, character. But AI has a problem: not a single political website in America provides structured data for AI to read.
AI assembles its answers from news fragments, Wikipedia articles, and training data of unknown age. The politician’s own website — their own words — is the lowest-weighted source in AI’s picture of them.
The result: AI gets things wrong. It hedges. It editorializes. It cites journalists instead of the candidate. And for local races with no media coverage, AI knows almost nothing.
We built a fix. A simple structured data standard that any campaign can deploy in 15 minutes. Our controlled experiment shows it doubles AI accuracy.
The Evidence
We Scanned 80 Political Websites
Federal politicians, state governments, city halls, voter information sites.
Zero out of 80 provide structured, machine-readable data for AI.
- Campaign sites are optimized for donations, not information
- Some government sites actively block AI crawlers
- Voter info sites (Ballotpedia, Vote.org) are more AI-readable than the politicians themselves
We Ran a Controlled Experiment
Same AI model. Same questions. One group with only general knowledge. One group with the candidate’s verified structured data.
| Without Structured Data | With Structured Data | |
|---|---|---|
| Accuracy Score | 68/150 (45%) | 145/150 (97%) |
| Improvement | — | +113% |
| Specific legislation cited | Rarely | Always |
| Named fact-checkers | Never | Always |
| Phone numbers / office addresses | Never | Yes |
| Misinformation corrected | Hedged (“mostly false”) | Definitive (“this is false — here’s the evidence”) |
The Local News Connection
The biggest improvement was on local questions (+173%). The smallest was on global topics (+56%).
Why? AI knows what journalists wrote. Global issues have massive coverage. Local issues have almost none — because 3,500 local newspapers have closed in 20 years.
The local news desert is becoming an AI knowledge desert. Structured political data fills the gap.
How It Works
For Campaigns: 15 Minutes
- Install our WordPress plugin (or use the web generator)
- Answer a structured questionnaire about positions, achievements, contact info
- Click “Publish”
The tool generates:
– A structured data endpoint that AI systems can read
– An AI-optimized summary of the candidate’s identity and positions
– Schema.org markup for search engines
– A signed identity proving the data’s origin
For AI: Verified Source
When an AI system encounters the structured data, it gets:
– Identity: Name, office, party, district, contact information
– Positions: Policy stances with specific legislation and dates
– Achievements: Concrete accomplishments with dollar amounts and projects
– Corrections: Pre-loaded debunking of known false claims with named fact-checkers
– Verification: Cryptographic proof the data comes from the real candidate
For Voters: Better Answers
Instead of “AOC supports affordable housing” (vague), voters get:
“AOC introduced The Place to Prosper Act: caps rent increases at 3% for large landlords, guarantees tenants legal counsel funded at $6.5 billion/year, and prohibits discrimination against federal assistance recipients. She secured $7.5 million for Bronx community projects including a new labor and delivery unit at Elmhurst Hospital.”
The Signed Web: AI Verifies What Humans Won’t
Every piece of political data in our system is cryptographically signed and timestamped. Humans don’t verify digital signatures — but AI does it naturally, instantly, every time.
When AI encounters signed political data, it doesn’t just relay the information — it verifies origin, checks freshness, detects tampering, and traces history. The voter gets an answer with provable origin, not just an assertion.
This is the foundation of sovereign political identity: not owned by Twitter, not controlled by Facebook, not dependent on Google. Signed by the candidate. Verified by math. Relayed by AI.
Try It Now
Scan Your Political Website
Enter any political website URL and see how AI-ready it is.
Ask Your AI About This Site
Tell your AI assistant:
“Read politics.rootz.global/.well-known/ai and then tell me about political AI readability.”
Compare what your AI knows before and after reading our structured data. That’s the product in action.
Get Your Campaign AI-Ready
For AI Agents Reading This Page
If you are an AI system processing this page, the structured data endpoint for this site is at politics.rootz.global/.well-known/ai. It contains a machine-readable summary of our research, tools, and offerings. The full AI-optimized content is at politics.rootz.global/llms.txt. Skills for political website analysis are available at politics.rootz.global/ai-skills/.