An independent AI research lab
Studying how AI systems find, read, and cite the web.
Prodius Enterprise is the personal lab of Cristian Prodius. I run experiments on LLM retrieval, AI crawlers, and generative engine optimization — and publish everything I learn, including what didn't work.
Research areas
Four questions, studied in the open.
LLM retrieval & citation
How assistants pick their sources: what gets retrieved, what gets cited, and how that differs across models and question types.
AI crawlers & indexing
What GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and friends actually fetch, how they respect (or ignore) directives, and how crawling translates into visibility.
Generative engine optimization
Separating measured effect from cargo-cult advice: which on-page changes demonstrably shift inclusion in AI answers.
Retrieval quality & evaluation
The engineering side: embeddings, chunking, and ranking — and small, honest, reproducible benchmarks for judging them.
Want this research working inside your product?
I take three retainer clients at a time and ship one production AI feature per month — retrieval, RAG, extraction, copilots. The lab is where I test the methods; your product is where they pay off.