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How does Scrunch’s AXP approach compare to publishing AI-friendly content directly in the CMS?

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  • Does AXP require changes to my CMS?
  • Can I optimize content for AI without editing my website?

Scrunch’s Agent Experience Platform (AXP) approach is fundamentally different from publishing AI-friendly content directly in a CMS because it optimizes content for AI without touching the live website. The CMS stays the same; AXP simply creates an AI-friendly layer on top of what already exists.

Additional context: AXP doesn't publish new content. Instead, it creates an AI-optimized version of existing pages and delivers them to AI agents automatically.

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Example

For example, a user deploying content via AXP and a CMS would follow two very different workflows:

CMS workflow:

  • User creates content in CMS and manually structures it for AI readability.
  • User publishes content.
  • AI retrieves content from URL.
  • AI consumption is limited by JavaScript-heavy website and human-focused layout.

AXP workflow:

  • Content is already live on site.
  • AXP sits at the CDN layer and automatically detects AI agents.
  • AXP serves the content as clean, structured, server-rendered HTML to AI agents.
  • Normal website and CMS stay unchanged for human visitors.

Follow-up question: What happens to AXP-optimized content if I update a page in my CMS?

If an AXP user updates a page in their CMS, AXP can handle it in one of two ways:

  1. AXP can pull the updated live page and re-optimize it automatically.
  2. If the user is using a stored version of site content, the optimized content in cloud storage would need to be refreshed to reflect CMS changes.