Max is the founder of Crawloria — a free AI Agent Optimization audit tool for sites navigating the shift from search-first to agent-first web. Crawloria checks 20+ signals that decide whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode can read, cite, and recommend your site to their users.
Before Crawloria, Max spent six years as a senior product manager at Yandex Cloud and VisionLabs, building computer vision and AI products.
In parallel he founded two AI startups. DreamPics (2022–2024) was a consumer AI image generation product. EasyVision (2025–2026) brings visual AI agents to restaurants by integrating computer vision into existing security cameras — tracking service speed, theft prevention, kitchen output, and staff compliance.
Master's degree in Mathematics from Moscow State University (2007–2012). Currently based in San Jose, California. Writes here about what works and what doesn't in the AI-agent web shift.
Articles by Max Tsygankov
May 8, 2026
AEO vs SEO: 5 Fundamentals That Still Work for AI Search Engines (2026)
AEO didn't replace SEO. The same 5 fundamentals — sitemap, canonical, Open Graph, internal links, title and meta — that rank you on Google also feed ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode. Here's exactly what shifted in weight, and what's actually new in 2026.
May 7, 2026
GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, Operator: The Four Classes of AI Bots Visiting Your Site
Most AI bot guides treat every crawler the same. They aren't. Training crawlers, search-index bots, real-time fetchers, and autonomous agents each behave differently and need different rules in your robots.txt and bot-protection settings. Here's the 2026 taxonomy that actually maps to what's hitting your site.
May 6, 2026
llms.txt: What It Actually Does, Who Uses It, and Whether You Need It
An honest guide to the llms.txt standard. What the spec requires, which companies publish one, whether any major LLM provider actually reads it, and a decision tree for whether your site needs one.
May 5, 2026
Cloudflare Bot Fight Mode Is Blocking AI Agents on Your Shopify Store (And 4 Other Settings Do the Same)
AI shopping agents fail checkout for 5 specific reasons — 4 of them you control. Here's how to diagnose each wall on your Shopify store and exactly which settings to change.
May 5, 2026
What Strategies Improve Brand Visibility in AI Search Engines? (2026 Guide)
The most effective strategies for ai visibility enhancement in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews — plus the common mistakes that don't move the needle.
May 4, 2026
Shopify ChatGPT Integration: 5 Walls Blocking AI Agent Checkout (And How to Remove 4)
ChatGPT Operator, Claude for Chrome, and Perplexity Comet abandon most Shopify checkouts before the payment step. Five settings on your store cause it. Four are config changes you can make today; one is structural. Here's the diagnosis and the fix list.
May 2, 2026
ChatGPT Not Showing Your Website? 9 Causes and How to Fix Each
If your site doesn't appear in ChatGPT search or get recommended by ChatGPT Operator, the cause is almost always one of these nine fixable issues. Diagnose each in 60 seconds, fix the critical ones in an afternoon.
May 1, 2026
How AI Agents See Your Website: The 1568-Pixel Rule
AI agents like Claude Computer Use see your site at 1568px max - half the resolution you designed for. 7 elements disappear. Here's how to fix it.