Digital Relevance is Key – for Humans and AI | Digital Business Relevance Suite (DBRS) 

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Relevance matters where business decisions are made​

  • When using search engines, in AI responses from Google, BING, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Mistral, etc., and in your own knowledge and work systems.

  • But visibility (e.g., SEO and GEO) alone is no longer enough. What counts is relevance—correctly classified, understandable, and trustworthy.

Today, digital relevance is no longer created solely through visibility, but through correctly understood context.

Search engines and AI systems are increasingly determining how companies, services, and competencies are classified—both internally and externally.


The Digital Business Relevance Suite (DBRS) is a system for measuring, evaluating, and consciously controlling this contextual perception—both on public platforms such as search engines and AI systems, and within internal knowledge landscapes, data silos, data repositories, and information systems.


To this end, DBRS continuously analyzes:

  • how topics, concepts, and narratives are semantically classified,
  • where discrepancies arise between self-image and external perception,
  • and how context changes over time, across platforms, and across sources of knowledge.


Artificial intelligence acts as a sensor and an analysis and structuring tool:

  • It recognizes meaningful connections, condenses complex information, and makes context development scalable and measurable.
  • Decisions remain the responsibility of management.


DBRS provides the necessary signals to make digital relevance comparable, controllable, and developable.

In conjunction with a management and learning system—e.g., Experience Innovation—these signals can be translated into priorities, measures, and learning cycles.


This transforms digital relevance from a side effect of individual measures into a strategically managed factor.

The Challenge

Since COVID, SMEs have been under pressure in terms of costs, innovation, and revenue.

Since COVID, SMEs have been under simultaneous pressure in terms of costs, innovation, and revenue. While day-to-day business continues, new markets must be tapped, customers must be won over, and innovations must be explained—often amid uncertainty and with limited budgets.


At the same time, expectations are high:

  • Clear guidance for customers
  • Employees want understandable information
  • Investors: need reliable facts and contexts

Many companies have the content needed for this - but it doesn't work.


GEO, SEO and Google AI Overviews – What Has Changed

Visibility without relevance fizzles out

Search engines and AI systems work differently today than they used to:

  • SEO shall ensure that content is found based on claims
  • GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) decides, whether content is understood, quoted, and correctly classified by AI
  • Google AI Overviews answer questions directly - often without clicking on a website

Those who fail to present them selves in a structured, contextualized, and trustworthy manner will lose visibility - even if their content is technically excellent.


The solution – controlled visibility with relevance

DBRS: Digital Business Relevance Suite

The Digital Business Relevance Suite (DBRS) ensures that your content:

  • on the existing website,
  • in internal knowledge sources
  • and in AI applications (workflows, chatbots, agents)

be processed and integrated in such a way that humans and AI systems (e.g. Samy, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Mistral) find, understand, and correctly classify them.

DBRS does not create new data silos—it makes existing knowledge effective.


Open, integrable, responsible

DBRS is:

  • Open-Source-based and licensecost free
  • GDPR- and EU-AI-Act-oriented
  • Can be gradually integrated into existing IT landscapes

No complete conversion.

No Tool-Explosion.

But rather targeted effectiveness.


SEO and DBRS in comparison

Definition: AI visibility, as defined by DBRS, is findability through citable references.

SEO can formulate meaning.

DBRS must prove its significance.


SEO generates attention.

DBRS creates reliability.


SEO is a non-binding claim.

DBRS is an authoritative, verified, citable reference.


Visibility in terms of SEO means using meaningful and noteworthy descriptions.

Visibility, as defined by DBRS, means guaranteed findability through reliable, citable references.


The SEO description exists as content.

DBRS does not reference the text, but rather the canonical address, the unique identifier.


Result – Using AI with clarity and confidence

Trusted intelligence based on a trusted source

DBRS combines technology and mentoring to create a form of trusted intelligence:

AI systems only work reliably if they are based on a central, trusted knowledge base (trusted source).


Trusted Intelligence -  Systems that understand people and perform

The claim can and should be deliberately interpreted in two ways.

  1. Systems that are designed to be understandable, trustworthy, and therefore effective and controllable for people.
  2. Intelligent systems that understand people and provide effective support using reliable data.


With DBRS:

  • Content is structured in such a way that humans and AI can use it in a meaningful, correct, and comprehensible manner.
  • Learn Teams, how to use AI safely, transparently, and practically​ - in Engineering, Sales, Marketing and Service,
  • Aha moments arise instead of reservations, because results remain explainable and verifiable.

This is how AI becomes a responsible tool. Companies remain visible, relevant, and capable of acting—for customers, prospects, employees, and partners.



Upgrade and maintain existing IT systems and websites with DBRS

The project costs for upgrading existing systems with DBRS are typically significantly lower than the costs required for replacement. The necessary open source software is license-free.

How effective solutions are created with open innovation engineering and mentoring

How corporate knowledge becomes reliable digital relevance – step by step.

  • DBRS makes corporate knowledge so clear, structured, and trustworthy that people, search engines, and AI can understand and use it equally.


Constituents

  • Business Context
    The starting point is strategy, offering, and goals. DBRS does not start with technology or keywords, but with what really defines a company.
  • Source Layer
     All relevant content: websites, documents, internal systems (e.g., Odoo, SharePoint), and external sources.
    DBRS arbeitet mit bestehenden Inhalten, nichts wird erfunden.
  • Bootstrapper & Crawler
    This component collects content, standardizes it, and assigns versions to it. This creates order instead of data chaos.
  • AI Enrichment Layer
    Content is structured, summarized, and classified semantically. The goal is comprehensibility for humans and machines.
  • Index & Frontmatter Generator
    The processed content is converted into clearly structured, machine-readable formats (e.g. Markdown, HTML, JSON-LD).
  • DBRS LLM Knowledge Hub
    The heart of DBRS. An authoritatively maintained, versioned knowledge and context hub that can be used by various systems—e.g., Samy, internal searches, etc. KI-Systeme oder externe Plattformen.
  • Relevance Evaluation
    Here, we check whether content is truly relevant (e.g., using CCA, CCR, and the Relevance Radar).
  • Delivery Layer
    The results can be used where they are needed:
    • for Menschen (Websites, PDFs, Management)
    • for Serach Engines
    • for AI-Systems and LLMs
  • Downstream Systems / Consumers
    Systems such as Samy, intranet searches, or partner platforms access the Knowledge Hub without changing its authority.

How effective solutions are created with open innovation engineering and mentoring

  • Start with Quick-Check
    Aligning strategy, goals, reality, and framework conditions. Clarify early on what really needs to be solved. How effective solutions are created with open innovation engineering and mentoring.
  • Experience Innovation as a common framework

    Solutions arise from the real-life experiences of management, employees, and customers. Acceptance is not a “change issue,” but rather part of development.
  • Context Engineering
    Relevant information, rules, terms, and decision-making logic are deliberately clarified and documented. This ensures that people, systems, and AI understand the same context.
  • Digital Engineering
    Configuration and interaction of systems: Software, interfaces, AI, workflows, and existing IT are set up appropriately—not oversized.
  • Iterative implementation in manageable steps
    Early results instead of lengthy concepts. Learning, refining, and prioritizing are an integral part of this.
  • Relevance and impact assessment
    Ongoing comparison: Does the solution fulfill its intended purpose? If not, it is adjusted -objectively and transparently.
  • System handover
    The solution is handed over in such a way that it can be understood, operated, and further developed internally. No hidden dependencies.
  • Training based on real-world usage
    No tool demos, but practical empowerment in the work context. Participants know why they are doing something—not just how.
  • Management mentoring during and after implementation
    Support with decisions, priorities, and responsibility. Mentoring ensures that the solution has an impact in everyday life.
  • Sustainable anchoring in the company
    Processes, knowledge, and systems remain compatible—even without external support.

Practical Tips​

Relevance = visible content ∧ context ∧ intelligent processing by humans and AI


  • Visible Content
    Expertise, data, experience, and documents—available both internally and externally.

  • Context
    Classification according to objective, situation, role, timing, and question.

  • Intelligente Processing
    Through people and AI: understandable, comprehensible, verifiable, and effective.


If one of these components is missing, there is no relevance:

  • Content without context remains meaningless.
  • Context without content remains empty.
  • Intelligent processing without both leads to incorrect or random results.


DBRS focuses precisely on this logical AND connection.

The Digital Business Relevance Suite boosts your visibility and relevance both externally and internally.

  • We deliberately recommend smaller, clearly defined projects that allow participants to experience AI innovation in a safe and positive way.
  • The project method Experience Innovation project method (described below) ensures that AI, people, and processes interact reliably and successfully.​

Harvard Business Review Study: Overcoming the Organizational Barriers to AI Adoption.

Many people use AI portals in an unstructured creative mode: they try things out but document little. This means that the practical benefits remain unclear and learning is random—a recent Harvard study refers to an “invisible wall” preventing further benefits.


Vibe Mode (structured creative mode)

Structured experimentation: testing ideas, trying out learning content, recognizing patterns, building initial solutions and prototypes.

The end result is understandable, comprehensible, and verifiable results, ideally a simple prototype with a brief description—the basis for the next step.


CAISE Mode (Engineering-Modus)

This is where the quality-oriented, documented development process begins with a clear goal.

AI acts as a supportive team member, decisions and results are validated:

That's what we call Collaborative AI Supported Engineering (CAISE).

An example of how the technical DBRS page is integrated into a website can be found at https://tolksdorf.digital/dbrs-llm-knowledge-hub/ . The page is purely an informational landing page, deliberately kept simple to facilitate the work of LLM/AI.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

How â€žthinks“ a LLM?

A large language model (LLM) does not think. It calculates the most likely answer based on data, context, and statistics. Very useful—but not infallible.


Why is Artificial Intelligence (AI) intelligent?

An LLM, also known as AI, is excellent at handling language and therefore appears intelligent, even empathetic, to users.


How think people?

Human thinking is embodied, emotional, social, and culturally influenced. We combine experience, perception, and emotion—far more than mere information processing.


The strength lies in the connection (Human in the Loop):

People contribute experience, goal orientation, and judgment—LLMs provide speed, structure, and ideas.

Together, they form a powerful duo: human-led, AI-supported, and significantly better than either side alone.

The answer to this question varies depending on one's disposition. It is an astonishingly feasible innovation step that can bring enormous benefits to companies of all sizes, or it can be detrimental. It should not be ignored. ​

  • As with any tool, its everyday use determines how useful it is. A tool is useless if it just sits in a box.
  • Greater effectiveness: Initially, the gains in skills and opportunities outweigh the losses.
  • Greater efficiency: Once new skills have been acquired, learned, and tested, the efficiency gains outweigh the costs in recurring applications.
  • Administrator access to the website must be possible; alternatively, close cooperation with those responsible is necessary.
  • Data quality and distribution in data silos: Our suite helps to prepare and utilize this data.
  • Acceptance within the team: AI tools such as Samy are new – we offer training courses to help employees feel confident using the technology.
  • If search engine optimization (SEO) has not yet been carried out on the website, this topic is added. AI is used to reduce the amount of work involved.
  • Every company has its own starting point, which leads to different workflows and levels of effort.
  • Context Engineering: Data processing. AI is used to reduce effort, and results are checked by humans.
  • Prompt engineering for AI used in workflows.
  • Workflow and integration engineering for planned workflows.
  • There are templates for the workflows, but customization and testing are still required.
  • Experience value for the effort: a few hours to a few days per workflow.
  • This is determined in the Relevance Radar Workshop and the Quick Checks.
  • chatGPT & Co find you and formulate answers that suit you instead of guessing or ignoring you.
  • Truly intelligent interactive chatbots improve customer loyalty and surprise users in a positive way.
  • Improvement of data quality for further processes.
  • Increasing digital maturity and innovative strength.
  • Yes, the Digital Business Relevance Suite complements your website. Code snippets invisible to users are added and robots.txt and sitemap.xml are supplemented.
  • SEO = Search Engine Optimization, i.e. optimization for traditional search engines
  • GEO = Generative Engine Optimization, i.e., optimization for AI such as Google Gemini, chatGPT, Claudem Mistral, and many more.
  • SEO and GEO are equally important these days
  • Further information can be found at  https://tolksdorf.digital/kmu-opensource-ki-hub
  • Security is not only about where the AI is operated (“hosted”) but also how it is integrated. In this solution, all user inputs in the chat client are anonymized, which allows for a wide range of AI options on this side. In each case, it must be checked whether European solutions such as the open source LLM Mistral are preferable for compliance reasons.
  • Sustainable security also includes the freedom to choose between different LLM providers. This allows future or changed requirements to be taken into account.

DBRS enables the orchestration of website information in accordance with AI Overviews (Google Search), Helpful Content / E-E-A-T, formerly Search Generative Experience (SGE).

Optimization for search engines and AI systems (often referred to as GEO – Generative Engine Optimization) requires a combination of classic SEO methods and new, dialogue-oriented strategies.

  • Combined optimization:
    Visibility is improved by combining classic SEO methods with dialogue-oriented GEO strategies.
  • Answer-First-Prinzip:
    Key answers are placed right at the beginning of a paragraph or article, as AI systems specifically search for concise answers.
  • Structured Data:
    Content is marked up with Schema.org-Markups (JSON-LD) to enable search engines and AI systems to interpret it unambiguously.
  • Quastions and Answers (FAQs):
    Content is structured in clear question-and-answer formats, with W questions used as headings, as these are often extracted by AI.
  • Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trustworthiness (E-E-A-T):
    Credibility is enhanced by author profiles, source references, study links, and mentions on established third-party platforms.
  • Conversational content:
    Texts are written in natural, conversational language, as AI-supported search systems prefer to cite such content.
  • Technical accessibility:
    Access for AI crawlers is enabled (e.g., via robots.txt), and relevant content is provided directly in HTML.
  • Up-to-date and fact-based:
    Content is updated regularly, as AI systems give preference to current data and statistics.



Implement digital use cases individually and agilely, then experience the benefits—then realize the next one.


Marketing, Sales, Webseite, Intranet / Sharepoint

Getting found by Google, BING, and AI such as chatGPT

  • Traditional search engines remain relevant, while AI-powered search is gaining market share.
    Rule of thumb: if you deliver Google Rich Results, you have a good basis for AI crawlers.

  • Traditional search engines:
    Measure visibility with easy-to-use and understandable GDPR-compliant internet analytics based on Google Search.

  • More visibility
    Gain more relevance for Google, BING, Gemini, chatGPT, Perplexity, and others through enriching texts and crawler guidance or blocking. 

  • Complements existing websites
    All content management systems (CMS) such as WordPress, WIX, etc. are supported. Valuable information on content optimization and GDPR compliance is obtained.

Finding new business and develop your business with AI, Intranet/SharePoint, Teams, and Slack

  • Automatically prepare market and customer information in compliance with GDPR
    - CRM data and address lists 

    - Account plans 

    - Prepare and summarize existing incomplete data from multiple sources 

    - Create recommendations for contact-related playbooks and texts
  • Intranet Applications

    - Support for internal processes such as engineering, service, and sales

    - Curation of existing data across data silos


Samy: Qualified chat bot available 24/7 for website visitors

  • Samy – Your well-informed, ethical, and secure AI assistant
    - Samy supports Tolksdorf.digital in the areas of digital innovation, digitization, and coding

    - also across industries (e.g., metalworking) upon request.

    Chat with Samy without registering

    - Samy searches intranets (e.g., SharePoint), executes workflows, and uses websites to provide sound advice. 

    – always with ethical assessment in technical matters.

    Data protection, and usable LLM / AI:
    - Data protection: GDPR-compliant hosting in Europe - Latest French Mistral LLMs + Perplexity - Additional LLMs of your choice and compliance regulations of your company



 

Keep your goals in sight with the Relevance Radar, quickly introduce powerful technology with Experience Innovation.

Relevance Radar

The Relevance Radar ensures that perceptions of corporate content are not formed randomly, but rather:

  • based on relevant developments,
  • is associated with clear priorities,
  • and can be implemented systematically.


From perception to control – Canonical Context Analysis (CCA) and Canonical Context Registry (CCR)

  • CCA analyzes how topics, terms, and narratives are currently classified
  • CCR records the deliberately defined canonical contexts of a company and serves as a reference framework for content, internal knowledge management, instructions for AI on how to use the content, and external communication.
  • Use case: https://tolksdorf.digital/markdown/dbrs/ccr/latest/


DBRS makes relevance measurable.

Management systems such as Experience Innovation ensure that decisions and impact result from this.

Management system for fast and effective DBRS processes (Experience Innovation)

The context of a company is constantly changing. We refer to this targeted advancement of perception by humans and AI as context engineering.


DBRS provides the necessary insights to make contextual developments visible and manageable. These signals can be used by company management to drive strategy, organization, and implementation.


To ensure that DBRS is effective in the long term, it is recommended that it be embedded in a clear management and learning process—for example, Experience Innovation.

  • After the Relevance Radar, start implementation via aQuick-Check to align strategy and planning.
  • Focus on acceptance, transparency, and feasibility so that necessary changes are supported.
  • Transparent prices – service costs in the service descriptions and the​ Pricelist
More Info about Experience Innovation 

Technical Basis: KMU Opensource AI Hub

  • The license-free SME Open Source AI Hub, curated by Tolksdorf.digital, offers an open, modular platform for the use of AI in companies. It connects internal and external data sources with powerful AI agents and commercially available large language models (LLMs) – transparently, in compliance with GDPR, and enabling data sovereignty.
  • In addition, there are other open source components such as Plausible.ai Public example dashboard: 
    ​https://plausible.tolksdorf.digital/tolksdorf.digital
  • On request, license-free Odoo Community Edition website, CRM, shop, forum, e-learning, portal​
Mehr ĂźbeInfo r den KMU-Opensource KI Hub 

Investment: License-free solution plus Innovation Boutique Services based on estimates and expenses or through in-house contributions

  • The Digital Business Relevance Suite is open source and can be independently implemented, configured, or expanded (in-house). Services from the Innovation Boutique can be added as needed.
  • Subject-specific mentoring, innovation, and engineering services with optional open-source solutions deliver measurable results within the agreed time frame and budget. This “timeboxed innovation” avoids unwanted expenses, optimizing and saving time and costs in a targeted manner.
  • Subject mentoring AI useage.
More Info about Timeboxed Innovation 

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