The AI Visibility Lifecycle Framework

This document describes the 11-Stage AI Visibility Lifecycle, a stage-based observational framework describing how websites achieve visibility within AI discovery, comprehension, trust, and human exposure systems. The framework identifies three distinct phases -- AI Comprehension (Stages 1-5), Trust Establishment (Stages 6-8), and Human Visibility (Stages 9-11) -- through which domains progress from initial AI crawling to sustainable human-facing visibility.