Unpopular opinion: your intro paragraph is costing you every AI citation.

Unpopular opinion: your intro paragraph is costing you every AI citation.
LLMs weight the opening heavily. Your "In today's fast-paced digital landscape" fluff is poison. The first-100-words checklist:
— Sentence 1: direct answer to the title's question, no warmup
— Sentence 2: the one number or named entity that proves it
— Kill every "it depends," "there are many factors," "let's explore"
— Define your subject as an entity ("X is a Y that does Z") within 50 words
If a model can't extract a clean answer before scrolling, you lose. Citations live in the first inch of the page. Tell me yours don't.