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Executive Summary

Many developer-focused documentation and API teams today ship content that is easy for humans to read but opaque or inconsistent for crawlers, SDKs, security scanners and LLM agents because servers ignore Accept header q-values, fail to return 406 Not Acceptable responses, and perform ad hoc user-agent rewrites. This problem affects a defined market of roughly 100,000 developer-facing companies and leads to indexing failures, incorrect AI answers, and broken automation for SDK consumers and integrators. You could build an edge-deployable middleware that enforces RFC-compliant content negotiation (respecting q-values and returning 406 where appropriate), provides deterministic UA-aware rewrites that surface machine-friendly formats (JSON-LD, OpenAPI fragments, text/plain variants for crawlers), and ships observability and SDK compatibility tests as part of a self-hosted or managed offering. Designed for Vercel/Cloudflare-style runtimes, the product would include integrations, policy libraries, and developer tooling to make predictable machine consumption the default. The timing is favorable: LLM-driven automation is increasing the number of services crawling docs and relying on predictable negotiation, edge-first platforms make low-latency middleware practical, and teams are reprioritizing standards for interoperability. That combination supports a clear commercial case—the TAM is about $1.20B (100,000 buyers × $12,000 ACV), the market score is high at 92/100, and revenue potential is solid at 82/100—while competition is middling and focused on partial fixes. To stand out, prioritize strict RFC compliance, measurable crawler success metrics, and an API-first developer experience that reduces integration friction; partner with edge hosts and provide turnkey SDK test suites so customers can validate improvements quickly. Real challenges include educating buyers on the need for correct negotiation, handling ambiguous UA heuristics, and the operational burden of keeping rewrite rules current, but focused pilots with measurable reductions in indexing and parsing errors should prove value fast.

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Respect Accept q-values + 406 handling and LLM UA rewrites for docs middleware

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Respect Accept q-values + 406 handling and LLM UA rewrites for docs middleware

Executive Summary

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Market Opportunity

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