Precisely now sells its APIs and MCP server to developers and teams building AI agents, and the new Technical Product Marketing Manager is hired to support "developer portals and product-led growth". But every URL on the Developer Portal, including the documentation pages, robots.txt, sitemap.xml and llms.txt, returns the same 2.8 KB page titled "Developer Portal" with an empty app shell; the docs only exist after JavaScript runs. Google may render some of it, but there is no sitemap to find the pages, and most AI assistants' crawlers do not run JavaScript. When a developer asks an assistant how to geocode or verify an address with Precisely, the assistant cannot read Precisely's own docs, while Smarty, Loqate and Melissa lead with easy APIs.
First action
Pre-render the Address Geocode and Address Verification doc pages and publish a sitemap for them.
How to measure it
Docs pages indexed
- Now
- –
- Target
- 200
- By
- 60 days
Steps
Inventory pages
Every API product, reference and guide.
Developer Portal engineering 2 days
Pre-render
Static HTML for each docs route.
Developer Portal engineering 2 weeks
Fix robots and sitemap
Real files, not the app shell.
Developer Portal engineering 1 day
Publish specs
OpenAPI and llms.txt at stable URLs.
Developer Portal engineering 3 days
Write metadata
Title and description per page.
Technical Product Marketing Manager 1 week
Link from the site
Product pages and trial page.
Web team 2 days
Handle the old portal
Redirect page by page.
Developer Portal engineering 1 week
Measure
Indexed pages, docs traffic, trials.
Technical Product Marketing Manager monthly
Why it works
Pre-render the documentation pages to static HTML (each API product, endpoint reference, quick start and MCP setup) with their own titles and descriptions; serve a real robots.txt and an XML sitemap; publish an llms.txt and the OpenAPI specs at stable public URLs; and link the docs from the main site's product pages. Apply the same to the older developer.precisely.com, or redirect it page by page to the new docs.
Developers choose APIs they can learn without signing up, and AI coding assistants now write much of the integration code. Docs that machines can read turn every "how do I" question into a trial.
Ready to use
ChecklistDeveloper docs readability checklist
[ ] robots.txt returns a text file [ ] sitemap.xml lists every docs page [ ] Each docs page has its own HTML title and description [ ] Content present without JavaScript [ ] OpenAPI specs at stable public URLs [ ] llms.txt with links to quick starts [ ] Old portal pages redirect to new ones
Risks and how to handle them
Docs behind login
Keep reference docs public; gate only keys and usage.
Duplicate content between portals
Redirect the old pages rather than keeping both.
Evidence
- Your websiteDeveloper Portal check (October 22, 2026, repeated): every URL on developer.cloud.precisely.com, including robots.txt, sitemap.xml, llms.txt and product documentation pages such as /apis/products/address-geocode, returns the same 2.8 KB page titled "Developer Portal" with an empty <app-root> element; the content only appears after JavaScript runs. The older portal at developer.precisely.com ("Precisely APIs") behaves the same way.Source
- HiringTechnical Product Marketing Manager (remote US, posted October 5, 2026): help "developers, architects, data practitioners, evaluators and teams building AI-powered applications, agents, and automations understand, evaluate, and adopt Precisely technology"; "Develop technical content — including demonstrations, solutions guides, presentations, videos, and blogs"; "Support developer experiences including developer portals and product-led growth initiatives"; open to "a software engineer, CS graduate, or technical professional looking to transition into product marketing".Source
- Your websiteAPI free trial page: "Build AI workflows on data you can trust with Precisely APIs and MCP server"; "No credit card required · Instant API access · Transparent usage", but no prices, credit amounts or limits on the page; steps end with "Download and deploy the MCP server" from the Developer Portal; "View docs" links to developer.cloud.precisely.com. The page exists only in English: the French, German and Japanese versions return 404, although the site runs in all four languages.Source
- Competitor researchRivals' own homepages: Smarty, "Address Verification for USPS & International Addresses. Try our easy-to-use APIs"; Loqate, "type-ahead, real time address validation and data validation"; Melissa, "Try our easy to-use APIs ... Free Trial Available"; Informatica (now "from Salesforce"), "AI-ready data" for "every agent"; Ataccama, "Agentic Data Trust Software".Source
- Your websiteAPI FAQ: "The APIs have been updated with new branding, expanded capabilities, and a new developer portal. API names, documentation, and endpoints have changed"; "Migrate to the new endpoints listed below as soon as possible to avoid disruption", followed by a migration table from the old APIs (geocode, typeahead, verification, maps, routing, risk, demographics, property) to new products on developer.cloud.precisely.com.Source