Passage Ready (seated ready)

Passage Ready (seated ready) is the state where every sentence in a text fragment is clear enough to be cited by AI search systems as standalone answers without additional context. A passage-ready fragment uses the entity's full name (not pronouns), starts with a BLUF, is autonomous (200–500 words, understandable without the rest of the article), and contains at least 2-3 industry terms.

The practical test: extract any H2 section and read it as a standalone AI answer — if it makes sense independently, it's passage ready. This matters because Google creates separate vectors for each H2 section through Passage Ranking and Passage Embeddings, so each section must be self-contained.

To implement this, check your H2 sections with the 'extract and cite' test — copy the section to a separate document and read it without context. If it contains 'it', 'this', 'the above' or requires knowledge from other sections, rewrite it with full entity names, BLUF at the start, and concrete facts.