Structures completed jobs and restorations so AI can assess your capabilities. When someone asks "who does classic car restoration near me" or "find a body shop with before-and-after photos," this page gives AI a structured gallery of your best work.
A portfolio page is proof of capability. AI uses it to verify that you actually do the work you claim — restorations, custom builds, paint correction, engine swaps. Without structured data, AI sees a page of images with no context.
CollectionPage as the page type and wrap your projects in an ItemList so AI can enumerate each completed job individually.CreativeWork with a clear name, description, and image so AI can understand what was done and see the result.image field on each CreativeWork gives AI visual proof of your work. Before-and-after photos are especially valuable for automotive portfolios.description should cover what was done, what vehicle it was for, and what the outcome was — "Full frame-off restoration of a 1967 Mustang" tells AI far more than "Classic car project."Each field in the template below serves a specific role in how AI systems discover, classify, and recommend your business.
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nameurltelephoneCopy this prompt and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any AI coding tool. It will ask for your business details and generate ready-to-use JSON-LD schema for your page.
You are implementing AIFDS-compliant JSON-LD structured data for a Automotive Business Portfolio page. AIFDS (AI-Friendly Data Structure) is a schema framework built on research into which structured data fields AI systems actually read, parse, and use when deciding whether to cite a page. Documentation at aifds.org. Before generating any code, ask me for the following information in a single numbered list. Do not generate schema until I have answered every required field. REQUIRED — do not proceed without these: 1. Business name 2. Domain 3. Faq answer 4. Faq question 5. Phone number 6. Portfolio page description 7. Portfolio page title 8. Project description 9. Project image 10. Project name 11. Project url OPTIONAL — ask for these but proceed if I skip them: 1. Any additional details not covered above Once I provide the information, output a complete JSON-LD script block ready to paste into the <head> of my HTML page. Output requirements: - Valid JSON-LD wrapped in <script type="application/ld+json"> tags - schema.org vocabulary only - Every AIFDS-required field for this industry and page type included - Include this data attribute on the script tag: data-aifds="aifds.org Automotive Business Portfolio" - No placeholder text — omit missing optional fields rather than fill with examples - After the code block, list any optional fields skipped that would strengthen AI citation
Generated schema follows the AIFDS framework. Fields were selected based on research into AI crawler behavior. View the research at minnesota.ai
Copy this template and replace every YOUR_* placeholder with your own data. Add or remove items from the ItemList to match your actual portfolio.
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@graph": [
{
"@type": "CollectionPage",
"@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/portfolio/",
"name": "YOUR_PORTFOLIO_PAGE_TITLE",
"description": "YOUR_PORTFOLIO_PAGE_DESCRIPTION",
"isPartOf": {
"@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#website"
},
"mainEntity": {
"@type": "ItemList",
"itemListElement": [
{
"@type": "ListItem",
"position": 1,
"item": {
"@type": "CreativeWork",
"name": "YOUR_PROJECT_NAME_1",
"description": "YOUR_PROJECT_DESCRIPTION_1",
"image": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/YOUR_PROJECT_IMAGE_1.jpg",
"url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/YOUR_PROJECT_URL_1/"
}
},
{
"@type": "ListItem",
"position": 2,
"item": {
"@type": "CreativeWork",
"name": "YOUR_PROJECT_NAME_2",
"description": "YOUR_PROJECT_DESCRIPTION_2",
"image": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/YOUR_PROJECT_IMAGE_2.jpg",
"url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/YOUR_PROJECT_URL_2/"
}
},
{
"@type": "ListItem",
"position": 3,
"item": {
"@type": "CreativeWork",
"name": "YOUR_PROJECT_NAME_3",
"description": "YOUR_PROJECT_DESCRIPTION_3",
"image": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/YOUR_PROJECT_IMAGE_3.jpg",
"url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/YOUR_PROJECT_URL_3/"
}
}
]
}
},
{
"@type": "AutomotiveBusiness",
"@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#organization",
"name": "YOUR_BUSINESS_NAME",
"url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com",
"telephone": "YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER"
},
{
"@type": "BreadcrumbList",
"@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/portfolio/#breadcrumb",
"itemListElement": [
{
"@type": "ListItem",
"position": 1,
"name": "Home",
"item": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/"
},
{
"@type": "ListItem",
"position": 2,
"name": "Portfolio",
"item": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/portfolio/"
}
]
},
{
"@type": "FAQPage",
"@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/portfolio/#faq",
"mainEntity": [
{
"@type": "Question",
"name": "YOUR_FAQ_QUESTION_1",
"acceptedAnswer": {
"@type": "Answer",
"text": "YOUR_FAQ_ANSWER_1"
}
},
{
"@type": "Question",
"name": "YOUR_FAQ_QUESTION_2",
"acceptedAnswer": {
"@type": "Answer",
"text": "YOUR_FAQ_ANSWER_2"
}
},
{
"@type": "Question",
"name": "YOUR_FAQ_QUESTION_3",
"acceptedAnswer": {
"@type": "Answer",
"text": "YOUR_FAQ_ANSWER_3"
}
}
]
}
]
}
CreativeWork is the better choice because it lets you describe the project with a name, description, and image together. ImageObject only describes the photo itself, not the work behind it. AI needs context about what was done, not just what the result looks like.
Include every project you want AI to know about. There is no practical limit. More items give AI a broader picture of your capabilities — if you do restorations, custom paint, and engine builds, show examples of all three so AI can match you to a wider range of queries.
The image field in structured data is a URL — alt text belongs in your HTML <img> tags, not in JSON-LD. However, the description on each CreativeWork serves a similar purpose: it tells AI what the image represents in the context of the project.