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AI operability

What agents can do on the site today.

AI operability is a probe-based report of what agents can do on the live site today — reach pages, operate forms, and see protocol signals — not a forecast of agent sales and not citation monitoring.

It is included with Site Care at $29/mo, and with Monitor and Dominate. The Pages fix list and this operability report are different surfaces. Care keeps both living.

We probe with real agent user-agents. Forms, commerce schema, and protocol signals (MCP, agent cards, bot authentication cues) are recorded as pass or fail. Recommended fixes land on the living checklist.

The free Layer 1 Audit is the same readiness job, measurement-only: deterministic checks on reachable pages, no Improve LLM essays. Site Care unlocks the itemized list, a daily technical re-score of every reachable page, operability re-probes after you ship fixes (short cooldown), and unlimited verify-page while you are subscribed.

Included with Site Care at $29/mo, and with Monitor ($149) and Dominate ($499). Foundation Sprint is quoted we-apply work, not this membership.

Agent-readiness case study
11 → 28
Agent user-agents probed
5
Verified status on verify-page
System-only

First-party case study: agent readiness 11 → 28. Probe-based — not a traffic forecast. Score lift is not a citation guarantee.

What ships

Concrete artifacts in the client room — not a slogan.

  • A probe report

    Read, forms, booking, and transact capabilities from live probes — what an agent can do now, not what a traffic forecast says it will do later.

  • Protocol and bot access

    robots.txt for AI bots, llms.txt presence, sitemaps, and well-known cards. Findings become checklist items you or your agent apply.

  • A living Site Care list

    Unlock the itemized Layer 1 checklist against a pinned baseline. You or your agent apply; we measure with verify-page. Cancel anytime — verified history stays; the list locks.

  • Optional CMS apply

    When you connect a write-capable CMS or GitHub, apply-fix can land on the site. Connection is not required to buy Site Care. Squarespace and Framer are named as detect-and-brief only — we do not pretend they are connected.

How it works

  1. 01

    We probe the live site with real agent user-agents.

  2. 02

    Forms, protocols, and bot access are recorded as pass or fail.

  3. 03

    Recommended fixes land on the living Site Care checklist.

  4. 04

    Care clients can re-run after they ship fixes (short cooldown).

Measured data

Agent-readiness case study: 11 → 28 on measured probes (first-party).

We probe with real agent user-agents. Forms, commerce schema, and protocol signals are pass or fail. Verify-page re-fetches the live URL and is the only writer of verified. Agents cannot self-mark verified. The free Layer 1 path is measurement-only — no Improve LLM essays on every page.

  • Agent readiness 11 → 28
  • What is agent readiness?

What we measure

Agent user-agents
Live fetches that identify as agents, not a desktop Chrome stand-in. Blocked or broken responses are recorded.
Deterministic Layer 1
Technical and score checks on every reachable page on the free path. We do not claim every page received an Improve LLM essay. Sampling, when it applies on paid deep work, is disclosed.
Verify-page
Re-fetch one URL, re-score against the pinned baseline, and promote a done item to verified only when the system grants it. Agents cannot self-mark verified.

What this is not

  • Not a citation board. Citations unlock with Monitor.
  • Not Cloudflare’s (or anyone’s) agent-traffic forecast. If we nod at news, we name the source and still measure your site.
  • Not “every page fully AI-analysed” on the free path.
  • Not a we-apply Sprint. Foundation is quoted separately when someone on our side ships the fixes.

Vibe-coders whose agent already ships, and teams who want the checklist to stay current after a redesign — plus researchers testing whether a site is usable by agents at all.

How to test it

For buyers and researchers. Every step is something you can do without taking our word.

  1. 01

    Fetch /llms.txt, /agents.json, and /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json on this site — then run the same fetches on yours. That is the operability job.

  2. 02

    Use Fit Check for platform and connectability. Use Layer 1 for the readiness audit. Neither is the Care re-probe after you ship fixes.

  3. 03

    Ask whether verify-page is system-granted. If a vendor lets the implementer tick “verified,” the proof is theatre.

  4. 04

    Site Care is $29/mo month-to-month. Retainers include it at today’s list prices.

Measured AEO vs rebadged SEO

Ask any vendor — including us

Ask any AEO vendor these questions — including us. Measured AEO answers with instruments and dates. Rebadged SEO answers with keyword coverage and search rank.

  1. 01

    Show me a measured citation rate from real answer-engine checks — not search rank — and the engines you checked.

  2. 02

    Show me one verified before/after: a page re-scored against a pinned baseline, with a system-granted verified status.

  3. 03

    Which entity signals changed, and where is the live evidence they resolve?

  4. 04

    Do you record the checks where the brand was not cited?

  5. 05

    Who granted “done” — a person, a model, or a re-probe of the live page?

  6. 06

    Show me your run-to-run flip rate. If the tool will not publish variance next to the headline rate, the decimals are decoration.

Framework licensed from our category positioning record. No named competitors — demand instruments and negatives, not slogans.

What it looks like

Example from a live programme — not measured from your site.

Example AI operability report from a live programme — not this visitor’s site.

CMS platforms we can connect

  • WordPress
  • Shopify
  • GitHub
  • Webflow
  • Wix
  • HubSpot CMS
  • Contentful
  • Sanity
  • Payload

Questions we get

Is this the same as the free Layer 1 Audit?
Layer 1 is the diagnosis. Site Care keeps the list living: daily technical re-score, operability re-probe after you ship fixes, unlimited verify while subscribed. The free path does not unlock the itemized list.
Do I have to connect my CMS?
No. Site Care is you or your agent apply; we measure. Connection is for apply-fix. Monitor and Dominate do not require a connection.
Does operability make ChatGPT cite us?
No. It answers whether an agent can use the site. Citation standing is Monitor and above.

Read next

  • What is agent readiness?
  • How to make your site agent-operable
  • AI agent-ready website

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