What does AgentReady check?

AgentReady runs 17 checks across 5 categories: Accessibility (robots.txt, meta tags, JS-independence), Content Structure (semantic HTML, Schema.org, text-to-HTML ratio, FAQ schema), AI-Specific Readiness (llms.txt, clean text extraction, entity clarity, MCP compatibility, author/citation signals), Performance (response time, render-blocking resources), and Metadata (Open Graph, meta description, content freshness).

Yes. The free plan includes 5 scans per month with full 17-check analysis, actionable recommendations, and PDF export. Pro is $19/month for 100 scans, automated monitoring, and bulk scanning. Team is $79/month for 1,000 scans, REST API access, and white-label reports.

llms.txt is a plain-text file at your site root that tells AI agents what your site is about, where key content lives, and how it should be understood. Think of it as robots.txt for AI agents.

Is My Website Ready for AI Agents?

AI agents are already visiting your website. Not someday. Right now.

When someone asks ChatGPT to "find the best project management tool for remote teams" or tells Claude to "compare pricing for email marketing platforms," those AI systems go out and read websites to find answers. They crawl pages, parse content, and decide which sources to trust and cite.

The question is: can they actually read yours?

The new front door to your website

For the past 20 years, SEO meant optimizing for Google's crawler. You'd write title tags, build backlinks, and make sure Googlebot could index your pages. That playbook still matters, but there's a new class of visitor that plays by different rules.

AI agents don't browse like humans. They don't scroll, they don't click through navigation menus, and they don't care about your hero image. They want structured, machine-readable information they can extract quickly and confidently.

If your site isn't ready for them, you're invisible to a growing share of how people discover products and services.

What AI agents actually look for

AI agent readiness comes down to five areas. Get these right and your website becomes a source that agents trust and cite. Get them wrong and agents skip you entirely — or worse, misrepresent what you do.

1. Structured data

This is the single biggest factor in AI agent readiness. Structured data (Schema.org markup, JSON-LD) gives agents explicit, unambiguous information about your content. Instead of guessing that a block of text is a product description, agents can see it labeled as a Product with a name, price, description, and review rating.

Common types that matter:

Organization — who you are, where you're located, how to contact you
Product — what you sell, pricing, availability
Article — blog posts with author, date, topic
FAQ — questions and answers agents can extract directly
HowTo — step-by-step instructions

If you have zero structured data on your site, you're asking every AI agent to guess what your content means. Most won't bother.

2. Robots.txt and AI bot rules

Your robots.txt file controls which bots can access your site. Many site owners don't realize that AI agents use specific user-agent strings — ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Googlebot-Extended, and others.

Some websites accidentally block AI agents by using overly broad disallow rules. Others intentionally block them without understanding the tradeoff: if you block AI crawlers, you don't show up in AI-generated answers. Period.

Check your robots.txt right now. If it says Disallow: / for these user agents, you've opted out of the AI discovery channel entirely.

3. Content structure and accessibility

AI agents parse your HTML. The cleaner your markup, the better they understand your content.

What helps:

Semantic HTML — use h1, h2, h3 tags properly (not just styled divs)
Alt text on images — agents can't see images, but they can read descriptions
Clear hierarchy — one h1 per page, logical heading nesting
Descriptive link text — "Read our pricing guide" beats "click here"
Accessible tables — if you present data in tables, use proper th and td markup

Sites built with accessibility in mind are almost always more AI-agent-friendly too. The same principles that help screen readers help AI crawlers.

4. Performance and response times

AI agents have timeout thresholds. If your page takes 8 seconds to load because of render-blocking JavaScript, an agent may abandon the request before it ever sees your content.

Key metrics:

Time to First Byte (TTFB) under 500ms
Fully rendered content available without requiring JavaScript execution
No aggressive interstitials — popups and modals that block content access trip up agents the same way they frustrate humans

Server-side rendering or static generation is a major advantage here. If your content only exists after a client-side React app finishes hydrating, many AI agents will see a blank page.

5. Metadata and meta tags

Beyond traditional SEO meta tags, AI agents look for signals that help them understand content authority and freshness:

Canonical URLs — tells agents which version of a page is authoritative
Last-modified dates — agents prefer fresh content
Author information — establishes expertise signals
Clear page titles and descriptions — the first thing agents read to decide if a page is relevant

Common mistakes that tank your AI readiness

Most websites make at least two of these errors:

No structured data at all — the most common gap, especially on marketing sites and SaaS landing pages
Blocking AI bots in robots.txt — sometimes inherited from a template or set by a previous developer
Content locked behind JavaScript — single-page apps that serve empty HTML shells
Missing alt text — especially on product images and diagrams that contain critical information
Broken or missing API endpoints — if you have a product, agents increasingly look for programmatic access points
Stale sitemaps — your sitemap says you have 200 pages but half return 404s

The frustrating part is that most of these are quick fixes. A few hours of work can move you from invisible to highly visible in AI agent results.

How to check your AI readiness score

You can audit some of this manually — open your robots.txt, run a structured data validator, check your page speed scores. But doing it comprehensively across all five categories takes time, and it's easy to miss things.

We built AgentReady to solve exactly this problem. It runs 17 automated checks across accessibility, content structure, AI-specific signals, performance, and metadata. You get an A-F score with specific, actionable fixes — not vague recommendations, but "add Organization schema to your homepage" or "your robots.txt is blocking ClaudeBot."

The free tier gives you 5 scans per month, which is enough to audit your main site and track improvements.

AI agents aren't a future trend. They're already shaping how people find and evaluate products, services, and information. The websites that show up in those conversations are the ones that made themselves easy to read.

If you haven't checked whether your site is ready, run a free scan at AgentReady and find out in 30 seconds.