Is your store invisible to AI agents? How to check in 30 seconds

When an AI assistant considers recommending your store, it doesn't look at your beautiful homepage. It probes your domain the way a machine does: can I read the catalog? Is there structured data? Is there an endpoint I can query? If the answers are no, the agent recommends whoever answered yes.

The probes are unglamorous and fully public. robots.txt — is a crawler even allowed in, and are AI crawlers singled out? sitemap.xml — can the catalog be enumerated? Product feeds and store APIs — /products.json on Shopify-style stores, the WooCommerce Store API on WordPress, GraphQL where exposed. Structured data — schema.org Product markup with prices and availability. And the newest one: /.well-known/mcp.json — a declaration that this store can be queried by AI agents directly.

Most self-hosted stores pass the first two checks and fail everything after. That reads as "invisible" to a shopping agent: it knows you exist but can't see what you sell.

We built a free scanner that runs these probes and grades your store's agent-readiness from A to F — takes about 30 seconds, no email. Run it on your own domain, then on your loudest competitor's. The gap, in either direction, is your roadmap.

If your grade is a D, you're in the majority — and fixing it is exactly the work we do: machine-readable catalog, an agent that knows it, and an MCP endpoint so AI channels can query you directly.