AI-Readiness Grade

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B

Score: 82/100

  • AI crawlers can reach you
  • Snippet eligible
  • AI can read your content

MOSTLY READY

AI can read you — but a few fixable gaps are leaving recommendations on the table.

This is a machine-readability / answer-readiness check: can AI crawlers read your page, is it structured the way AI answers favor, and does AI seem to know your brand. It measures the on-page factors you control — it is NOT a complete AI-citation prediction (off-page authority and third-party mentions also matter heavily) and not a live multi-engine citation score (that's measured separately).

Recommendation receipt

AI named you.

We asked Claude for the best best email marketing platforms and it named Mailchimp (position 1) among KlaviyoConvertKitActiveCampaignBrevoHubSpot.

# Best Email Marketing Platforms 1. **Mailchimp** - Free tier available; good for beginners with automation features. 2. **Klaviyo** - Excellent for e-commerce with advanced segmentation and personalization. 3. **ConvertKit** - Designed for creators with simple, intuitive automation workflows. 4. **ActiveCampaign** - Powerful CRM integration and advanced automation capabilities. 5. **Brevo (f…

Indicative, not definitive: this is a single run of one AI engine (Claude). AI answers vary run-to-run, so absence here means you're not reliably surfaced for this question — not that you're never recommended. The tracked, multi-engine, multi-run version is paid monitoring.

Your Playbook

Ranked by evidence and impact -- not by what's easy to sell.

The 3 fixes that matter most.

  1. Your content isn't shaped the way AI answers favorOn your site

    Content is missing levers proven to lift AI visibility (stats, quotes, citations).

    Passages with statistics, quotations and cited sources are extracted into AI answers more often; lead with a direct, self-contained answer.

    Strong/causal: GEO (KDD 2024) — stats +33%, quotes +41%, cited sources +28%.

  2. AI crawlers can't read most of your contentOn your site

    ~22568 characters of text — readable, but thin; more substantive content helps.

    AI crawlers don't run JavaScript; client-side-injected content is invisible to them. Server-render or pre-render key content.

    Strong: 500M+ fetch study — AI crawlers don't execute JS.

  3. No visible freshness datesOn your site

    No visible freshness/last-updated dates.

    AI retrieval favors recent content; expose accurate last-updated dates.

    Expose a last-updated date (replace the date with your real one)

    <script type="application/ld+json">
    {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","dateModified":"YYYY-MM-DD"}
    </script>

    Moderate: AI-cited content skews recent.

Agent-Readiness

A 88/100

Can AI agents act on your site?

Can AI agents -- not just answer engines -- find, read, call, and buy from you? Anchored to shipping standards (AI crawlers, MCP, NLWeb, ACP/AP2).

Discoverability
  • AI search/agent crawlers are allowed.
  • Sitemap declared in robots.txt.
Readable by agents
  • ~22568 characters of text — readable, but thin; more substantive content helps.

    Increase server-rendered text.

  • Strong semantic/landmark structure — agentic browsers read the accessibility tree.emerging standard
  • Structured data present and typed.
Agent capabilitiesFull audit

Live probe for MCP, OpenAPI, A2A agent card & NLWeb endpoints -- part of the full agent audit.

Agent commerceFull audit

Live probe for product feeds & agentic checkout (ACP/AP2) -- part of the full agent audit.

The full Agent-Readiness audit probes your live MCP / agent-card / checkout surfaces -- part of paid monitoring.

Agent Task Replay

Can an AI agent complete a sale on mailchimp.com?

Here is what Agent Task Replay reveals (example below). Run it on mailchimp.com with Pro.

Agent Task Replay

Example

Can an AI agent actually use acme.com?

We pointed a synthetic buyer agent at acme.com and at HubSpot, gave each the same five tasks, and recorded exactly where the agent could and could not get through.

claude-haiku-4-5 + opus-judge · 1280x800 · chromium-122 · prompt v1 · 2026-06-20

Tasks5
Passed2
Blocked2
Failed1
vs HubSpotyou 2 / them 5

Task board

Tap a row to replay

Transcript

  1. 01
    navigate to home
    acme.com/
    Landing page loaded. Top nav lists Product, Solutions, Pricing, Docs.
  2. 02
    click 'Pricing'
    acme.com/
    Followed the 'Pricing' nav link toward the pricing page.
  3. 03
    land on pricing
    acme.com/pricing
    Page rendered three plan columns: Starter, Team, Enterprise.
  4. 04
    read pricing
    acme.com/pricing
    Every plan shows 'Contact sales' and 'Custom pricing'. No dollar figure appears anywhere in the page text.

Why it stopped

The team-plan price sits behind a 'Contact sales' wall, so an AI agent answering a buyer cannot quote you a price.

Evidence (page text)Pricing: Custom. Contact our sales team for a quote.

Side by side

acme.comBLOCKEDDead-ended at step 4 on /pricing.
HubSpotPASSFound Starter, Professional, and Enterprise prices in page text.

The agent dead-ended on 3 of these 5 buyer tasks. Unlock every transcript, screenshot, and the best-effort weekly moving line with Pro — and run it on your own site.

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Example run shown. Live runs for your site begin with Pro.

Strong signals

The signals AI engines actually use to find and read you. These carry the most weight.

  • AI crawlers can reach you

    AI retrieval crawlers (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google) are allowed — good.

  • Snippet eligible

    Indexable and snippet-eligible.

  • AI can read your content

    ~22568 characters of text — readable, but thin; more substantive content helps.

    Add more substantive server-rendered text.

  • Content AI loves to quote

    Content is missing levers proven to lift AI visibility (stats, quotes, citations).

    Lead with a direct, answer-first summary of what you do.

  • AI knows you as an entity

    Your brand has a Wikidata/Wikipedia entity — AI models are far more likely to know you.

Moderate signals

Helpful supporting signals.

  • Freshness signals

    No visible freshness/last-updated dates.

    Expose dateModified / last-updated dates — AI retrieval favors recent content.

  • Sitemap discoverable

    Sitemap declared in robots.txt.

Minor signals

Hygiene and informational items -- included for completeness, low or zero weight.

  • Structured datahygiene -- not a ranking factor

    Structured data present (good hygiene; most AI engines don't read JSON-LD, but it helps entity disambiguation).

  • /llms.txt presentinformational -- not a ranking factor

    /llms.txt is informational only — major AI engines do not currently use it (it does not affect this grade).

Competitor share-of-voice

Who does AI recommend instead?

See which competitors AI recommends over you, across every engine.

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Track over time

Want your grade tracked over time? Leave your email — we'll tell you when monitoring opens for your site.

This is one read, once. The moving line is where the value lives.

You'll be first to know when grade monitoring opens for your site — including citation tracking and competitor alerts.

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This free grade shows your readiness diagnosis only. Measured citation share-of-voice, competitor rankings, and trends over time are part of paid monitoring -- never faked here.