Built for your kind of site
Two ways in, because two different people are looking. Playbooks are technical and organised by how your site is built. Stories are organised by what your business is, and name which of our five scoring dimensions decide whether an AI agent can help your customer.
Start from your platform
How your site is built decides where the fix lives. Each playbook shows live averages and the checks that platform fails most often, computed from our own public scans.
Three plugins fighting over robots.txt, and a theme that hides the answer in a tab.
Great structured data out of the box, and a locked-down root that hides the rest.
Server components render beautifully, and the file an agent asks for first does not exist.
The best-rendered HTML we see, and almost nothing at the capability layer.
Shipped in an afternoon, indexed like a single-page app.
A beautiful page built in a canvas, where the root of the domain is not yours to edit.
No detector fired, which means no platform defaults are helping you either.
Start from your business
What an AI agent needs differs by business. Each story names a real moment, the way it currently fails, and the dimensions that decide it. Showing 40 of 40.
Home & trade services
4Trades and call-out businesses an agent has to place, price and reach.
A burst pipe at 7am. The assistant needs your area, your hours and a number.
Also covers: plumber, emergency plumber, electrician, heating engineer, boiler repair, hvac
Someone stood next to a car that will not start. The assistant needs one number.
Also covers: garage, mechanic, car repair, auto shop, mot centre, tyre fitter
A homeowner with three quotes and one evening to compare them.
Also covers: builder, building firm, general contractor, loft conversion, extension builder, renovation company
A recurring booking is a perfect agent task — if your terms are readable.
Also covers: cleaning company, domestic cleaner, office cleaning, end of tenancy cleaning, carpet cleaning, window cleaner
Health & wellness
5Appointment-led practices where the ask is hours, insurance and a booking.
Someone asks an assistant for a Saturday appointment. Your hours are in an image.
Also covers: dentist, dental, dental clinic, orthodontist, endodontist, periodontist
The timetable is a booking widget. To an assistant, the timetable is blank.
Also covers: gym, fitness studio, pilates, reformer, yoga studio, crossfit box
Someone scrolling between appointments wants a price and a slot, now.
Also covers: hair salon, barber, barbershop, beauty salon, nail bar, nail salon
A frightened owner at 11pm asking who is open and what an emergency costs.
Also covers: vet, veterinary surgery, animal hospital, emergency vet, out of hours vet, pet clinic
Someone deciding whether to ask for help at all, on a phone, at midnight.
Also covers: therapist, counsellor, psychotherapist, cbt therapist, psychologist, couples counselling
Retail & ecommerce
7Anything with a price, a stock level and a checkout an agent may complete.
A shopping agent compares three retailers in one turn. Two publish price; one does not.
Also covers: online store, ecommerce, e-commerce, webshop, retailer, boutique
Someone asks what is in stock nearby today. Your stock is a photo on Instagram.
Also covers: local shop, bike shop, bookshop, hardware store, garden centre, pet shop
Allergens, provenance and shipping windows — three facts, all in a PDF.
Also covers: coffee roaster, tea merchant, bakery, chocolatier, cheesemonger, butcher
A shopper on a phone, mid-scroll, mid-doubt about size and returns.
Also covers: clothing store, apparel brand, menswear, womenswear, boutique, streetwear
A researcher comparing you against a marketplace on specifications alone.
Also covers: electronics shop, gadget store, computer shop, pc parts, hi-fi retailer, audio shop
A buyer who followed you off a marketplace and needs a reason to stay.
Also covers: handmade, maker, craft seller, ceramics, pottery studio, jewellery maker
A buyer comparing the same model across five dealers in one question.
Also covers: car dealer, used cars, car showroom, van sales, motorbike dealer, vehicle sales
Professional services
6Firms sold on expertise, where the agent is summarising your authority.
An assistant is summarising your expertise. It can only summarise what it can read.
Also covers: law firm, solicitors, attorney, barrister chambers, legal practice, conveyancing
Deadline season, a specific question, and a fee page that says 'bespoke'.
Also covers: accountant, bookkeeper, cpa, chartered accountant, tax adviser, payroll bureau
A gorgeous site that says nothing a machine can repeat back.
Also covers: marketing agency, brand studio, design studio, creative agency, web design agency, seo agency
A buyer with six listing tabs open, asking an assistant to do the comparing.
Also covers: estate agent, letting agent, realtor, property management, rental agency, commercial property
A comparison question where every competing answer is a structured product.
Also covers: insurance broker, commercial insurance, liability cover, business insurance, insurance agency, mortgage broker
Job boards are the most machine-shaped content there is — and the most often hidden.
Also covers: recruiter, recruitment agency, staffing agency, headhunter, executive search, temp agency
Food, travel & hospitality
5Hours, menus, availability — the facts an assistant is asked for by name.
The menu is a PDF, the hours are in a footer image, and dinner is in two hours.
Also covers: restaurant, cafe, coffee shop, bistro, pizzeria, takeaway
The aggregator answers for you, because the aggregator publishes facts and you publish mood.
Also covers: hotel, guest house, bed and breakfast, boutique hotel, inn, hostel
Capacity, dates and hire fee — the three things every enquiry asks and the page never says.
Also covers: event venue, wedding venue, conference centre, meeting rooms, coworking space, exhibition hall
Trip planning is the flagship use case for assistants. Most operators are unreadable.
Also covers: travel agency, tour operator, guided tours, walking holidays, adventure travel, cycling tours
The aggregator takes a third of the order. The assistant could send it direct.
Also covers: takeaway, food delivery, pizzeria, curry house, chinese takeaway, kebab shop
Publishing & media
3Sites whose product is the text itself, and who need a deliberate AI policy.
Your archive is the training set. Decide the terms deliberately, then be citable.
Also covers: news site, newspaper, magazine, local news, trade publication, online journal
One person, a strong archive, and no map to it.
Also covers: personal blog, writer site, essayist, newsletter, substack alternative, digital garden
Forty minutes of excellent audio, and nine words of text on the page.
Also covers: podcast, audio show, interview show, video series, youtube channel, webinar series
Creative & events
3Portfolio and booking businesses judged on work an agent cannot see.
A site built entirely of images, being read by something that cannot see.
Also covers: photographer, wedding photography, portrait studio, videographer, commercial photography, product photography
A high-consideration purchase decided by whoever answers the questions plainly.
Also covers: wedding planner, event planner, event management, party planner, corporate events, venue styling
Events are dated, ticketed and priced. They should be the easiest thing to publish.
Also covers: music venue, gig listings, band website, promoter, nightclub, comedy club
Learning & community
3Courses, schools and organisations whose schedule is the product.
Curriculum is text. It is also the part most often locked behind the login.
Also covers: online course, e-learning, training provider, certification course, bootcamp, cohort course
Admissions questions are seasonal, high-stakes and almost entirely factual.
Also covers: school, independent school, primary school, secondary school, nursery, preschool
Someone needs help tonight, or wants to give. Both are one readable fact away.
Also covers: charity, nonprofit, community group, food bank, support group, church
Software & agencies
4Products an agent can read, evaluate and increasingly call directly.
You are being compared right now, by something that cannot read your pricing table.
Also covers: saas, b2b software, software product, subscription software, crm, project management tool
Your docs are the product, and a coding agent is now their heaviest reader.
Also covers: developer tool, open source project, cli tool, sdk, library docs, api client
An agent found your product and could not work out how to call it.
Also covers: api product, api first, developer platform, openapi, rest api, graphql api
If your own site is unreadable, that is the portfolio piece an agent reads.
Also covers: web design agency, development studio, digital agency, branding studio, ux agency, product design studio
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Free, no account, about twenty seconds. The report names every failing check by ID, shows the evidence we found, and gives the fix for your platform — plus a hand-off prompt you can paste straight into Claude Code or Cursor.
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