AI readiness for web design and development studios

If your own site is unreadable, that is the portfolio piece an agent reads.

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The moment

Leon, who runs a five-person design studio

A founder asks an assistant to recommend studios that build sites on a specific stack, in a budget band, with availability this quarter.

What the agent needs: What you build, on what, for how much, and whether you have capacity.

What actually happens: The homepage is an animated canvas with three words of text, case studies are scroll-triggered, and pricing is 'let's talk'. The assistant names three studios that published a services page.

Which dimensions decide it, and why

AIScan grades five dimensions. These are the ones that carry the outcome for this kind of business.

Content

Heavily animated sites often serve almost no text. The services, stack and case-study detail need to exist in the initial HTML, not appear on scroll.

Commerce

A project minimum or a day rate gets you into budget-qualified shortlists. 'Let's talk' is unquotable.

Capabilities

This is the one industry where failing your own agent-readiness check is itself the argument against hiring you.

The checks that matter here

Fix guides: /docs/checks/content · /docs/checks/capabilities · /docs/checks/commerce

Most sites like this run on Framer — read the Framer playbook for where each fix lives.

Questions we get asked

Our site is deliberately minimal. Is that a problem?

Minimal is fine; empty is not. There is a large difference between restrained copy and three words plus an animation.

Should a studio publish rates?

A project minimum is enough, and it filters enquiries in your favour as well as putting you in budget-qualified answers.

Do case studies need to be text?

Yes — the problem, the approach, the result. Scroll-triggered reveals that only exist after JavaScript runs are invisible to a fetch.

Does our own score matter commercially?

Increasingly. Clients now ask agencies to demonstrate agent-readiness, and a published grade is a straightforward answer.

Can we offer this as a service?

Many studios do — run the scan for a client, fix the checks, show the before and after.

How do we check ourselves?

`npx aiscan-cli yourstudio.com` — it takes about ten seconds and prints the checks you are failing.

Scan your site and see where you actually stand

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.

Run a free scan npx aiscan-cli yoursite.com

Prefer to read first? Browse every check we run or the guide library.

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