ACR · Agentic Commerce Readiness

Can an AI agent buy from your store?

AI shopping agents already choose and pay for their users. The ACR scanner (Agentic Commerce Readiness) reviews your store like one of them and tells you, with evidence, whether it would let it buy or gets stuck trying.

40Checks per site
8Maturity pillars
6Levels: from Opaque to Agent-native
0Private data touched

Your store looks great to people. The new question is how it looks to the machines that buy for them.

An agent does not browse your site: it reads it. If it cannot find the price, the availability or a clear path to pay, it does not ask for help: it picks another store. The ACR scanner shows you exactly where you get left out, before it costs you sales.

What we measure

Forty checks for a single answer: can they buy from you?

Eight pillars, from how your catalog reads to whether a machine can follow a path to pay. Five set your score, and every check comes with the evidence so you can verify it yourself.

01

Agentic access

Whether the site lets in an agent that identifies itself, and whether its robots.txt says the same thing it does in practice.

Red flagYour robots.txt blocks the agent that identifies itself and lets the anonymous one through.
02

Catalog and data

Whether product, price, availability and variants can be read without running JavaScript, and whether the sitemap leads to the products.

Red flagThe price only appears after JavaScript loads: to a machine, it does not exist.
03

Executable checkout

Whether the site declares a purchase protocol an agent can discover, such as UCP or ACP.

Red flagThere is no way for an agent to discover how to pay without browsing like a person.
04

Governance and policies

Whether the return policy and shipping cost travel inside the offer data, not just on a text page.

Red flagShipping and returns live on a text page, outside the offer data.
05

Architecture and performance

The platform, the page weight and how much it costs an agent to crawl the site end to end.

Red flagThe page is so heavy that crawling it gets expensive for any agent.

The other three · context only

Payments, identity and post-sale are reported but do not add to the score: from the outside there is no way to measure them well. Pretending otherwise would only inflate the number.

PaymentsWhich methods it accepts and whether an agent could settle the payment.
IdentityHow it tells a person apart from an agent acting for them.
Post-saleTracking, returns and support once the purchase closes.

Safe for your store: it does not buy, touch anything, or hide.

The scanner identifies itself and plays fair. It only looks at what anyone can see from outside, and if you deny it access, it respects that and notes it.

  • Identifies itself with a name and purpose.It does not disguise as a browser or pass as anonymous.
  • Makes only normal requests to public pages.The same ones a real shopping agent would make.
  • Respects each site's robots.txt.If denied, it documents that instead of forcing its way.
  • Does not buy or write data.Zero side effects: it touches nothing of yours.
  • Does not solve CAPTCHAs or evade blocks.No anti-bot tricks to sneak in.

Six levels: from Opaque to Agent-native.

Your score maps to a level, to place you at a glance. The uncomfortable part: today not even the best of Mexican retail reaches the top half of the scale.

Ceiling of the study's Mexican sample: 65.7. No measured site reaches Integrable.

A site is scored only if the measured weight passes a threshold. When much goes unmeasured, the range widens: not measuring never raises the score.

The deliverable

What you get.

A score from 0 to 100, always with its range

The range widens when much goes unmeasured. Not measuring never raises the grade: the honesty is built in.

A level on the six-point scale

From Opaque to Agent-native, to place your stage at a glance before diving into the detail.

Most actionable

Findings with evidence

Each one with its severity, the estimated effort to fix it, and your position against the 14 commerces in the study.

For the commerce

A visual PDF report

Delivered by hand and never published. Someone from the Lab reviews it before it goes out, so it arrives with context, not as a data dump.

What the scanner cannot claim.

This matters as much as what it does measure. We would rather say it upfront than inflate a number.

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Whether AI agents are buying on your site today.The ones running inside a person's browser look exactly like a human.
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Whether you are integrated with a protocol that publishes nothing.If the integration leaves no trace on your public surface, there is no way to see it from outside.
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Traffic, rankings or lost sales.ACR measures readability and executability for agents, not business outcomes.

Frequently asked questions.

Does the scanner touch private data or buy anything?

No. It only makes requests to public pages, like any visitor. It does not buy, write data or log in.

How long does it take and how much does it cost?

The first scan is free. Since someone from the Lab reviews each report before it goes out, delivery takes a couple of business days.

My site blocks bots. Is that wrong?

It depends who you block. Blocking abusive crawling is reasonable. Blocking specifically the agent that identifies itself while letting the anonymous one through inverts the incentives.

Do you publish my store's result?

Never. The report is delivered by hand and in private. No name ever appears next to a defect.

Can I verify the findings myself?

Yes. All the evidence is on the public surface and every check declares the command that produces it.

Is this the same as SEO or showing up in ChatGPT?

No. That measures whether you are read and cited. The ACR scanner measures whether an agent can complete a purchase without browsing like a person.

Find out if an agent can buy from you, free

We run the same instrument from the study against your store and send you your score with its range, your level, and the findings with evidence and a fix plan. All on the public surface, touching nothing. Someone from the Lab reviews it, so it arrives within a couple of business days.

Free · Public surface · Delivered by hand · Privacy notice