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AI Channel Diagnostic

How ready is your brand for the AI purchase channel?

We score your domain across four pillars — AI Behaviour, AI Signal, AI Technical, and AI Transactability — using real provider runs and structured probes. Free, no account required.

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METHODOLOGY

How we score readiness

Every check runs the same fixed pipeline. We scrape your homepage, gate on whether you're an e-commerce brand, identify a hero product, then generate 10 consumer-facing queries tuned to your category and market. We submit those queries to two AI assistants, scrape the open web for off-site brand signal, and probe your site for AI-crawler access and agentic-commerce readiness. A Sonnet-class model synthesises the findings into a verdict, three wins, and three actionable gaps.

Each dimension scores 0–100. The overall is a weighted average: D1×40% + D2×25% + D3×20% + D4×15%. There is no floor rule — D4 is forward-looking and most brands score low here today, which is honest.

D1 — AI Behaviour (40%)

We submit 10 queries to ChatGPT and Google AI Mode via real browser sessions. If you have a clear hero product, the split is 5 brand+category + 5 hero-product queries. If not, all 10 are brand+category — and we surface "no clear hero product" as a finding.

Each provider × query response is extracted into structured findings: did the brand appear, was it recommended, in what position, with what sentiment, alongside which competitors, with what URL citations. Per-query Purchase Likelihood (PL) and Narrative Accuracy (NA) scores feed the dimension score: 60% PL + 30% NA + 10% citation frequency. The quadrant diagnostic — Recommended & Accurate / Recommended but Inaccurate / Accurate but Unseen / Invisible — comes from PL × NA.

D2 — AI Signal (25%)

Five sub-points, each scored 0–100, averaged for the dimension score:

  • Reviews — Trustpilot, Judge.me, Yotpo, Sitejabber, BBB.
  • Editorial mentions — major publications by market (NYT/Vogue/Forbes for US; Telegraph/Vogue UK/Stylist for UK; Vogue India/Mint/ET for IN).
  • Community presence — Reddit (subreddit search) + Quora.
  • Creator coverage — YouTube, TikTok, Instagram (unsponsored mentions).
  • PR — news mentions in the last 12 months.

D3 — AI Technical (20%)

Six sub-points, averaged:

  • AI bot access in robots.txt — eight bots: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, OAI-SearchBot, Amazonbot, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider.
  • llms.txt presence + conformance — present, with H1, summary blockquote, and at least one named ## section.
  • JSON-LD on homepage — Organization, WebSite, BreadcrumbList types.
  • JSON-LD on hero PDP — Product, Offer, Review, AggregateRating types (skipped if no hero detected).
  • Sitemap coverage — present, with URL count tier.
  • Image alt text coverage — ratio of homepage images with alt attributes.

D4 — AI Transactability (15%)

Four sub-points, averaged. D4 is forward-looking — most brands today score low here, which is honest:

  • Commerce platform fingerprint — Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce.
  • MCP probes — /.well-known/mcp, /.well-known/ai-plugin.json, /.well-known/agentic-commerce, /mcp.
  • Agent Payments markers — Stripe Agent SDK, Shopify Agentic Checkout, Visa Agent Commerce signatures.
  • Google Merchant feed — common feed locations + homepage feed link tags.
90–100 Strong
70–89 Adequate
50–69 Concerns
0–49 Significant Concerns

Refresh cadence

Each (domain, market) pair can be re-checked every 28 days. Within that window, submitting the same domain returns the existing report — we don't re-run an expensive pipeline that won't surface new signal yet. Every run is preserved in history; you can compare past scores from the report page.