Valero Energy: 62 of 100 on Ora's agent-readiness scan

The score

Valero Energy is a refiner based in San Antonio.

• 62of 100, grade C
  Ora's agent-readiness scan of valero.com, read 9 November 2026.
• 8Discovery, of 11
  Whether assistants find the company: search presence, Wikipedia and Wikidata, catalogues.
• 19Access, of 41
  Whether they can read it: the door, text without JavaScript, llms.txt, structured data.
• 13Usability, of 19
  Whether they can act through it: an MCP server, an API with a specification, sign-in for agents.
• 0Payments, of 0
  No check in this layer applied to the site.

79 percent of the 132,085 domains Ora ranks score under 60, and the average score is 44.

Ora's one-line summary: Valero offers a sound web presence and crawler-friendly setup, but lacks WebMCP support and JSON-LD structured data for agents.

What an assistant meets at the door

Before an assistant can read, compare or buy, it has to get in. These rows are the door: whether the bot shield lets the main agents through, what robots.txt tells the search, training and user-triggered agents, and whether the home page has text without running JavaScript.

What it can read, and what it can do

The reading layer is what an assistant takes away from the pages: a text file written for it, markdown on request, structured data about the company, a sitemap. The act layer is whether it can do anything through a published interface rather than by clicking through the site.

The six payment checks did not apply on this read: Ora did not read the site as a shop.

Three fixes to hand to the web team

Ora estimates how many points each open check would return. These are the largest on this read, in Ora's words where it gave them, so a leader can hand the list over without translating it.

1. WebMCP support, worth about 11.7 points by Ora's estimate: No WebMCP support detected - no document.modelContext / navigator.modelContext usage found (scanned 3 of 3 same-origin script bundle(s) for modelContext registrations).
2. Brand name discoverability, worth about 4 points by Ora's estimate: valero.com ranks #6 for "Valero" (searched your brand name alone: no main product term from your homepage qualified).
3. JSON-LD structured data, worth about 3.3 points by Ora's estimate: No JSON-LD structured data found on homepage.

Our read

Valero opens to every agent Ora tested and shows them a tidy page: 1,466 characters without JavaScript at a 7.6 percent content ratio, five of five inner pages readable, a 144-entry sitemap, a correct 404 and a robots.txt that allows the AI crawlers and restricts none of the user-triggered agents. What the page lacks is the layer that tells an agent what it is reading: there is no JSON-LD at all, so the Organization row is empty, and metadata sits at 2 of 4 with og:image and og:type missing. The act layer is empty by design, with no public API, developer portal, MCP server or OAuth, so the Usability layer reads 13 of 19 and WebMCP tops the fix list at 11.7 points. Discovery is 8 of 11, with both Wikipedia and Wikidata confirming the domain. An Organization block and the two missing Open Graph tags are the cheapest rows on this page, and together they would tell an agent whose site it has just read.

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