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title: "A 30-minute agent readiness review | Am I Ready for Agents?"
description: "A 30-minute agenda for an agent readiness review: who to invite, what to do beforehand, five timed blocks and the three decisions to leave with."
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# A 30-minute agent readiness review | Am I Ready for Agents?

> A 30-minute agenda for an agent readiness review: who to invite, what to do beforehand, five timed blocks and the three decisions to leave with.

Source: https://amireadyforagents.com/briefings/run-a-30-minute-agent-readiness-review
Site: Am I Ready for Agents?
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

# How to run a 30-minute agent readiness review with your team

## In short

Invite four or five people, ask each to take the self-check alone beforehand and use the meeting to compare answers. Disagreements and not sure answers are the findings. Leave with three decisions: your position on AI bots, one readability fix to investigate and one named owner for agent policy.

## Who and what beforehand

-   The marketing, ecommerce or digital lead who owns the outcome, as chair.
-   Whoever runs the website platform or its hosting.
-   Whoever manages the CDN, firewall or bot protection.
-   Someone from payments or fraud, if you sell or take bookings online.
-   For publishers, whoever sets the policy on reuse of content.

Ask each person to take the [self-check](https://amireadyforagents.com/self-check) alone, without comparing notes, and to write down their level, their five area scores and the questions they answered no or not sure. Different answers to the same question are useful: if marketing says robots.txt welcomes AI crawlers and security says the firewall blocks them, you have found your first action.

## The half hour

| Minutes | What happens | What you leave with |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 0 to 5 | Name the one task a customer's agent should be able to do: buy, book, quote, subscribe or read. | A single task to judge everything against. |
| 5 to 15 | Go through the five areas and read out the questions where answers differ or are not sure. Do not debate fixes. | What is true today, or that nobody knows. |
| 15 to 25 | Turn every not sure into a question with a name and a date, using the sentences on ask your web team. | A list of open questions with owners. |
| 25 to 30 | Take three decisions and write them down. | Your position on AI bots, one readability fix, one named owner. |

## The written position

One page is enough: which AI visitors you allow and refuse and why, how verified agents are treated at checkout or booking, who owns the policy and when it will be reviewed. A review date matters more than completeness because the rules keep changing.

-   6 Aug 2026
    
    Cloudflare said on 6 August 2026 that a recipe site could charge a fraction of a cent per fetch and a local paper could license articles at read time without a licensing deal or login.
    
    [Cloudflare: the agentic internet, WebMCP example (6 Aug 2026)](https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-agentic-internet/), read 4 Nov 2026
    
-   1 Sep 2022
    
    RFC 9309 states that robots.txt rules are not a form of access authorization; enforcement needs bot management.
    
    [RFC 9309 Robots Exclusion Protocol](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9309), read 4 Nov 2026
    

## A scanner comes after

Run a scanner after the meeting, once you know which questions you want it to answer. Do not set a score as the goal: scores from different tools measure different things, and none of them measures whether customers' agents finish tasks on your site. The [tools that check](https://amireadyforagents.com/tools-that-check) page names three free ones.

## Related

-   [The self-check](https://amireadyforagents.com/self-check)Eighteen questions scored in your browser.
-   [Ask your web team](https://amireadyforagents.com/ask-your-web-team)The sentences to send, grouped by area.
-   [The one-hour audit](https://amireadyforagents.com/guides/one-hour-audit-a-leader-can-do-alone)What a leader can check alone.

## Sources

1.  [Cloudflare: the agentic internet, WebMCP example (6 Aug 2026)](https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-agentic-internet/) (blog.cloudflare.com/the-agentic-internet), read 4 Nov 2026.
2.  [RFC 9309 Robots Exclusion Protocol](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9309) (rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9309), read 4 Nov 2026.

Last reviewed 4 November 2026

Reviewed 4 November 2026. [2 sources](#sources), each with the day it was read.